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Robert Shea
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January 11 - January 17, 2024
“What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned it? And he took another child who had obeyed him faithfully and armed that
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The next day he was shot, several times, in the head and shoulders, dying of natural causes as a result.
the times he had gotten his own back against a professor, a high school principal, a bureaucrat, or, further back, his own parents, by waiting for the occasion when, by doing exactly what he was told, he could produce some form of minor catastrophe.
“I think I get it. Genesis is exactly backwards. Our troubles started from obedience, not disobedience. And humanity is not yet created.”
This is why Mong-tse wrote, “A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him.”
Then I got a hunch, and turned quickly to the advertisements. It was as I expected: no fnords. That was part of the gimmick, too: only in consumption, endless consumption, could they escape the amorphous threat of the invisible fnords.
Ironically I had completely forgotten all about tbe signifigance of tne FNORDS. Reminds me of They Live
and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was, as the Salvation Army charmingly expresses it, “promoted to glory.”
American anthropology is like virgins writing about sex.
individual is just one of the universe’s sensory organs. The universe produces beings like us in order to perceive itself. You might think of it as a giant, self-contained eye.”
“Consciousness is therefore also manifested as telepathy, clairvoyance, and telekinesis. Those phenomena are simply non-localized versions of consciousness. I’m very interested in telepathy, and I’ve had a lot of success with telepathic research. These cases of communication are just further evidence that consciousness is a seamless web throughout the universe.”
nobody could understand the chants that accompanied some of the more interplanetary chords they employed. These chants derived from the Enochian Keys which Dr. John Dee had deciphered from the acrostics in the Necronomicon, and in modern times had been most notably employed by the well-known poet Aleister Crowley and the Reverend Anton Lavey of the First Church of Satan in San Francisco.
They suggested that perhaps youth had captured its oppressors or identified with them, and they momentarily turned the pain of the whole scene into pleasure. To learn how to enjoy suffering, since suffering was their lot, kids by the millions flocked to hear the AMA.
Behind him on a wall, Joe noticed dizzily, was a brand-new graffito, probably scrawled by somebody out of his skull on the acid: THE PIGEONS IN B. F. SKINNER’S CAGES ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
“This is a lousy hand you dealt me, John-John. Come to think of it, you’re hallucinatin’ all the time when you have sex. That’s what makes it good. And that’s how come I can fuck anything.”
whether R. Buckminster. Fuller really existed or was a technocratic solar myth,
“This is the Abyss of Hallucinations. This is where our attention is usually focused. It is entirely constructed by our senses and our projected emotions, as modern psychology and ancient Buddhism both testify—but it is what most people call ‘reality.’ They are conditioned to accept it, and not to inquire further, because only in this dream-walking state can they be governed by those who wish to govern.”
and if the order is reversed, this comes as the penultimate Armageddon with Trump 21, the World, being the Kingdom of Saints.
“We’re facing a crisis and everybody’s talking philosophy,” Dillinger cried out. “This is a time for action.” “Maybe,” Hagbard said thoughtfully, “all of our problems come from acting, and not philosophizing, when we face a crisis. Joe is right. I’m going to think about all this for a few hours. Or years.”
GREATER POOP: IS Eris true? MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? MAL-2: Even false things are true. GP: HOW can that be? MAL-2: I don’t know, man, I didn’t do it.
Houghton-Mifflin, 1925), reads: “Began to seperate [sic] the Male from the Female hemp at Do—rather too late.” This is the passage quoted by Congressman Koch, and remembered by Saul Goodman in the novel; the separation of male from female hemp plants is not required for the production of hemp rope but is absolutely necessary if one wants to use the flowering tips of the female for marijuana. And at that time Adam Weishaupt was very definitely still in Bavaria, teaching canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.
The Golden Apples of the Sun, the Silver Apples of the Moon,
All phenomena are directly or indirectly related to the number five, and this relationship can always be demonstrated, given enough ingenuity on the part of the demonstrator.” The evil grin flashed. “That’s the very model of what a true scientific law must always be: a statement about how the human mind relates to the cosmos. We can never make a statement about the cosmos itself—but only about how our senses (or our instruments) detect it, and about how our codes and languages symbolize it. That’s the key to the Einstein-Heisenberg revolution in physics, and to the Buddha’s revolution in
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they found the ideal front man to push the three-step theory, G. W. F. Hegel. “He’s perfect,” Weishaupt wrote in the De Molay cipher from Mount Vernon. “Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn’t make sense in any language.”)
the capacity of stramonium and belladonna (in small doses) to create intensely brilliant visual imagery, beyond that of even the best grades of hashish; (5) the fact that these latter drugs were used in both the Elusinian Mysteries and in the European witch cult contemporary with Hassan (see R.E.L. Masters, Eros and Evil).
The National Debt, so called, is of course, nothing else but the debt we owe the bankers who “loaned” this money to Uncle after he kindly gave them the credit which enabled them to make this loan.
Reality, as Simon Moon says, is thermoplastic, not thermosetting. It is not quite Silly-Putty, as Mr. Paul Krassner once claimed, but is much closer to Silly-Putty than we generally realize. If you are told often enough that “Budweiser is the king of beers,” Budweiser will eventually taste somewhat better—perhaps a great deal better—than it tasted before this magick spell was cast.
I bless Ra, the fierce sun burning bright I bless Isis-Luna in the night I bless the air, the Horus-Hawk I bless the earth on which I walk
because unthinking obedience by young males to older males is the most highly prized of all conditioned reflexes within human, and hominid, societies.
Since man extends his nervous system through channels of communication like the written word, the telephone, radio, etc., he who controls these media controls part of the nervous system of every member of society. The contents of these media become part of the contents of every individual’s brain.