“Many ideas seem sensible only because of what one is willing to overlook, or can be kept from seeing.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

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“That is why so many of our attempts to ‘change’ ourselves have failed: Changing ourselves in whatever way is like changing our clothing without a bath.”

“There is more to Nature than will hold still for instant laboratory analysis; there is more to Nature than will hold still for doctrinal constrictions.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Reality is also altered by what we fail to perceive.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Science is a method of discovery and verification, not assumption and insistence. Truth is not a product of science; facts and qualifications are.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Malignant memes will occupy and replicate within a void; benignant memes require human involvement to replicate by preventing a void from occurring.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“The existence of a Superior Being, when used as an explanation for events we have no other way to understand, is called an ‘hypothesis’.”

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“It can be shown that civilizations develop almost solely as a result of this hypothesis, and diminish when the citizenry become aware of the fictional aspects of it…”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Would it not be better to have been honest from the beginning… ?”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“… it is evil to remain unaware of as many things as you are capable of being alert to.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“For exterior, temporary physical comfort, we have given up major portions of our internal lives,  wherein exists the only chance we have to continue functioning when the exterior functions have ceased.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Most of us remain more-or-less unaware of our own priorities…”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“(Religion’s) teachers, whether right or wrong, are generally those persons most honestly convinced of our need for moral guidance.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

I am aware that you might think, while reading this, that I am trying to foster a new kind of religion. I have added this small section to this discourse for only that reason. Reading it, I hope, will make you feel aware that I realize each of us has a right not only to be religious, but that we are religious for very definite reasons which are beyond the ability of any of us to control. For those same reasons, many of us are relatively nonreligious. I consider myself a naturalistic apathist. Those are the memes we host. That we should understand that of each other, I feel, is reason enough for presenting the last portion of this work. Hopefully, the reader will become aware that we should become less condemnatory of each others’ beliefs.

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Science is not the bearer of standards; science is a method of study.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Science is mankind’s method of learning about, and religion his way of understanding life’s unknowns.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Time plays such an important role to our understanding of reality that its simplicity seems to boggle great minds.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Time has no physical qualities but simply plays against things which do.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Many people act as though, as soon as knowledge stopped being forced onto them, they had reached the limit of their mental growth, and craved the onset of Alzheimer’s.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Fictional Artificial Reality retains its controversiality because, although it is the largest branch of reality, it exists wholly within human minds.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“To recognize a portion of reality as fictional, or even artificial or synthetic, should not serve as an excuse to devalue it.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“When we give anything a name, we grant it our recognition as an event, process, or condition; it matters not whether it is an explosion, a rock, or a color. Or, a meme.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“If something can be claimed to exist that's unobservable, of course something can be denied existence when we can show it to be true!”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“One fictional entity gives acceptable credence to another!”

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“… try describing ‘two’ without resorting to the use of any other numerical values; that is, a ‘two’ in itself, independent of other things.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“A continuum containing an experience, being a physical event, begets learning, which is a psychological event.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Events are interactions between all the participants (human or not) involved in a process.”

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“The purpose for which we each live … or toward which our natural inclinations would lead us, gets ‘trained out’ of most of us as youths. We get ‘broken’ and then redirected…”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“You will have no time or inclination to be judgmental toward others if you are taking care of your own business.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Without inner awareness, we have NOTHING to perpetuate beyond the body…”

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“ Whatever you wish to be true, only if it is true, can it be true.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“. . . it should begin seeming obvious that, if something is true, it is true for all of existence.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Do not be hasty in casting all ideas aside if you can learn from them.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Evolution began the instant energy began interacting with time to draw a three-dimensional figure. The design for material nature is inherent to that beginning.”

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“It is all a matter of our perceptions.”

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“WE EXIST IN AN ABSTRACT WORLD OF OUR OWN MAKING… Abstractions are only illusions, we are told, but we need not agree with this.”

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Slave to time though man might be, he trades this time for time he’s free."

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“Reality, as it is established in the mind, is the social order of this inner world, with memes acting as thought-police.”

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“The many fields of science have pretty well worked together to show us the most productive and correct point of view is from those places where we can have both feet firmly planted on the ground.”

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“Practically speaking, positive is whatever is going the direction you want to go (impetus); negative is whatever works against you “… benignant memes are promotive memes, and malignant memes are aversive when referring to their effects upon human synergy.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“We still must make up our own minds according to all the evidence.”

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“… we can see that thoughts, then, are actual physically manifested entities of energy within our minds…”

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“Should we laugh, if science can finally prove and make acceptable those things which mystics have failed to make believable?—even the teachings mystics claim to have followed for centuries?—and, maybe, correctly stated them while they were at it?”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Mystics know that a demon cannot be exorcized… those methods serve, instead, to drive the demon deeper inside of its unwitting creator, to hide and lurk—no longer apparent and obvious—and to become a malignant meme and do insidious deeds from its new safe haven.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Do you still wonder why there are so many denominations in our most prevalent religions?”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“The positive side of belief is that result of focused attention, which serves to equal the odds in the believer’s favor, and cause him to create proof where none had ever existed, and to accomplish the unthinkable just to show how he was right.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“We have no right to form ill judgments of any person simply because he might be ignorant in ways different from ourselves…”

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“. . . most of reality is, for most of us, synthetic and viral meme related.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Science does not give credence even to emotions, but must reduce them down to electrical discharges, glandular secretions, and muscular spasms, as we have been shown. Scientifically, emotions cannot exist: Scientists can’t be emotional if they’re also to be objective.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

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“Science is the doubting and testing of postulations, not the justifying and advocation of them.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Its lack of advocacy is why science develops weak memes that do not easily replicate themselves.”

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“. . . that scientific idea stating that whatever works is true enough for now. It works like using rocks to cross a creek: Each rock advances you toward your goal, but does not get you there. It merely gives you a new position for assessing how to take the next step.”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

“Why is it, that fear inspires pleasure in our souls?—not fear of God, as you insist, but fear of other men!—or fear of being proven wrong?”

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“We are not concerned here with disputing scientific dogma; we are concerned that there is dogma, for that is the meat which makes any programmed synthetic reality live and replicate as viral, parasitic, counter-productive malignant memes.”

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“That twinge is an aversive reaction; or, speaking in the language of the mystic, a demonic persuasion, a prod from your meme.”

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“True science approaches the universe’s mysteries with the thirst for knowledge of a little child at the edge of a swamp, who will probe the depths of its muddy bottom for whatever he can find. Once in a while, he is bound to stick his arm down an alligator’s throat. We’ll laugh at science; would we laugh at the child?”

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“Have we not seen how a truly wise person will not say, of anything, that it is a delusion . . ?”

“Speculation can show something to be of human value: Experiment can show that speculation to be entirely wrong; speculation can show something to be an evil to humanity: Only through experimentation can that speculation be shown to be correct.)”

“Experiment according to the rules of scientific method thwarts propagation of malignant memes…”

“Only by the scientific method can science’s findings be rendered demonstrable to a deliriously meme-biased populace…”

“… scientists have contracted the memes of fictional reality, too: They will not attempt to deny something in which they also believe, when that which cannot be proven also cannot be disproved; and, especially when vested interests inherent to their positions in most places require them to uphold a statement of belief to some effect, especially in their lower ranks.”

“… that inner world of yours is the all-important realm whose condition affects all of your existence… and that aspect of yourself of which those who seek control over you have worried you might gain too much awareness.”

“… only apathy fills where wonder vacates, and virulent memes search out the vacuum apathy inspires while they look for new places to replicate into.”

“It is the aim of science to present hypotheses, et cetera, in a way that contributes to the development of a working model that can be expressed and understood.”

“In the search for scientific knowledge … ecstasy comes intact with all the grief through which one struggles to reach and cling to that experience which is beyond description.”

“Promoters of synthetic reality need to hide from your awareness their role is at the root of your fears, and work hard to prevent you from making that discovery.”

“The malignant meme insists it (through enforcement by humans claiming authoritative knowledge not available from anyplace else) is the source of moral conduct and truth; the benignant meme insists its host must will learn, in an instructive society where knowledge is freely available, that morality and truth are those deeds and items which serves the host’s own best interests, personal goals, and creative initiative.

“It would seem like a capability to discredit would also enable the capability to prove something alternative true. . . Psychologists now induce partial euthanasia through chemicals because it is easier, safer, and more politically correct than digging for the truths hidden inside their patients’ minds and likely a lot safer for them personally.”

“… only if God exists could His existence be disproved…”

“It is not science that has made our lives seem artificial, it is synthetic reality.”

“A demon feels the sensations of the person’s being, and utilizes his mind and body to make its own interactions with his (or her) surroundings…”

“This is not something from off the wall. We are learning here of an entity built of energy-in-continuum, whose existence is entirely of energy… the parasitic meme of many books and articles in current literature… It has been up to the current crop of students to understand Memetics and accomplish that, beginning (as stated before) with Richard Dawkins.”

“A demon is a poisonous plant, invisible because we see it only as slices of time or discontinuous events …”

“Fear, growing fat in your mind evolves into a being of energy, which science says cannot be destroyed.”

“Hosting a demon will actually shorten your life by years, and ruinously affect your health… A parasite will kill its host, no matter what its label says, with whatever words it is described, no matter what one wishes to believe about it, no matter how unaware we insist on remaining about it. A malignant meme is a cancer in one’s personal continuum.”

“See how alert demons stay to the rise of peace-loving, angel inspired persons in any culture, or to the vacuums induced by apathy and lack of scientific knowledge.”

“… the nature of a true demon… NOT as imaginary creatures from the bowels of the Earth conjured up by overactive imaginations to scare people into staying in line, but simply mundane results of cause and effect verifiable according to scientific principles and approaches.”

“It doesn't sound like much of an idea, does it? It sounds, at first exposure, like an idea that exceeds the scientific minimalist principles stated in Occam’s Razor. It is, in fact, the simplest way to describe what turns out to be a useful tool.”

“Think of the events and processes resulting from one thing leading to another, all depending upon those which preceded them, under the control of no one and only growing because of what had already been done. As though it lives in an actual existence, it cannot be destroyed without wiping out a major portion of humanity…”

— L. H. Whitling in The Complete Universe of Memes — 

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