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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or that they are hoaxers playing a joke. Yet it is neurologically obvious that no two brains have the same genetically-programmed hard wiring, the same imprints, the same conditioning, the same learning experiences. We ar..
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.' 'What sort of tools?' 'More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A la..
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freedom
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rights
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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intelligence
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Entropy requires no maintenance.
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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
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money
government
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The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. , the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." , a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal."
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science
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How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens . The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.
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Tell me, Harry, what difference would it make if it wasn't real?" Harry thought a moment, his chinless face sour. "We wouldn't have to do what we think we have to do. But even if we don't have to do what we think we have to do, it won't make any difference if we do it Which means we should just go ahead." Mavis sighed. "Just go ahead." "Just go ahead," said Hagbard. "A powerful mantra." "And if we don't go ahead," said George, "it doesn't m..
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These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles's wonderful novel, The Magus. Conchis, the principle character in the novel, finds himself Mayor of his home town in Greece when the Nazi occupation begins. One day, three Communist partisans who recently killed some German soldiers are caught. The Nazi commandant gives Conchis, as Mayor, a choice -- either Conchis will execute the three partisans himself ..
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As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover. The Thinker can think about virtually anything. (...) The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will pro..
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A true initiation never ends.
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I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
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There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
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Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
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Each mans spills the drink he loves.
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