Posted on 02/23/2005 5:06:33 PM PST by mft112345
Message to Slacker:
God is supernatural, and the material universe is the result of a supernatural act. You can doubt your dualistic nature, and go for biological, cultural, or historical determinism, but you'll always be simplifying reality. God will never force you to pray, but don't pretend you only rely on yourself. The pleasures of food, sex and intoxicants fade away. No amount of money and power can produce a pain free life or purchase immortality. Vanity of vanities! We're only left with restlessness and discontent when we deny God as our Final Cause. HP Lovecraft was a good example of how atheism creates self-absorbed misanthropes. His essay in Atheism: A Reader was hardly enlightening. He certainly never inspired anyone to pick up dying lepars in India
Frightening to the bone.
Lovecraft is probably my favorite author, along with Dean Koontz. I wish I had my book handy to crack out some quotes.
Same here. He is way over the top in writing style, but his stories were the only ones that ever gave me nightmares.
Interesting blog mft112345. Thanks.
"After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of 17-18 July 1935. There is reason to hope that my experience was wholly or partly an hallucination - for which, indeed, abundant causes existed. And yet, its realism was so hideous that I sometimes find hope impossible."
"If the thing did happen, then man must be prepared to accept notions of the cosmos, and of his own place in the seething vortex of time, whose merest mention is paralysing. He must, too, be placed on guard against a specific, lurking peril which, though it will never engulf the whole race, may impose monstrous and unguessable horrors upon certain venturesome members of it."
The fear of the unknown.
Koontz and King and the rest of them take their lessons from Lovecraft.
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