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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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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The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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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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Communication is only possible between equals.
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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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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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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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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians the seducers become artists.
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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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Each mans spills the drink he loves.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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