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>>16942274
He just sets a unique tone that sings to some people.

The point of it is not the monster itself, the whole point is existential confusion/horror and the shattering of the average person's foundational belief system.

The giant monster is not required. If people see something they know to be completely impossible, and it persists for more than a few seconds, and other people see it as well, it reduces them to a state of shock and damages the way they have preconceived the world on a daily basis for their entire lives. Always having faith and trust in certain truths that are now broken. Things they never questioned at all. Or even thought about. But now suddenly maybe up is actually down, or everything they know is a lie. Maybe it was all a sham and they never had a clue what was really happening in this thing we call life.

Thing is, they were written back when men really felt on top of the universe. God's special creature, made in his image, inheritors of the earth, etc., etc. And really this 'existential horror' was all about entertaining the idea that that wasn't true. At the time.

Well, it still isn't true, and we still see ourselves as one and all 'special snowflakes' in one way or another. Just the variety of flavors have broadened.

It's just a run of the mill planet in a run of the mill galaxy in a run of the mill universe way far down in the pecking order of this local mathematical multiverse, let alone all of existence.

Existences far greater than anything we in this universe can ever know, by its very design, still don't know everything.

Even the 'giant monster' in the story barely even rates as different from an average human in the grand scheme of things.

>>16942314
Lovecraft isn't considered horror because the monsters are strange and the situations are unusual. The stories don't "shatter foundational belief systems." Foundational isn't even a word.

For example, in that story with the guy who got stuck in a crypt while he was stacking coffins.. There's literally nothing that challenges any form of belief structure. He just uses fear of the dark and confined and unknown to cultivate a sense of panic.

>>16942274
It's supernatural / psychological horror. The idea is that he's relating how fucking terrified these normal people would be in ridiculous situations. Like in the one with the guy in the lifeboat who fell into that weird dimension and went totally insane about it. Maybe reading about some guy discovering a plane of black squishy substance, a giant strange monolith, and a gigantic creature which defies description doesn't terrify YOU -- but that protagonist would've been shitting bricks.

It's meant to be a mindfuck -- which is created using your basic fears. The unknown, the incomprehensible, the dark, confined spaces, giant weird shit, or as a specific theme, the fear of going insane.

>>16942274
nonanthropocentrism scares a lot of people

>>16942270
it's actually quite easy
get into a habit of recalling your dreams the INSTANT you wake up, writing them down is good, no matter how silly it seems.
before you sleep, tell yourself "tonight, i will lucid dream". even if you don't, don't get disappointed. just keep doing this- these two steps can help you in the beginning.

>>16942270
>My thought before this thread starts, is there really a difference between lucid dreaming and astral projection? Is LD just another name for AP? Or is it some beginning, amatuer stage of AP?

If AP was real then people could quite easily prove it with the differing object in the adjacent room experiment, which has failed every time. That said lucid dreaming is worth working towards, you can have some great times with it, nothing beats flying.

>>16942270
I had a strange experience this morning, in fact..

I had retained consciousness during a dream where I immediately cleared a room with people.
Suddenly I was alone, thinking that I could do whatever but I couldn't do anything at all. I expected to be able to have some magnificent powers. I then opened a door to the outside world, where it was night despite anticipating day time. I woke up full of bruises.

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Question: why do many LHP-practitioner hate anti-cosmic Satanists?

I checked Temple of the Black Light and they have some very interesting ideas.

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Also: any non-LaVeyan Satanists here?

I'm not an atheist (can't even understand how could be this atheist-theist war on 4chan so violent these days), more like a simple occultist, and LaVeyan Satanism seems to be more like a philosophical system than an occult one.

And the LHP is an occult AND a mundane thing, for me.

While spiritual Satanism sounds good, many branches are just ex-New Age groups, with all their Kundalinis and chakras.

>>16942208
So... Just out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between different kinds of Satanism anyway? I didn't even know there was more than one kind actually.

What would make one decide to become a Satanist?

I know these are general questions, but I never had the chance to ask someone these things before.

Do you have a single fact to back that up? Or are we supposed to just believe you based on your light blue square?

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>>16942154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDW1R9OmOr0

Go cry to /r9k/

>has been the absolute worst year for you?

you're setting yourself up for some hard shit saying things like that senpai

>>16942034

No there's something paranormal going on. Nearly everyone I know has had a shitty 2015 in some capacity.

>>16942068

Explain.

bam

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>>16941790
Wifeanon for first

If he doesn't mention last night's blatant bait and switch by the time she gets on I'm done. I'll only call in/listen on Open Lines solely so that he gets a semi-intelligent non-australian non-tranny caller.

Yer shitposting again, son.

Project blue beam .repent.

Hostel?

>>16941619
>Gorn

The strangers
Halloween
Shining
Cry wolf
Evil dead
Loved ones
The wrong turns are meant to be horror but are pretty funny
The gift is sort of a horror
Orphan
Vas

Fired**

It was a bright white light like a flash light. Not like those ghost lights or swamp gas.

Makes me worry about my dad living alone. Especially if this is a person and not paranormal. If me shooting a rifle into the ground didn't scare them away and seeing the flash light after that incident concerns me a great deal

>>16941385
Probably pulling into the wrong driveway late at night as a delivery driver in bumpkin ville and having a gun pulled on me because of it
It's a more dangerous job than people would expect

Rope around your neck until your astral body can untie the knot.

>>16941386
Okay so thats all? How thick of a rope do I need? Or does that matter?

>>16941396
use dental floss

>>16941375
Damn, this story is already getting sorta long. I will try to summarize with less words. Ultimately I continued the game and mentally convinced myself that it was really nothing paranormal, but I was uneasy the entire time. Things came to a close and we all left to go home. That night I could not sleep too well. It felt like something was in the room with me, lurking in the darkness. Next night was even worse, I was psyching myself out because I could swear I was feeling light touches of something along certain parts of my body. It felt like I was caressed with energy at times, but it felt like the energy had some sort of physical form. It is actually a pleasant feeling if you ignore the whole scared shitless component. From then on I started having dreams at night that centered around this strange figure. An indefinable human form that sometimes glows, and sometimes approaches me in a very calming way. I wake up from them most times, but they aren’t horribly scary or anything. These dreams are extremely vivid, but its always some sort of gender neutral being visiting. Despite the lack of detail the being itself is actually very pretty, or rather the way it glows, and the surreal nature is the beautiful thing. I talked to my friends after to see if they had been experiencing anything, but none of them besides me has this weird attachment going on. At first it started out very gentle, but over the course of the week it became more real, and weirdly enough it does not seem to want to hurt me, but I think it might be in love with me. Before I noped the fuck up and began writing this I could swear I felt some sort of energy touching my lips, like a small kiss or something. Even now I can sort of feel it around me. It has me a little unnerved.

>>16941382
K, that is my story more or less. I probably forgot some details, but I will fill them in when they come to mind. Anyone know anything about this?

Seduction is an ancient ploy, OP. It would be unwise to welcome or enjoy the "touches".
I advise you to rebuke it, ask for forgiveness from God, and never do stupid shit like trying to speak to entities that you have no business speaking with.

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>>16941267

Is this really what we've become, /x/?

The Grifter video is dead. I killed it in my basement. I used the kind of wire you pick up in an Autozone to cut through the plastic of the VHS and then I rubbed my super-charged magnet all over that tape. I enjoyed it. Then I cut to other scenes of past VHS magnitizations, but only for the briefest second while I ambled down my hall of abused VHSs. Then I split open my own header for my VCR and everything went white, then red, then black.

It was trippy.

>>16941267
>lol

>>16941223
It's a suicide song. Of course it's dark.

I heard that song practically every time I turned on the radio in the week after my grandmother died, it's not normally on the list of tracks that the radio station I listen to plays but it was super comforting for some reason.

Once again, >>>/mu/

yes

figure it out

>>16941188
>implying this is true

Yeps its very possible, any object that receives certain amount of negative energy can turn really creepy. If you think you cant take it anymore dont burn them or something else, take them to a church or with a specialist.

>>16941318
I will see what I can do. Nothing too creepy so far.

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>>16941080

Fucking shitposters, man...

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>>16941104