ciphergoth comments on Crowley on Religious Experience - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Yvain 26 March 2009 10:59PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 27 March 2009 02:12:21PM *  3 points [-]

I don't think that dismissing them as nonsense, and seeking to better understand their hold, are mutually exclusive. We should do both.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 27 March 2009 02:18:40PM *  6 points [-]

Nonsense is not the same thing as falsehoods.

For comparison, I am happy to dismiss as true nonsense, and give no further consideration to, the significance of nature's 4-day simultaneous harmonic time cube.

Comment author: Yvain 27 March 2009 02:54:16PM 5 points [-]

You are stupid and evil, have been scammed by criminal educators you one-ist anti-intelligent fool.

Comment author: taryneast 27 February 2011 09:31:31AM *  4 points [-]

Ok, I had to actually go read (well, skim) that abortion of a site before I realised why you seemed to suddenly turn into a troll ;)

But I have to say - your sentence makes too much sense to really reflect that site. For one thing - your sentence isn't in newspaper-headline grammar. All cube truth denied!

Comment author: David_Gerard 27 February 2011 03:16:02PM 3 points [-]

Although I must say I've personally adopted the phrase "educated evil and stupid" as it applies so well to so many people.

Comment author: fractalman 28 May 2013 06:19:46AM *  0 points [-]

My eyes! my EYES! oh, why, oh why did I click on that link!

(I am now laughing. It is a tortured, whimpering sort of laughter. )

edit2: "4-day...cube". that, alone, should have thrown a compiler error, and I should have recognized that as quite sufficient evidence for the stupidity of the contents... As an upside, I might be able to grok Nabokov for the next two weeks. best case scenario: the effect wears off the moment my nabokov paper is turned in.