The Discordians' Philosophy of Reality

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Nietzsche said the basic nature of reality is chaos. Out of this chaos we each pick out certain parts and that becomes our reality tunnel. When you get enough people together like in a family, they create quite a complicated reality labyrinth. And something very strange happens if you take one of these tribes and introduce them to another tribe. Each tribe comes to the conclusion those people over there are crazy. They don't know what the hell is going on. Their reality labyrinth is the weirdest thing. They believe strange things. It's kind of curious but with the sense of hearing just as with thesense of sight we all seem to be creating separate universes.

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982 [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] "The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit." "One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past." "Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option