• twice_hatch@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    I think about that essay probably once a month at least.

    Maybe “Moloch Horror” would be a good Schelling point, since Lovecraft was a racist- oh wait that poet was a pedophile. Shit… “Cosmic horror” it is?

    • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      It had a profound impact on me when I read it years ago. It was a key influence on me constructing a personal religious cosmology and practice, with the purpose of reconciling my strong urges towards the spiritual with my reflexive scientific skepticism.