Halvor (Raknes)

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad hit me with a razor strop” seems kind of overly deterministic to Randy; it seems to reflect a kind of lazy or half-witted surrender to bald teleology. Basically, if everyone has a vested interest in believing that they understand everything, or even that people are capable in principle of understanding it (either because believing this dampens their insecurities about the unpredictable world, or makes them feel more intelligent than others, or both) then you have an environment in which dopey, reductionist, simple-minded, pat, glib-thinking can circulate, like wheelbarrows filled with inflated currency in the marketplaces of Jakarta.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“…organizations […] that practice human sacrifice […] usually consist of very influential members of high society, people who will never be prosecuted for such horrible actions.”
― Leo Lyon Zagami, Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I: The Whole Truth About the Illuminati and the New World Order

“It is amazing to note, however, that an increasing number if esoteric [New Age] organizations that don't function as a screen for criminal activities related to the New World Order are often reduced to idle intellectual speculations or ridiculous ceremony. Such practices should be intended to perfect the individual and, if possible, take him to the realizations of a higher level, i.e. the awakening of his own conscience, not such rubbish as is witnessed.”
― Leo Lyon Zagami, Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I: The Whole Truth About the Illuminati and the New World Order