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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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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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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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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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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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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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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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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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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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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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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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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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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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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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Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.
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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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Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
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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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