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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Edison

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1:06:16

…put the researcher to work and what do you know? Alligators have been reported in New York Sewers by workers for consolidated Edison on two separate occasions in the 1930s. Now that doesn't mean there are still alligators in New York Sewers but there were…

1:06:29

…York Sewers but there were once and twice in the 1930s and everybody thinks that's a myth. I get these people from con Edison Southern so who knows maybe that albino marijuana is growing in the show so it's true. The other legend: maybe there really is…

1:03:17

…we've gone from ordinary calculus to triple differential calculus all because we want to account for an alternating current system. Edison Didn't believe in alternating current. I think he kept insisting it was dangerous. Some claim that's because he was…

1:03:28

…it was dangerous. Some claim that's because he was jealous of Tesla who designed the first alternating current system. But then Edison never had much mathematical education. I think it's possible he didn't believe in it because he couldn't read an equation…

1:03:39

…because he couldn't read an equation in calculus so he figured it must be bullshit if I can't understand it. Whatever it was Edison never believed in it but almost all the cities in the United States are on alternating current now I bet Phoenix is and…

1:03:17

…we've gone from ordinary calculus to triple differential calculus all because we want to account for an alternating current system. Edison Didn't believe in alternating current. I think he kept insisting it was dangerous. Some claim that's because he was…

1:03:28

…it was dangerous. Some claim that's because he was jealous of Tesla who designed the first alternating current system. But then Edison never had much mathematical education. I think it's possible he didn't believe in it because he couldn't read an equation…

1:03:39

…because he couldn't read an equation in calculus so he figured it must be bullshit if I can't understand it. Whatever it was Edison never believed in it but almost all the cities in the United States are on alternating current now I bet Phoenix is and…

1:09:05

…not need those little power bricks for everything? Well actually Tesla was promoting all of the power alternating current it was tom Edison that was promoting direct current Tesla. At the end, Tesla Later on in his career believed he had a system that…

1:06:17

…put the researcher to work and what do you know? Alligators have been reported in New York Sewers by workers for consolidated Edison on two separate occasions in the 1930s. Now that doesn't mean there are still alligators in New York Sewers but there were…

1:06:29

…New York Sewers but there were once and twice in the 1930s and everybody thinks that's a myth and yet these people from con Edison still have them. So who knows maybe that albino marijuana is growing in New York Sewers too? Maybe there really is a dead…

37:28

…audiences are never so respectful. They laugh at me. Well they laughed at Einstein, they laughed at Dr Frankenstein they laughed at Edison so I don't care if they laugh at me but nobody laughed at Krishnamurti. Everybody was totally somber and serious and…

29:05

…was an article in the American Journal of folklore that investigated the origins of that legend and they found out that consolidated Edison Workers who work in the sewers have seen alligators in the New York Sewers. I don't know if they got there the…