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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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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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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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Reality is what you can get away with.
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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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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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A true initiation never ends.
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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