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"Conspiracy theorists" are a classic example of the flip side of religion: an overactive *and creative* imagination; the inability to tell reality apart from a SOMEWHAT ORIGINAL work of fiction, as opposed to the religious inability to tell reality apart from a traditional work of fiction.

As such, they're usually a hilarious read. And then sometimes they take Mage: The Ascension as historical fact AND THEN, when called on it, integrate the existence of the game into the delusions.

COMEDY GOLD.

via athelind

(Also, memo to slacktivist: When you've realised that the map doesn't match the territory, has never matched the territory, requires constant adjustments to make it come close to looking something like the territory, and even then you really have to get in there with scissors, tape, correcting fluid, and a sharpie to get something even *slightly* close to matching where you've been, let alone where you're going? That's a sign that *your map is garbage*. That's a sign that your map has never been, at all, an even slightly accurate depiction of the territory and rather than CONSTANTLY readjust it and blame yourself for the failure, the only sane response is to throw it out and start from scratch. And you yourself *have already come to* the conclusion that the map doesn't match, has never matched, and will never match without editing.)

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Hayabusa comes home tomorrow morning.

Home is the sailor, home from sea.

A Slice Of Life.

Me: 'I've just described "Gandalf, Aslan, and Cthulhu" as "a trio of Jesus figures who all die to bring on eventual victory". I think Frances is broken.'

sivi_volk: 'One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...anywhere...ever...'

jasmine_koran: Also Neo.
Me: This is not an exhaustive list of Jesii.
Me: It's simply a description of the three Jesii in a specific context.
jasmine_koran: However, I think a criterion for Jesushood is that their intentions are for the good of humanity. I don't feel that Cthulhu qualifies.
Me: Who said he's dying for *your* benefit?
jasmine_koran: I said humanity.
Me: Can't he be Spaceman Jesus?
jasmine_koran: Not unless we are starship captains wandering a barren planet hunting a monster and communicating only in metaphors.
Me: .... I suppose?

snakey: does Cthulhu rise again?
Me: Of course he does. He rises *every* time The Stars Are Right.
Me: And the only question is whether there's someone with a shotgun at the R'lyeh Tomb Of Zombie Jesus for long enough for the stars to stop before he stops rising.
snakey ...now I am imagining a version of The Price Is Right

I, for the record, would pay to watch THE SHIT out of that show.


EDIT:

opaqueplanet: The Elder Gods so loved R'lyeh that they gave one of their many star-spawn that the ilithids may not die but may eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."
torrain: "Cthulhu Christ would be rather difficult to nail to a crucifix."

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How To Keep Someone With You Forever

I used to work with a guy who got literal *flashbacks*, like hands trembling and head pain and images overwhelming him, about a former employer. I can totally see this in all his stories about that group - and in my own experience with a certain subdivision of My Beloved Former Corporate Masters. Who really were My Beloved Corporate Masters, for a while, and then I quit to avoid a certain subsection of incompetent "management".