Hey /x/ I was wondering on your opinion of Lovecraft and the terrifying question. Is it really fiction?
no, its real. I've seen/heard it.
>>17103849
yes im a cultist and sacrifice pregnant women to dagon and the old gods
>>17103849
Whart part, do you think it may be real?
>>17104180
The part where we are controlled by a series of incomprehensibly powerful, and advanced inter-dimensional beings. In conflict with each other in some way or another for spheres of influence. But even this is superficial in light of rest, I prefer to take a spoonful with a lot of skepticism.
>>17104140
Are you part fish?
>>17104140
Is he doing the fucking CIA pose?
>>17104251
Instead of savages in the dark Continent its like what >>17104251 said. Entities beyond comprehension, both sublime and horrible are a thing. Imagine a tentacle of inky blackness reaching out of the abyss into the minds of ppl all over the world.
>>17104475
What I mean to say is that instead of creepy inbred New Englanders and African pygmies, the acolytes of Cthulhu are in offices of high honor.
>>17104445
I don't know, but he's certainly a big guy.
BIG
>>17104475
it's a lovecraftian kind of feel
>>17104841
10/10 would fuck
>>17104922
You might enjoy this comic book anon
>>17103849
No, I swear it's not real. No matter how much it might look like it could be.
>>17104922
You may not have a choice.
"Them's that give special favors get special rewards!"
>>17104251
In Lovecraft's fiction nobody is controlled by these beings. They exist, we do. And the point is that they're so big and powerful we're nothing to them. Some might get their kicks trolling mankind (Nyarlathotep, for instance), but generally speaking they don't even care about us enough to controll us. We're nothing. We will go extinct at one point and they won't even notice. That's the point Lovecraft wanted to get across: all this "we humans are the shit, look at our civilizations and history and art, look how great we are" is just megalomaniacal bullshit. Our eiffel tower or great pyramids have as much value as that ant mound you stepped on as a kid.
>>17104251
this is true,
but its humans, fighting against these beings, that have the real power.
>>17105581
When this finally sinks in you realize life is entirely pointless and we really do nothing of value that anyone will really care about in a million years.
I get that feeling, just like Lovecraft did, by looking into the sky at night either simply whilst smoking my tobacco pipe on the deck or looking through my telescope.
We're painfully insignificant.
>>17105057
>>17104970
hey come reply to one of these.
all i need is a "hey i think you have a point"
>>17105662
>We're painfully insignificant.
Sure, but Lovecraft went further. We're fucked and blissfully unaware of it. That the universe is not merely vast and uncaring, but also that it contains huge scary things that our little mammal brains aren't capable of conceptualizing. Things that if they happen to cross our paths would annihilate us without even noticing we were underfoot.
And from what we've learned of astrophysics and theoretical physics since the 1930s, that's pretty much true. We're sitting ducks and we always have been. We could be wiped out at any time by some unusual cosmic event we aren't even aware can happen.
>>17105756
You have to be eighteen to post on any part of 4chan, even the blue boards.
>>17103849
OPEN QUESTION:
In terms of the great old ones and the outer gods, which is most terrifying for you/humanity?
>>17105662
Don't want to be that dude. But it's pretty awesome how small insignificant things like us came to comprehend and discover such extravagant and immensely large concepts as the universe. Solving mathematical puzzles and making scientific innovations. Even the fact that we have people like lovecraft to craft such works of masterpiece. It's also incredible how such beings like us can imagine such things, us, specs of dust on an insignificant rock who were fortunate enough for our bacterial ancestors to find such an insignificant rock and survive through the ages with numerous possible extintions, to evolve into us.
>it's fucking /x/
>no one has read The Mind Parasites
CONFIRMED
TEENAGER
BOARD
I love everything of his, and I have not seen or heard any proof of it being real. But hey shit happens
>>17103849
THE BLOOP
>>17104922
Murlocs are like the lowest of the low, though... I'd prefer like maybe Illidan, or Arthas.
>>17103849
Its fiction, but what it represents is reality.
>>17105838
>And from what we've learned of astrophysics and theoretical physics since the 1930s, that's pretty much true. We're sitting ducks and we always have been. We could be wiped out at any time by some unusual cosmic event we aren't even aware can happen.
I hate being well-read.... it's a fucking curse. I'm not even that gifted/smart.
People who run around ignorant and happy with life are lucky as fuck.
>>17106722
Who's the one that takes you to another dimension that is basically their digestive track that digests you over thousands of years?
Yeah, that's the one... fuck that guy. He haunts me.
>>17106780
>inb4 20 posts of 12-y/o's flaming
Trust me, anyone above 20 has been through the ringer... no matter which board they're on. You can hardly post anything from before 10 years ago without getting bitched at, unless it's some whackass millennial blog posting about shit that happened 20 years before they were born, that they know nothing about.
Well, that's not necessarily true. I guess there are a lot of MUCH older folks (60+) on /diy/ who just ignore all the fucktarded shit entirely somehow. I just can't do that, because shitposting isn't confined to specific threads. I'll be reading a great thread and then halfway through some dildo starts shitposting and fucks the thread up entirely on his own before mods can get to him (if they ever do).
I've been mostly on /his/ since I discovered it. People actually remember shit from before 5 years ago there, and they're surprisingly adjusted for 4channers.
>>17105838
Bingo! And this is why I believe in God. How immense vulnerability and our continued existence in the face of it, hints at an unseen protection.
L ron thought that no one invented anything and instead just connected to akashic records. The Silver Surfer is real, too.
>>17107075
On one hand it's one of the better arguments for deity. On the other, it means he's one of those incomprehensible entities and only seemingly benevolent because we fail to understand his intentions.
>>17103849
None of it's real you dope. It was just a really fun author persona gimmick.
[spoiler]The truth. The ohhh so horrible truth. Is that we are alone.
There are no Old Gods.
There are not mythical cities with countless doors that lead to countless worlds.
There is no magic in the cats
There is just us: you, me and everyone here
And that is a scarier thought than any Lovecraftian horror.[/spoiler]
>>17104922
Get out of here Alan Moore, your plebian occult shit is lame and boring.
>>17107603
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
>>17103849
Good question. Here is a better one though:
Harry Potter - IS IT FICTION????????????
>>17107829
damn
>>17107166
this is kind of exactly why life spreads, except to enjoy the perception of things, rather than eat them
>>17107813
>Both are equally terrifying
Derivation required.
>>17107829
I don't get it.
/x/
the board where fiction is frequently taken as fact
>>17105838
what happens if you turn down a roleplayer?
im pretty sure im in a life repeating loop, and have just recognized myself in such in our reality.
in essence, this could shape all of reality as we know it, by creating a deviant timestream from causality, repeatedly, starting fresh each time i repeat the life.
It's just a trick bro
>>17107926
That there isn't any more reason to believe Lovecraft is true than there is that Harry Potter is true. Or any fiction book for that matter.
Fuck, let's roll with the Redwall series. All true.
>>17104488
Your inbread
>>17107075
or aliens. but the likelihood by which a space rock or stray cosmic ray should have annihilated us by now speaks to some protection or a the very least such extreme luck
>>17107978
No I mean the picture senpai.
>>17103849
Does it matter?
