Comments on: RAW Week: Trickster Santa and the Real Revolution, by Tiffany Lee Brown

By: hypnosifl

hypnosifl — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:05:00 +0000

Just a little nitpick, but that's actually a popular misquote of Einstein--as mentioned on the Einstein wikiquote page, what Einstein actually said was "the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

By: R. Psmith

R. Psmith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:19:00 +0000

One might model Bob as dropping out occasionally. He dropped out of Madison Avenue to go to a farm in Ohio, he dropped out of his job as Playboy to write in Mexico, he dropped out of Reagan’s America to go to Ireland, he dropped out of his hopes for Hollywood success to move to Capitola, etc.

By: GlenBlank

GlenBlank — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Robert Anton Wilson was kinda more George Carlin and less Timothy Leary than he sometimes appeared.

For the record, Timothy Leary was frequently less Timothy Leary than he appeared, too. :-)

By: William Joseph Dunn

William Joseph Dunn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:23:00 +0000

I was thinking Tank Girl.

By: Mujokan

Mujokan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:06:00 +0000

So that’s what happened to Hopey!

By: Thad Boyd

Thad Boyd — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:53:00 +0000

Well-said.

There’s a bit — I think it’s in Cosmic Trigger — where Bob tells a little Eastern philosophical story.

The teacher holds up his cane and says, “What is this?”

The acolyte says, “It is nothing.”

The teacher whacks the acolyte with his cane and says “Then what just hit you?”

A nice reminder that, during all our discussion of the nature of what is and isn’t real, there’s something to be said for pragmatism.

Or, as Einstein put it, “Reality is an illusion — albeit a very persistent one.”

By: seyo

seyo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Tiffany, I have a crush on you!