MOORE700 Scott Moore MOORE7004 not logged in Last login Fri 17-Apr-92 6:04PM-CDT Plan: Decided to FINGER me, eh? I don't like people who finger me. Heh. Scott O. Moore, Leri-L Admin. MOORE7004@iscsvax.uni.edu Don't call me. I'll call you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never attribute to malevolence what you can to an alpha particle." --stolen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." --Robert A. Heinlein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Drugs are a one-man birthday party. You don't get any presents you didn't bring." --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Do what keepeth thou from wilting shall be the loophole in the law." --stolen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn't fit--well, that will be just too bad for mankind." --Aldous Huxley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Personally, I haven't taken a new drug in fifteen years. The mature adult -- balanced, reasonable, facing the world and the self with a steady eye -- doesn't need drugs. Except for one of those martinis every now and then or three or five of them and a line of blow if he's going out dancing later and some champagne and a joint and a fistful of Tylenol, Bloody Marys, Valium, and...what the hell, who's got the Ecstasy? --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Science achieves, or approximates, objectivity not because the individual scientist is immune from the psychological laws that govern the rest of us, but because scientific method--a group creation--eventually over-rides individual prejudices, in the long run." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But one doctrine that emanated from a mediaeval mystical school philosophizes that there are always two contending forces--for the sake of convenience labelled Severity and Mildness--with a third that always reconciles them." --Isreal Regardie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It says that when you put two minds together, there is always a third mind, a third and superior mind, as an unseen collaborator." --William S. Burroughs and Byron Gysin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What about insights? People keep telling me they had insights, 'real insights that really stick with you.' But they'll never tell me what those insights were. Are we talking about high quality insights like the second law of thermodynamics of the Pythagorean theorem? Or are we talking about 'I finally realized that, deep down inside, I'm me'? Nobody will say. Myself, I didn't come up with a unified field theory or anything." --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Real bonding can only occur in face-to-face groups of reasonable size." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who wants to be bunk mates with a cosmic catastrophe?" --Robert A. Heinlein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't stop me now Don't stop me cuz I'm having a good time I don't wanna stop at all!" --Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be free with your temple Be free, be free Surrender your ego Be free, be free To yourself" --Queen, "Innuendo" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly." --Timothy Leary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Belief is the death of intelligence." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Honey you're touching something Deep inside of me Honey you're sparking something This fire in me I'm out of control, I wanna rush headlong into this ecstasy If I could only reach you If I could make you smile If I could only reach you That would really be a breakthru" --Queen, "Breakthru" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tune in. Turn on. Drop out." --Timothy Leary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tune in. Turn on. Go to the office late on Monday." --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Man, I come from the days when drugs were drugs. We had dope where one toke would turn your hair long and your folks into raving maniacs at the dinner table. Some of that stuff, why, a single hit could transform a Catholic schoolgirl into Gomorrah on all fours, snuff your ego like a light, rotate the tires on the Great Wheel of Being, and make your eyes lay eggs. See God? Shit, you could get Him down in the hot tub and wash His mouth out with herbal soap. And that was if you split the blotter paper four ways. As for insights, try yage and psilocybin mushrooms mixed with mescaline and Anchor Steam beer. Gautama Buddha his own bad self comes over to your house and writes out the Eightfold Path in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. We had drugs that would give you immortal life for up to thirty-six hours. And what about the time the nine-assed peyote demon peeled the top of my head like an orange and vomited the Enclopedia Brittanica into my empty skull? That's what we meant when we said *high* in the old days." --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Cromwell once addressed the Irish rebels, saying, 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you might be wrong.' History does not record that Cromwell ever addressed the same remark to himself." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But it's important to get the big picture. Thirty minutes from now all of this will seem like half an hour ago." --P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What good is poetic justice if there's no one to read the page?" --me -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ain't synchronicity a bitch? Supple too." --me -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In heavy meditation, when I think of me, I am me; when I think of me and you, I am me and you; when I think of you alone, I am not there anymore; when I think of God, I am God. *What I see with my eyes closed and with my eyes open is the same stuff; brain cirtuitry.*" --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. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do." --Aleister Crowley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ideas about ideas, mathematics about mathematics, language about language, consciousness of consciousness--the whole seventh circuit brings us into what Hefstadter calls Strange Loops. Like the legendary ko-ko bird, we follow our own tail around in ever-narrowing circles, but unlike that mythic bird we never complete the process by flying up our own rectums and disappearing. It just seems like we're about to self-destruct in that colorful way, and we decide that what we have been reading, or thinking, or perceiving, must be 'nonsense.' *It is not nonsense. We are merely confronting infinity where we least expected to encounter it--in our own lonely selves.*" --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So give me your hands, give me your hearts I'm ready -- there's only one direction! One world and one nation Yeah -- one vision!" --Queen, "One Vision" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly." --Edward Albee, "The Zoo Story" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We must realize that evolution is not through, that man is not a final product, and just as there are many species of primate, there may be just as many species evolving from what we now call homo sapiens." --Timothy Leary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Consciousness contains an infinite regress, and all we can do is make models of ourselves making models. . .The only sensible goal, then, is to try to build a reality-tunnel for next week that is bigger, funnier, sexier, more optimistic and generally less boring than any previous reality-tunnel. And once you have built that bigger, funnier, happier universe of thought, build a better one, for next month." --Robert Anton Wilson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- more to come