All Hail Eris!
On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.
(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)
RAW Memorial February 2007
date to be announced
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Bit of a huge hole there now left to fill.
Thoughts to Bob's friends and family.
xxx
Bob your books will continue changing the world to the better. Bye
hail bob !!!
Oh yeah, and Asta la Pasta Baby.......
Até a próxima vida,mestre dos magos...
23!!!
Goodbye and thanks.
The world would have been a duller place without you and I might still have been stuck in an unsuitable reality tunnel!
cheers Bob!
x
Happy trip to the Western Lands, dear Bob. Why not?
When I heard the news today I was sad. And, when I mentioned RAW's passing to my co-workers and they didn't know who he was I was dissappointed. But, when I came here and saw how many people have left comments I felt that there is hope for the world.
RAW woke me from the illusions of society, through his words, and to his credit, by explaining the words and works of others.
Thank you, Uncle Bob.
Goodbye, Mr. Wilson. Thanks for everything.
Gute Reise!
Thanks for waking me up.
I'll never forget!
Rest in Peace!
I'm so sad... :-(
Thank you for all you gave - beautiful spirit.
Best wishes from Denmark,
Isabel
To a great author and a huge influence. All hail Eris!
Farewell Bob, you have influenced my life in ways unimaginable and freed my mind to soar where eagles dare. I shed tears of joy for the laughter, insights and enlightenment you have given me and others and for the many yet to discover your works.
And so in death we have the ledged. Go get um Wilson!
Goodbye, farewell and FNORD
Hopefully it's nice on the other side. Peace, Bob.
For Bob:
Light has brought you near,
Love has kept you here,
Truth has set you free
&
23
.
R.I.P.
I'm actually sad. I suppose it was bound to happen.
I would like to thank him for his sincerity. He was a good writer but more so a compiler of others writings and thoughts. He did like the rest and complied them and added to them, then gave them to us.
He was a great philosopher, I feel lucky to have been exposed to his writings and thoughts.
Peace, you will live forever.
93! May the pyramids shelter you
Farewell and thank you!
Hail Eris!
Bob, even though I respect you dearly and cherish the laughter you may posthumously bring to us all midst the wafty vapors of your last decent meal, I choose not to post a comment to a dead man because I would feel stupid.. Oh, wait...
Have a good trip! Don`t be a stranger, man.
Remember you can't make Past(a) in the future. Glod Loves you. Thanks for making us better Men and Women. D>M>
Blessings on your journey Bob.
And for all you number crunchers:
= January 1, 2007
= 1112007
= 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 7 + 10 + 10 (0 = 10)
= 3 + 9 + 10 + 10
= 12 + 20
= 32
Look in the mirror... 23 skidoo!
All Hail Eris!
Blessings and good tidings,
Louis
good.
farewell...
farewell...
Goodbye, Bob. You seemed like a very kind man. I'll miss you, always.
See yous around Bob. Looking forward to our sharing a good chuckle in some odd place about something silly some sadly locked-in human said, and probably even believed, oy.
Cheers!
The Occasionally Venerable MarsPoet
I can say, without hesitation, that I would not be the person I am today if you had never existed. Thank you!
-Larry
RAW, you were my favorite writer.
Here's to Bob. Skoal!
An hour-long MP3 interview with RAW from enlightenment.com:
http://tinyurl.com/c48ax
Beware the regresses as you seek the brighter lights of higher planes! Thanks for influencing my shambling mound of sub-atomic parts. All things are interconnected.
Bob exits stage right, while folks like Cheney stay past their due. Something ain't right about that... but so it goes.
I'd say that you'll be missed, but you'll always be a part of us.
Always.
Still gonna miss ya though. :(
Thank you from my head & heart.
To those who are suriviving Bob, my deepest condolences. As readers, we had a conceptualized, idealized wise old (sometimes dirty) uncle who taught us how we might think for ourselves, and that maybe people who tell you how to think could be full of bullshit. As such, we "loved" a half-imaginary figure that probably resembled the guy you actually loved.
I know that I feel an awful pang, knowing that my phantom impression of this man (if you will) isn't around in the world-- I can only imagine the cold knife it must be for you. And also the relief, I suppose, to know that he is no longer suffering any pain, and seemed content and OK with dying.
Please know that your Bob was so very cherished by so many people who never even met him. That's a rare feat.
Be well and celebrate him as well as mourn.
farewell
Die Nihilistische Anarchistenhorde (NAH)
Elbedigital
good bye. and thanks for all your books. I enjoyed them all very much.
SANFU
Farewell Bob.
I´ve never had the chance to meet you, but we´ll meet after the circus. I pray to Eris that I will be such a piously, heroic and believing discordian as you have been all your life.
We will give you the honors you deserve!
HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
I've never left a comment on this site before. I swear, by whatever it is that agnostics swear by, that I had a dream just before waking on 01/11 (roughly 5am CST), where I was having a conversation with Bob (the details of which I'm straining to remember now). I never met or spoke with him in the waking world, and never before in my dreams.
His writings always had a profound resonance with my own thoughts.
Farewell, til next time...
Thanks Bob for doing everything you did.
We will always love, Mr. Robert Anton Wilson ...
You were once wild here, don't let them tame you.
See ya later, Bob - CIAO & CHAO
thanks for stopping by and writing such amazing stuff.
Be Well Bob
You helped to open my third eye, pointed me in the right direction to remove much pain in my life. your humor, wit, writings and rants will never be forgotten.
Thank You
Be Seeing You
Thanks for being as excellent as you are Bob. Many people were Illumined by your work, myself among them. Cheers to you, you scallywag...
-Ibisis
So long and thanks for all the books. And ideas. And entertainment. Fnord.
— The Widow's Son
RAW,
Although we've never met, without your inspiration, this particular fictional character would never have considered taking an active role in the consensual universe.
Thanks for giving me the vision to take a step into "reality".
See ya when I see ya.
your fictional grandchild,
-- So-Called "Austin Mayor"
A way a lone a last a loved a
long the
Ram Ram! Kind soul. Peace.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Unto Robert Anton Wilson and unto them from whose eyes the veil of
life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true
Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united
with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be
at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this
planet or another, or in any Star, or aught else, unto them may there
be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomplishment
of their wills.
See you on the Other Side, Bob.
Love is the law, love under will.
To a great mind and a great visionary... Have a safe journey. See you there when I can make it!
Lieber Bob,
Ich bin traurig. Aber deine Ideen hast du gut gesät.
Ich hoffe du ruhest in frieden..Schöner wäre es, du kämst zurück und würdest mit deinen Augen den Realitätstunnel "Jenseits" beschreiben...
Hail
Goodbye Bob, the light you brought to us will never disappear.
(salute)
Thanks for everything.
You changed my life, farewell Bob
My condolences.
I hope things worked out for you.
Godspeed... be seeing you around...
Heyl Bob !
I know you're dead
But you live on
Deep in my head
And in the books
On my shelf
Providing me
With mental wealth
For free I add
Be free I say
The answers easy
To bob I pray
OH great modest boB
You're now a star
Born elsewhere
The door is a jar
The window's open
The spirit is free
This is represented
With twentythree
A real number
That does not exist
In which contains
The final twist
Hail Eris, Hail Ceasar
Hail, sleet and snow
Oh RAW you're a legend
Thank you and bye.
Yeah so anyway, that's for the dead bloke.. nice one for everything... almost everything I think and do has been influenced by this or the other Bob so I bow and fart simultaneously as I say goodbye.
Liam Johnson (from Ingoland)
___________
THIS GAME IS DEDICATED TO ALL ILLEGAL HEROES
vote PARTY party !
_______
23ES
___
see you soon...
Ewige Blumenkraft
you will be missed. we all love you so much and appreciate the wisdom you leave behind. fnord.
You helped warp my mind forever, and for that I will always remember you fondly....
Nothing Lasts!
catch you on the flipside brother.
fnord4life4ever
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.
Thanks for beeing with us, all the best to you and your loved ones. Condolences to your family.
Hail Eris.
Moritz
Marburg, Germany
Holy
Crap.
I feel a strange mixture of sadness and joy. One of the greatest Humans has left us...Luck Bastard!
Send us a postcard Bob!
Bob,
I had the pleasure of meeting you years ago, and helping you get to the other side of a bottle of Jameson. Your wisdom and Celine's Laws provided the basis for my ability to giggle at the stupidity of the naked baboons who think they run this world. The world is a big and funny place, but not quite as big and funny today. You will be missed.
Safe Journey, Bob1.
From Bob2
Viva Bob!
Nos vemos fora do palco espaço-temporal rapaz...
Ni! :)
(for those lacking a babelfish: See you beyond the space-time stage pal...)
Call me on my thrid eye phone if you need some contraband smuggled into the Western Lands. The fnords are tossing down quarters in the land of the dead, leeding to a tree house mansion. The keys are under the mat. The landlord is being punished for his greed back here, and can't help but pay you every month in magick coins, also he must do what you tell him to, although he may still be rather confused at this point. Spontenous combustions are really the most disorienting death.
Hail Eris!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
SEE YOU IN HELL MY DEAR!!!
the eyes of many were opened by the mind of one and nothing can replace this..
we must all carry on the fight and challenge everything!!!!
So Long, Bob!
and yet, too short a time...
All the best!
Hail Eris!
fare well, il miglior fabbro; i can think of no man who has so thoroughly proven himself not to be a cabbage or something, nor can i recall another who did more to awaken my own slumbering mind (and those of so many of our brethren). you answered your calling with honor and skill; may our future works be a humble tribute to your contributions.
shantih, shantih, shantih, and 23-skidoo!
I will do what I can to "keep the lasagna flying" although as yet I have only the slightest idea what that might mean.
I'm glad to see so many intend to carry on your work - optimism seems very precious just now.
I hope there's a clever, funny afterlife - you deserve one.
At last I can read the Illuminatus Trilogy, and look forward to many a conversation with you via the medium of the mass-unconcious. Keep up the good work.
Gracias R.A.W.,
con Amor desde España.
Ring my friend I said you’d call Doctor Robert,
Day or night he’ll be there anytime at all,
Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does ev’rything he can, Doctor Robert.
If you are down he’ll pick you up, Doctor Robert,
Take a drink from his special cup, Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, he’s a man you must believe,
Helping ev’ry one in need,
No-one can succeed like Doctor Robert.
Well, well, well, you’re feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you, Doctor Robert.
My friend works with the National Health,
Doctor Robert,
Don’t pay money just to see yourself with
Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does ev’rything he can, Doctor Robert.
Well, well, well, you’re feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you Doctor Robert.
Ring my friend I said you’d call
Doctor Robert."
The Beatles
I'm going to miss you Bob.
Sleep well, Bob. You are already missed. Please hurry back.
What can I possibly say about Bob that has not been duly noted? His sheer luminous brilliance mixed with wild, high humor not only confirmed some of my more esoteric suspicions but also my dedication to the whole Merry Prankster ethic..."Blow thier minds, kids, and make 'em THINK!" Which of course fit in perfectly with Discordianism once I found out about that.
Bob's words flipped switches in my software that will never be turned off. All of us who were blessed by his laughing wisdom will carry it for the rest of our lives, and the ripples created by the metaphorical rocks he threw will continue to dance across the water of life and far into the future.
Nobody on this Earth ever fucked with my head in a more delightful way. Thank You, Bob. Come back and visit anytime!
In Happy Sadness,
Jeffrey the XXIII MacNab
Pyrate Rebublic of Erisia
R A Wilson died
And intelligent men thought
is wisom eternal?
R A Wilson died
And intelligent men thought
is wisdom eternal?
Condolence to his family and thanks for the good times i spend with your books. Hope you'll havin some good times now, some better ...
Thanks for making all those Schmucks think for themselves!
Nice that "Robert Anton Wilson ..leaves his body" was posted by Robert Anton Wilson himself.
We'll pass your influence on to the next generation.
I found you too late, or I discovered you just in time.
rougy
Hail Discordia! A Great One has left this world.
Bedzie nam Cie brakowało...... ;(
23 Skidoo!
We're all live forever!
thanks for everything. anything. nothing. let me know how the story ends if you get a chance.
Thanks for all the books, that drove me in/sane, you'll be missed, may your loved ones find comfort in their memories, or your books if they've never met you in person. I wish I had had an opportunity to see one of your lectures. Thanks for taking certainty out of my life and opening my eyes to probability, much more fun.
See you later, Bob. Should you check back in, make sure to keep grinning. Joy to you.
We miss you already, Bob. Fnord.
Gute Reise & vielen Dank für alles! ;)
/Manu
Later, Bob!
"And to think, I hesitated..."
I deeply regret that it took so long for me to overcome the rigidity of my own reality tunnel to begin exploring the fountain of your wisdom.
I join the rest of your fans in "missing you already." My only resistance to your passing is that you left me behind.
Rest in Chaos, my brother.
Mark Anthony Reviea
And the apple rolls out onto the ground ....
when I´m dead my dearest sing no sad songs for me. Plant no roses at my head nor shady cypress tree. Be there wild grass above me and dew drops wet; and if thou wilt remember, and if thou wilt forget. - Lord Byron
Farwell & Thank you
You will be sorely missed. I knew you in the last life and loved you in this one. God-speed your return as another mad prophet to save this crazy fucked planet from eating itself.
T
Catch u on the flipside... ;)
Addio Bob. Thank you for continually turning me around until I seem to have become utterly confused - and clear.
We will miss you, Master!
Thank you, RAW.
Got the news Today (12th). When I heard the man was sick, I decided to read The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy. On the 11th, I put the book down after these words:
"Starhawk moved quickly to a new perch. Carefully, he pulled up his trouser leg, tore the adhesive tape, and took a pistol from his calf. He was not smiling now."
First words read on the 12th were:
"Cheese"(Chapter heading)"Robert Pearson said "Shee-it" in a tone of profound skepticism."
Keep that skeptic eye open all the way to the Source, Bob. I'll keep reading to see what you find when you get there.
Thanx for all the inspiration!!!
Hope that you´ll release some of your wisdom from wherever you are now - and let it seep into our "collective" conciousness!
Another star, another god, in my universe!
Say hello to John B.!
I wonder if my handwritten copy of Principia Discordia is finally worth anything!
Happy adventuring in the new now! Come back and see us sometime.
Goodbye, and thank you for helping me see the world in a larger, stranger way.
I... wish I knew what to say. I only hope that, when Concordia comes for me, I am so blessed as to look at Her and smile.
Come back as a hotdog. Please.
hail eris!! all hail dicordia!!!
rest in chaos, RAW!! you are truly my hero, my courtless king and my inspiration.
you will be missed, and you will be found...
more light!!!!!!
hooray for bob! from all the little stars and beans.!
Rob Wilson, Ontological Anarchist, Pineal Massage Therapist, Professional Mind-Fucker, Eris's personal Cabana Boy, Cosmic Trigger-Happy Harlequin Sage, and the single greatest and most important influence on my own and others' thinking.
Join Huxley, Joyce, Burroughs and the rest of the Cosmic Prankster Brigade at Coincidence Control Central. We'll meet you on the porch of Chapel Perilous at high noon to discuss quantum physics, E-Prime and Finnegan's Wake for 23 eternities over a warm plate of alien pancakes.
I love you Rob. I can't say enough. Thank you for teaching us how to pull the Cosmic Trigger; may we use it to shoot down dogma, intolerance and our own shabby egos.
You will be dearly missed.
PF
Shit.
When I buy Apple products, family members die. This has been documented.
Apparently, when I buy game consoles, my favorite authors die.
So long, and thanks.
When you get to heaven Kick out the Jams! Overthrow that bloody Monarchy they've got going on up there. ;)
All Hail Eris! All Hail RAW!
I had hoped you were really a robot replicant.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Peaceful journey, dear cosmic jester...
It is your kindness that remains. I love you.
I'm sitting here at my desk at work crying. They're mostly happy tears though. Resquiescat in pace, Mr. Wilson. You had a profound effect on my life.
I'm going to miss you.
Thank you so much for everything. You will be deeply, deeply missed.
the most influential person in my life. take it easy and farewell.
hail eris
all hail discordia
thank you
In case you're getting the internet wherever you are - I'll miss you. Oh yeah, and if you are getting this, please write one final blog post so we know in advance what it's like.
Later Bob.
FNORD! rendezvous at Quaranc!
Best teacher i ever had, thank you. The world has a chance when it contains people of your humanity.
After reading and being deeply affected by his books, I got to photograph him speaking. THe photo came out particularly well, and I always wanted to send him a picture of this. Didn't know him enough to just send it to him.
Heard he was having trouble with his medical bills, and didn't get around to kicking in for that either.
Now I'll the picture and a donation to his family, of what little I can afford, and hope all can be well and we can cherish what a light he was, and that I can remember to keep doing things *now* and not *someday*.
Hail Eris, Hail Discordia, Hail Bob Wilson.
as a broken gourd in outer orbit,
i expect you will be shooting on by here any moment. You are welcome to inhabit me for a while. I just dusted the furniture.
Freedom is where you find it, then you realize you fnord.
hhe,
meatboy
goodbye, old guy. you performed your Work with grace, aplomb and style. thank you.
Goodbye, and thank you.
I was named in honor of you, and am told I met you when I was only a few months old.
I wish I'd had the chance to meet you again while we were both capable of conversation.
Good journey, the father I never had.
'Bye Bob. We loved your act as well.
LI SAO!
Now go out and have fun like he'd want you to!
Fly Agaric 23
Much shall your passing be celebrated. Not with tears and sadness...although we may feel them, but with laughter and frop and Subgeni and sex. For your exit from this plane should inspire as much fun as your living in it did.
Fnord, my chaotic mentor, fnord.
Thanks RAW!!! You won't be forgotten!!
Thank you Bob for being one of the most amazing minds to find existence in this world.
Hail Discordia!
love you bob
Hasta luego AMIGO.
Creeme, tus libros me han ayudado mucho...
Buen Viaje y disfrutalo con Alegría!!!
93!
Robert showed that through adversity and believing in yourself and your HGA there is a point to existence. He radiated warmth, humour and intelligence! If we do the same he'd be proud. Let go of everything you KNOW and be open to the next moment...
93, 93/93.
Goodbye Mr. Wilson. You blew my mind at exactly the right time.
Thanks again for all the fnord.
John Michael Snook
http://planetsnook.com/
it sucks living in a world full of idiots when you are attempting to no longer be one so thanks for being a constant reminder that i am not alone. ditto all the other posters here.
Dear Bob:
I miss you already. I feel as though a piece of my own past has disappeared.
In terms of cosmic time, we'll all of us see you again before too long.
Peace,
Kevin Bart
We'll miss you in this plane. Thank you.
We've eternally damned a soul, request help overcoming this stupidity we've performed!
As you have died, Bob Wilson, may your soul be safe and live on.
This is the desperate plea of a slave master: I want to be caught. I'm screaming at everybody, I'm enslaving this man!!! Don't interrogate him. I rape this guy, I torture him, he literally has no freedom, no method whatsoever of trascending this treatment on his own, and we have no hard evidence he's ever committed any crime in his entire life!
Hanover, Virginia. 23116 Mechanicsville, Va, 10426 Malboro Rd.
leaving richmond on 301, drive past the Atlee Library the Foodlion & a small rescue station with a medium divide quasitraffic light, take the first left turn at the next (real) traffic light, then a right turn at the train tracks onto malboro rd
Digg has a story about this in the upcoming pipeline. It would be nice if you could help this make the front page.
http://digg.com/world_news/Robert_Anton_Wilson_1932_2007
Hail Eris!
Earlier today I recieved a txt msg from my dear cohort and associate PF, while I was in biology [the science of life] that ol' Bobby Wilson had passed. I must say that it is encouraging to know that one man can positively influence so many people. You are a star, bob. I'd suggested travelling to see you a month or so back, but didn't have the funds. I knew you'd be leaving us soon, but didn't expect it to be quite this soon. Know that you are joining the ranks of angels and bodhisattvas and that some of us who thought of you as a central figure in our personal mythologies will be placing our pen where yours left off. With so many stupid schmucks in the world, it is truly sad to lose a rational intellectual such as yourself. I'm glad that you and your wife are reunited at last. All the best.
Mr. M
I heard you cry from overseas
Into the night as black as ink
In hopes to conquer your disease
Abandon ship, before it sinks
I felt the fear rise in your soul
A scream so loud for all to hear
Uneasy hearts together hold
A fascination to deep to bear.
PS:
May your journey be safe
May your spirit soar high
May your influence reighn
May your words never die
In this maddening exsistance
Your love for discord
Your eternal persistance
forever FNORD
Peace out Bob
see you in the next life!
Jesse
best mindfuck i ever had.
yep, thats beautiful.
Damn
One of the last great voices in the Wilderness is no more
It was a great trip
And you left the world better than you found it
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
And farewell old friend
Thank you and farewell.
RIP :-(
Thank you for everything, Robert. :-)
Enjoy the Steinemjob from Eris
thanks for taking all the "IS" with you!
Have fun with the quantum superposition and showing us how to get from here to there...
Good bye Bob,
and give the goddess a kiss, I'm sure we'll meet someday, somewhere.
You gave us so much. We'll never forget you.
all hail Eris!
Farewell, and thanks for so much humour and inspiration.
Thank you Bob!!
Laters!
Oh Bob - Will miss you so much. Hope Tim and Bob Shea and Kerry T were all on hand to meet you when you crossed over.
You rocked my world.
What is remembered, lives!
I met you at a workshop in Vancouver, BC 15yrs ago. I still use the "un-grounding" visualization meditation you shared with my groups. May we meet again.
Nerdy kid in a mining town gets intrigued by the 'eye in the pyramid' stuff. Downloads RAW into his head (book by book). Now after a decade of protest marchs, mediatation, acid trips, magic rituals, philosophy classes (where I'm the f**king teacher), movies, comic books, Fortean Times, science, evolution, computers, economics ect.... I can honestly say :
You were the mentor who brought me to the gates of Castle Perilous, smiled, and said: "See you on the other side! Hail Eris!"
Alot of us here can say this. You gave us the courage and example to be the humans we are now. And we are Legion. Even in the darkest recesses of the Black Iron Prison your star shone bright.
Saw you at Disinfo. You couldn't seem to feel all the love in the audience for you. I hope you knew it before the biology gave out. It's still pouring out to you right now.
Mammal Pride! Intelligence! Empathy! Imagination!
-DRONF- Hail Eris! -DRONF-
You are one of my life Heros
Allen Sligar
Thanks for everything, St. Robert.
-Pope Ourri XLII
Thanks for the kicks, they'll probably spiral endlessly to oblivion. As for everything else, I think it's about to holy rolly over!
Goodluck, farwell and HELLO!
Well thanks for the kicks they've been an incredible help! as for the journey (if there is one) good luck! I have a strange feeling it's all about to wholly rolly over. Blessings old chap!
Your writings have taught me to look behind everyday "reality" and to abandon the concepts of true and false, subject and object, good and bad...
You have given me so much!
Farewell!
thank you for your great works.
enjoy your flight.
c u l8er.
fnord.
I hope all those you've inspired over the years, all those you made open their eyes for the first time live up to your hopes.
Say hi to Eris for me, and tell her we'll take good care of her apple.
Goodbye my friend, the world becomes a little darker at your passing.
Have fun Bob
See you on the other side.
Fare thee well, Bob. :) Thanks for everything.
I've tried writing 4 posts already, and nothing seems to sound right. How exactly do you say goodbye to a mentor, father, and the best bobdamn mindfucker to enter a reality tunnel ever?
Thank you for all you've meant to the Terrans on the 3rd furthest planet from another non-descript star near the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy. Every time I notice a synchronicity from here on, I'll know you're the one manning the Coincidence Generator...
Tell Tim and Hunter to get us a table at the pub and we'll meet up for drinks, time and date to be decided.
HAIL BOB!
Man...what a dude.
I got sober and read the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and, The Illuminatus Trilogy!.
One book saved me from myself. The other saved me from my own bullshit (and yours).
Both books saved my life.
From there I lept into R.A.W.'s other books, some Tim Leary, etc., etc.
I owe Mr. Wilson a tremendous debt of gratitude for helping me understand a spec or two more about me, and you.
ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
I have the Ode to Joy playing once again as I try to come to terms with this loss. I think he helped to tilt our reality toward a variety of utopias and away from various sorts of oblivion. It seems reality needs all of us right now, sitting, standing or whatever, to choose life, humor, intelligence and compassion, etc. Bob made such choices easier, and his creative visions will continue to make such choices easier, and clearer, and funnier.
Hilaritas et amor, my friend.
Thanks for everything, Bob! :)
This one is for you, RAW:
Bury me when I die
beneath a wine barrel
in a tavern.
With luck
The cask will leak
-- Moriya Sen' An.
R.I.P. and thanks for all the fnords.
A curmudgeony optimist, a guerilla ontologist extrordinaire, a connector of humane futures and collector of sombunall challenges to the plethora of status quos....He appears uncorporally risen....
Thanks Bob.
Goodbye, thanks for helping me think for myself
Peace be with you RAW. you opened my mind, my eyes, my ears, my intellect and my pocketbook. You are my all time fave writer, forever. Fnord.
Bob Wilson was fucking A1
come visit me one day for a peppercake,
greetings to oversease,
you have been a great source of inspiration
The initiation never ends.
Thank you, RAW.
tanto nomini nullum par elogium
Descanse em paz.
1,000th commentator will have to pay for a round.
Much love for the four-dimensional something that is/was RAW. If you still be, Bob, be well.
Fare thee well. Your impact on my life cannot be overstated.
DOVE STA MEMORIA
Thank you for everything, Bob!
rock-on robert anton wilson
yes, your words have changed my life too.let me share this with you all.
whilst reading cosmic trigger one (in 2003) 23 began to appear everywhere and continues to do so today. please, why is this? somebody?!
AS Sirius rose I experienced the ecstatic white light the hysterical uncontrollable joy of conception and our child was born on 6/6/2004 in a shower of sixes and twenty threes... paternal pride aside, she does seem to be some kind of brainella.
so thank you RAW, your work provides great comfort and the motivation to sort my shit out. please pass safely to "the other side" and send our cosmic-regards and luv to
Al Watts Al Crowley Ali Farka Toure
John H.Bonham Mr.James Brown etc and also
to ASHLEY SCARBOROUGH of Allestree 7years gone without whom i would have never heard your name
so there
and so to you, Bob and to the above mentioned and to all those who gaze upon these words i say this!
Beat Your Drumz!
Sing Your Thing!
Share Your Love!
Love Is The Law !
And as some kind of selfish psychic experiment, I humbly beseech your assistance in the Destruction of my own Demons.
I Thank You And Send You All Much Love From Sam In The Windy High Peak Derbyshire Uk The Earth
RAW in peace
Don't cry. Don't cry. Is it shooting stars or my misty eyes.
Lo he's gone on and left us all here.
Beyond pain and and beyond fear. I hope. We hope.
For no end except to hurt. That we're more than raised from dirt.
That the questions that burn us all, no answers given yet we heard his call.
To stand tall. To love because not just despite. To ask always first before you fight.
To push evolution forward, to spit in oblivion's eye. To curse all the gods of men who
took our sight.
You said you still held onto Arlen. Imprinted in your nervous system. Every thought
you provoked, every smile and belly laugh that shook, every tear you made me choke. To think
that giants of men could be broke. To see you weakened it took my heart. To know yours still
beat against the tide. Like seeing my grandfather wasted by time. It devastated me. And yet.
Every time you said yes when they said no. Every defiant footstep you willed. How could I not
continue to fight.
I saw you young. I saw you old. I'll see you when I've gone cold. I'll do it for them. I'll do it for
you. I'll give it all up. I'll see it through. Burning ones rise to resist the fall. You shined so bright
and passed on your light. A long chain succession. Another profound impression. A circle connected us inspired from one to another. My sons will be your brothers. As memes supersede slow genes proceed. We'll carry your fight - our fight onto our shoulders. Yours like boulders. Lifted. Gifted. Us with the will to heed. The hardest path. I won't be a stone. I'll push and defy. Even when I'm empty and have no more tears to cry. Even when I drift you'll be in my sky. I'll pass on your wisdom, maybe even find some of my own. Maybe one day, the warriors wish, like you I'll find home. Where there are no warriors and no swords. Only the maiden's kiss on the hilts, no sword that tilts and your words always in my thoughts.
I'll miss you so much.
Schrodinger's Cat is one of the great novels of the 20th Century. Cosmic Trigger opened my eyes. Promethus Rising made me see my potential, and gave me the means to fulfill it. Bob, I hope you are with your wife. I send my love to you.
You are deeply missed my dearest friend.
Thank you so much Bob, you were one of my favorite human beings on the planet, and with any luck, you're already born and back in action.
Much love for you and you're family
farewell
I love you. My friends love you. You have affected all of our lives as we will continue to affect those we love. Thank you for all of your work and for all of your honesty. It took another friend to point out that I had a guru. A modern hero I can look up to. I thank you for what you have provided me. Your optimism turned many lives around. I feel like I lost a very, very close friend. We all did.
peace, love and forgiveness,
Russell
You influenced my thinking more than any other author on the planet. All Hail Discordia and FNORDS away!
In the universe next door we choose to imagine Robert Anton Wilson walking arm in arm with his wife and his daughter Patricia Luna in an orchard of noon blue apples framed by the dazzling LUX of the infinite light..
RAW was always my favourite teacher in the invisible college. Its been 23 years (of course it just had to be) since i picked up the Illuminatus at the tender age of 15 and I cannot imagine a life without the lessons RAW taught me.
Nothing to clutch in life.
Nothing to fear in death.
Indeed.
www.utopiated.net
Hard to believe you're gone... You, of all people... I suppose now you finally have all the answers, if there are any to be had...
Thank you for teaching us the value of nondogmatism.
.:.IATIAOAI.:.
I hoped to meet you in the flesh some day, but being stuck on the opposite side of the planet, I left it too long. Now I must content myself with the wisdom you committed to paper.
The world is a poorer, colder, sadder, crueler, and above all, stupider place for your passing. Those of us who remain will do what we can to carry the light, but one of the true giants of this world has left us. It will take many, many pygmies to fill those shoes.
Hail Eris. All hail Discordia. The next one I smoke will be for you, Old Man.
Thank you for everything.
Love is the Law.
Farewell.
Just saw this now - Bob passes as the world stands up to one of the world's most biggest symbols of oppression (Guantánamo Bay). I'm shocked and saddened that the world has lost one of its finest minds, but maybe in passing Bob will be recognised for what he was. Fare thee well, great teacher, and keep the afterlife bright for us that follow you.
I first read Bob in GREEN EGG, back in the early 70's. Then Illuminatus! came out... I gave away so many copies of that book.
For over 30 years, Bob's wit, wisdom and sheer intelligence has lit the darkness of my world, and that of many of my friends. We are all so much richer for the fractals Bob magickly created --and placed in our heads. He was and is unique, in taking ideas apart and putting them back together in new and novel ways, for never taking anything at face value and laughing all the way. He was the thinking person's writer-hero. The pagan and magickal world has lost the greatest thinker since Crowley.
Someone else, on another blog, noted how amusing that the LA Times, which ran Bob's obituary over 10 years ago, didn't notice when he died, this time for real.
'Every man and every woman is a star', but Bob burns so much brighter many couldn't even look.
Hail Eris! Hail Robert Anton Wilson!
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