A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson More Quotes From Robert Anton Wilson Communication is only possible between equals. Robert Anton Wilson communication 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. Robert Anton Wilson miracle squares church I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. Robert Anton Wilson suspicion dont-believe believe The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. Robert Anton Wilson keys atheist civilization 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. Robert Anton Wilson corporations politician world Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. Robert Anton Wilson groups different fiction When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. Robert Anton Wilson marriage rose drama 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. Robert Anton Wilson tunnels self reality Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons Robert Anton Wilson taxation money weapons Only the madman is absolutely sure. Robert Anton Wilson skepticism madmen inspirational I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives. Robert Anton Wilson engineering views math 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. Robert Anton Wilson religious liars war The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. 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Robert Anton Wilson stupidity intelligent opportunity Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude. Robert Anton Wilson tunnels attitude reality You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. Robert Anton Wilson novelists believe people Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week. Robert Anton Wilson light faith next-week The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California. Robert Anton Wilson dope california artist Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. Robert Anton Wilson majority gentleman perfect
