redshift-13
Curious about everything. A rationalist and skeptic who feels equally at home with romanticism, imagination, creativity, ambiguity and the unknown. Because of this I'm a relentless questioner. I'm intensely curious about absences, gaps, and holes in knowledge and understanding. I'm an unapologetic atheist and secular humanist, but feel attracted to secular Buddhism, and have a deep appreciation for the feel, psychology, wonder, mystery and yearning of various aspects of religion. I think we're destroying much of the natural world with our ignorance, greed and the growth fetish of contemporary capitalism, and that horrifies me. I love artistic expression that challenges with its complexity and abstruseness, and am incredibly excited to find new voices of brilliant creativity or intelligence in any field. Skilled experimentalism and risk-taking are welcome in my world. My politics centers on global human development, ecological wisdom, and conscious systemic evolution guided by science, art and wisdom. I own a lovely cat, and am fond of all animals. I often view them as teachers of humanity. yahoo chat: bluemetalrain AIM: plutoniumrain
You’re a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be scared of?
Inspiration#00023 - Robert Anton Wilson (RAW)
As George Carlin said I have learned more from Robert Anton Wilson than I have from any other source.
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007), known to friends as “Bob”, was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an episkopos, pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews.
Wilson described his work as an “attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth”. His goal being “to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything.
If it was not for Robert Anton Wilson, I would not be the same person as I am today. Here are some of my favorite inspirational quotes from him:
I don’t believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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.
…reality is always plural and mutable.
“Is”, “is.” “is” — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don’t know what anything “is”; I only know how it seems to me at this moment
We’re trapped in linguistic constructs… all that is is metaphor.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
― Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus RisingEvery ideology is a mental murder, a reduction of dynamic living processes to static classifications, and every classification is a Damnation, just as every inclusion is an exclusion. In a busy, buzzing universe where no two snowflakes are identical - and, indeed, the smallest subatomic particle, we are assured, is not even identical with itself from one microsecond to the next - every card-index system is a self-delusion. Individuality is ignored when identity is asserted.
-Hagbard Celine(Robert Anton Wilson)
Watch amazing documentary “Maybe Logic: The Lives & Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson” (2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7N6TOFyrLg
So So So important to experience Robert Anton Wilson. Kaboom
About five years ago I was standing at a bus stop reading Prometheus Rising (again), and a woman walked up to me and put a quarter on the ground at my feet. My mind was so blown that by the time I recovered, she was gone. I wish I could thank her for that.
I had these actual paperbacks. what a TRIP to read after smokin’… wow..
Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that’s ever lived would fit inside a baseball.
Brian Greene
Can you relate?
Recently Discovered: Smallest Vertebrate
The newly crowned tiniest vertebrate on the planet, the frog Paedopphryne amanuensis. The itty-bitty amphibian averages 7.7 millimeters in adult length. The frog lives in moist leaf litter in the forest near the village of Amau, Papua New Guinea.
(via: Discovery News) (photo: Christopher C. Austin)
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Taming Capitalism Run Wild (by MoyersandCompany)
Published on Jun 7, 2013
Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism’s wake, and to discuss the fight for economic justice — including a fair minimum wage.
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Dear tumblrs, you should read this.
From the back cover:
“Tortured by the depth of his own intellect, plagued by his overwhelming sense of self-awareness and the moral implications of every action he makes, Antoine, a twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, is at the end of his rope, with only one viable solution in sight; he must denounce his intelligence, by any means necessary. What follows in Martin Page’s wickedly funny satire is an odyssey unlike any other as Anoine walks the streets of Paris trying everything from alcoholism to stock-trading to the prescription drug Happyzac in order to lighten the burden of his mind on his soul, and to fulfill his dream of becoming stupid enough to be a happily functioning member of society.”
Art Nouveau interior designed by Alphonse Mucha (1900).
what planet is this found on?
