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Edgeymcedgename said:
I was sure I heard that Lovecraft was an atheist.
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I don't think his real views on religion were far off from the intro to the Call of Cthulhu. Cosmic Nihilism. Sometimes he depicted Christianity in a positive way in his stories on rare occasions though.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
 
funwithshemales69 said:
Grew up Christian I think, became Atheist later and methinks all the horror stuff came from his upbringing (Also New Englands Evangelicism).
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Lovecraft by the end of his life was definitely some kind of nihilist or atheist.

Some quotes:
These are all from his non-fiction writings.

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind—yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy. ... The whole basis of religion is a symbolic emotionalism which modern knowledge has rendered meaningless & even unhealthy. Today we know that the cosmos is simply a flux of purposeless rearrangement amidst which man is a wholly negligible incident or accident. There is no reason why it should be otherwise, or why we should wish it otherwise. All the florid romancing about man's "dignity", "immortality", &c. &c. is simply egotistical delusions plus primitive ignorance. So, too, are the infantile concepts of "sin" or cosmic "right" & "wrong". Actually, organic life on our planet is simply a momentary spark of no importance or meaning whatsoever. Man matters to nobody except himself. Nor are his "noble" imaginative concepts any proof of the objective reality of the things they visualise. Psychologists understand how these concepts are built up out of fragments of experience, instinct, & misapprehension. Man is essentially a machine of a very complex sort, as La Mettrie recognised nearly 2 centuries ago. He arises through certain typical chemical & physical reactions, & his members gradually break down into their constituent parts & vanish from existence. The idea of personal "immortality" is merely the dream of a child or savage. However, there is nothing anti-ethical or anti-social in such a realistic view of things. Although meaning nothing in the cosmos as a whole, mankind obviously means a good deal to itself. Therefore it must be regulated by customs which shall ensure, for its own benefit, the full development of its various accidental potentialities. It has a fortuitous jumble of reactions, some of which it instinctively seeks to heighten & prolong, & some of which it instinctively seeks to shorten or lessen. Also, we see that certain courses of action tend to increase its radius of comprehension & degree of specialised organisation (things usually promoting the wished-for reactions, & in general removing the species from a clod-like, unorganised state), while other courses of action tend to exert an opposite effect. Now since man means nothing to the cosmos, it is plan that his only logical goal (a goal whose sole reference is to himself) is simply the achievement of a reasonable equilibrium which shall enhance his likelihood of experiencing the sort of reactions he wishes, & which shall help along his natural impulse to increase his differentiation from unorganised force & matter. This goal can be reached only through teaching individual men how best to keep out of each other's way, & how best to reconcile the various conflicting instincts which a haphazard cosmic drift has placed within the breast of the same person. Here, then, is a practical & imperative system of ethics, resting on the firmest possible foundation & being essentially that taught by Epicurus & Lucretius. It has no need of supernatualism, & indeed has nothing to do with it.
  • Letter to Natalie H. Wooley (May 2, 1936), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 240-241
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In infancy I was afraid of the dark, which I peopled with all sorts of things; but my grandfather cured me of that by daring me to walk through certain dark parts of the house when I was 3 or 4 years old. After that, dark places held a certain fascination for me. But it is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now—but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived. At the ages of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 I have been whirled through formless abysses of infinite night and adumbrated horrors as black & as seethingly sinister as any of our friend Fafhrd's [a nickname Lovecraft used for Fritz Leiber] "splatter-stencil" triumphs. That's why I appreciate such triumphs so keenly, I have seen these things! Many a time I have awaked in shrieks of panic, & have fought desperately to keep from sinking back into sleep & its unutterable horrors. At the age of six my dreams became peopled with a race of lean, faceless, rubbery, winged things to which I applied the home-made name of night-gaunts. Night after night they would appear in exactly the same form—& the terror they brought was beyond any verbal description. Long decades later I embodied them in one of my Fungi from Yuggoth pseudo-sonnets, which you may have read. Well—after I was 8 all these things abated, perhaps because of the scientific habit of mind which I was acquiring (or trying to acquire). I ceased to believe in religion or any other form of the supernatural, & the new logic gradually reached my subconscious imagination. Still, occasional nightmares brought recurrent touches of the ancient fear—& as late as 1919 I had some that I could use in fiction without much change. The Statement of Randolph Carter is a literal dream transcript. Now, in the sere & yellow leaf (I shall be 47 in August), I seem to be rather deserted by stark horror. I have nightmares only 2 or 3 times a year, & of these none even approaches those of my youth in soul-shattering, phobic monstrousness. It is fully a decade & more since I have known fear in its most stupefying & hideous form. And yet, so strong is the impress of the past, I shall never cease to be fascinated by fear as a subject for aesthetic treatment. Along with the element of cosmic mystery & outsideness, it will always interest me more than anything else. It is, in a way, amusing that one of my chief interests should be an emotion whose poignant extremes I have never known in waking life!
  • Letter to Harry O. Fischer (late February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 416-417
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He was familiar with the work of Nietszche as well.
As you are aware, I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. With Nietzsche, I have been forced to confess that mankind as a whole has no goal or purpose whatsoever, but is a mere superfluous speck in the unfathomable vortices of infinity and eternity. Accordingly, I have hardly been able to experience anything which one could call real happiness; or to take as vital an interest in human affairs as can one who still retains the hallucination of a "great purpose" in the general plan of terrestrial life. ... However, I have never permitted these circumstances to react upon my daily life; for it is obvious that although I have "nothing to live for", I certainly have just as much as any other of the insignificant bacteria called human beings. I have thus been content to observe the phenomena about me with something like objective interest, and to feel a certain tranquillity which comes from perfect acceptance of my place as an inconsequential atom. In ceasing to care about most things, I have likewise ceased to suffer in many ways. There is a real restfulness in the scientific conviction that nothing matters very much; that the only legitimate aim of humanity is to minimise acute suffering for the majority, and to derive whatever satisfaction is derivable from the exercise of the mind in the pursuit of truth.
  • Letter to Reinhardt Kleiner (14 September 1919), in Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 86-87
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It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world—we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
  • "Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
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The undesirability of any system of rule not tempered with the quality of kindness is obvious; for "kindness" is a complex collection of various impulses, reactions and realisations highly necessary to the smooth adjustment of botched and freakish creatures like most human beings. It is a weakness basically—or, in some cases, and ostentation of secure superiority—but its net effect is desirable; hence it is, on the whole, praiseworthy. Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. Pessimism produces kindness. The disillusioned philosopher is even more tolerant than the priggish bourgeois idealist with his sentimental and extravagant notions of human dignity and destiny.
  • "Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
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Either I'm crazy or this shitass video is a reupload.


REEEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DO LE CHUDS LIKE STAR WARS IT DOESN'T AGREE WITHT HEM BECAUSE THEY'RE WRONG AND I'M RIGHT
 
CringeAuteur999 said:
Oh I think OtterlyNoah is LONG overdue for his own special article. The guy started out with a niche that seemed pretty appealing, only to dissolve into another content farming bread tuber who can't go one post or video talking about Anti-Woke Grifters. I would probably be fine it with if it wasn't so one sided.

Like he defends ProZD when the guy bitched about voice acting being unauthentic, only to throw a hissy fit of how he feels type casted to only Asian roles. But noooooo, according to that otter, ProZD is based and did nothing wrong.
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Dude is also a massive plagiarist too. I just found out about him today and he's a total sperg. I'm quite suprised he doesn't have thread already.
 
#KillAllPedos said:
Dude is also a massive plagiarist too. I just found out about him today and he's a total sperg. I'm quite suprised he doesn't have thread already.
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Not only that, but I find his videos to be rather repetitive. Like his most recent one about J. K. Rowling, where he went on and showed both good and bad autistic coded characters that he already shared in previous videos. Like yes, I agree characters like Lilo and Rin Okabe from Steins;Gate are good examples, and that Sia's Music sucks, but there's only so many times you can say those things Noah. Oh and he constantly talks about The Unbreakable Boy just to shit on Zachary Levi every chance he gets.

I'm getting PhantomStrider flashbacks when he made multiple countdowns with Breadwinners at #1, or making multiple videos about Peppa Pig.

Another example is just they're all like "Haha! Look at this funny grifter! Isn't he SUCH a lolcow?!" Seriously dude, is this like you're hyperfixation? Try branching out sometime.
 
Britbong Shaun decided to rant about American Politics again.
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Libertarian Papa Gut Leftover decrying. That Hasan Piker and breadtubers aren’t leftwing enough. Fruits of Libertarianism once again proved they are just as bad as modern leftists if not worse.
 
assclown said:
I got recommended this
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There truly is never a bigger House Negro than the left wing nigger academic. Niggers don't even like homosexuals, even though the majority of homosexuals are not whites. Also, if you go dressed up in a Tutu in the ghetto, you're gonna get your ass beat. This nigga's entire audience is just a bunch of. White ass niggas. And white self hating liberals.
 
Battlefield2142EU said:
Are the gingers of the black community. Large man broad thinks China the most pro-LGBT nation on earth when faggot propaganda ban in China.
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It’d be one thing if this guy was an out-and-out tankie sinophile, but I don’t understand how these soy-filled lib-left types can unironically gush about a nation like China as some sort of progressive paradise unless they’re getting paid directly from the CCP. Then again you can never underestimate the conceptual illiteracy of people who only get information from a reddit echo chamber.
 
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