My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a desire for unity and peace in movements that reject hatred towards others.
Robert Anton Wilson's quote highlights a fundamental longing for movements that promote understanding and acceptance rather than division and animosity. It suggests that genuine progress and positive change can only occur in environments where individuals work together in harmony, free from the constraints of hatred and prejudice. Wilson calls for a collective effort towards inclusivity and compassion, indicating that such movements are inherently more appealing and worthy of support.
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Example use cases
During a rally for social justice, this quote could be used to emphasize the need for love and acceptance in our causes.
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All quotes βThere is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
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To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
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Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king _x000D_ That treason can but peep to what it would.
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.