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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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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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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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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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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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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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There's a great universe just next door.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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