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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:22 PM
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Robert Anton Wilson has died
And here "The Illuminati" was becoming truer than ever:

http://www.blather.net/zeitgeist/archives/2007/01/rip_robert_anton_wilson.html
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:23 PM
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1. Hail Eris!!! All Hail Discordia!!!
RIP RAW, see you soon...

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:23 PM
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2. The Illuminati finally had him killed.
Sad.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:28 PM
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7. But the Illuminati has their puppet in the oval office n' everything...
The media spouts their blather, etc.

Didn't they wait too long?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:33 PM
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14. Or else he's not really dead, but has been reassigned to help the Gnomes of Zurich
Probably just a big cover up.

I wonder who's body that will really be in the casket at the "funeral".
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:44 PM
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15. we need him to do "deeper" research now, anyway...
;-)
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:25 PM
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3. Dammit!
I knew this was coming but man, this sucks. RAW was a brilliant mind w/ a sly, winking soul....
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:26 PM
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4. Aw crap.
Major bummer. RAW, we hardly knew ya...your stay in this dimension was all too short. See you on the other side. :(
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:26 PM
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5. That sucks. - n/t
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:27 PM
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6. Rest easy, Bob.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:28 PM
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8. I bought that damn book.
There was something about George Washington being an imposter, then some dude fucking a giant apple.

Totally unreadable.
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:30 PM
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10. I read it as 3 books in 1976!!!
It was a LIFE experience. RAW was something very special!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:32 PM
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13. I bought it because I wanted a nice long sci-fi read.
I should have guessed what I was in for, considering it was next to the L. Ron Hubbard series.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:50 AM
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23. guess you didn't care for him... ??
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:29 PM
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9. Memorial site http://www.smi2le.com/
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:30 PM
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11. All the interesting people are dead
At least we get to join them (I HOPE!) when we're (I HOPE) ready. I'm not ready!!!!!!!!!

A true original. Not that many of those.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:32 PM
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12. 23 Twenty-Three
He Knows What I Mean

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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:50 PM
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16. "I don't see how to take death seriously. it seems absurd."
Edited on Thu Jan-11-07 10:50 PM by nashville_brook
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al bupp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:59 PM
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17. Bon Voyage, 23 Skidoo and So It Goes
Edited on Thu Jan-11-07 11:32 PM by al bupp
A great voice has passed. We will miss you.

from RAW's blog:
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"

The Roshi replied, "I don't know."

Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"

"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:00 PM
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18. Farewell, co-inspiration of my nom de screen
May flights of pigs moo you to your rest.
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Ahpook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:00 AM
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19. Good night
See you, friend:)
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:08 AM
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20. That's what *they* want you to think!
RIP RAW
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:11 AM
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21. Hail Eris!
Fnord!

Eat a hotdog in rememberance (no bun).
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:18 AM
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22. Voyage in Peace, Wilson!
May he see again his child, whose life was taken in a robbery many years ago.
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Chichiri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 02:52 AM
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24. *sad*
I'll miss you, Bob. And I'm sorry, ever so sorry, that I never actually finished the Illuminatus! trilogy. I suppose I'll have to now . . . sigh . . . but oh well, I'll miss you anyway. Forever.

Fnord.
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:57 AM
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25. RIP
Wow, not two days ago I was listening to all the bad news and thinking, "Well, at least Robert Anton Wilson is still with us." :(

He'll be sadly missed. And not just because of the unfinished Historical Illuminati series.

Michelle
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 07:02 AM
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26. R.I.P.
Time for a trip to the bookstore. :)
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Forrest Greene Donating Member (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 01:26 PM
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27. Illuminatus! Taught Me
...more about Anarchy than all the Bakunin I ever read. Thanks for everything, Pope Bob!

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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 05:29 PM
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28. A couple online obits
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