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RAW Katos In memory and with all due respect to the shedding of RAW's mortal coil, the immanentizers of the Grenzsituationen have prepared this page of sayings Reality is what you can get away
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I suspect, sir, that guilt is a counterfeit of responsibility. Just as
punishment is a sham of correction. »
- RAW, The Widow’s Son (p. 323) Prometheus Rsising (1994) «What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.» «Although
there are no universal sexual taboo,
« Consider the revolution against death, if you think you haven’t been brainwashed » (p. 133) « At this point a certain amount of arbitrary nonsense is of great value. That is, the new reality-tunnel (…) or symbol-system should contain pitfalls (…) so that the subject can be accused of backsliding … » (p. 144) « Everybody has the only true religion. » (p. 148) « Conclusion : who you are, and what you think you are, is a creation edited and orchastrated by your brain. » (p. 209) « Bell’s Theorem … There are no isolated systems; every particle in the universe is in "instanteneous" (faster-than-light) communication with every other particle. The Whole System, even the parts that are separated by cosmic distances, functions as a Whole System. » (p. 246) The
Illuminatus! Trilogy
The erratic, the
erotic, the eristic
«Mystics
are all a bit funny in the head anyway, which is why the church locks them
all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions
monasteries.”
«Eenergy
can neither be created nor destroyed. Death istself is an illusion.»
«Of course
the quirkiest, most chaotic things that exist are people-and that`s why
they're so obsessed with trying to control us.»
«Feeling
paranoid? Good: illumination is on the other side of absolute terror. And
the only terror that is truly absolute is the horror of realizing that
you can’t believe anything you’ve ever been told. You have to realize fully
that you are “a stranger and afraid in a world you never made,” like Houseman
says.»
«Reality
is retroactive, retrospective and illusory»
«It`s not
true unless it makes you laugh, but you don`t understand until it makes
you weep.»
ANY DEVIATION
WILL RESULT IN TERMINATION
The Erisian movement Discordians:
the activists who do things
Currencies
«No two
who know, know the same in their knowing.»
«The fear
of death is the beginning of slavery.»
«The ultimate
weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns
it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. “Fear is failure.”
“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.” The goose can break the
bottle any second. Socrates took the hemlock to prove it. Jesus went to
the cross to prove it. It’s in all history, all myth, all poetry. It’s
right out in the open all the time.»
«If you
whistle while you`re pissing, you have two minds where one is quite sufficient.
If you have two minds, you are at war with yourself. If you are at war
with yourself, it is easy for an external force to defeat you.»
Mong-Tse said:
«A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him.»
The Great Doubt
sets you free
«The self
pursuing the self and trying to govern it, the self trying to swallow the
self.»
«The roman
centurion looks at Jesus and says “Sorry, nothing personnal, I am just
following orders.” And Jesus responds “So am I. Aren't we all”»
«In order
to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant.
Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion
is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life»
«Seeing these conditions as “bad”, makes necessities of survival “evil”» «Do not pull the corn by its stalk to make it grow faster» «Instead of reading the menu they tried to eat it» - RAW, p. 716 «The map
is not the territory» - RAW, p. 716
«"No," Miss Portinari said, "Tarot is an anagram on rota, remember? The extra t reminds you that the Wheel turns back to rejoin itself. There is a twenty-third step, and it's right where you started, only now you face it without fear." She held up the World again. "At first, mountains are mountains. Then mountains are no longer mountains. Finally mountains are mountains again. Only the name of the voyager has changed to preserve his Innocence." She pushed the cards together and stacked them neatly. "There are a million other holy books, in words and pictures and even in music, and they all tell the same story. The most important lesson of all, the one that explains all the horrors and miseries of the world, is that you can get off the Wheel at any point and declare the trip is over. That's okay for any given man or woman, if their ambitions are modest. The trouble starts when, out of fear of further movement — out of fear of growth, out of fear of change, out of fear of Death, out of any kind of fear— such a person tries to stop the Wheel literally, by stopping everybody else. That's when the two great bum trips begin: Religion and Government. The only religion consistent with the whole Wheel is private and personal; the only government consistent with it is self-government. Whoever tries to lay his trip on others is acting from terror, and will soon resort to terror as a weapon if the others won't accept the trip through persuasion. Nobody who understands the whole Wheel will do that, however, for such people understand that every man and every woman and every child is the Self-Begotten One—Jesus motherfucking Christ, in Harry's gorgeous brand of English."»
«Another
generation has gone down in blood and agony to make the world safe. But
the evil things that make the world unsafe still go uncowed and undefeated,
plotting new sacrifices and new blood. Nor is the blame entirely with the
warmongers, plutocrats, and demagogues. If a people permit exploitation
and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does
nor make his tyranny possible. It is made possible by the people and not
otherwise.»
«… drumming
up distinguished recruits among the pre-creational inhabitants of chaos
and the formless void …»
The gnomes of Zurich «The five
degrees of stochasticism in the world according to the Discordian society
:
Hakim Bey : Chaos never died – This is your true desire Potere Occulto – the hidden power Et in arcadia
ego (And in Arcadia, I …)
«It is not in the public interest to have a discussion of what is in the public interest.» «Immanentize the eschaton: heresy consisting in wanting to produce heaven on earth instead of postponing it until after death.» The Earth Will Shake. The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume One. ROC Books. (1982) «Destiny
is the name we give our bad habits when we realize they cannot be changed.»
«I have
been born in the middle of a grand opera but we bleed real blood here.»
"Hysteria is a
chaotic and irrational state caused by seeing how the world really operates."
«Things
come out of the void for no reason, and they return to the void for no
reason.»
«The Epicureans
may be right: there's nothing out there but atoms and the void. And things
come out of the void for no reason, and they return to the void for no
reason, and we invented You because we were lonely.»
«We are
all walled cities shouting at each other over the armaments of our
«I am still
a Catholic when I am frightened enough.»
«Last week
I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her
person for the worse.»
«Some things
simply cannot be taught; they can only be learned.»
«Loneliness
is the tax we pay to nature for being conscious enough to know
«Everything
is ultimately settled by strength and stealth.»
Nature’s God. The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume Three. ROC Books. (1991) «The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning» (p. 106) «The greatest
folly of all is to think that this moment can be other than this.
The first folly
is called Imagination,
«Behind the mask of Chaos and the void: my simple mind trying to explain the impressions that impinge on me.» (p. 128) «You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you» (p. 128) «We know very little, he thought, but we are all enormously conceited.» (p. 191) «Hypocrisy is merely the lies we tell others … Morality is the lies we tell ourselves.» (pp. 215-216) Have brain enough
to know
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RIP
RAW
« Have
brain enough to know
Have belly enough to dare Have heart enough to will Have common sense enough to keep silence Have nothing enough to have everything » RIP
RAW
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Hail Eris! All Hail
Discordia!!
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