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The Discordian Society, we repeat again, is not a complicated joke disguised as a new religion but really a new religion disguised as a complicated joke.

— Robert Anton Wilson Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)

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Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of either Rosicrucianism or Freemasonry or both.

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The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The A∴A∴ must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.

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You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

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