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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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There's a great universe just next door.
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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All that we know is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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