Do You Fear What I Fear

[CarpeMetus]

Yay! my Very Scary Solstice and An even scarier solstice came today! Along with a tentacle stocking and a box set of the Dark Adventure Radio Theater.

[CarpeMetus]

I wish I could like this more than once...

[Aveiraslover]

Where is the picture at 1:02 from?

I think I found it on a wiki once. The Star Wars Wiki but still...

[monica0999]

"do you hear what i hear"????....>:)

[1animalallover]

0:41 tsk tsk tsk lol

[Adihash666]

the stars, the stars soon will be in line! I'a! C'thulhu F'thagn!

[timmy25able]

@wareq and @anothersquid it looks to me what he feared most was people altogether!

[jpierceclowes]

hp would fucking throw blackened tentacles up the ass of this pawn and make you choke up your nonfat decaf mocha.all lovecraft fans unite in the banning of this putrid mantra.......

[wareq]

I thought what HPL actually feard was blacks, Chinese and "mongrels".

[anothersquid]

@wareq possibly, even probably. Back in his time that was a fairly normal and widespread feeling. In the early 1900's being a racist wasn't considered a bad thing by most people.

[AngelusDlion]

@anothersquid I do understand that, but that's one reason I'm not a huge fan of Lovecraft's work. It just sits wrong with me.

[DiVeronica]

@anothersquid Several founding fathers owned slaves, that they lived in the 18th century doesn't excuse their moral failing for doing so

[anothersquid]

@DiVeronica Yes, it does excuse their moral failing, the same way you are excused as an adult for the crappy things you did as a child.  You can't fault people who didn't know any better.

From their perspective, we'd be moral failures. Is it fair to call us that?

[AnomalyINC]

@anothersquid My father usually say that an explanation is not an excuse.

Treating someone bad because you don't know any better does not make it any less bad, but understandable.

[Crabjesus]

@anothersquid Dude, he was in a *special club for racists*.

[GaladedridDamodred]

@anothersquid Certainly you can. If you excuse them by saying "Oh, they couldn't have known any better because nobody else did", what are leaders for if not to know better? Otherwise they have no business presuming to order nations about.

[btaens]

@anothersquid That said though, he was still considered extra racist even for his time, according to his wife.

[sejemaset]

@anothersquid The fact that a great many of those founding fathers were also abolitionist (ie: they did know better) and still owned slaves renders your statement completely inept. Lets not get into the matter of Thomas Jefferson who fathered children with a woman he owned, being a slave takes away your ability to give consent, think about that.

[DarthVil]

@DiVeronica What's really interesting is that several of those same founding fathers also, even while owning slaves, wrote a great deal about how distasteful they found it to be. They had great concerns about how slavery could be abolished, because they were loathe to use the power of government toward that end. When government is given power to make decisions of that magnitude, it never stays within the context of a singular issue.

[DarthVil]

@DiVeronica In understanding their predicament, their greatest failure was to not set the right example by granting their slaves freedom, and not having the courage, along with that, to vocally express what they and many others were too fearful to state.

Whenever people fear to challenge an established injustice, misery is the only possible result.

[iseezapie]

@DiVeronica Morality is relative, if the culture you live in doesn't see something as immoral then why would doing it be considered a moral failing, that is just immensely arrogant to assume that all cultures across the whole world and at all times should be compared to our current morality. If in 300 years, posting comments on a public forum such as youtube was seen as immoral, would you consider all of us to have moral failings

[jhaaglund]

@anothersquid Lovecraft was writing in the late 20s and early 30s, other white American authors wrote to him telling him to dial back the racism a touch, so he was obviously exceptionally racist even for the time.

He was a great horror writer, but you can't just ignore or excuse the really blantant racism in his stories

[DarthVil]

@jhaaglund All of us have some sort of a failing. His views were ignorant. That doesn't take away from his ability to tell a tale. It takes away from his personage, just as our own failings take away from ours. I should hope that they never censor his works, because the past is something from which to learn. Rather than to hide his and others' racist views, I would hope that they're seen as the mental relics and failures of their day that they were.

[gigasloth]

@wareq

And fish. The dude was horrified by fish.

[LtHavoc1983]

@wareq Well yes, HPL was fairly racist like many people of his time, but that did change too, some years before his death his racism diminished and there is also one point, in 1937, where he wrote a letter to a friend expressing his disgust towards the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany and that he found it appalling. He sadly died that very year so he could not completely shed his prejudice towards non-caucasians.

[Haugtrold]

@wareq At the end of his life he did write that some of the beliefs and prejudices he once held now seemed foolish to him. If needed i could find the exact reference but... you know. solstice hangover.

[KauhanaHequara]

Dude. I'm totally learning this song and caroling it instead of the original Christmas song.

[anothersquid]

@KauhanaHequara According to my mother-in-law, the two albums from the HPLovecraft Historical Society have ruined Christmas music for her because now all she can remember is the Cthulhu versions :)

[Purplelady0790]

@KauhanaHequara Oh, I bet there are going to be a lot of freaked out people slamming the door on your face.

[Xeldril]

Not one dislike, I fear that there are more people that fear what I fear...

[Twitch532]

Cthulhu isn't a god. He's a priest.

[METALMULlSHA]

@Twitch532

He's a god like figure to Man.

[ShadowParanoya]

i'm going to sing carols about this on christmas eve :D

[Twitch532]

@ShadowParanoya

And everyone will laugh about how so random you are! lol XD!

[gatedude07]

@ShadowParanoya I'm gonna sing them at church lol

[Brandt761]

Well, this is certainly gonna make my Heavy Metal X-Mas a while lot merrier. Merry Bloody Sabbath, folks!

[patrhegz0711]

monsters!so scary...lyrics funny though

[RegurgitatedNews]

@awer351 Do you see what I see?

[awer301]

What the name of the original song?

[smiletehk]

i love these songs its kind of funny.

[NodDisciple1]

Have these ppl done any Halloween Music? :?

[anothersquid]

@NodDisciple1 Not that i am aware of, unfortunately.

[AngelusDlion]

@anothersquid No reason this can't be reused...

[stewart1matt]

For the past 4 christmi, this is what we've listened to.

[patrhegz0711]

@stewart1matt

"Do you hear what i hear"

[Metaclese]

Said the night gaunt to young HPL, do you dream what I dream?

[MrDevonlewis]

I want the LYRICS!

[anothersquid]

@MrDevonlewis I transcribed the lyrics and put htem in the "Show More" underneath the video.

[Erago575]

Jag ph33r vad du ph33r

[captainnutella67]

is this a very scary solstice or Shoggoth on the roof?

[anothersquid]

@captainnutella67 It is on "A Very Scary Solstice"

[captainnutella67]

@anothersquid thanks. I want to get the one with this song.

[Alon235235]

Based on "Do You Hear What I Hear?", a Christmas song

[LordOfTheObvious]

Cthulhu will reposes your house.

[NodDisciple1]

@LordOfTheObvious I'd rather he'd reposses me and turn me into a mutant or Deep One. XP

[LastJackalope]

surprisingly soothing. like an unholy lullaby.

[LordSia13]

@LastJackalope Sweet dreams are made of these...

[BarerRudeROC]

Love this!

[NueArtPictures]

I've been looking forever for this song. Thanks so much for uploading this!