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 ...By the way, Gorham seems to have had a dark side - my out of date webpage 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?
>
>
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