On 15 Aug, 23:12, Erwin Hessle
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>>> On 24 Jul, 00:23, Erwin Hessle
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>>> On Jul 23, 6:01 pm, "Tom"
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>>>> "Erwin Hessle"
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>>>>> After all, why go to the trouble of bothering with facts, when we can
>>>>> read *one* book, *once*, and just assume that the first kneejerk
>>>>> reaction that comes to mind represents the truth?
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>>>> Anyone who thinks they can judge the whole of Crowley's work based on any
>>>> single example of it is very, very foolish.
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>>> The same can be said for anyone who attempts to judge one example of
>>> his work based only on that one example of it, for that matter. People
>>> tend to forget that Crowley began publishing at the age of 22, and
>>> continue right the way up to his death at the age of 72 - such
>>> activities spanning 70%% of his total life and substantially all of his
>>> rollercoaster adult life, which is a long time for ideas to develop -
>>> yet they still want to take one work (or even worse, one single
>>> quotation) and try to understand it without knowing its context.
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>>> It's a hard thing to say, but anyone who really wants to have any
>>> chance of even coming close to understanding what he was trying to say
>>> needs to have at least a good working knowledge of substantially all
>>> of his output. Certainly some clown who turns up after having only
>>> just read one of the works that should have been amongst the first on
>>> his list has absolutely no chance of doing anything other than making
>>> a complete cock of himself. Again.
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>>> Erwin Hessle, 8=3
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>> Crowley, when in Mexico, was disturbed by potential robbers at night.
>> Being the strong fearless macho man that he was, he fired a few shots
>> above their heads *then immediately rolled over and went to sleep* -
>> brave adventurer eh?!?!
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>> Walter Mitty excerpt No.1
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>> There's more. Lots more.
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> Most of us here read The Confessions a long time ago,
I read it before you did! I read it before you did! neener neener
neener!
>you know.
Yeah.
We
> don't need to be told what's in it, and we won't be surprised by
> whatever you choose to quote from it.
We? lol
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> It sounds to me more like
Uh oh, careful with those pictures in your head, Erwin.
you're just embarrassed and ashamed of not
> being the "strong fearless macho man" that you wish you were yourself,
This is just lame, Erwin. Very lame.
> and laughing at Crowley making out that he was makes you feel better
> about that, hence your bizarrely exaggerated reaction to it, and your
> apparent joyous and extended pleasure at discovering that if Crowley
> is not the flawless hero that you previously thought he was,
Errrr... more pictures in your head, Erwin...
then it
> gives you an excuse to feel more comfortable with your own
> inadequacies and a desire to tell everyone else about it. It's all
> very transparent.
Yeah, sure thing dood. I'm laffing because I can barely believe people
take The Loon Crowley seriously. Having read Confessions I can see you
have been attempting to model yourself on Crowley's style. So no
wonder your attempting some apologetics here. Nice attachment you have
going there.
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> So you've discovered that you don't need to match up to some ideal
> you've created for yourself.
You really serious have a fantasy problem you know Erwin?
>Big fucking deal - that should
should, lol
have been
> one of the first things you learned. You're just a little slow, is
> all.
I'm glad I didn't read Confessions when I bought the book 12 years
ago, I was far too gullible back then. I might have actually believed
some of that shit.
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> Erwin Hessle, 0=0
