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
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ego fiction blame
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
communication mean power
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
looks encyclopedia certitude
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
sorry hippie feelings
Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
faith light next-week
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.
editors brain firsts
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
secret finals too-late
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.
giants raised walks
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
work-out forever trying
Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.
maintenance entropy
Entropy requires no maintenance.
pockets function theology
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
atheism cages complaining
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
years lasts horror
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
heart darkness atheism
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?