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  • this guys video has trippy space music that helped me fall asleep. other than that, fuck him

  • Edward Bernays' book Propaganda is a manual on how to weaponise language. He explains how to rigidly enforce a consensus view of Reality without you noticing. It's the abuse of language to minimise questioning reduce problem solving and make you as powerless and insignificant as possible. As Bernays regarded the unthinking bloodbath of the 20th century a success perhaps listening to BOB and adopting E Prime as even a mental exercise might make the 21st century a bit saner. Here's hoping!

  • Maybe there is one "IS" and the rest are al the maybe's. But the "IS" is not the is one can speak of because it is aways one step away.

  • I could listen to this guy all day!

  • This is indeed something that should be taught in the schools from the very beginning and there can be no doubt ... 

  • ... Pertinent1 is worry that if they is not act soon it might be too late ...

  • @ThePertinentesUno Some languages don't use the verb to be, isn't it pertinentes? Isn't arabic one of those?

  • @hopeforamerika clarion arabic is beyond any such debates Ms Reyes and will remain so until the last day inshallah! ...

  • ... they should stop pissing about you know? ... inculate the panoramic vision ...

  • This should be taught in school in goes without saying ...

  • He reminds me of Avatar The Great from Wizards, "Cosmic Schmuck" so cool!!

  • Jesus Maybe Lord  Praise BOB!!!

  • My French teacher, in high school, a 70's-style feminist with a strong resemblance to Elton John, once informed me that women in most cultures are more likely to speak this way. We're "trained" from an early age to never state a direct opinion if we can help it.

    Therefore, stating a direct opinion as fact is considered "bitchiness", and probably a way to keep women down--blah, blah, blah. But if you think about it, it truly is a very aggressive move to state one's own opinion as fact.

  • Imagine having a grandfather like RAW

  • 9 people maybe cosmic schmucks!

  • He's like a poet :D

  • I found the music hypnotic. I spaced out whilst watching the video and had to start over again! Ha-ha! But what Mr. Wilson said seemed very interesting. I'm expecting his book "Prometheus Rising" to arrive in the mail sometime soon. Should be enlightening, to say the least. Thanks for the video, Lsdfunk!

  • @matthew3774 However whether we can ever free ourselves from linguistic constructs remains unclear (like anything is ever 'clear' haha... except for the notion that nothing is truly clear...which may also be false)... It seems to me that an understanding of E-Prime leads to one conclusion - "We know nothing" At least that's how it seems to me at this point in tim - Aaaaargghhh - Click, whirrrr - FNORDDDDD

  • Fantastic.

  • Can someone explain why airplanes are not made of the same stuff that the black boxes are made of?

  • thanks for not making the music overpowering to the speech level!

  • wow, a true agnostic.

  • We use language to approximate our perceptions and we find that our perceptions transcend our language. On the other hand, language can stir up deep emotions, thoughts, and so on, so we should be careful in how we speak and write. We have been conditioned from black and white information, which makes us feel certainty even when we have none. I appreciate RAW because he doesn't want us to have such dogmatic constructs perverting our minds. Uncertainty feeds curiosity while dogmatism feed egoism.

  • I saw RAW with Timothy Leary in 1991.  It was a transformative day.

  • turn off

    tune out

    drop dead

    watch?v=FmgKwJhodZw

  • Do you believe that a worldwide acceptance of E-prime would end war once and for all?

  • @matthew3774 I don't know about that, man. It would do a hell of lot to lessen the effectiveness of propaganda and PR. And I think that would perhaps be step one in acquiring world peace and gobal sanity. I wouldn't be opposed to giving it a go.

  • @matthew3774 personally I optimistically believe that global unconscious realisation of E-Prime wouldn't only end war but would radically change the world as we know it. Armed forces would disintegrate, people would not act on fear so much and do more to help their fellow man. It might even lead to the end of famine. I feel that if everyone was aware of our shared reality i.e. the possibility that our entire set of perceptions are false, we would become stronger as a species

  • @matthew3774 it absolutely would! People would cease to be 'is' (fixed) things, and would become more vast, open, and mysterious. You can only fight against something that is fixed. If people were something to be discovered newly every moment, there would be no evil/bad person to fight against.

  • @matthew3774 maybe...

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL Add something positive or fuck off, parasite. Go leech of somebody else's expression, you pointless troll. Or, create your own. OR! just feel the irony in relation to your posts & the nature of this videos 'point of view'. ;D

    Nice new account, too. Too bad I can't know which loser troll you are; as loser trolls are anonymous; they do not forgive - as they are losers; they do not forget - because they have no worthwhile life beyond internet shit-talk. They are legion...

    D:

  • really nice video homie. What's up w Bob Dobbs at the end? How is he connected to Robert Anton Wilson? I notice they also made an illuminati card game w Bob Dobbs stuff in it.

  • @ihatecon I think Bob Wilson and Bob Dobbs - praise bob! - were friends; or at very least acquainted. Not too sure of the connection myself, though.

  • @Lsdfunk There are those who say, although I don't think he has ever admitted it, that Rev. Stang (the founder of the Church of the Subgenius), patterned J.R. "Bob" Dobbs after RAW.

  • @Lsdfunk They were indeed, in fact Anton Wilson was present when the Church of Sub genius idea was tabled (in an elevator) and has regularly written about Sub Genius, despite being more generally associated with the previous Discordian movement

  • @ihatecon RAW was a Pope in the Church of the subgenious

  • @ihatecon RAW was a Pope in the Church of the subgenius

  • @mahantheman Interesting, thanks man!

  • I'm here I queer....I drunk On lots Of beeR...drop me some tirppy zppiy

    Woooooowzerrrrs.I cant sleep anymore.its green...its a time psyckle man.

    IM STUCK ON A FREAKIN TIME TRACK MAN.....subdue the beast, find the cure FIND THE CURE....GIVE ME THE CURE

  • I was linked this video by a profile named robgoral

  • This video appears better than MK ULTRA to me

  • LSD=MK

  • @nofxmike06 MK-ULTRA goes a lot further than just LSD. If you actually knew what you were talking about you'd probably post actual information - rather than vague allusions.

    If you know what you're alluding to, then try having a point. It helps when you're trying to communicate. If you're not trying to communicate, and just attempting to 'front' - like a lot of pointless douches on the internet - then by all means: carry on as usual; some people might actually think you're "cool" & "edgy".

    xD

  • @Lsdfunk Apparently, you seem to have inside information. By all means, show me how smart you are. school my little mind oh communicator.

  • @nofxmike06 When did I say I had inside information? I know a little. But, I never made any claims. Did I? If you point it out to me I'll stand by my words.

    "school my little mind oh communicator" Sheesh. I know you missed the point, but can we leave the ad homenim attacks and other fallacious modes of argument out of this, and actually try to make some proper sense?

    ;D

  • @nofxmike06 shame u for listening nofx and saying that nonsense

  • @BluestarShaman yes, nofx does oppose critical thinking.

  • sweet, im gunna try not to say is anymore.

  • "All that is, is metaphor".. hmm, Nietzsche would be one I think.

  • my penis appears bigger to me than yours most of the time

  • Video length: 4:23; it's time to get high and see the causuistry behind our respective realities.

    :D

  • WORDS THAT CUT BELOW SCENES AND POLITICS OR RELIGION. ROBERT DID VERY WELL AT TRYING TO SEE THRU AND BEYOND! sharp but compassionate

  • this seems very well done... my fragile neurons fired rapidly from the stimulation.

  • simple clear sense-thought mind. unfortunately to most of us this is still pretty unnatural. 10x for posting.

  • great and intelligent man....

  • 36/37 sec in... IS is is is considerered acceptable within modern sience etc (he notes it with his fascial expression a second later) Once spent two hours in a zen buddhism letture that started with ..Zen Buddhism is impossible to put into words ..and then he spent 2hrs trying .lol

    The silent observer sees all !the talking observer see only the words their heads ! By the way I love RAW ..he taught me to be analytical even if it contains the word anal !

  • @splatuality It's kind of like i tell people about psychedelic experience - also start with words: "Well it's impossible to explain it with words...." ... but best i can do is make then curious about something they seem to be interested. But i guess that's pretty much how it works - no need to try to explain it as if it would be possible to explain then there would be no need for mediation or psychedelic experiences and other things like that.

    Can you explain the sound to a death? Maybe

  • this fight would've never happend if i never had posted that comment.im sorry i guess?

  • @Hunteroffags golden egg hunter

  • @Hunteroffags I still can't get over your display name. Do you prey on many fags? Or do you just prowl seedy sites and gay-bars and just hope for the best?

    xD

  • @Hunteroffags Are we? I thought we were fighting becasue internet shit talkers like to feel venerable way more than they like to have any reasonable point.

    "No one here has listened to this video." Angry that we're all so definitive? No sense of irony either, no?

    Can you tell me what I said that was 'wrong'? If not, then I'd say you go try to make some I'm-so-badass comments elsewhere, cockhunter.

    If you need an ego-boost, go do some sit-ups. And, ditch the superiority complex, douchefag.

    ;D

  • @Lsdfunk You don't think good sir/madame Hunteroffags (hehehehee...) might have had a point in suggesting, if clumsily, that it would make sense if people commenting on this particular video did so in more E-prime? As Old Bob's speech here deals with putting these liberating and sanity-increasing ideas into practical use - wouldn't this seem like a very appropriate place to do just that?

    Thx for the upload, it's brilliant. *

  • Faggotry of the highest order on show here chaps. Excellent video from R.A.W. so why taint it with such shit insults? If you're going to throw insults, at least have the decency to use grammar and spelling correctly. More to the point, why bother?

  • "This is how men show their ignorance, pretending to know what they do not know" -Socrates

  • @dguzman818 you seem to be a fucking idiot, to me at least

  • im not bad for a six year old though, like you said im a take my crappy material somewhere else like your moms bed she gets grouchy when i leave her alone and she starts punching objects? which i guess explains why your mad because you always get hit when i dont please her?

  • Thank you, for every syllable.

  • I am processing and interacting with my environment, but not simultaneously.

  • Liberal you must be a republican, BuzzmcTank? wrong definition idiot.

  • "Removing from your speech *IS* even harder." He appears to me to be right about that.

  • Why not try refraining from using any form of the verb 'to be' -- the most isolated and irregular verb in English? Too challenging, can't wrap the mind around a world that isn't? RAW's take on things comes across as impossible to digest for the indoctrinated masses.

  • @BuzzMcWank Shut up and go back to your false paradigm, asshole.

    

  • @Lsdfunk i love the reality tunnel through which you said this!

    thanks for terence & raw

  • @Lsdfunk Thanks for uploading.

  • @BuzzMcTank Why not Google 'linguistic construct', then contemplate the meaning of cosmic schmuck? Enjoy your box!

  • @BuzzMcTank You couldn't understand it you fucking dunce. Get back to your wwe cletus.

  • one plus one might be two.

  • @rabitrabitt ...and if you make an L with them, you've got the Roman numeral for 50! Things might exist differently than they appear, depends on how you look at them.

  • I'd never say that it appears to me that these statements seem convinced of  a certitude about the misue of IS. So what you are saying IS that it is better to to take IS out of your speech???

  • I LOVED the Illuminatus Trilogy!

  • This guy "MAYBE" ripped during this whole vid

  • Who the HELL does Robert Anton Wilson think he might be?!?

  • this man IS insane.

  • Colonel Sanders ???

  • lol.. 'cosmic shmucks'

    im gonna use that one ^_^

  • Very interesting, ironic and even funny at times. I truly enjoyed it, but now I am kind of missing my younger days. I wish I would of heard this back then. Who knows maybe, I could of even learned a little something from him, yeah right who am I kidding I am more then sure, I would of forgotten on my way to get munchies. ha ha Sorry, I am really just kidding, I did enjoy listening, thank you for posting it. Don't take life so damn serious, live and let live.

    Smart Moms Saving Money

  • "Removing "Is" from your speech "Is" even harder"

    : - )

  • drugs are satan's tool... hehe, tool satan's tool hehe

  • 1:07 - "removering" !! this guy is brilliant even when he's drunk!! :D

  • What Robert Anton Wilson books/audios do you recommend?

  • you guys are going to hell for taking the drugs satan has provided you.

  • @burnzorz Enjoy living in fear of a story while making your life real hell by ignoring WHAT IS REAL.

    I'm open to reasonable discussion if you can ditch the ungrounded assumptions for a minute or two.

    &, doesn't your holy book say something along the lines of 'Judge not, lest ye be judged'?

    Profane punk....

    I bet you've never even read the bible.

  • @Lsdfunk

    I got really high, so I decided to make a comment that would make someone furious. I'm not a christian, I'm a Luciferian. I had my laugh, good day to you sir.

  • @burnzorz You got me, broseph!

    I looked at your 'favourites' after I read your comment & saw a whole load of Dear Bob Wilson & THRICE GREAT Terence mcKenna. :D

    I decided to leave the comment anyway. The worlds a stage! Let's put on a show, eh!?

    I wish your fire much fuel, chum!

    May lights light the night!

    Peace...

  • @Lsdfunk

    Thank you, I really enjoy these videos. Thanks for uploading, thanks for commenting back.

    Best of Luck

    -Burnzorz

  • @burnzorz Word Up lets burn this city.

  • @Lsdfunk So you have no problem with a lucyfarian but you do have a problem with christians. You don't see any discontinuity in that position?

  • @nilbud I have no problem with anyone, once they're not bothering me. I'm more anti-christian than anti-lucifarian; as luciferian didn't lie to me my entire childhood & cause me great fear with threats of eternal damnation...

    Try approachging logic from a place where you understand the context - that usually helps your ability to reason.

  • @burnzorz What do you want? A medal???

  • @awakegene

    That would be appreciated greatly.

  • @burnzorz Luciferian or Christian, I think it is pretty much the same. No?

  • @Lsdfunk LSDFunk You Are Good! Damn!! Articulate to the Point.

  • @burnzorz if you learned from this video, you probably meant to say, "it seems to me as though you guys might be going to a place of punishment that i have conceived called hell. this probably has to do with my assumption that you use certain substances that I perceived to be given to you by a cosmic adversary many modern religious fanatics call satan."

    I beg you to try to really consider the difference in thought if you use this revision of your statement.

  • @samusamu

    If you read the first comment on this page, the one right below the video, I said I was fucking trolling you guys cause I was high.

  • @burnzorz SOUNZ FUN!

  • @burnzorz Satan is not a creator

  • cosmic schmuk. haha

  • LOL!!!

  • lsdfunk

    thanks for your last message

    yes, that makes sense.

    i agree.

    nice catch,

    m

  • ".....They even smell dogmatic....."! ROTFLMAO! Dogma, the new cologne from Pat Robertson! lol!

  • Instead of "is, lets use "maybe"

    Lsdfunk -- Maybe you could revise your statement as follows:

    "I just thought I'd add this because what I believe many people may need to hear, too many seem too sure - of apparently too much..."

    Interesting work.

    thanks

  • @audiojunkiehu

    I get where you're coming from - & appreciate the sentiment. I wrote that years ago & agree I should've maybe been a little more attentive to the text in relation to it's context.

    But, that doesn't negate the stubborn fact that arrogance is a highly tangible trait. Or the fact that it exists within western society.

  • @audiojunkiehu

    You don't want to explain away all ability to reason. Afterall, all words are just meaningless grunts spewed from peripheral beasts, where you can find no meaning outside of 'definition' (more meaningless grunts!). We can destroy any argument with such reasoning. But, why do so when it's something most agree on anyway - to the detriment of nobody.

  • Robert Anton Wilson is a guru to me

  • Great video. I'm posting a link to it on the Robert Anton Wilson forum Hagbards Sub aka hagbardssub

    Thanks for posting this video

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  • I've always wondered that if the color which appears blue to me may appear as what I percieve as red to somebody else or yellow to somebody else. We would all still see the sky as what we know to be blue, but we all may see it as a different color, but a color that we recognize as blue. But that actual color that is recognized as blue may look different to everybody. My friends called me crazy.

  • It seems to me! I agree. Brilliant!

  • all the value we ascribe to concepts, opinions, judgements, seem to be the chains we bind our consciousness with. What is is, yet Reality is not limited to transitive or intransitive verbs, yet once that value is projected, an illusory duality obscures what is, and as Robert Anton Wilson says at 3:00, once language becomes dogmatic, the whole orientation of our consciousness becomes locked in fixed perpectives.

  • On "When all that we really is know subjective to our own "reality tunnels." More people need to realize this and many other harsh truths, " the lovely paradox is that that again is just a reality tunnel! and you can then state by logic that that reality tunnel must then be self-evident, but that really is just another reality tunnel, and so is mine, and so there is never any shift. like the new age term goes "we're all one" or it all matters and does not matter.

  • Sorry.... SEEMS TO ME to be one of the most amazing things he wrote.

  • RIP Pope RAW. Truly seems to me to be one of the greatest thinkers of this century. I'm re-reading The Widow's Son yet again and it's still one of the most amazing things he wrote.

  • I hope Everybody can learn to responsibly manipuate The Quantum Conciousness Field. Anything you can imagine can become real, be Happy and follow all your passions. Think how would I feel if whatever I want to happen has already happened, then feel it! You'll be amazed just how far this can go, and just how big a change you can make, Let me tell you I know that one person can change the reality Tunnels of Millions, Even Billions!

  • notice he doens't seem to say "is" a lot instead he seems to me to say "it seems to me" in this talk.

    the man does not seem to me to be a hypocrite.

  • William S. Burroughs said it, Language is a virus, Cosmic Trigger changed my life. thanks RAW

  • Hail to the s'cords!

  • Thank you for posting. Very interesting.

  • Lsdfunk, my bad. I've now seen your comment down there about where you got the video.

  • No hassle, chum!

    ;D

  • Fuckin A!

    I hate that shit.

    Put him forward and let people get a sense of what he is all about instead of trying to sales pitch his ideas with colorful video collages and mood music. Put down the fucking bong and get serious.

    And get a haircut too you stupid hippies.

  • What does hair-length have to do with anything?

    "Get a haircut!"

    I got one once...

    I didn't take.

    xD

    & it cost me almost ten bucks!

    What a wste of good deer....

    I put down the bong, too.

    But, I picked uo the vaporizer.

    :D

  • Haircuts? Hippies? to associate such labels and judgments to anything is simply childish.

    You are oviously insecure and submit to an "Image" due to enviromental pressures. You dont seem to be at the inteligence level required to even consider watching these videos. please make your way back to clips of Jersey Shore.

  • Check my channel. :)

  • Peace & respect, brother from another mother.

    Hail Discord!

    ;D

  • Wow, somebody needs a smoke...

    I think those are jellyfish, broseph - if that is what you're talking about.

    &, I didn't edit this, it's from a documentary about Wilson & his ideas - called 'Maybe Logic'.

  • I wonder if the rise of the 'questioning intonation' might be described as an spontaneous evolutionary move towards a more 'maybe' orientated language?

  • @asubjectiveopinion

    perhaps?

  • I think that it's the concept he's talking about removing, not the actual word 'is'. 'Is' is too imbedded in the english language to avoid completely all the time. The concept behind 'IS', however, can set up certain limitations on thought and belief, that can easily hold one back from greater understanding. Basically he's saying dont be so certain that what your observing is the absolute final word in the nature of reality.

  • Perhaps, Possible, Could be... Probably... All Leave the Door Open. Love It.

  • conciousness "IS" relative to the individual. Coffee! "I'd love some, thanks".

  • I love listening to this man speak, check out some Terrance Mckenna as well, interesting info.

  • He got old.

  • his advocacy would seem more convincing if he didn't use the word 'is' so many times in explaining the virtues of not using 'is.'

  • I like this video... but unfortunately Wilson uses the word "they're" in it!

    In all fairness, I find it difficult to stop using "is" as well.

  • Couldn't that same concept also be included with words like 'are' and 'am?'

  • Are and am are conjugations of the verb "to be"

    It is one of the most irregular conjugations in English. We see the same irregularity for that verb in German with sein: to be. Ich bin (I am), Du bist (You are), Er ist (He is) Wir sind (We are), and Sie sein (They are.

    E Prime remove the verb of being. Most Asian languages, ASL and strangely Klingon have no verb for being.

  • why do i understand his videos only when im faded? it just amazes me.

    i think its cuz it just helps me understand myself better, and that why it make so much sense to me

  • Bodhisattva Zorba Robert Anton Wilson

  • this guy was realy high there

  • this guys higher than a fuckin kite

  • "None of them ever suspect they might be cosmic schmucks and have the wrong answer." HAHAHAH! I love his man1 Everyone should read his book Cosmic Trigger. I just finished it, and it is fantastic!

  • read "Prometheus Rising" and "Quantum Psychology."

  • Prometheus Rising changed my life, and how I have lived it since!!! Now if you'll excuse me, I am off to find the quarters!

    -Oz

  • I don't believe I heard more than a passing reference to drugs. And yes some of us do love Crowley. "Do as thou whilt shall be the whole of the law", "Love Under Will". Nope, nothing there about Satan, new age spiritual poison, or even drugs. As I recall RAW tried starting a political party "The Guns and Dope Party". Libertarianism at it's best! Own whatever munitions you want, and do whatever drugs you want...Just don't make it a problem for the rest of us (because we are armed too!)

    -Oz

  • What is the music track, it sounds great in stereo, gets inside your brain ?

  • Marijuana opened the intellectual side of me.

  • You'd be surprised at what Psychedelics will do for you.

  • Marijuana scooped you up and tossed you outside the box, and now you're wondering "what the fuck?" It's great out here, isn't it.

  • Wouldn't have it any other way.

  • "...they never think that they might be cosmic shmucks and have the wrong answer". lol

    Maybe.

  • Be careful what you see or what you hear and allow to become abundant within your heart. For out of that abundence your mouth will speak. What it speaks will come into reality. There is nothing you can do or say that will change that fact. Thus all the chaos that preemates this reality.If you can't say anything positive just say yes and no. If you can't do that then just shut your mouth. We are the cause of this confusion,and we can stop it anytime we choose. Just speak no Negativeness, AT ALL.

  • Are reality tunnels and light cones synonymous?

  • No. Reality tunnels refers to 'blinders' that we all wear: blocking out certain things that we don't even realize we're blocking out. And light cones are too complicated to reduce to a single sentence but since you mention them I'm guessing you somewhat understand what they are. But they are two entirely separate concepts.

  • Are light cones part of or compatible with this guy's philosophy?