Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

I mean, Lovecraft just went with OG Abrhamic stuff.

When they talk about angels in the Bible, they weren't talking about beautiful elves from Lotr with wings.

They were something that interacting with would break your mind. Because the people claiming to see them had broken minds already, that's why they were "seeing" them in the first place.

Which makes sense because what started the Abrhamic religions was a schizophrenic hearing voices to murder his family to appease the voice(s) in their head.

It's been whitewashed over the centuries, but that's all it is. The followers of a schizophrenic carrying on his delusions that began with murdering his brother. And they're still being told if they ever experience those symptoms, they should fucking listen instead of getting mental health treatment.

~~The~~ Then the ant realizes these humming monoliths are used to play hentai games and be a sex pest on insta, and then the ant goes even more mad trying to learn what loss is.

This was what doing acid was like for me. I was already a pretty existential person but things like knowing your just a brain recieving electrical signals and interpreting them as reality didn't really click until I did acid and changed that perception.

It was like I looked behind the curtain, saw the source code of reality, could perceive the true fractal nature of the universe.

And after I did it once my brain perceived things fundamentally differently, but I couldn't really explain it I couldn't get other people to try and it really felt like I was the only person on earth that really understood this truth.

Good shit.

Nice post, it remembers me a quote from the cosmic horror movie Black Mountain Side (2014)

"Deer God: When an animal looks up at the night sky, what does it see? Thousands and thousands of tiny points. Then a man looks up at the same points and sees millions of stars; galaxies, within which are billions of planets. Do you want to know what I see? Were you there when I created the stars?"

But I'm still going to vote for him. Why settle for a lesser evil?

If I had a quarter for each time someone has explained eldritch/other-worldly concepts to me via an analogy using ants I'd have a dollar, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it's happened 4 times

Basically Flat Lands

Sounds like mushrooms.

Some call it madness, others call it a life of purpose.

G'Kar approves

Thankfully for that ant, ants are stupid.

They did this rather well in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. That uncle Whatshisface did a good job portraying eldritch madness.

THIS IS MADNESS!

There's a post I've misplaced describing the comforting lie of seeing a "big squid." 'The most alien beast of the murky depths is our beloved brother compared to this.' They're not tentacles. They're veins. Or the substances flowing through them. Like if you reached into a two-dimensional world, all the inhabitants would see is a cross-section of things that shouldn't exist outside a body. And if you decided to trap one of them in a glass of water, or stick a pin clean through them, there would be absolutely nothing they could do about it.

From the other direction, there's that post about ants spelling out your name in sugar. It doesn't hold any power over you... but it'd certainly get your attention. You might do as they ask, because their desires are trivial. You might completely eradicate all traces of their colony. You know they don't belong there, but they cannot understand why. And if your flatmate's being a dick, you could instruct them to pick the lock to his room, while the ants don't even perceive the door as an obstacle. They're just ants, and they can walk right around it, on all sides. How could anything as freakishly powerful as you be restrained? They try not to think about it as they move these enormous gears and the whole goddamn world suddenly rotates around them. You'll surely be even more dangerous, once you've retrieved this immense artifact, your "PS5."

Madness?!

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This is SPARTA!