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.
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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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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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.
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
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