Robert Anton Wilson teaches us how to free ourselves from the traps of linguistic constructs.
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Terraquads of Fascinating.
Wed
Jan
11
Every year I give the grandparents DVDs with all of our digital pictures from the year. To them it’s a gift. To me it’s off-site backup.
Jeff Handley (@JeffHandley) December 18, 2011
Yoga cat.
Fri
Dec
9
People have a terrific loyalty to their brand of cigarette… and yet, in tests, cannot tell it from other brands. They are smoking an image, completely.
Research director, New York advertising agency (name withheld upon request)
The Evolved Self-Management System
The placebo effect is real, and has an evolutionary purpose — the body depends on the brain to tell it when it’s safe to start using up valuable resources (such as for healing). If you feel anxious or stressed, your body takes that as a cue that there’s a threat, and it should hold off healing.
Thu
Dec
30
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Aldous Huxley

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