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
happiness forgotten
He who lives happiest has forgotten most
information flow sanity
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
stupidity integrating signals
Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
creativity bizarre
Creativity has a touch of the bizarre
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
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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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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
reality tunnels people
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be...
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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.
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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.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.