[kj] off topic - FR. PERDURABO

[Brendan]

He's a genius, you're a heretic, and I'm not listening anymore! ;)

If you read his books, he mixed a lot of political and current events
commentary into the mix, along with all the science, religion etc. I
suppose he just talked about what was on his mind at the time, to me the
OJ trial was massively important, when viewed as a social barometer. If
you can try to imagine it happening in the 50s or 60s for example...I
don't pretend to understand American culture or politics and I don't know
if I ever really will, but it certainly marked either a turning point, or
the public consciousness that a corner had been turned. Black man
blatantly obviously kills his blonde white wife (and whoever that other
bloke was :), flees the scene wiith blood on his hands, and gets away with
it for whatever reason. Inconceivable up until that point.

But perhaps RAW comes across better in print ;)

I've got Maybe Logic, the doco about him, and I personally find him quite
watchable in 'person.' One of the things I like most about him is how he
debunks the special mystical status of practically anyone who sets
themselves up as a religious / spiritual superior...most of them I find
wafty, absolute, closed minded and dogmatic. Like 'Osho'...re-hashing old
wisdom as though it's his own (although he's quite funny at times).


> One of the most disappointing experiences I've had was seeing Robert

> Anton Wilson give a talk, live, in Dallas, 1994 (I think), courtesy of

> the Church of the Subgenius. Paid good money to see him talk, and what

> did he talk about? Well, remember how the OJ trial was going on and

> everyone was on the edge of their seats watching it day and night?

> That's what he talked about. The OJ trial. And not in some esoteric,

> mind-blowing way, but in a pretty standard, CNN commentary way.

>

> He did begin the talk by saying he thought he was a Discordian and also

> with a "Hail Eris!" They brought out a couch for him to sit on, which he

> did. It was odd and awkward. I didn't get the feeling the OJ talk was

> some Discordian mindfuck, either. He just seemed to be really interested

> in it.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> folk devil wrote:

>> He also described himself as a Libertarian, in later life.

>>

>> ________________________________

>> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:21:31 +0100

>> From: powens at gmail.com

>> To: gathering at misera.net

>> Subject: Re: [kj] off topic - FR. PERDURABO

>>

>> I don't think it's quite right to say that RAW was a "follower of

>> Thelema".  He described himself as a "model agnostic" and Thelema was

>> just one of the many schools/tools that he used to express/explain his

>> ideas. If you have to categorise him then Discordian would do but

>> "follower of Thelema" misses the mark by quite a way.

>>

>> John-Paul

>>

>> On 18/10/2007, Blazingstar418 <blazingstar418 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Oh, I knew what you meant, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

>>

>> I just figured that there were some folks on the list that didn't know

>> about the "black magical" side of Hubbard.

>> He's been stealing money from important people for a loooooong time.

>>

>> Usually any time Crowley gets brought up on this list it's the usual

>> "did he *really* eat babies and drink cat's blood?" nonsense, and I

>> figured that we could use that bit of vilification aimed elsewhere for a

>> change. ;)

>>

>> A L P

>>

>> Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>> My point is that Hubbard was a total piece of shit and Bob Wilson was a

>> fucking genius, I'm aware that Hubbard was into Crowley.

>>

>

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