Cosmic Horror

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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure why but the phrase cosmic horrors beyond my comprehension never scared me. It kinda gave me a piece of mind, like I'm too dumb to understand how fucked I am. I'll just stare in ignorant bliss. Like a deer staring at a headlight while the hunter blows its brains out. Not that bad of a way to go.