Aleister Crowley

[ER]

What're your thoughts on him?

[LilCerberus]

Who?

[ER]

You know. He used to host Monsterpiece Theater? Was on The Love Boat a lot? Married Liz Taylor? Gained a lot of weight and hosted a game show? Human sacrifices?  Had 666 printed on his Am-Ex?  Wrote an advice column for the demon possessed? Michael Jackson tried to have him buried at Neverland Ranch? Him. Unless I'm thinking of someone else.

[LilCerberus]

Googled it & some results came back for Aleister Crowley, some for Alistair Cooke, and some for Cookie Monster......

And I still don't quite know who you're talking about............

[ER]

Sorry, I thought you were kidding. Look him up, but I guess if youre just familiarizing yourself with him you wouldn't have an existing opinion. I was just curious how some people here might think of him.

[RCMerchant]

 Cerebus- He was a 20th century occultist and hedonist. He wrote some interesting short stories. Jimmy Page lived in his house. Ozzy wrote a song about him. He was known as the Great Beast and the Wickedest Man on Earth.

[ER]

Also rumored to be Uncle Fester's father.

[ER]

Annnnieway, I been reading about him lately, and was just wondering if anyone else had any thoughts about him.

[Allhallowsday]

He might have founded the first "satanic" religion... thelema or yeh M&M hed wrote "the book of the law" (I wiki'd the turd).  Yeh.  Selfish turd. Had children he abandoned I think... a notorious cheater, liar, gadabout straight camp flamer.  Actually, in need of medication. 

[RCMerchant]

  Actually, in need of medication. 

He did lots of drugs!

[ER]

I wasn't going to say anything tonight so I could let others post without my influence, but since I don't know what tomorrow holds, I'll say IMHO Crowley was was a supreme BS artist who may or may not have bought into his own nonsense, a bad and selfish person, he probably deserved to be shot, but I did feel surprised by his writings a few times and was involuntarily struck by the thought that he was probably one of the more original philosophers of his era. His occult claims should be laughed at more than anything else but he did wander into a good point here and there despite being a lunatic con-man.

[Allhallowsday]

Yes, ER, lunatic, con-man, bunko artist, really, a bad influence on culture, though hardly singular.  Brilliance alone is not an excuse for rudeness. 

[Alex]

I agree with him being a con-man with no real substance to his beliefs. He was reportedly employed by the government during the second world war to advice them on what Hitler's mystics would be telling the fuhrer, rather than in any spellcasting capacity. I very much view Hubbard as having been his spiritual successor.

[claws]

When it comes to vintage bulls**t artists I much prefer The Amazing Criswell.

[Allhallowsday]

When it comes to vintage bulls**t artists I much prefer The Amazing Criswell.