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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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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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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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 don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
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The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
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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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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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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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