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Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is

Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

William S. Burroughs
Powerful, War, Knowing
"Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

William S. Burroughs
Christian, War, Charity

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

William S. Burroughs
War, Games, Principles
"The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William S. Burroughs
Meaningful, War, Player
William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.124, Arcade Publishing

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs
War, Victory, Purpose
"The Place of Dead Roads".

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

William S. Burroughs
War, Police, Drug
Source: www.litkicks.com

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William S. Burroughs
War, Games, May
William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

William S. Burroughs
War, Creative, Political
Source: realitystudio.org

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

William S. Burroughs
War, Writing, Marijuana
William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

William S. Burroughs
War, Men, Birth Rate
Source: realitystudio.org

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs
War, Moving, Men
William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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