# These Urantia Papers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264 "2001-07-20T23:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![juanjuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@juanjuan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juanjuan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/1 "2001-07-20T23:53:46Z")
Has anyone an opinion on the 196 Papers purporting to be the fifth epochal revelation to our world, Urantia, provided by a commission of universe personalities high and low. This sounds preposterous, yet the narrative is uncommon in the usage of the English language, has a feeling of authority, and provides a paradigm of the cosmos and our place in it that is pleasant to contemplate. The 2,000 pages of this remarkable book can be glimpsed at [http://www.ubook.org/upapers/](http://www.ubook.org/upapers/) Clicking on the Parts reveals the scope of the work. Part III is beguiling, starting as it does with the origin of Urantia’s solar system’s mother-wheel. The idea of harmonizing science, philosophy, and religion while revealing man’s origin, nature, and destiny is past imagining the possibility thereof, for most. If this is what it says it is, it is the most significant discovery a person can make. (Paper 62 is a corker for starters.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/2 "2001-07-21T00:34:01Z")
Oh Joy! The refugee from Happy Land has omitted to take his oh-so-essential medication. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/3 "2001-07-21T00:44:51Z")
looks like a bunch of crap to me. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/4 "2001-07-21T01:43:42Z")
I was mildly impressed with it back in the '70s, but I used mind-altering substances during that decade. Otherwise I would have recognized it as being a blend of bad science fiction, sophomoric bull-session philosophy and 1930’s science. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/5 "2001-07-21T01:50:46Z")
Shades of L. Ron! I only peeked at a little bit - it’s not the first stab at starting a religion by a sci-fi writer. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/6 "2001-07-21T02:01:14Z")
> [@](#): > > This sounds preposterous, yet the narrative is uncommon in the usage of the English language, has a feeling of > authority, and provides a paradigm of the cosmos and our place in it that is pleasant to contemplate. My younger daughter has read all of Baum’s Oz books for just the same reason… ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/7 "2001-07-21T07:08:11Z")
See [Urantia Book](http://www.skepdic.com/urantia.html) at the [The Skeptic’s Dictionary](http://www.skepdic.com/) for starters. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/8 "2001-07-21T11:36:35Z")
The Urantia book is a hoot. Occasionally we get to old book down for readings during drunken parties. ---
**Author:** ![gtzaskar00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@gtzaskar00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gtzaskar00)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/9 "2001-07-21T21:12:01Z")
The Book of Urantia is no more bullshit then the Bible. Of course many people will start yelling that the bible is a collection of stories written to be interpreted, and to have meaning come out of them… so why can’t the book of Urantia be the same? ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-urantia-papers/73264/10 "2001-07-22T11:07:08Z")
True, but on a tangent, ever read a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s soap?