Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
personality different lsd
LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
hate thinking views
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.
drug madness psychedelic
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.
ideas drug
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
reality way code
If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
thinking people matter
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
people fiction form
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
ideas ego enlightenment
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
dream mean world
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
way used
History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
long miracle predicaments
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
development stage cosmic
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
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You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.