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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure, but "God works in mysterious ways," so it's not my responsibility to clear up any paradoxes that arise from my religious axioms. Get with the program.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"God works in mysterious ways" is a nice way of describing him as a Lovecraftian horror we cannot possibly understand.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That, and his insatiable hatred for all things dark skinned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just going based on what his wife said in her biography of him

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Playing The Sims 2 helped make His mysterious ways less mysterious but the same amount of cosmic horror.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Also brings out the capricious in you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

God works in mysterious ways

I wanted to find out the origin of that tripe, and it's a poem that should be titled simply "Copium."