Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride

The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real."

It's just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride.

And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace.

-- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)

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[spookyboy91]

we need more people like him.

[ColdTacosProductions]

You must be in marketing. :)

Kill yourself.

[TheAndrew1987]

He is a tutor, a teacher he taught us all that it's all just a ride, he has done his job

now its up to us, his pupils, his apprentices , to carry this on and share his knowledge to our kids and our friends and to everyone. We can accomplish his dream and we have the power to do it, we can do it .

[Kirk Faulkner]

106 people are taking the ride too seriously.



[Edoardo Casini]

if you say such you didn't understand his truth: there's a "Bill Hicks" in each one of us...

[Leonard Red]

The day you stop running is the day you arrive, stop chasing shadow just enjoy the ride.

Here is something that will help you to slow down and enjoy the ride : go to truthcontest (.com) and read >>>The Present<<<

[TheFeralFlicks]

I love both of my parents for allowing me to experience this time and place. It doesn't matter how many ups and downs I will have in life because pain is nothing in the eyes of eternal love.

R.I.P. Bill

[TheInsane Man]

I have to watch this and Carl Sagan's cosmos on a monthly basis to maintain my sanity in a archaic world that seeks profit on human deprivation and waste finite resources due to inefficiencies.

[joshualail02]

that face @ 1:02

[Joao Tomaz]

... inner and outer space...

it really is just a ride!!

[Joao Tomaz]

<3

[Kelly Ann Pope Kelly Fuller Pope]

My Favorite .. !!! Thank you!