Comment by crazytalk on Crowley on Religious Experience · 2009-03-29T23:32:12.163Z · LW · GW

I suggest loql you read Liber 777 for yourself and then tell me how rational Crowley was. Clearly none of you have a real clue who he was or what he wrote. He was a first-class crackpot. Downvote me all you want, but that just says more about how off-base LW has become.

Comment by crazytalk on Crowley on Religious Experience · 2009-03-29T23:05:51.577Z · LW · GW

I cannot believe on a site supposedly devoted to rationality, you appear to be seriously discussing the English occultist, Qabalist, heroin addict, and "ceremonial sex magician." Are you seriously suggesting we begin reading Tarot cards, and invoking angels with Egyptian names with "magic wands?" Forgive me, but Yvain, are you recruiting for the OTO here? This is crazy talk. I mean, seriously deranged. You are NOT accurately describing who Crowley was or what he believed.

Comment by crazytalk on Most Rationalists Are Elsewhere · 2009-03-29T22:59:08.276Z · LW · GW

It has held steady and may be slightly improving, actually as people who are interested in Robin's ideas are slowly beginning to come back.