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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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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.
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I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
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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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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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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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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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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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