Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilsonwas an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CountryUnited States of America
essence definitions libertarian
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
real book elements
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?
christian kings mean
Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
real unreal meaningless
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
long fiction libertarian
My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
reality tunnels information
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
too-much variables constant
The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.
emotional hysteria world
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
artist intellectual world
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.
pockets function theology
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
thinking giants might
A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
law catholic libertarian
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
brain doe models
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
optimism secret has-beens
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.