Sanity Point 14 Stay Dead

I came to the Lovecraft party later in life. I think it was the Achtung Cthulhu kickstarter that first captured my imagination, leading me to Barnes and Noble to purchase a collection of Lovecraft’s stories. What I found was a kindred spirit, an author who believed if we pierce enough levels of knowledge through science or exploration, our minds might not be able to handle the truth. People went bonkers when it was suggested the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe. People go nuts when it’s suggested that a benevolent god created the Earth in a handful of days and gave us jobs as gardeners.
What I see is a series of matter orbiting powerful masses, both on a cosmic and a microbiological level. There’s amazing amounts of empty space between the orbiting masses. Is that space really empty? How many levels macro and micro does this system of mass orbiting more powerful mass go? What will we find should we reach the biggest or smallest level of this system? Is there a biggest or smallest level? Would the concept of infinity drive us mad, like a shipwrecked victim constantly confronted with the concept of the ocean in contrast to himself and his raft?
Like the shipwreck victim, there’s the fear of monsters, sharks, lingering below. On a micro level, there are the elements that warp DNA and tear apart molecules. The creatures of Lovecraft’s imagination fits right in with these sharks and molecule-attackers.
And we are nothing more than a collection of these orbiting systems, vulnerable to things we can barely understand, but we do strive to figure out through science. And fear of what’s out there in space always makes a good horror or suspense tale.
In the spirit of this fear of what we might find… despite our ego keeping us digging for answers, I dedicate this blog and continue to enjoy the Call of Cthulhu RPG, as well as the works of Lovecraft.
May your remaining sanity points drop slowly.

Garrett Crowe

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