Tao Teh Punkt

The assumption of shared experience is the root cause of most human conflict.

— Command Z

2 January 2012

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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

— Bertrand Russell

12 November 2011 • no straight answers in curved space

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When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can’t read, Clarice.
The Emperor counsels simplicity: First principles of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in
its own constitution? What is its causal nature?

— Hannibal Lecter

11 November 2011 • lecture in scepticism

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

— George Carlin

8 November 2011 • LOVE

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All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.

— William Gibson

28 October 2011 • transcendental masturbation

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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

— George Carlin

26 October 2011 • giving the finger to richard dorkins

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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

— Bertrand Russell

24 October 2011 • model agnosticism

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REGALIA

Around my neck

A glittering chain of events

Its pearls dissolve

A rustling amid trees of roaring laughter

Diving head first

Into a pool with no surface

14 July 2011

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If observed closely, every phenomenon will appear to be of a mess-o-physical nature.

— Das Tao Teh Punkt

23 March 2011

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We are evaluating with our whole nervous system all the time, our whole organism is involved in a process of creating the environment we think we are perceiving.

— Robert Anton Wilson

3 March 2011 • RAW neurological relativism

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