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A: postcount means how much you have posted. Most often, what you've posted and how good your posts are are of a much bigger importance. But sure, I happen to listen more to people with 900 posts than people with 1 posts now and then.

 

Q: Second hand, good or bad?

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A: it's about Yog-Sothoth, silly! ;) (the biggest blob on the block)

 

From the Cthulhu Lexicon:

 

Yog-Sothoth. One of the Outer Gods. Many would differ from this an classify Yog-Sothoth as a Great Old One along with Cthulhu, though he is not. In The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft narrates a passage from page 751 of the Necronomicon which states—

 

“Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and the guardian to the gate. Past, present, and future are one in Yog-Sothoth.”

 

In this passage, Yog-Sothoth is described as he who knows of the Great Old Ones and their ways, where they lived and where they lay in deep slumber now. Thus, Yog-Sothoth is a different class of creature, one above the Great Old Ones because of what he is. Yog-Sothoth is thought to be the unearthly father of the Whateley twins, Wilbur and his brother, who was never actually named. The twin which looked more like his father was described as—

 

“Bigger’n a barn...all made o’ squirmin’ ropes...hull thing sort o’ shaped like a hen’s egg bigger’n anything with dozens o’ legs like hogsheads that haff shut up when they step...nothin’ solid abaout it—all like jelly, an’ made o’ sep’rit wrigglin’ ropes pushed clost together...great bulgin’ eyes all over it...ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin’ aout all along the sides, big as stove-pipes, an’ all a-tossin’ an’ shuttin’...all gray, with kinder blue or purple rings...Oh, oh, my Gawd, that haff face—that haff face on top of it...that face with the red eyes an’ crinkly albino hair, an’ no chin, like the Whateleys...It was a octopus, centipede, spider kind o’ thing, but they was a haff-shaped man’s face on top of it, an’ it looked just like Wizard Whateley’s, only it was yards an’ yards acrost...”

 

The Dunwich Horror, H.P. Lovecraft.

 

 

 

Q: life fast and die young, or live carefully and get old?

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