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Cthulhu monument installed on steps of Alabama Judicial Building
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Posted on 08/26/2003 1:33:14 PM PDT by RockChucker
Alabama Superior Court Justice Roy Moore addresses his supporters outside the Alabama Judicial Building where a monument of Cthulhu was put in place by Moore which he has refused to take down, August 21, 2003 in Montgomery, Alabama. Alabama's Supreme Court judges, breaking ranks with their chief justice, ruled that a Cthulhu monument must be removed from the state court building to comply with a federal order, drawing protests from insane cultists who want to keep it there.
Larry Ellard of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, stands next to a large tablet representing Cthulhu, which he claims will "rise from the depths of the city of Rylegh, and rule the universe for a thousand thousand years, IA! IA!" on the steps of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery August 22, 2003. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's defiant stand over the cult of Elder Gods is only the latest skirmish in a running battle between the ranks of insane cultists and civil libertarians that dates back to Abdul "The Mad Arab" Alhazred's 1910s epic about the Necronomicon, experts say. With legal contests underway in over a dozen U.S. communities, fanatical religious activists hope to find an Elder Gods case that can persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to break its quarter century of silence on the issue.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: fantasy; fantasynovel; fantasyroleplaying; hplovecraft; humor; humour; roleplaying
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To: RockChucker
Forget 'em if they can't take a joke RC. I don't read HPL any more, but it certainly didn't make me any less of a Christian today and I found it nostalgically cool to see your post today.
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:02:45 PM PDT
by
CanisRex
(my .02)
To: CanisRex
It's obvious that the 'Mad Arab" - Abduhl Alhazared, actually wrote the tax code. At least in California.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Actually, bin Laden IS a Cthulhu cultist:
http://www.necronomi.com/projects/binladen/ No doubt a modern follower of Abdul al Azhred, the legendary author of the Necronomicon. Personally, I have my suspictons about the entire Wahabbi sect of Islam...
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:07:31 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If it is not cruel and unusual, it is not punishment!)
To: RockChucker
Nooooooo, I thought it was funny. Funny, and a little sad, because it made me realize that my first encounter with Cthulhu came from Gygax, not Lovecraft... great, now I'm geekified. You've done your job for the day :P
I still think that if the community wants a Cthulhu monument, they can have it. After all, it was freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion, that brought most cultists/sects/denominations here.
If they don't like it, they can vote on it. Majority rule...wasn't that something we used to have?
To: Roughneck
Again... another failed attempt at humor on my part.
To: headsonpikes
Silly people. I read the description, and Hillary IS Cuthulu.
'Cthulhu is a large green being which resembles a human with the head of a squid, huge bat-wings, and long talons (true, that doesn't really resemble a human, but bear with me here). According to H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", Cthulhu rests in a tomb in the city of R'lyeh, which sank beneath the Pacific Ocean aeons ago. Cthulhu is dead but not truly dead, as he and his fellow inhabitants of R'lyeh sleep the aeons away'.
To: RockChucker
Wow, I'm a Lovecraft fan and a Christian as well, nice to see there's others out there. I'm torn about this monument thing; on the one hand, I like to see the atheists & communist democrats get their panties in a wad. On the other hand, the slippery slope COULD lead to the establishment of Koran monuments (or Cthulhu, or Yog-Sothoth, or Azathoth for that matter) monuments. I understand that the Commandments provide the underpinning of our Judeo-Christian society; however, part of me feels that this is the wrong battle to fight. I still remain torn; either that, or the cyclopian vistas of cosmic horror have blasted my sanity beyond the edge of the universe where amorphous beings dance & writhe to the monstrous piping of the blind insane chaos, whose soul and voice is Nyarathotep...well, you get the picture. :-)
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:27:47 PM PDT
by
egarvue
(Martin Sheen is not my president...)
To: RockChucker
Again... another failed attempt at humor on my part
No it wasn't. I failed to see it!
PS I've read HP myself, kind of like his writings!
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:39:25 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: egarvue
either that, or the cyclopian vistas of cosmic horror have blasted my sanity beyond the edge of the universe where amorphous beings dance & writhe to the monstrous piping of the blind insane chaos, whose soul and voice is Nyarathotep LOL
To: egarvue
"On the other hand, the slippery slope COULD lead to the establishment of Koran monuments"
It could in a socialist society. But USA was founded by christians, and 10 commandments are basis of our laws, history, etc..not Koran.
This country should not be so pansy about admitting their history! We should NOT allow rhetoric and jealousy and ACLU shenanigans to change it or revise it.
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:45:51 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: RockChucker
...case that can persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to break its quarter century of silence on the issue. Would have to have pictures of naked people engaged in extraordinary sex practices...
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:46:28 PM PDT
by
O Neill
(Oh we're out here havin' fun, in the warm California sun...)
To: RockChucker
Please, will someone kill this thread?
I'll kill the thread, and all of us with it...
HASTUR!
HASTUR!
HASTUR!
That should do it....
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:53:25 PM PDT
by
motzman
(Huge....tracts of land!)
To: Eternal_Bear
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:55:30 PM PDT
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup2.html)
To: motzman
Uh-oh...
I hear the flappin' of some Byakhee wings...
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posted on
08/26/2003 2:56:11 PM PDT
by
motzman
(Huge....tracts of land!)
To: egarvue
Do any of Hillary's kin (or Bill's) come from INNSMOUTH?
Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In this house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
To: Modernman
BWAHAHHAAAAHAHA!!
Perfect!
To: Alter Kaker
Welcome to Free Republic!
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posted on
08/26/2003 3:38:14 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: Modernman
"Don't Blame Me- I Voted for Cthulhu" Cthulhu for President! Why settle for the lesser Evil?
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posted on
08/26/2003 3:48:25 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === needs a job at the moment)
To: RockChucker
EXTREMELY RARE. Flake 8956; Byrd Illinois Imprints 764; Stanley B. Kimball, "Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century Hoax," in The Ensign for August, 1981, pp. 67, 72 (illustration), 74. Larger than other examples and versions described. Flake indicates that this important broadside is "Found in at least three variants," and describes a much smaller format, measuring 38 X 20 cm. Flake locates examples at the Library of Congress, Harvard, and the LDS Church in Salt Lake City. Byrd does not note the Salt Lake example, but reports two copies preserved by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Independence, Missouri. He provides a measurement of "29 X 40 cm." Stanley B. Kimball illustrates an example at the Utah LDS Church Archives in which the title reads ". . . Recently taken from a Mound near Kinderhook . . ." which he describes as measuring 15 X 12 inches; he mentions no other examples or variants there.Despite the humor, I am four square behind Judge Moore and apalled that the Federal judiciary would attemp to usurp the constitution.
The majority of people of Utah believe in the nonsense above, as is their right , and Congress or the courts shall not prohibit the free excersise of their religion.
If the US Congress passed a law prohibiting the display of a religious symbol at a state court house tomorrow, the courts would rule that the law was unconstitutional, as it would violate the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
They can't have it both ways, and states clearly had established religions at the time the ammendment was drafted.
This is a constitutional crisis in which despots on the Federal bench have decided to outlaw the right of a STATE to establish a religion.
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posted on
08/26/2003 4:09:30 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(McClintock is a megalomaniac with delusions of Ralph Naderism)
To: Rome2000
This is a constitutional crisis in which despots on the Federal bench have decided to outlaw the right of a STATE to establish a religion.They don't even have jurisdiction!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
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posted on
08/26/2003 4:13:49 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(McClintock is a megalomaniac with delusions of Ralph Naderism)
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