[UA] What Do You Believe?

[Liam Astley]

From: "Matthew Rowan Norwood" <matt at adsubtract.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] What Do You Beleive?
> Humans are pretty good at finding food and shelter, mating, etc. But
> when we sit around the fire making grand pronouncements about God and
> the Laws of Nature, we're about as profound as a bunch of ants talking
> about the Cosmic Shoe.

sort of a moot point, though, considering that "profundity" is a human
concept. nothing's going to get more profound than us...

> ObUA: This, of course, is more or less a CoC atittude: humans are
> inconceivably limited and irrelevant, and occasionally their entire
> existence gets warped or demolished by little twitches of the Elder
> Gods.

heh. or "campaigns" as they're called in CoC.

> The Comte and the Clergy should regard
> humans the way we regard ants.
> Sometimes, they decide to play with
> us and set up little barricades to divert us toward or away from things
> in our environment.

let's just hope they don't get bored and start using maginifying glasses on
us.


liam
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