The world is like a ride in an amusement park,
and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Wed 7 Dec 2011, 0:28, 12 replies)

I did LSD once or twice too.

( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 1:06, closed)

Me too. Those where the days.
(Tronn, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 2:38, closed)

Synaesthesia there?
Confusing a period in time and a location in space
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 9:31, closed)

Yeah, but see Bill Hicks is dead and I'm not.
Therefore I WIN!
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 7 Dec 2011, 3:41, closed)

Of course, by 'dead' I mean living on Elvis' Secret Island with Jim Morrison.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 7 Dec 2011, 3:59, closed)

It's people that do things like this that make me dislike Bill Hicks.
And, actually, I don't want to dislike Bill Hicks.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 9:15, closed)

Yes - Bill Hicks never quite got the fundamentals of human nature and interaction.
And as for "It's just a ride, we can change it any time we want" - well - clearly he's never met an average Joe doing 9-5 with a mortgage and a couple of kids.

In fact, the more I think about Bill Hicks, the more I dislike his preachy, worthy, righteous, unrealistic pseudo-psychology hippy bullshit.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 10:18, closed)

expected better...

(NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 10:56, closed)

It's a pity people take it so seriously really.
After all it was a stand-up routine, nothing more. It was to be listened to and enjoyed, not taken away and analysed.
Well, that's my take on it anyway.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 7 Dec 2011, 11:45, closed)

Well some of it was based on righteous anger - eg about marketing and advertising.
It's not surprising people ended up saying "Well then how do people know about your gigs?"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 13:25, closed)

Well yeah, I'm sure the irony wasn't lost on Bill.
I've been a fan since I saw him in about 88/89? Bristol I think, not sure anymore.
Got the cd's, films, books. I've always thought that as a comedian and tongue-in-cheek cod-philosopher he was brilliant. Yeah, definitely had some messages to pass on but I reckon people have always taken this sort of thing too seriously. He was a comedian, not the new messiah.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 7 Dec 2011, 13:51, closed)

Actually it might have been 1990?
I'll see if I can find the ticket when I get home cos it's bugging me now!
Damn you, brain!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 7 Dec 2011, 13:59, closed)