This is making me imagine reboot Doom but instead of all the over the top scary screaming demon things.. just a bunch've big-headed 1960s sci-fi aliens in cheap polyester capes. The close ups of them getting punched would just be followed by a balloon deflating noise.
Unicorns are real, bro, just not in the magical sense. You can make them at home. All you need is an infant goat and questionable ethics.
People already do some odd things with goats but this one is in contention for some of the best just doing weird shit to animals mentions. Somebody thought to themselves 'Y'know what I bet I can make a fucked up unicorn' then accomplished it reason be damned.
In this case, that someone was Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.
Man just unironically running around pretending to be Elminster but in real life. For a brief moment I find myself understanding the urge why some bullies just felt the need to tear into kids. An undeniable urge to slap the hat off his head.
Wait til you hear him talk:
Oh no, that one gets bundled into it too. They claim it's all the same phenomenon writ large.
His books look like 3e D&D game books. I'd ask if we sure he isn't a very dedicated troll, but I think he's just honestly unhinged enough to believe in The Gospel According To Gygax.
Do they believe in Hollow Earth, too? I hope so. I love it when I can get all my crazy in one package.
Not going to TMI but his voice instantly rang so many bells reminding me of some very wishy-washy and self important people. Chuunibyou types but instead of all powerful world shattering power or importance its a sort've mythical understanding and wisdom. Wouldn't trust this man with a bag of M&Ms let alone spiritual life.
Someone more autistic than me has probably made a diagram showing the origin, evolution and divergence of all this new-age crap, but all I can do is blame the hippies and Rousseau for its general ethos. Not even Herbert Marcuse encouraged that level of solipsism.
To be fair Wicca was pretty much 20th century new-age crap to begin with so no wonder it's overrun with fluff bunnies now.
Well there are lots of leftists who like to draw attention to the fact that the books the Nazis burned were mostly about trooning people out, so at least they're somewhat consistent. Also there was a made-for-TV Austrian feel-good film set in the early 50s where a Jew literally named Goldberg gets a niglet (fathered by an American GI of course) into a posh Viennese boys' choir, and immediately starts teaching them jazz routines. It's not straight-up saying that the Jews really were plotting to remake the world in their image and Hitler tried and failed to stop them, but it's pretty close.
Powerlevel alert! I've known OZ for many years. He's actually kind of a fascinating figure -- a dude so inspired by the early-Boomer Robert Heinlein novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and its naked sex cult The Church of All Worlds, seriously enough to found it as a real-life religion, and keep it going for almost six decades. In my mind he's more of an old-fashioned eccentric spiritual/cultural visionary than a true lolcow, and has pretty much lived exactly the way he's wanted to since the mid-Sixties -- something almost nobody else can boast.
First, that actually sounds amazing.
It used to be fun, creative, and a healthy outlet for cultural and spiritual misfits. As with so many other scenes, its exploitation by mainstream pop culture, and the inevitable entry of wokies and militant troons into positions of influence, largely ruined it for everyone else.
so how much lsd does he do per day
"Skipping church" because if you went to church you wouldn't be degenerate faggots who think both of you putting on a skirt makes it lesbianism.
@Flaming Insignias
Far as I can tell, he's mainly a pothead these days. The dude turns 80 next year, so I'm guessing his days of tripping the light fantastic are long behind him. (Although I can see OZ doing an Aldous Huxley and having someone dose him with LSD just before he "disincorporates.")
This is probably the least creepy thing about Crowley. Look into his little cult, the people he was involved with or their connections to the NASA JPL. For some reason occultists find themselves connected to every organisation with even a little sway or relevance.
Counter theory: how about aliens and fairies are demons
This is actually really fascinating subject, like what is belief? Can you will yourself to believe ridiculous nonsense you must intellectually be aware is just straight up not true? I'd say yes. I wouldn't say most pagans here are atheist, but definitely a chunk of them, not disputing that. Another chunk also believes in archetypes and perennial European paganism, which is like...not-atheism, sort of like Interpretatio graeca, believing different Gods are different names for the same thing. This group also overlaps with Esoteric Nazis who believe Hitler is literally a God. Savitri Devi indo-europeanism etc.
