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Toto · 01-08-2008, 11:31 AM

I'm curious about a lot of things that seem more pressing.

Can you make a case for this particular fantasy?

Adamu · 01-08-2008, 11:41 AM

No, not really.

I've only read 3 or 400 pages.

Neither enough to make a case for it, nor enough to simply dismiss it as buncomb.

Toto · 01-08-2008, 11:48 AM

Well, the 3 paragraphs that I read are enough for me.

Let's try this is GRD - it might be more to their liking. Urantia is already mentioned in their funniest religions thread.

And you might want to read

The_Urantia_Book on wikipedia before you invest too much time in it.

Adamu · 01-08-2008, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Well, the 3 paragraphs that I read are enough for me.

Let's try this is GRD - it might be more to their liking. Urantia is already mentioned in their funniest religions thread.

And you might want to read

The_Urantia_Book on wikipedia before you invest too much time in it.

Ah... thanks, but too late, I guess; I've had the book some 10yrs now.
I find some aspects of the work quite interesting while others not so, and some, like you said, as fantastical.

But aren't all religions funny?

figuer · 01-08-2008, 09:56 PM

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No, not really. I've only read 3 or 400 pages. Neither enough to make a case for it, nor enough to simply dismiss it as buncomb.

400 pages is not enough?? The little glimpses in this thread are more than sufficient for me to make a case it is TRASH.

JGL53 · 01-08-2008, 10:02 PM

I had a case of Urantia once but my doctor prescribed a sulfa drug and it cleared right up.

Roger Pearse · 01-09-2008, 01:15 AM

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A volume that claims to have been revealed by spacemen? Um.

So no manuscript is accessible, and there is total secrecy about origins. These are keynote characteristics of 'modern apocrypha', if you read Goodspeed or Per Beskow.

You can actually read the book on the site I provided; click on the tab "Read The Urantia Book" if you're interested.

No, I'm not interested. I'm sorry if I was not clear. There are endless books like this in existence, all of no value to anyone other than whoever is making money off them. The story told varies, depending on the audience being targetted, but it is invariably a dreary modern fabrication (Stephen Carlson explains why such things must smell of the age in which they are manufactured in his excellent book on the Secret Gospel of Mark -- "that which convinced the Victorians seems very Victorian to us"). A keynote of these is the pretence of a manuscript which is somehow only ever known to the person pretending to edit/publish it. Since the Urantia fits this genre-profile, it is thereby discredited without reading a line of it.

What is it that you want of us?

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Adamu · 01-09-2008, 04:33 AM

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You can actually read the book on the site I provided; click on the tab "Read The Urantia Book" if you're interested.

No, I'm not interested. I'm sorry if I was not clear. There are endless books like this in existence, all of no value to anyone other than whoever is making money off them. The story told varies, depending on the audience being targetted, but it is invariably a dreary modern fabrication (Stephen Carlson explains why such things must smell of the age in which they are manufactured in his excellent book on the Secret Gospel of Mark -- "that which convinced the Victorians seems very Victorian to us"). A keynote of these is the pretence of a manuscript which is somehow only ever known to the person pretending to edit/publish it. Since the Urantia fits this genre-profile, it is thereby discredited without reading a line of it.

What is it that you want of us?

All the best,

Roger Pearse

I don't want anything of you, Roger.

I simply wanted to know if this book had been read by others here, or had been discussed.

Regards

Adamu · 01-09-2008, 04:34 AM

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No, not really. I've only read 3 or 400 pages. Neither enough to make a case for it, nor enough to simply dismiss it as buncomb.

400 pages is not enough?? The little glimpses in this thread are more than sufficient for me to make a case it is TRASH.

Well, you can opine it is trash but I don't think one can "make a case" without examing the work directly.

Regards

figuer · 01-09-2008, 04:52 AM

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Well, you can opine it is trash but I don't think one can "make a case" without examing the work directly.

Examining the samples provided by Toto are quite sufficient to determine its value(lessness).

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01-08-2008, 11:31 AM	#11
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	I'm curious about a lot of things that seem more pressing. Can you make a case for this particular fantasy?

01-08-2008, 11:41 AM	#12
Adamu Regular Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kentucky Posts: 126	No, not really. I've only read 3 or 400 pages. Neither enough to make a case for it, nor enough to simply dismiss it as buncomb.

01-08-2008, 11:48 AM	#13
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Well, the 3 paragraphs that I read are enough for me. Let's try this is GRD - it might be more to their liking. Urantia is already mentioned in their funniest religions thread. And you might want to read The_Urantia_Book on wikipedia before you invest too much time in it.

01-08-2008, 10:02 PM	#16
JGL53 Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Outer Mongolia Posts: 4,091	I had a case of Urantia once but my doctor prescribed a sulfa drug and it cleared right up.

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