Aleister Crowley Pipes

[perdurabo]

Perhaps 1940. :mrgreen:

 

[sablebrush52]

I was thinking more of a date, actually.

42. The answer is always 42.

 

[brian64]

Just to help me follow the conversation, what are we using as the high water mark of western civilization?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDcWAWRRHo

 

[aldecaker]

You ask a serious question one time...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, good luck with that! Most of this thread was over my head.

 

[brian64]

You ask a serious question one time...

I assure you I'm quite serious. Everything I know of high culture I learned from Bugs Bunny.

 

[aldecaker]

If Western Civilization is in decline, it must have had a zenith from which to decline. I simply wonder when that was.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If Western Civilization is in decline, it must have had a zenith from which to decline.

The day before smart phones were introduced.

 

[aldecaker]

That is a likely scenario.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'm starting to think that all of the great civilizations moved towards a point of enlightenment, and then someone dropped a smart phone on them. The rest is history.

 

[brian64]

The day before smart phones were introduced.

You are correct sir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfxWl9OUFWg

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yup

 

[davet]

Look to Munch's Scream as a symbol of the times.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yep.

 

[pipeman7]

I find it hard to believe that when Crowley passed someone wouldn't have held on to his pipe collection as a keepsake. Perhaps his boarders or whoever he willed his possesions too. Were any his belongings left behind in the Boleskin house?

 

[perdurabo]

Jimmy Page, GerldYorke, Grady McMurtry, and Danny Carey are the only people I know of that owned or own Crowley's belongings. Jimmy Page owns robes, Wands, and other magical regalia. McMurtry was a pipe smoker, so he may have inherited the pipes.

 

[crashthegrey]

I would recommend the Freddy The Detective series by Walter R Brooks

I started to struggle with the conversation until we brought it around to Freddy the Pig. Thanks for that amusing sidetrack.

 

[perdurabo]

There's a Charlie Manson thread open, perhaps the Death of Civilization rants will find themselves over there. I believe There has been some confusion between Crowley and Manson. :crazy:

 

[crashthegrey]

Oh boy. That should get interesting.

 

[perdurabo]

Of course Crowley was no Angel.