~~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.
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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.
Also see the Oracle (s) of Pythia/Delphi.
Go into cave
Breathe fumes
Hallucinate
Tell local King he'll be victorious in upcoming battle
And ergotism. Don't forget ergotism.
I'm sure it happened some before, but the earliest known case was like, a thousand years or so after.
The danger of the Abrahamic religions is people who did experience hallucinations from things like ergot poisoning saw the similarities to the schizophrenic hallucinations their religions are based on.
So instead of their first thought being "clearly I'm seeing/hearing things that aren't there like a dream" it was "God has chosen me and is commanding me to do ____".
Like, under no circumstances is a higher power providing instructions, guidance, advice, anything.
And it's incredibly dangerous when people believe it's possible. Because if they experience hallucinations for any reason, there's a chance they treat it like a command.
Thankfully for that ant, ants are stupid.
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?"
Worth the watch? I see it doesn’t have great reviews but that’s not uncommon with Cosmic Horror since it tends not to have much in the way of resolution or typical story beats
Don't expect any big monster scene. It's more like a paranormal thriller, but the atmosphere is something else. Especially the sounds effects, they get under your skin.
That makes sense though. The horror of cosmic horror is often too nebulous for many audiences and reviewers. I get why that’s not to everyone’s taste, but that’s also just a staple of the genre
Still i love the movie. Worth watching 👍
But I'm still going to vote for him. Why settle for a lesser evil?
