THE FILTH ISSUE quotes
1: us vs. them
“Children need to be sick sometimes. That's how they build their own
immune defenses....That¹s how they build strength. The overdrugged,
overprotected, artificially raised American kids are among the sickest, most
allergic, most asthmatic, and most overweight children in the civilized world.
It's OK to get a cold once in awhile; it gives the body a chance to use its
powers of defense, like fever, inflammation, coughing, and swelling. These
symptoms are not the illness. They are just signs that the body is successfully
attempting to restore its own balance. To attack the symptoms is to fight the
body itself and make it that much more difficult to return to a state of normal
health. A body allowed to heal itself will be far more resilient, more RESISTANT
in the future. That's the kind of resistance we want.
What we call disease is very often simply Nature's method for ridding the
body of poisons.”
© TIM O’SHEA
“She says there’s ants in the carpet. Dirty little monsters eating all the
morsels, picking up the rubbish...
Sex on the TV, everybody’s at it, and the mind gets dirty as you get closer
to 30...”
© DAMON ALBARN - END OF A CENTURY
2: perfect victim
“Ignorance is useful. Having individual agents capable of assessing the
overall state of the system can be a real liability in swarm logic. You don’t
want one of the neurons in your brain to become sentient.”
© STEVEN JOHNSON - EMERGENCE
3:
structures and ultrastructures
“’The Abyss’ itself was entitled Masak Mavdil, or place for
rejected failures. A being called Mesukiel or ‘Veiler of God’ tactfully
hid divine and human failures in this dumping ground”
© WILLIAM G. GRAY - QABALISTIC CONCEPTS
4: shit happens
“Kill off animals and plants and the earth will recover...but kill off
microbes and in weeks the earth will be just as sterile as the moon.”
© DORIAN SAGAN AND LYNN MARGULIS - MICROCOSMOS
5: pornomancer
“For decades, allergists have shot up some of their patients with a
distillation of dust taken straight from the vacuum cleaner.”
© HANNAH HOLMES - THE SECRET LIFE OF DUST
6: the world of anders klimakks
“Dealing with the Qliphoth is the psychic equivalent of working with
toxic wastes, dangerous animals or high voltage wires.”
© EE REHMUS - THE MAGICIAN’S DICTIONARY
7: zero
democracy
'The word 'sink' is used figuratively to mean a receptacle of foul
or waste things. Calhoun invented the term 'behavioral sink' to designate the
gross distortions of behavior which appeared among the majority of the rats in
the
Rockville barn. Such a phenomenon, he believes, is 'the outcome of any
behavioral process that collects animals together in unusually great
numbers....A behavioral sink does act to aggravate all forms of pathology that
can be found within a group.''
© EDWARD T. HALL - THE HIDDEN DIMENSION
8: fuck police
“Ilya Prigogine, the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of the study of
self-organizing systems, has observed that a breakdown of progress is frequently
an illusion. Under the shattered fragments, new structures and processes
ferment. And from these innovations come fresh orders whose wonders appear
numberless.”
© HOWARD BLOOM - THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE
9: inside the hand
“The shifting and precarious nature of the bardo of becoming can also
be the source of many opportunities for liberation and the susceptibility of
mind in the bardo can be turned to our advantage. All we have to do is
remember our instructions; all it needs is for one positive thought to spring
into our minds…then that alone can free us.”
© SOGYAL RINPOCHE - THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING
10: man
made god
“It is the secret transformative substance, which fell from the
highest place into the darkest depths of matter where it awaits deliverance. But
no-one will plunge into these depths in order, by his own transformation in the
darkness and by the torment of fire, to rescue his king. They cannot hear the
voice of the king and think it is the chaotic roar of destruction. The sea (mare
nostrum) of the alchemists is their own darkness, the unconscious. In his way
Epiphnus correctly interpreted the ‘mire of the deep’ as ‘matter born of the
mind, smutty reflections and muddy thoughts of sin...”
© C.G. JUNG - ALCHEMICAL STUDIES
11: a
very english nervous breakdown
“I’d like to be somebody else and not know where I’ve been...”
© NOEL GALLAGHER - SHAKERMAKER
12: schizotype
“Jung’s psychology has also had its share of accusations of gloominess
and of an excessive emphasis on darkness, alienation and evil. Once again, it
must be recalled that there are empirical reasons related to the dynamics of
spiritual liberation which make such attitudes imperative...”
© ROBERT E. RYAN – SHAMANISM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF C.G. JUNG: THE GREAT CIRCLE
13: them vs. us
“University of Glasgow chemist A. Graham Cairns-Smith...suggested that
the present essential elements of biology - nucleic acids and catalyzing
proteins - evolved on a kind of prebiotic scaffolding. Ultimately the
scaffolding disappeared, leaving behind the biochemistry that now controls the
processes of all living things. The vanished supporting structure, in the view
of Cairns-Smith could have been clay.”
© TIME LIFE BOOKS - LIFE SEARCH
'A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down...'
© RICHARD M. SHERMAN, ROBERT B. SHERMAN - SPOONFUL OF SUGAR from MARY POPPINS
UPDATED : 07/12/2003