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This site is an eclectic collection of texts, images and more, handpicked and clustered in random or not-so-random ways; aiming at assisting in this noble task: “Define yourself or be defined”.

According to Robert Anton Wilson, most of us function as badly wired robots due to our upbringing. Shall we want to reverse the damage, we have to be courageous enough to travel the path less traveled. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

Why woohoobits?

* woohoo: A word used when you are overly excited, hyper, having fun, or when something great happened to you

* bit: A small piece or quantity of something

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* bit: BInary digiT. The smallest unit of information on a computer/machine. A single bit can only hold one of 2 values, either 0 or 1; The least amount of information there is, i.e. yes or no, true or false, on or off.

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Heraclitus: Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play

id.ea: Be my guest, explore and play ;)

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Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
_{― Heraclitus, Fragments}

Heraclitus

, born 535 BC

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a certain mistrust toward power

With Dada I.. ..have in common a certain mistrust toward power. We don't like authority, we don't like power, To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. It's a political attitude which doesn't need to found a political party. It's not a matter of taking power; when you are against it, you can't take it. We're against all forms of force which aggregate and crystallize an authority that oppresses people. Obviously this is not a characteristic of my art alone - it's much more general, a basic political attitude. It's a clear intention, more necessary today than ever, to oppose all forms of force emanating from a managing, centralizing political power.

Jean Tinguely

, born 1925

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on reality

The border between the real and unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Robert Anton Wilson

, born 1932

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controlled folly

Thus a man of knowledge endeavors, and sweats, and puffs, and if one looks at him he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control. Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn't; so when he fulfills his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn't, is in no way part of his concern.

Carlos Castaneda

, born 1925

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