Hi dmb, might I suggest that similarities needed be horrific, it's not the same as being the same.
Cup half full, rather than half-empty ... It is positively valuable to conclude that even fascist cranks agree on the oldest truths in the world ? Ian On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:29 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > MRB said to Steve: > > There's a very interesting worldview in a strange man named Melvin Gorham's > book "The Pagan Bible" from the early 1960s. The basic idea is a pantheistic > conception where the world arose out of God's progressive self-limitation - > creating a series of "disciplines" in Gorham's lingo. When I was looking into > Gorham some years ago I saw some likenesses to Bob, Watts, and Korzybski. > ...By the way, Gorham seems to have had a dark side - my out of date webpage > on him goes into some of it - http://marymaclane.com/gorham/ - seems to have > been some overlaps, unfortunately, with the anti-Semitic and homophobic > idiocies. > > > > dmb says: > It seems awfully generous to say Gorham had an "interesting" worldview. My > impression is that he was a fascist crank. You know who else hated Jews, > loved Wagner's Valkyries and thought Northern European tribal culture was > superior, eh? I'm horrified at the idea that this guy is anything like Watts > or Pirsig. What likenesses do you see? > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
