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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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No, wait, I got it now, just had to change cookies.

And I must say.... aaaaahhh-hhhhhaaaa-hhhhhAWESOME!!!!!!!

You wouldn't mind if a friend of mine used that as the background for his youtube channel, would you?
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That's cool.

Just have a link to that channel here, and a link from that channel back here.
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Can do. That friend I speak is, of course, GodAlmighty. A few of his subscribers have bugged him that he needs a background to his channel instead of plain old grey. This one will fit him perfectly, and I'm sure he will oblige to link it and give you the credit. Thanks in advance.
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For GodAlmighty?

Sure thing. I really dig his videos, and if he gets a kick out of what i do, then that's all good.

Once i get a look at his channel, i could design a version of this that will fit the youtube layout better, as well.

Sometimes you end up with the videos laying right over top of the interesting parts of an image.
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Cthulu was cut off from the way it paneled on his channel.
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Did you scroll down? The image repeats, and I can see Cthulhu just fine. Did you really think a little thing like a channel layout could hinder our lord from revealing his glory?
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That's a great picture, you need to start selling those
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Contemplating the pantheon of the last supper - Johnson's picture centred on Cthulu at http://www.booktalk.org/gallery/image.p ... mage_id=86

Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of the last supper also conceals a wealth of pantheistic imagery, notably the correlation between the twelve apostles and the twelve signs of the zodiac - see here for an interpretation, running from Pisces at the left to Aries at the right. Many of the bodily gestures of the apostles map directly to the shape of the zodiac constellations, especially Judas with his dagger as a model of the stars of the scorpion's sting.

The theme of the relative power of the gods in the pantheon is the main idea of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which we discussed here before.

The Christian insistence that there is no pantheon is intensely disrespectful, even racist, towards other cultures. Well done Johnson for setting out a new order of Gods. I had not heard of many of them before. Baron Samedi reminds me of Hank Williams.
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Bump.

It's a bust on the 77" monster print i was going to do.

Local framers can only hit 60" before having to break the image into multiple panes.

I will have to celebrate Cthulu's malevolent magnificence on a smaller scale.
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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