[jr]

typed his name on a surf engine and found this little diddy, had a good laugh, i'm curious what you guys thought of this.click here


edit, here's an interview with campbell. web page

[ March 22, 2002: Message edited by: jr ]

[Gimbal8]

Tom Synder's "Suggestions for Actions" that include such needless censorship of Campbell's works kinda annoy me. Synder puts so much effort into persuasion masked between the lines that my spider senses tingle with the danger normally associated with used car salesmen and myth of Satan's own power of deceit. I sense no such pressure in reading Campbell's ideas and I feel free to pick and choose what I find valid or not. Perhaps I'm biased against Christianity and most other major deity worhshiping religions and that may be the reason for my distaste in Synder's response to the attack on his system of beliefs.

Interesting reading in any case.

Walter Huston Clark says the church is like a vaccination against the real thing.

What a fantastic quote. I must add that to my mental scrapbook.

edit: but what I ought to do is increase my mental spell checker

[ March 22, 2002: Message edited by: Gimbal8 ]

[the_monkey]

"Once again, Campbell stacks the deck in his favor and against historical Christianity. In effect, he has censored reliable evidence which refutes his own subjective theories. This distortion of the facts is very dangerous because it may deceive unwary readers and viewers who might be inclined to accept Campbell's credentials, and Bill Moyers' "integrity," at face value."

[travis travis]

That guy is just being a knit-picking fartknocker. I'm sure he probably does catch Campbell in a contradiction, bit of flawed logic, and all that crap from time to time... but in a free society with free minds we all pretty much understand that. Nobody looks at Campbell like he's perfect, and no one accepts every piece of what he says as perfectly true to them. A lot of us do find plenty of value in his work though, cause he's a normal guy with his head into stuff that matters. If the religous weiners want to cry because that sort of person is more relevant to society today then stodgy old scripture literalists (which have really never been that much of a favorite of society) let them.

On the other side though, I wouldn't call Campbell a total sort of hero, because well, he only TALKED about heros and mystics and stuff.