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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:57:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> Erik Olson wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > I've heard a version of this attributed to RAH himself, in a book that
> > > he at least had some control over, so I'd tend to give it some credence
> > > but who knows.
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> > Larry, could you at least mention the book's name?
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> I can't remember it just at the mo... all my SF is still packed. Might
> be _Grumbles from the Grave_. Or not.
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> I could also be all wet, it WAS 1:30 AM when I posted that.
OK, fair enough, maybe I'll read my copy.
I have made a fair start into learning the background of science fiction
authors. I don't think RAH or anyone else in that tier ever competed with LRH
for the distinction of starting a religion. Having seen the context of the
1940's sf magazines in which LRH got his reputation (from 1940 on) (I'm a
collector now), they were rife with advertisements for lost mysteries, psychic
powers revealed, Rosicrucians, you name it (also rupture prevention belts,
Charles Atlas, correspondence school and other job opportunities.) Then in 1950,
John Campbell enthusiastically published LRH's Dianetics as an essay in
Astounding (what became today's Analog.) This was the end of LRH's sf career,
but John Campbell and A.E. van Vogt (1912-2000) became members of his
organization. RAH and LRH were taking different "careers".
That's my take; it doesn't preclude any of these dead people from having had
wildly different thoughts of which I am unaware!
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| (...) I can't remember it just at the mo... all my SF is still packed. Might be _Grumbles from the Grave_. Or not. I could also be all wet, it WAS 1:30 AM when I posted that. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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