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Why settle for a lesser evil? Have you let Cthulu into your life?

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Re: Why settle for a lesser evil? Have you let Cthulu into your life?

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http://io9.com/5971225/yes-virginia-there-is-a-cthulhu

From IO9.com

Virginia Is For Lovers… of the Great Old Ones

Virginia:
DEAR EDITOR:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Cthulhu.
Papa says, 'If you see it in io9 it's so.'
Please tell me the truth; is there a Cthulhu?

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VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the madness of the other, lesser gods. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little, and easily snuffed out by dread Cthulhu, who lies dreaming in his house at R'lyeh. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless, horrible world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge and terror and insanity.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Cthulhu. He exists as certainly as hate and madness and horror exist, and you know that they abound and because you lie awake at night knowing that things aren't as they should be. Alas! how wonderful would be the world if there were no Cthulhu. It would be much more wonderful than if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no terrible faith then, no pain, no anguish to make intolerable this existence. We should have enjoyment, both in sense and sight. The eternal darkness in which childhood stands no chance would be extinguished.

Not believe in Cthulhu! You might as well not believe in demons! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", but even if they did not see Cthulhu coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Cthulhu and lives, but that is no sign that there is no Cthulhu. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see demons dancing on the bones of the dead? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the horrors there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle - or even just the baby - and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only evil, hate, terror and madness can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural horror and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Cthulhu! Praise the Elder Gods! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to eat the hearts of children.
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Merry Cthulumas!

Merry Cthulumas, EVERYONE!!!
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Hello Johnson

Please see this article just published on Lovecraft, in celebration of the sublime horror of Cthulhu.
nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/ ... lovecraft/
For adolescents, something about horror never goes out of style. They often feel an excited disgust upon learning how things really are, and their disgust is merely a notch away from the more thoroughgoing pleasures of horror. It is the closest they can come to the sublime....

the attributes of Lovecraft’s monsters, which tend to be gynecological in their outline and in their particulars. Cutting through the sublimation, Stephen King has noted that when Cthulhu—one of Lovecraft’s central monsters—“makes one of its appearances in Lovecraft’s tales, we are witnessing a gigantic, tentacle-equipped, killer vagina from beyond space and time.”...

Lovecraft’s fictions have held a tight grip on the imaginations of several generations of writers and filmmakers, including Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Michel Houellebecq, and Ridley Scott in his film Prometheus. Lovecraft’s fiction, like his creatures, refuses to die. The French poet Yves Bonnefoy, visiting the Brown University French Department in the late 1960s, announced that he was pleased to be in Providence, home of the great H.P. Lovecraft, and looked forward to hearing from the faculty about the genius of the place...

At the reception, drawing up a chair next to a graduate student in English (a friend of mine), Bonnefoy asked the young man to tell him all he knew of this author considered in France the equal—“almost the equal”—of the divine Edgar. With great enthusiasm, Bonnefoy discussed “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” debating the rankings of the stories.
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johnson wrote:At first the framing costs seemed like they were going to be way too high, but by checking "be ingenious" on my to-do list, i figured out how to matte the thing cheaply, and display-ready!
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Hahaha!

oh man....

Well, you know.... you don't want to burn out. So you gotta hold that in reserve and only activate the ingeniousness when it's really needed.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro

Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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