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Post by saxo on May 11, 2008 12:07:56 GMT -6
What IF Cthulhu awakens? Well be fucked-up niggas ;D hahaha joke... I think well have a new world religion. And humankind will be more powerful.
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Post by Madguten on May 11, 2008 17:31:04 GMT -6
Welcome to the forum and thank you for explaining your view of things. I hope that you enjoy it here and find it useful. Very interesting theory, not a light one. The turning of the wheel is often on my mind. Tyrannosapien! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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Post by docdr on May 28, 2008 4:52:39 GMT -6
It's only the beginning when that day comes.
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Post by Logos on Jun 23, 2008 20:05:23 GMT -6
What will happen when Cthulhu awakens? Boundless freedom and invention.
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Post by Grim on Aug 4, 2008 23:13:59 GMT -6
I hardly think of such an awakening as an end. After all, what might end? The short-lived reign of man over most of a single planet in the entire cosmos?
Yet what begins would spawn all time and space.
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Post by luxcthonis on Aug 5, 2008 0:00:29 GMT -6
I hardly think of such an awakening of an end. After all, what might end? The short-lived reign of man over most of a single planet in the entire cosmos? Yet what begins would spawn all time and space. I agree. Humankind has dominated the earth for a mere 6,000 years (yes, a mere 6,000, before that there is nothing accounted for except through folklore and the occult), now the human race esteems itself as some great thing. "Human" is a maggot, who has the potential to turn into something higher, yet who rarely does. How tragic. Who wants pie?
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Post by Madguten on Aug 5, 2008 3:59:22 GMT -6
About the age of the human race. I prefer to remember all the way down to the homohabilis, i believe they are in our blood. 2.2 million to at least 1.6 million years ago
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Post by I AM the Way on Aug 5, 2008 8:54:01 GMT -6
you are quite correct. Awakening, for the A:O and individual Cultist, is a beginning... not an end.
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Post by Ny'obstaresh on Aug 17, 2008 7:15:18 GMT -6
Well, Lovecraft says that "mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy". And that Cthulhu would teach us new ways to do these things. Sounds like one hell of a party to me ;D ;D ;D
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Post by bketsune on Aug 26, 2008 14:57:22 GMT -6
Well if he does awaken, that means others like azathoth and other nasty old ones will come, and we don't know if they will be nice. ALSO, how do we know that Cthulhu and other great ones are not just like human size, just made them appear giant in H.P. Love Craft's dreams (where most of his stories came from). I am just a begginer to Cult Of Cthulhu, and to Cthulhu texts, so don't be harsh.
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Post by Shaz'rahjeem on Aug 26, 2008 17:49:30 GMT -6
I doubt we would be the only ones effected, there the mi-go, and the deep ones, and all the other races which would come out and play.
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Post by I AM the Way on Aug 26, 2008 19:38:19 GMT -6
they may not be nice, but i'm sure the A:O will be effective. also, size is irrelevant since they are not flesh and blood, but gods.
beginners are always welcome.
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Post by leslie on Aug 29, 2008 16:25:50 GMT -6
I am ready for change! If Cthulhu awakens I will be waiting! ~Leslie
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Post by leslie on Aug 29, 2008 16:30:18 GMT -6
I am ready for change! If Cthulhu awakens I will be waiting! ~Leslie PS great art work and jewelry too might I add!
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Post by Madguten on Aug 30, 2008 2:11:33 GMT -6
I agree, the A:O will be many things, but "nice" is not one of them. That much is for sure. ;D
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Post by Jiggsaw on Aug 30, 2008 14:43:33 GMT -6
I think when Cthulhu awakens, it will be the end of all we know, which really is a very good thing. This society, created by the Lesser Gods, perpetuates only suffering. It needs to be disemboweled before humanity can be reborn as gods. I can't say if the change would be easy, but it seems necessary if we are ever to become something greater.
Maybe that's just my hope though, that when the Awakening comes, everything will change.
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Post by evendeathmay on Aug 30, 2008 16:51:56 GMT -6
I think that when Cthulhu awakens all the human being will lost their mind before to disapear like miserable bug. Cthulhu must be inconceibale for our human brain. It will be the chaos on the earth and everything will be destroyed cause we soiled all they create. We aren't able just to think about their power.
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Post by jmsn on Aug 31, 2008 11:31:51 GMT -6
If Cthulhu awakens...I hope he takes out the trash of humanity.From what I know the monotheistic gods and their end time drivel failed.Satan failed...Here hoping Cthulhu wont fail because he just don't give a fuck.
IMO a world with only thousands or millions of people would be quite exciting.Enough solitude to last a lifetime.
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Post by yith33 on Sept 16, 2008 19:46:29 GMT -6
Personally I plan to get up on my roof with some soda and hambergurs and watch the fireworks. XD
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Post by Shaz'rahjeem on Sept 16, 2008 22:04:00 GMT -6
When our emerald apocalypse floods this reality, it will become as unstable as the minds of our cultists.
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Post by Gish on Sept 16, 2008 22:51:25 GMT -6
Personally I plan to get up on my roof with some soda and hambergurs and watch the fireworks. XD good plan
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Post by yith33 on Sept 19, 2008 13:56:22 GMT -6
Sweet, end of the world party at my place!! XD
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Post by Jordan on Sept 19, 2008 20:13:11 GMT -6
Personally I plan to get up on my roof with some soda and hambergurs and watch the fireworks. XD I hear that! I get great joy from watching things burn. ;D
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Post by thor22289 on Nov 20, 2008 10:55:56 GMT -6
Yea, this is interesting but, wasn't all the great old ones kicked out by the other gods?, arketipical or something. If they wake up again, why do you think that it wont be the same? I don't know very much abouth this so I was asking what do you think or what is writen in the texts about this. Sorry if I speak funny, I'm not an English speaker.
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Post by egodiabolus on Jan 3, 2009 11:00:25 GMT -6
I enjoy the idea of Lovecraft's vision. The Old One's coming back to earth and humanity being embraced, taught how to revel in reality and the fleshy existence...sounds like a party. I consider myself a "seeking skeptic". I look at everything as a possibility, but also with doubt. I think that if Cthulhu were to rise, all questions about religion, philosophy, and the nature of the universe would cease. THE answer would have made itself apparent. The majority of humanity would unite with only small pools of desperate clingers holding to their outmoded beliefs and old practices. Something that awesome could not be ignored or written off. Each and every person would find themselves in possession in a new purpose and with a new, undeniable motivation: Cthulhu.
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Post by I AM the Way on Jan 3, 2009 11:43:23 GMT -6
or would they only start to begin at that point?
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Post by Madguten on Jan 3, 2009 19:59:30 GMT -6
I like to sometimes try and look at the subject of the Ancient Ones from a logical and scientific viewpoint. In my opinion Lovecraft couldnt have been much more on point in his view on the universe.
These things Lovecraft talked about, outside forces, things that are (and are not) in periods/æras, our un-understanding of the (uni)verses, things and sensations beyond our wildest earthly terrors, ALL these things i see.
I see it all around. Inside, outside, everywhere.
In one view, one could say that Earth is just an infinitely small ball of dust existing for an infinitely small time in an infinitely small solar system, that we are paint on the canvas of existence, blood paint even.
But of course one could also say the exact opposite, that the universe is stable and reliable, and that we are powerful creatures.
The way i see it, the universe is potentially incomprehensibly terrible, the Ancient Ones are real and their time WILL come. But it is a matter of definition and all is relative.
What i was trying to get across in my rant here (sorry) is that i think that the concept of the A.O (ancient ones) is actually rather appliable to modern science.
The fabric of space could tear and reveal another level (of dread). One look at science proves how much we are fumbling in blindness. Perhaps if they (we) truly saw, they (we) would go mad. ;D
I dont think we have seen NOTHING yet.
We know not real terror, only the echo thereof. We can all hear it, is it getting closer, i dont know.
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Post by helmut on Jan 3, 2009 22:29:43 GMT -6
Usually on messageboards, my first post would be my introduction.
However, I hope you'll forgive my foregoing of such pleasantries and adding my two scents.
Put simply, Herr Dishaw and Herr Madguten are onto the point moreso than the other "Watch the party" responses.
I empathize with your partying attitude, gents. I really do. However, the return of Cthulhu and the Ancient Ones would cause an instantaneous transfer in form.
Considering we are "inhibited" now, by releasing our form, the Ancient Ones would allow us to change into a higher form of being, supposedly closer to theirs.
This is a metaphor for death, obviously. This is where Herr Madguten has really hit the nail on the head.
The universe as a whole in the way we as humans will interact with other species will not be friendly. It's a very heinous universe out there, full of a deeper blackness than even Lovecraft's pen could transcribe.
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Post by Madguten on Jan 4, 2009 18:10:15 GMT -6
Perhaps it is.
But thats the thing though, metaphorically speaking the mythos can be interpreted in countless ways. There are different reasons for that. One reason is Lovecrafts "silence is gold" sorta writing style where he always leaves things hidden, another reason is the high number of different writers who have contributed to the mythos as we know it today. The A:O (ancient ones) could be interpreted as being anything that has to do with transition and also with all things that are beyond our understanding.
I love to speculate on the matter, but i hate to settle at a conclusion. The A:O are beyond conclusion or logic (in my opinion). They are beyond matter or place, behind time and space.
personally, i am of the believe that Lovecraft was touched by something he did not fully understand himself (as we all are), and so when i read his words i do no look upon them so much as guidelines about the A:O as i simply find joy (and other feelings) in the similarities to my own speculations and thoughts.
One thing is for sure, the A:O can be (or ARE) terrible, from a "normal" human viewpoint, that much i CAN settle on. ;D
Ia! I agree. Wondering on the core nature of existence, time and space can be (or IS) maddening.
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Post by helmut on Jan 4, 2009 21:07:06 GMT -6
Oh, of course.
At the end, all magicians will meet Madness. That is simply the end result of it all, no matter what path. (Even if the cleric denies such a thing.)
It's a harder matter to sift apart what Lovecraft could have been shown in vision and what he added in with his imagination.
Thus, I would have to agree that the true understanding of it is impossible (or as the mathematician would say "Infinitely nearing impossible"), but I love a good thought exercise.
For example, examining the possibilities of the forms of these extradimensional beings. For example, if they have a mundane physical counterpart, or they simply use the Deep Ones to fulfill their earthly will, etc, etc.
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