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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:34 AM Original message |
What's your opinion of Alistair Crowley? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Bit of a wanker, but harmless really. Self-propagandist, |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. darts eh? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. He claimed to do a whole encyclopaedia of weird and evil shit. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Wasn't he a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:42 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I think Khephra's your expert here. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. If it feels good do it - isn't that s'posed to be our slogan? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Isn't that Sloan's slogan? |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. He did NOT form the Golden Dawn |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. You rang? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Certainly more expert than me. |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. He didn't form it |
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truthspeaker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. Nutjob. But the Ozzy song "Mr. Crowley" has a good riff. |
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phillybri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Randy Rhoads greatest performance.... |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
4. Pioneer of the drug experimentation and free love movements |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. I'm a fan of his work, but yes, he was a bit of a dick. |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. Someone who freaked out the fundies |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
9. An idiot, charlatan and rapist. |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
23. You can't blame him for Scientology |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. No, I'm not blaming him for Scientology |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. You could also say a lot of modern Wicca |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:50 AM Response to Reply #35 |
43. Alexandrian Wiccians are whirling in their graves... |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
29. I suspose you've never heard of "Synergy" before? |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:24 AM Response to Reply #29 |
36. I disagree with you |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:27 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Well, I'm "occult" so we differ. |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:55 AM Response to Reply #38 |
44. I did it for 10 years.... |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
11. Didn't he bang a tree once? |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. Religionist of the oligarchy. |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. He also did spy work for the UK during the War. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
15. created an artistic but utterly unusable Tarot deck |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 08:57 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Wasn't the deck painted by a woman? |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:15 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. yes |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Stole? |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:27 AM Response to Reply #27 |
37. yeah its "his" deck |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:28 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I seem to recall it is named the "Thoth" deck |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:31 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Yeah it says Thoth on the box... it also says Crowley on the box. |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:34 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I suspose you've forgetting the hand drawn designs that he did himself? |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:42 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. Well, the famous "Rider Waite" deck was not done by Rider or Waite |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:57 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. of course |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. my husband really likes the deck |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
26. Too bad you can't use it. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. actually my husband really likes that deck! |
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southpaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. That we study his life, write songs about him... |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
28. BTW it's Aleister Crowley |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
30. My take on Crowley as an ex-member of |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:59 AM Response to Reply #30 |
46. Amen! |
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Khephra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-04 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
33. BTW, Liber Oz is required reading imo |
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