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Kerry Thornley Quotes:

Kerry Thornley quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998

Birthday: April 17

Death: November 28

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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the ***** of the lunatic fringe.

source: - The Introduction to the 5th Edition of "Principia Discordia" by Kerry Thornley, 1963.

Topics: Marijuana, Religion, Fringe, Opium, Organized Religion

quote what we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos kerry thornley Quotes

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Topics: Crazy, Order, Chaos, Order And Chaos, Prevailing

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

source: - "Principia Discordia". Book by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, 1965.

Topics: Fall, Thinking, Lines, Skip

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Topics: Long, Devil

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Topics: Order, Religion, And Love, Organized Religion

ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

Topics: Spring, Government, Order

Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

Topics: Fun, Media, America, Minions, Poking Fun

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