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The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it’s very loud. And it’s fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they’ve begun to question, ‘Is this real, or is this just a ride?’, and other people have remembered, and they’ve come back to us and they say ‘Hey, don’t worry. Don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.’ and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

“Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real.”

It’s just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter, because … It’s just a ride.

And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here’s what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever … in peace.

— Bill Hicks (1961 – 1994)

mysticpolitics:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced magick is indistinguishable from chance.

chaosgarden:

A friend decided to send me some artwork. I knew I was going to love it the moment I saw the envelope.

They even sealed it with gold wax. The sun seal was so pretty that I tried to keep it intact, alas I couldn’t but I got this picture of it nonetheless.

Not only did they send me the piece, but they #1 used my symbol, and #2 wrote me a lovely letter thanking me for my support of their work/blog.

Thank you, louddetective!

It’s an essential feature of human nature that people should be free, should be able to participate, and should be uncoerced.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

I love Noam because he often reminds us what democracy really means.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell (via chaotrix)

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it’s growth in a sense…

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)