Thanks so much for this wonderful message from the heart. Bob's writing navigated through BS (belief systems) with the ease of a flying lasagna, and yet he could balance sarcasm and optimism in such a masterful way that I couldn't help but smile as I contemplated his analysis of the insanity of our primate herd. I too had the pleasure of Bob and Arlen's company, and your description brought tears. Bob was brilliant, often caustic, but also entirely, disarmingly humble and kind. Thanks, Doug.

This is wonderful, found this by serendipity. We need an update for 2021!

I miss him too, man. Praise Bob!

Thanks. Your message is beautiful.

And look where we are at now! We need him so much now and wish Robert was here in the flesh.

I've watched this over and over through the years and it becomes more and more real to me through time. I truly miss Wilson as a friend. While he challenges me more than other philosophers intellectually...he will always be the human asking me to care for myself and others in a way that means more than anyone else asking that of me. When I ever see the question, "Living or dead, who would you like to have dinner/spend time with"...Wilson always comes to mind. He was the human that pushed my buttons. I'd say for better or for worse but Wilson always brings out a better me. So I have no need to qualify. It has been almost a decade since this video first popped up and I still fell the same way.

Wow, this moved me. Thank you Doug

This was helpful. Thank you for sharing. I just came across Robert's work. Well timed. Sometimes I feel way behind the curve with my discovery of energies and influences. I'm finding his ideas useful and it's nice to listen to people that have a connection to them.

Gets truer every year. You would have thoroughly enjoyed this madness, Robert Anton Wilson.

This is beautiful

Bob was a very lovable guy

@Magicalfluidprocess

3 жыл бұрын

Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus smashing thanks for sharing

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

love you bob. its a blessing being able to look out onto the same bay in capitola every day that you once did. thanks for keeping my mind open

This is awesome!!!!!!

I miss RAW. These are my sentiments exactly.

Why would anybody dislike this ?

I still miss him too along with frank zappa....

good to know he's gotta dream machine ready to go

Amazing...

This was pretty awesome, Doug. You did good.

About two minutes in and I'm already imagining in my mind some wise ass responses that RAW might have come up with. He would have definitely embraced the term "teabagger".

@zootsoot2006

2 жыл бұрын

The target for most of RAW's acerbic put downs would have been the wokists. Same with Hitch. They were both against 'believing' but not 'believing in'.

Thanks for this ode to Bob, Douglas. I never had the pleasure of meeting him but his books absolutely changed my life in profound ways, like a single domino leading to a whole cascade of falling dominoes. I love his combination of humor and profundity. Oh, by the way, if you're reading this then I dub thee a Pope of the Discordian Alliance for Deviant Activities (D.A.D.A.). I now excommunicate you. We discordians have to stick apart, after all ;)

I love how today, I was thinking of reading and re-listening some of Bob's lectures and essays and when I came back home from a gruelling day at work, my roommate informs me there is a Robert Anton Week going on right now. The timing could not have been more perfect. I wonder what would Bob have to say about how SOPA and the protect IP acr are trying to stop the free flow of information that's going around the world faster and faster, as Bob once pointed out... Thank you Douglas for this video.

2021 was even funnier, and let me tell you things wil get even more hilarious coming years believe it or not :P

Great.

Bleh, I would hope that RAW would have a more skewed and less trite insight into current events.

I've literally read all of Raws books coincidence tho its still on my bookshelf is the only one I Hebert made it all the east through and understood. Understood is a precarious term to use for a RAW BOOKi now butithinkyallnosewhatimean when I say that

@steenosrs8077

3 жыл бұрын

Is this a stroke?

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves

bit ranty at the beginning but you pick it up nicely at the end... great message :)

Nicely put. I laugh all the time about the current political climate thinking about RAW's 'Guns and Dope' party in the back of my head. It is surely the secret to populist success.

Great to watch and listen to someone with such organised thoughts and interesting speech . NOT!

@OKnotOK09

3 жыл бұрын

1994 called and wants it's phrase back.

@stvbrsn

2 жыл бұрын

@@OKnotOK09 1994? We were using that (sarcastic remark followed by “not”) back in ‘86.