Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. Terence McKenna
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Quote – Condemned to everlasting barrenness
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?” John Quincy Adams, 1802, when rationalizing territorial …
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Quote – Most murderous motherfuckers
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. Stephen King - Cell
Quote – By mere noise
“An emotional speaker always makes his audience feel with him, even when there is nothing in his arguments; which is why many speakers try to overwhelm their audience by mere noise.” — Aristotle, Rhetoric.
Reverie – The dangerous end of the rifle
I would enjoy knowing the number of times two nation's met and agreed to share the land. All this without coercion to force the other to come and sign the treaty by the dangerous end of the rifle barrel. How is it a treaty if one side has no voice in the matter? Where is …
Quote – Bags of Death
20k Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verna Professor Pierre Aronnax, narrator: What is in those sacks they are carrying? Captain Nemo: Nitrates and phosphate for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home the world will die a little more. I was once …
Quote – Damn the walls
“Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Quote – Art
"Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons." - Alan Watts
Poem – Blessed be the war
Blessed be the children Who lay slain on the floor Either this way now Or that way later They will die in the middle of a war Caught between the crossfire Life is the only desire Darkness covers light One must never give up the fight For remember Blessed be the children Who lay slain …
Star Children
People who have near-death experiences say they see angels or a light. The angels are possibly our ancestors. Those who have kept the secrets in the open. Hidden from our eyes. Their secrets are simply not for us. As an infant has no use for calculus. They will be there, waiting and gone. Preserving and …
