Thread: Cthulhu

The cthulu mythos is a great example of modern mythology being accepted as real. The story started off as obvious fiction but since then, many of the ideas presented by Lovecraft have been adopted by the likes of David Hatcher Childress and L. Sprague DeCamp as a template for their actual beliefs. To me, this is just a testament to Lovecraft and his ability to construct worlds out of thin air.

Also,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...ketches020.jpg

All you atheists are pretty dumb. I had an OBE and then nearly died once, and I saw Cthulhu there, hanging as a sort of spirit. I gave him my hand, I suddenly felt very warm and saw a bright white light, then I was dragged right back into my real body and I survived!!!!!

Since then I knew he is watching over me.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

That's what I looked like when I was born.

Originally Posted by TweaK

All you atheists are pretty dumb. I had an OBE and then nearly died once, and I saw Cthulhu there, hanging as a sort of spirit. I gave him my hand, I suddenly felt very warm and saw a bright white light, then I was dragged right back into my real body and I survived!!!!!

Since then I knew he is watching over me.

Has he asked for any money yet?

Your damn straight

tweakers

Cthulhu Schmulhu... it's obvious that what Lovecraft really saw and utterly failed to comprehend was the Flying Spaghetti Monster...

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

Cthulhu Schmulhu... it's obvious that what Lovecraft really saw and utterly failed to comprehend was the Flying Spaghetti Monster...

You shall be punished for your insolence against Him.

I loved those stories! Lovecraft is a deliciously dark writer.

There seems to be a tradition of New England writers (Hawthorne, Poe) that can really probe the question of what is good/what is evil. He isn't the best of those writers, but definitely worth reading on a cold wintery night.

I saw the Cthulhu mythos as an attempt to ask a philosophical question about the origin of good/evil. Lovecraft was posing the question - What if God, the highest creative power, was in fact evil? What if goodness was an accidental trait that just showed up in humanity and was never actually intended by the higher powers? What if humanity's moral sense was at odds with the natural order of the larger world? What if all of our ideas about what is honest, strong, healthy, respectable, just makes us better prey?

Food for thought no doubt.

BTW - Has anyone seen the bumper sticker - "Cthulhu for President - Why vote for the lesser evil"?

Originally Posted by Olysseus

I saw the Cthulhu mythos as an attempt to ask a philosophical question about the origin of good/evil. Lovecraft was posing the question - What if God, the highest creative power, was in fact evil? What if goodness was an accidental trait that just showed up in humanity and was never actually intended by the higher powers? What if humanity's moral sense was at odds with the natural order of the larger world? What if all of our ideas about what is honest, strong, healthy, respectable, just makes us better prey?

I think this is quite an important question, being that it gives one possible solution to the problem of evil. We assume that God is the greatest good (omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good); but if our sense of morality does not come from God then a logical conclusion to draw would be that God is operating under a different standard to our morality. Perhaps it is trying to create the largest number of different sensory experiences; perhaps certain things must die so that others can live; or perhaps it is perfectly callous. We can't know.

(Yeah I know this thread's a necro, who cares, I have a point)

The whole Lovecraftian inspired mythos is very interesting. Also, it shares pretty much my view of the world and our insignificance in it. Not about supernatural deities, but how lonely and weak we simply are in this operating universe. It is the complete opposite of the basic religious view that we are created with care and thought, being something special and unique.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.