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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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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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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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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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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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Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
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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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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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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 is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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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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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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