I don't know that much about cthulhu, but wasn't it just something made up in H.P. lovecraft's story? Are there actually cults that worship a flying squid monster? I mean if there's a religion that worships an alien named xenu, I wouldn't be suprised if there was actually people who worship this thing.

Dangerous territory for your first post there, MiniKraken. But :welcome: , hope his followers don't devour you before you get to post again. :wink:

you mean its possible to NOT believe in the cthuhu?

just kidding, personally, i think that cthulhu is kindof cute... in an awww sort of way...


chris

Heh, do you expect the members of a secret organisation (probably controling some of the largest corporate entities) step out and say "fhtagn"? :sagrin:

And, on a more serious note, it depends upon how do you define "real worship"...

all good post-modernists believe that fictional reality is just as real as any other, don't they?

Anyway, :welcome: to TONMO!

May you be eaten last! :cthulhu:

:welcome:

No, Minikraken, absolutely not. No chance at all. None at all. Really. But thank you for making your initial post here at Tonmo.com on the Cthulhu Forum, I appreciate it.:welcome: ! Yeah, all totally invented by H.P. Lovecraft. Really. Such cults only exist in fiction. Really. Just don't go to eatenbysquid.com. Those folks are total carnies. Charlatans. Uh, really. No such cults or believers are out there. Hey, thanks for joining.:cthulhu:

None of us believe in Great Cthulhu.

None of us worship him in goatskins in front of his glorious idol on dark midsummer nights.

If you ever run into someone who claims to actually believe such a farce, deny, deny, deny, then counteraccuse and demand proof.

Then, of course, you need to be careful of strangers who may follow you with large eyes and shallow neck lines.

I certainly don't believe in Cthulhu.

No really.

Greg

Cthulhu? Who's Cthulhu? Never heard of him.... Must have heard someone with a bad cough, surely...

I don't worship Cthulhu.



I worship Hastur:wink:

Nah, it's all just very good fiction written by a very tallented author with a magnificent imagination. Shoggoths are real though, you see enough of them in town on a saturday night. Have to keep dodging them on the pavement.

As you say, people will worship anything :wink:

If I recall correctly in the original Cthulu story the boat that had the misfortune to find R'lyeh had headed out from NZ. It gives the lat/long of it to so perhaps we should send one of our research vessels out there to do a couple of sampling trawls in the name of literary science to settle the question once and for all. :kiwiflag:

Why do you think Herr Doktor looks like a deep one?

Vladimir Putin weighs in on this, too:

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2006/07/12/putin-addresses-pressing-cthulhu-issue/

Why settle for the lesser evil?

When you can embrace the larger?

My tank is fight.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/Roadkilldemon/Rlyehsig.jpg

Tis a sig I made a while ago, with the help of Google Earth, and info taken from Bloopwatch (http://www.bloopwatch.org/).


Just 'cause someone mentioned the lat and long of the setting in COC...

Not only that...but there is some scuttlebutt that Radio Free Cthulhu will soon be on the airwaves, and to all the ships at sea...

REPENT! REPENT!!

sorry, too late for that...Cthulhu takes no repenting (repentition? hmmm)

It would be fun to have you on as a guest though ! You could abase yourself.

If that would get me eaten any sooner, I'd gladly abase :grin:

Ya know, I didn't believe in Cthulhu, but last night I dreamt that I slept in, missed my flight to Sarasota, and didn't get to go to Tonmocon II. What evil could spawn such a nightmare? Hmm....

What amazes me, but probably shouldn't, is that even though Cthulhu was clearly developed as fictionpeople still believe it is true. Some say the author is lieing and plagarising, others say he just doesn't know that he was channeling the truth.

...and others actually state that he was writing a fictional account of a real religion.

Radio Free Cthulhu

The fact that its made up doesn't make it any less valid than any other possible religion! :)

L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer....

But he led his cult, those who believe in Cthulhu volunteered to.

I'm a "those" ?????

If you believe that H.D.Lovecraft was a conduit to a higher truth that was Cthulhu then you are one of those people, and a loon.

If you believe that H.D.Lovecraft was a conduit to a higher truth that was Cthulhu then you are one of those people, and a loon.

I find it offensive that you are stereotyping Cthulhu cultists is loons. Frankly, if you get to know enough cultists, you'll probably find that some are loons, but some are also kooks, geeks, weirdos, eccentrics, intellectual deconstructionists, nihilists, and dangerous felons. Now, you don't have to want your daughter to marry a fish-man, but can't we just get along?

p.s. is H.D. Lovecraft the new version that will work on my big TV? I'm so there!

LOL...I always love it when people call me loony...though it is perfectly acceptable to worship the ghost of a dead carpenter, or think that texts written by several hundred people over a period of time are somehow "religious".

And, I like loons. We used to see them all of the time in Minnesota.

HD Lovecraft tV? Sign me up too !

Besides, we all know it was Edgar Allen Poe that was the true conduit to higher beings, though "Rats in the Walls" came close...

Besides, we all know it was Edgar Allen Poe that was the true conduit to higher beings, though "Rats in the Walls" came close...

I have to admit that Poe's The Imp of the Perverse (http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/gsr/impperve.htm) is disturbingly accurate in describing the ways I tend to get possessed by evil spirits and/or unconscious self-sabotage. But that makes me perverse more than loony (not that it precludes loony as well.)

Sorry, Dyslexia makes p's and d's awefully similar.

Loons are really cool birds

They can be really cool people too. :bonk: :bugout: :cool: And we're never boring.

I am going to not die and dream this afternoon. Nappy.

What amazes me, but probably shouldn't, is that even though Cthulhu was clearly developed as fictionpeople still believe it is true. Some say the author is lieing and plagarising, others say he just doesn't know that he was channeling the truth.

I suppose the morale of the story is "Be careful what you create"

C'thulu to Openheimer "Look mate, I don't care how impressive your little firestarter is, there's only room for one 'Death, destroyer of worlds around here'"

I think that the Great One would have liked basking in the flying neutrons...he might have even saved the poor genius as a sort of altar boy.

Now, where DID I put that soldering iron...?

LOL...I always love it when people call me loony...though it is perfectly acceptable to worship the ghost of a dead carpenter, or think that texts written by several hundred people over a period of time are somehow "religious".



Personally the ancient Viking or Celtic religions appeal to me more;

Ale, food and sex? In copious amounts?

oooorrrrr.....


sitting on a cloud with a harp?


oorrrr....


Getting munched by a Great Old One while your brain explodes from the shock of realising that every laew of nature you knew was in fact false (actually the whole brain explody thing sounds quite fun:razz: well... more fun than sitting on clouds all day).

Oorrrrrr......stoking fires forever :sagrin:

...after pushing Radio Free Cthulhu so hard, I think I will be the right hand man.

Opcn
Well concerning "loons" et cetera...
There is no valid way to dismiss a "chtonic religion" when compared to other religions.

Worshiping dead hover-carpenters and certain "prophets" that encounter winged horses is just as "looney" as worshiping huge immortal cephalopoid creatures of unspeakable power.

All religions are based upon FICTIONAL ACOUNTS. All religious entities are merely products of imagination.

So the act of choosing a religion is merely the act of choosing which fiction you are going to glorify as some kind of "divine truth", and which imaginary creatures you are going to regard as real.

And Opcn, you know, if I absolutely had to pick some certain religion, I would choose some kind of Cthulhu worship over any other religion.

Just because Cthulhu has tentacles, and tentacles go a long way. :tentacle2:
Even more, as a free bonus, "chtonic" worldview proposed by Cthulhu "cult" is obviously much less goofy than christianity, islam, most forms of buddhism and most "typical" gnostic traditions, it does not impose silly descriptions of universe that do not withstand critical scrutiny. Also, Cthulhu worship does not force you to follow a "moral" that lacks any basis, contains logical errors, and is unpractical and failing in every imaginable aspect.

My second best choice would be Islam (well, it offers a much goofier worldview, but, after all, it is prety agressive and straightforward, and thus more or less satisfactory), but only if Muhammad grew tentacles instead of his beard, you know, Davy Jones style...

others say he just doesn't know that he was channeling the truth.

You know, that is a typical example of so-called "religious reasoning" (Okay, I know the term is an oxymoron). Top quality religious reasoning, worthy of the best christian apologetics (and christians developed one of the best apologetic traditions around)

Hey now, I was an altar boy!

Okay, okay, but where is the altar, anyway?

Hey now, I was an altar boy!


Hopefully not a sacrificial altar?:shock:

hmm....this whole cthulhu thing is driving me crazy. The more deeper I get into learning about it, the weirder everything gets...like in the story, "Call of Cthulhu". I read about accounts of the strange sonic noises picked up somewhat near where R'lyeh is supposed to be. Although the story was just something made up (maybe), I think it's possible that there is something like this going on.
A couple nights ago, at around twilight, I looked up to see that the planets looked to be perfectly alligned. It was the creepiest thing, but I guess Cthulhu was lazy and didn't want to come out of his house.

Oh no, he was rising...we stopped off at a pizza joint, I had a large double cheese with jalapenos and sausage...he ate the staff. Quite a good time, actually.


Yes, there was a basis for HP's theory...