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Originally Posted by Crack
Fine OLD MAN, take your paper books and walk up-hill in the snow both ways with your brother on your back, barefoot and on your way to your fifth job.  |
Can it be a grassy knoll instead? 
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Originally Posted by Leto
My question is, why is ctulthu considered evil? What's the driving motivation?
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He represents the most horrific thing inconceivable to the human mind. (Wrap your head around that one.) It is the terror of the unknown; it is the sublime. It is evil because we can see this as madness and a source for self-destruction. (Okay, that last bit was my interpretation, which I should reserve considering I haven't read the story yet.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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