The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture

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Gorightly has proclaimed himself to be a "crackpot historian" articles of him have been published in several underground magazines. The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely.

Here I had been thinking they were potential converts to the Objectivism of Ayn Rand and, instead, they were all turning out to be a bunch of whim-worshipers. It features typewritten and handwritten text intermixed with clip art, stamps, and seals appropriated from other sources.Inserted into the seemingly mundane radio program, the pranksters had planted a series of interruptions, made by a newscaster, to the effect that Soviet planes were invading the U. This appeared in its entirety in Historia Discordia, a book on Discordian history released in spring of 2014. That an appendix of the Warren Report had to be devoted to speculation and rumors is in my mind argument enough that a good deal of fabrication and exaggeration was involved somewhere along the line.

After asking me what seemed like a lot of irrelevant questions, he charged me with perjury for denying, truthfully, that I had met with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans during the months previous to the assassination. And the difference isn’t just that the latter is a billionaire preparing his own survival plan, although that’s certainly part of it. With a kind of insurrectionary bravado, he took it upon himself to sponge up the sordid projections of the Military Industrial Mafia Complex as well those from the plethora of intelligence revenants who trailed and taunted him for years, under various disturbing guises. Notable symbols in the book include the Apple of Discord, the pentagon, and the "Sacred Chao", which resembles the Taijitu of Taoism, but the two principles depicted are "Hodge" and "Podge" rather than yin and yang, and they are represented by the apple and the pentagon, and not by dots.

Even reading over the names of the various groups formed under the Discordian banner are veritably fantastic and a clear reflection that the late 60's and 70's were a time of liberation on all fronts. It took Kerry almost 10 years until he started compiling notes on his Brother-in-law/Kennedy assassination-associated memories.

The Kerry Thornley story is an interesting twist on the 'tragic hero' - a gifted and talented counterculture figure that eventually succumbed to his demons. It was common knowledge that Oswald was studying Russian, and was fairly fluent in conversational Russian.The sum total of time Kerry and Lee spent together in MACS-9 added up to roughly three months before Kerry was transferred to Atsugi in June 1959, along with a few hundred other Marines who sailed to Japan aboard the U. Nixon's accession to the presidency six years before it happened, as well as anticipating the rise of the 1960s counterculture and the subsequent emergence of Charles Manson and what became his cult following. Bringing a mischievous sense of Prankster-Discordianism to the zany world of fringe culture, once Gorightly connects his dots, readers are plunged into alternative universes which forever alter their view of 'reality. There has been some conjecture that both Thornley and Oswald may have been subjected to mind-altering experiments. During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F.