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Lovecraft
« on: February 18, 2017, 06:20:10 pm »
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Re: Lovecraft
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2017, 07:19:01 pm »
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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Qualities of a Lovecraftian Protagonist
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2019, 09:53:27 am »
One of the reason why I  appreciate  Lovecraft's work is  that   I am quite like one  of his protagonists.  I keep  getting these    thoughts  in  my head-thoughts that all I see and experience is some kind   of  an  elaborate    and  malign  facade.

There are  ,on the one hand the work pressure and my abominable colleagues who really create a lot of trouble for me, and on the other hand this weird feeling I  keep getting about some kind of conspiracy by malign entities because of  which I had to take birth.

I am  becoming more   forgetful.There is only so much  stress  I can handle and  then I crack.  I am not a naturally outgoing  man  so I need to make special efforts in  order to socialise  at the workplace.I  feel  drained.I have been  so busy that I have been only been planning to  see a dentist for the last 6months but  could  never really do it.

And  as  cherry on the top  of t he cake- its winter here-my least  favourite season. I keep  a  bag  of hot  water with me under my blanket. It helps a little. Its so  simple and yet so very complicated. You wanna  know  the  problem with the  antinatalists  ?They  belong to  the  category of  folks who say how wonderful it would  be  if there were no  wars  and  no  starvation and  everybody got along  just fine.They do  not truly appreciate how  all  pervasive  and omnipotent  the Will  to  Live  can  be.Good luck to them.

Ever since  I  can  remember  suicide  has been   a constant  temptation. Bullies  in  school. Bad  teacher in colleges. Bosses from  hell  during employment.I  really am messed  up. During the best of  days I study math  for about  20  minutes.  At this  rate  it would  take  me  a couple  of lifetimes  to  comprehend what I want  to comprehend.  I do  not  mind.  Why hurry? I am not going anywhere. No one  is.

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Re: Lovecraft
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2019, 12:43:21 pm »
"The Peace Conference, Friedrich Nietzsche, Samuel Butler (the modern), H. L. Mencken, and other influences have perfected my cynicism; a quality which grows more intense as the advent of middle life removes the blind prejudice whereby youth clings to the vapid “all’s right with the world” hallucination from sheer force of desire to have it so. As I near thirty-two I have no particular wishes, save to perceive facts as they are. My objectivity, always marked, is now paramount and unopposed, so that there is nothing I am not willing to believe. I no longer really desire anything but oblivion, and am thus ready to discard any gilded illusion or accept any palatable fact with perfect equanimity. I can at last concede willingly that the wishes, hopes, and values of humanity are matters of total indifference to the blind cosmic mechanism. Happiness I recognise as an ethical phantom whose simulacrum comes fully to none and even partially to but few, and whose position as the goal of all human striving is a grotesque mixture of farce and tragedy." - H.P.L.

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Re: Lovecraft
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2019, 12:32:15 pm »
Mr.Silenus,
Thank you for the quote.
"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain,since   by tonight I shall  be no more"-Dagon.

I cannot help but identify with Lovecraft.His loneliness is so   palpable. More-his  disgust   towards the world.I no longer  care.I  feel  tired.Very tired.  There is just no  end in sight.None.Cthulu is  as  real   as a being can be. The  naked  woman  what with her   breasts and her   fanny  looks no  less  monstrous to  me  than the Old   Ones. Everyday  without exception   I am  mentally tortured in the office.

I  want  my very being to soak in this torture.I want  to   really  drown   in this pain and hopelessness.Yes,this senseless,meaningless  torture.I am so  tired  I can barely think straight.There is  just  no  end in sight.  Why   perpetuate  such existence?
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Lovecraft on Suicide
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2019, 05:14:49 am »
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My perception of cosmic futility is so unalloyed with blind emotion that I frankly admit that my object in life is to keep fed, warm, & amused till death comes to end the boredom. I admit brutally that death is better than life, and would commit suicide tomorrow with genuine cheerfulness & and unforced jest on my lips if I had any perfectly easy, painless, & certain means at my disposal.
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Re: Lovecraft
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2019, 05:35:35 am »
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Man, in his pride, believes himself to be the king of the universe. The Roman
emperor Augustus was worshipped like a god. In Corneille's tragedy, Cinna, he says these
famous words:"Je suis maître de moi comme de l'univers." And Louis the XIVth found himself
as high and as powerful as the sun itself. In reality, man stands no higher, in the scale of things,
than the lowest worm. The greatest king, be his name Oedipus or Lear, is only a fly to be swatted
by cruel gods, a brainless rat running from a trap to another, a pebble thrown hither and thither by
the waves of the sea.
 This is also the essence of Lovecraft's vision: man is but a toy in the hands
of evil gods who are the true rulers of the universe. The worst blows to human pride, however,
have not been struck by writers like Sophocles or Shakespeare, but by scientists. Freud names
two of them: Copernicus and Darwin. Jacques Derrida adds another two: Freud himself, and
Marx.5
The four of them have struck down the altars built to human pride, and their influence has
left deep marks in the writings of Lovecraft. Copernicus had proved that the earth was not the
center of the universe, but only a tiny rock lost on the confines of a galaxy. Darwin had shown
that man was not the king of nature, but only a superior kind of monkey. Marx had demonstrated
that man was reduced to the status of a thing, of an object, by social and economic forces of
which he was totally unaware. And Freud, finally, had shown that the conscious will of man was
powerless against the wild energy of the unconscious.
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Re: Lovecraft
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2019, 07:13:39 pm »
My perception of cosmic futility is so unalloyed with blind emotion that I frankly admit that my object in life is to keep fed, warm, & amused till death comes to end the boredom. I admit brutally that death is better than life, and would commit suicide tomorrow with genuine cheerfulness & and unforced jest on my lips if I had any perfectly easy, painless, & certain means at my disposal.

This is actually very comforting to read.  I often find myself anxious about the fear of ending up "homeless" again, and again losing the collection of books I have been fortunate enough to gather.  I reflect upon those who endure life on the streets, and I am not ashamed to admit that I would prefer death at this point in my life.
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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