When I’m not rocking out and spinnin’ glowsticks, I’m either writing, at work, or getting
naked.
Favorite quotes-
"Chaos is beautiful. Now many times we are afraid because we want order. We can’t
deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form. We want rules. Yes, throughout human
history there have been people—religious leaders, political leaders—who will give you
order. They will give you rules and commandments. "
"The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport.
Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate
your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos.
The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to run your life, to
determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate your own mind. Think for yourself.
"
"To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own
brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain, it is necessary to question
everything that you have been taught, to question authority, to learn to take the brave
step of taking responsibility for operating your brain. For designing, redesigning,
reforming the chaos within.
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that
we do not know who we are or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the
authorities—the political, the religious, the educational authorities—who attempted to
comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing—forming in our minds—THEIR
view of reality. To think for yourself, you must question authority and learn how to put
yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to
inform yourself.
Think for yourself. Question authority"
Then came Marshall McCluhan, in the 1950's. McCluhan said, in the Socratic sense,
"The medium is the message." The words you use, the modes of communication you
use determine the realities you inhabit. Most of our lives, most of us live in realities
determined by others, imprinted in our brains by education, by religion, by politics, by
the authorities. McCluhan said, "If you want to change your mind, change the
medium." Change the words you use. Change the mode of communication. If you change
the medium, you change yourself. You change your society.
"To operate your brain you must understand how to use your eyes. "Oh say, can
you see?" Oh say, can’t you see what is being done to your eyes? Who controls your
eyeballs, controls your mind, imprints your brain. Oh say, can’t you see that the messages
that hit your eyeballs in modern television are creating realities, imprinting messages
from the sponsors who are not usually interested in your learning how to design your own
realities.
Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Who controls your screen controls the programs in your
mind. Your eyes are the windows of your brain. The eyes are extensions of the brain. The
eyes are made up of hundreds of layers of neurons, rods, cones. Your eyeballs deal with
one energy: It’s light. Through your eyes come illumination, vision, perception,
enlightenment, illumination. Your eyes are the windows of your soul. Who controls your
eyeballs programs your brain. Learn how to dial, fine tune your eyeballs. Learn how to
unfocus your eyes, dilate your pupils, learn how to open up to illumination and light, and
then refocus and redesign your own inner order, your own designs, your own language.
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Illuminate. Enlighten. Envision. Light waves. Sound waves. Light waves. Open eyes. Open
mind. Open your brain. Learn how to send messages using electrons. Your brain loves light.
Who controls your eyeballs programs your mind.
We are also passing on, in this demonstration, the message of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the
first and probably the greatest American philosopher who said, "Divinity lies
within." Don’t look to the churches or to the big marble institutions. Your divinity
lies within. You must learn to operate your brain, operate your soul. Learn how to
communicate brain to brain, soul to soul with other people. Your divinity lies
within."
Dr. Timothy Leary
"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."
Chuck Palahniuk.
"I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist."
Marylin Manson
"Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but
if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would
happily vote for him."
Hunter S. Thompson
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big
television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin
openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest
mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and
matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking
fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting
on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food
into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a
miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you
have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I
want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something
else......"
Irvine Welsh
"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but
not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model
and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the
music. Shoot the films. Paint the art"
Chuck Palahniuk
"How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to
pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real
belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself.
Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me. "
Chuck Palahniuk
"You buy furniture, you tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my
life. buy the sofa, then for a couple of years you're satisfied that no matter what goes
wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled, then the right set of dishes, then the
perfect bed. The drapes. The rug.
Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things that you used to own, now they own
you."
Chuck Palahniuk
" We have no scar to show from happiness. We learn so little from peace. "
Chuck Palahniuk
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be
boring."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Several years ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every
deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the
island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to
breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on
earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without
predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they
visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. ....
Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder
when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?"
Chuck Palahniuk
"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share
the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and
ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural
lies."
Chuck Palahniuk
"It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their
way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to
get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but
agnosticism about everything."
Robert Anton Wilson
"Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a
square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church."
Robert Anton Wilson
"I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against
the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my
life. "
Dr. Timothy Leary
"Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as
a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and
structures. "
Dr. Timothy Leary
"Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive
Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is
only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only
Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of
Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done"
Dr. Timothy Leary
"At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were
criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later
years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos."
Dr. Timothy Leary
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you
see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big,
undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Without religion you have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil
things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."
Steven Weinberg
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all
fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a
vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,
infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic,
capriciously malevolent bully."
Richard Dawkins
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