What is the scariest shit you can think of?
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A failed democracy.
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Being drafted during war and not dying in the first days
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Surviving my children.
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Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.
Hey what’s up funny faces?! They call you Giggles right? Stop making snort noises my sides are splitting!
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I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess.
But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...
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That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.
Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.
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That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.
Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.
As a counter point, when I see the super rich, they sll have huge egos. So while they may sceme together occasionslly when it suits them, I can't see them all conspiring together because they all seem to think they know what's best.
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My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.
That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.
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For me personally being out in nature with no cover and encountering a thunderstorm right above me. Most scary things are scary because I read about them at some point or heard about them in the news but the fear of getting struck by lightning is much more archaic.
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Yes, that's true, of course, and it's the reason why no clear patterns can be found here. However, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, this could also be dismissed as a distraction from the conspiracy.
But you are absolutely right: we should stick to the facts—this idea is just a nightmare scenario for me because even in democratic systems it would make freedom, self-determination, and above all the hope for better times almost completely impossible.
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Being buried alive.
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Having rabies and not knowing it until it's too late
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going to the park with your kids and letting them play on the playground while you sit 3 feet away.
then realizing you can't see them anymore, and no matter how loudly you call for them, they don't answer.
being a kid at the park and getting dragged off to a van where you're crying and screaming for your father but he doesn't look up to see you. as you're dragged into the van and the doors close, your world is encapsulated in darkness and you know you will never escape.
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My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.
That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.
Ooooh you should read Cursed Bunny's first short story called The Head by Bora Chung.
Or maybe not, because that shit scared me when reading it.
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The normalisation of genocide, pantopicon surveillance, neoliberal fascism.
The moral framework of the West turning out to be meaningless propaganda.
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Non-existence.
Just thinking about not existing at all gives me this gnarly feeling of primeval fear.
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Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can't open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can't lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.
Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.
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Having rabies and not knowing it until it's too late
Having it at all is already too late.
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The Head by Bora Chung
Looks awesome, great recommendation!
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Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
...evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades...
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
