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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not as in from some words that he spoke. I meant as in from the research I've done on him and those who he knew/supported. I don't save any links that have anything to do with their occult. That stuff is nasty to me.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've read many of his books and essays and there absolutely zero indication of any of that in what I've read. In fact he strikes as a very practical type much more concerned with lived reality than mystic garbage.

Maybe you've just been reading fucking cranks who don't know their ass from their elbow.

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I have actually been reading too many cranks these days, but none of them talked about him. Plus, I know how to subject myself to new information and hear it out without becoming a hardcore supporter of it. If anyone can change my mind, they can surely try, and I will concede defeat if it actually occurs.

I don't think I mentioned anything about other books or essays he may have written. I don't have much of a use in an author if he lacks anything pure or redeeming in one of his books, and 1984 didn't supply any of that. I'm glad I read that book, but I won't touch anything else by him for the foreseeable future.