bobby_hill@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhat the trolly problem actually looks likelemmy.worldimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down162
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minus-squareDe_Narm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·11 months ago“God works in mysterious ways” is a nice way of describing him as a Lovecraftian horror we cannot possibly understand.
minus-squareubermeisters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·11 months agoWell have you ever read the depictions of angels in the Bible? Very lovecraftian. You may even say it’s a precisely what inspired Lovecraft.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThat, and his insatiable hatred for all things dark skinned
minus-squarewildginger@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoLovecraft didnt hate, he feared. His was a racism born and fed from paranoia, convinced that literally everything actively wanted to hurt him. Makes the racism in his writing make a lot more sense.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoJust going based on what his wife said in her biography of him
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoPlaying The Sims 2 helped make His mysterious ways less mysterious but the same amount of cosmic horror.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoAlso brings out the capricious in you
“God works in mysterious ways” is a nice way of describing him as a Lovecraftian horror we cannot possibly understand.
Well have you ever read the depictions of angels in the Bible? Very lovecraftian. You may even say it’s a precisely what inspired Lovecraft.
That, and his insatiable hatred for all things dark skinned
Lovecraft didnt hate, he feared. His was a racism born and fed from paranoia, convinced that literally everything actively wanted to hurt him.
Makes the racism in his writing make a lot more sense.
Just going based on what his wife said in her biography of him
Playing The Sims 2 helped make His mysterious ways less mysterious but the same amount of cosmic horror.
Also brings out the capricious in you