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Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. (Alan Moore)
I think these will both still be with us, but fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy. View quote
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The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless. View quote
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We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. View quote
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Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. View quote
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Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. View quote
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The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn't see itself there, doesn't see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. View quote
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I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy. View quote
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Paranoia is a security blanket, a massive security blanket. View quote
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Effectively a portcullis has slammed down between the individual and their godhead. ‘You can't approach your godhead except through us now. We are the only path. Our church is the only path.' But that is every human being's birthright, to have ingress to their godhead. View quote
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Do they control our destinies? No, they don't. They are nowhere near that powerful or organised. (Alan Moore)
This is an imaginary story (which may never happen, but then again may) about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good. View quote
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I understand that the word ‘occult' means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. I don't see why there is any need to further obscure things that are actually lucid and bright. View quote
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There is a certain amount of sham in . There is a certain amount of theatre. View quote
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So it goes from "in unity there is strength” to "in uniformity there is strength” and from there it proceeds to the excesses of fascism as we've seen them exercised throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. View quote
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The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all. View quote
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. View quote
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I have grown more like Etrigan, and he... he too has grown more like Etrigan. View quote
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We dress these basic ideas in language we can understand. Sometimes there are sizable errors of translation. View quote
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Money is code for the whole of life – you can bind in everything that is contained within life for money, money is a certain amount of sex, a certain amount of shelter, a certain amount of sustenance. View quote
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The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else. (Alan Moore)
There are some people who seek evil. View quote
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This shows the lengths that hard science will go to to banish the ghost from the machine. View quote
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As I understand, or as I hallucinate conceptual space, nearly all form in conceptual space is language, I might even say all the form in non-conceptual space is language, I'm not even sure of what the difference between physical space and conceptual space is anymore, in the interface. All form is language. View quote
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There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards. View quote
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