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Michael

About Me

I assume most of you already know me.
"I am agnostic when it comes to religion. I prefer to question rather than blindly accept anything based only on faith. And I especially distrust anyone who claims to know the truth based solely on faith or, worse, personal revelation. History and the nightly news shows that this sort of certainty has been one of the most destructive social forces ever created." - Dean Radin
“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.” - Robert Anton Wilson
"You know how dumb the average guy is? Well mathmatically, by definaition, half of them are even dumber than that." - JR Bob Dobbs
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are." -H.L Mencken Smart Set Magazine, December 1919
“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.” - Robert Anton Wilson
“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.)” - Robert Anton Wilson
"History also shows that challenges to the status qua, in whatever forms those challenges may take, always provoke violent reaction" - Dean Radin, Entangled Minds
"I can't believe that!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Caroll, Through The Looking Glass.
"If we wish to understand the nature of the Universe, we have an inner hidden advantage; we are ourselves little portions of the Universe and so carry the answer within us." - Jacques Boivin 'the Single Heart Field Theory'...
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” - Robert Anton Wilson
"Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or to what he may do." - Aliester Crowley
"We may never achieve Total Clarity (short of infinity) but we should at least have the ability to distinguish between what humans can experience and what they can only blather about." - Robert Anton Wilson
"The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer." - Egyption proverb 2,200 bce.
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.” - Robert Anton Wilson
“Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, Or who said it, Even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.” ~ Buddha
“The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.” - Robert Anton Wilson
"I don't know if god exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn't" - Jules Renard
"In order to arrive at what you do not know...you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance." - T.S Eliot
"English has the world's largest vocabulary, with over 800,000 words (including technical words)...author Stuart Berg flexner in 'I hear America Talking' notes that 10 simple words account for 25 percent of all English speech, 50 words account for 60 percent and just 1,500 to 2,000 words account for 99 percent of all that Amercians say. Extremely smart and educated people may use as many as 60,000 English words, or about 7.5% of the entire English vocabulary." - Clifford Pickover, "Sex, drugs, Einstein and Elves"
"It is necessary to keep re-investigating whatever I say, since self-deception is the worst of all" - Socratic Dictum
"How poor are they that have not patiience!
What wound did ever heal but by degree." - William Shakespeare.
"Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."”
You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.

Postmodernist


100%

Cultural Creative


88%

Materialist


88%

Idealist


81%

Existentialist


81%

Modernist


81%

Romanticist


38%

Fundamentalist


31%
What is Your World View?
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You Have A Type B Personality
You're as laid back as they come...
Your baseline mood is calm and level headed
Creativity and philosophy tend to be your forte
Like a natural sedative, you have a soothing effect on people
Friends and family often turn to you first with their problems
You have the personality to be a spiritual or psychological guru Do You Have a Type A Personality?
You Are the Peacemaker
9 You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others.Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict.You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come.Avoding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm. What number are you?

My Interests

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My doppelganger, just to see what he's been up to...

My Blog

words

Here is a list of words that I like at the moment: vernacular specious prognosticator soothsayer anachronism synchronicity ontology amalgamation doppelganger recalcitrant veracity circumlocution ubiqu...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:00:00 GMT

Robert Anton Wilson (RIP)

Just reported on boingboing.net.  Those who know me, know how important his works and ideas were to me... Fnord...   Robert Anton Wilson (RIP) Robert Anton Wilson--philosopher, author, visi...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:25:00 GMT

RAW

I have read that Robert Anton Wilson is on his death bed.  For those that know me well, know how influential he has been to me.  I am saddened by the news.  Here is RAW's take on heave...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:02:00 GMT

journey...

Finally...It seems that I will be able to leave albuquerque saturday morning. I will be heading north and then east. Eventually pulling into Dedham (hopefully with the same vehicle). It should take...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:43:00 GMT

ARRAH NOW conspiracies

This makes me feel both helpless and angry. Whats the point if the whole thing is fixed anyway? Should one not participate? Or, does one stand up and fight the good fight. (I say this while I am si...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:27:00 GMT

mishaps...

Well, this here was my horoscope the other day..."Nothing stresses you out. You're able to employ your sense of humor in the task of turning every mishap into an entertaning story for the friends." W...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:45:00 GMT

the most dangerous man...

Quote from Transmetropolitan, pg 50, "Gouge Away""The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 15:43:00 GMT

Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

I keep thinking that I will actually start to write something...well I guess that was something. Oh well here is another quote..."Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this ri...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 09:54:00 GMT

Franklin...

I see this floating around a lot out there... "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin FranklinHistorical Review of Pe...
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 13:16:00 GMT

Chapel Perilous

Just found these quotes in my journal. Think they are very appropriate at this time in my life...Again..."An Epic is a story of exploration, voyaging, adventrurous search for meaning.""In researching...
Posted by on Wed, 24 May 2006 13:06:00 GMT