Shit You Think is Spooky/Disturbing - Beware! You're in for a scare...

Cosmic horrors where even death is no escape.

"Respawning" whenever one dies because of some quantum mechanics BS sounds disturbing or horrifying (depending on how miserable one's life is). If it's true, the only true way out of a hellish life would be when there's no chance of survival from a death - otherwise one would keep waking up in alternate timelines where one survived any potentially fatal event. Which would mean living until one is ridiculously old and decrepit.

But in order for that to be a thing, consciousness has to be some magical quantum woo that could magically jump across spacetime. Also, death is a process, not a one-time event, so if there are alternate timelines where one is dying, one would be dying in all alternate timelines too.

Recurrence is a cosmic horror. If true, it means the universe eventually collapses in a Big Crunch, bounces back in a Big Bang, and time resets. Which would mean that when one passes away, the next thing they know, they'd be back in the womb to live the same life - over and over and over again. All the suffering and evil of the universe would repeat endlessly, the same crapshow over and over and over.

But in order for recurrence to happen, the universe has to be a closed system - nothing getting in or out. If it's not closed, time can't repeat perfectly. The universe also has to be able to contract - current evidence shows it's expanding forever. And even if there's a Big Crunch, time may not reset anyway. And in order for one to experience recurrence, there would have to be no afterlife taking one beyond spacetime.

And speaking of afterlife, reincarnation is another cosmic horror. Given enough lives - and especially if any reincarnation is not bound by time - anything horrible one can think of that can happen will happen: being tortured to death, suffering insanity with horrifying hallucinations, rotting from an agonizing disease, having one's home village raided and burned to the ground by an invading army, being an African crammed like a sardine in a slave ship bound for the South... And with reincarnation, one could be born a genocidal dictator, someone like CWC, or someone like Nick Bate. And if reincarnation isn't limited to being human over and over, one could be reborn as an animal that lives a terrible existence, like a male anglerfish. And of course there's the fact that reincarnation would mean losing one's personality and loved ones over and over and over - a different being in every life after life.

(I've heard the disturbing conspiracy theory that there's these evil "energy vampires" who use the tunnel and creepy "being of light" of near death experiences to lure spirits leaving Earth into a trap of reincarnating back on Earth. The theory goes that the "energy vampires" feed off of the endless misery and suffering on Earth.)

Reincarnation is challenged though. "Past life memories" could be cobbled together from stuff from one's life. If there's an afterlife, the memories of spirits who have passed on could be tapped into, believing they are one's own. And of course, the field of "reincarnation research" is full of fraud and delusion.

And of course, there's "traditional" hell: burning in unending agony for a literal infinite amount of time. For that kind of hell to be real, any deity presiding over it would be unforgiving and evil - certainly not an embodiment of love.
 
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$85,353
for every single person in America.


Tldr bitches we poor broke and dumb
I fear what the great depression 2.o will be like
 
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$85,353
for every single person in America.


Tldr bitches we poor broke and dumb
I fear what the great depression 2.o will be like
Here's a bigger problem, almost none of that money is real in the fact that it has backing. The entirety of the global economy is based on made up numbers and promises when you get to the core.
 
Here's a bigger problem, almost none of that money is real in the fact that it has backing. The entirety of the global economy is based on made up numbers and promises when you get to the core.
As I understand it or at least think of it, it is the promise that your kids or grandkids will work it off, it's an advance from future paychecks that stretches generations.

At some point in the past they made it illegal to inherit debt...
 
Cosmic horrors where even death is no escape.

"Respawning" whenever one dies because of some quantum mechanics BS sounds disturbing or horrifying (depending on how miserable one's life is). If it's true, the only true way out of a hellish life would be when there's no chance of survival from a death - otherwise one would keep waking up in alternate timelines where one survived any potentially fatal event. Which would mean living until one is ridiculously old and decrepit.

But in order for that to be a thing, consciousness has to be some magical quantum woo that could magically jump across spacetime. Also, death is a process, not a one-time event, so if there are alternate timelines where one is dying, one would be dying in all alternate timelines too.

Recurrence is a cosmic horror. If true, it means the universe eventually collapses in a Big Crunch, bounces back in a Big Bang, and time resets. Which would mean that when one passes away, the next thing they know, they'd be back in the womb to live the same life - over and over and over again. All the suffering and evil of the universe would repeat endlessly, the same crapshow over and over and over.

But in order for recurrence to happen, the universe has to be a closed system - nothing getting in or out. If it's not closed, time can't repeat perfectly. The universe also has to be able to contract - current evidence shows it's expanding forever. And even if there's a Big Crunch, time may not reset anyway. And in order for one to experience recurrence, there would have to be no afterlife taking one beyond spacetime.

And speaking of afterlife, reincarnation is another cosmic horror. Given enough lives - and especially if any reincarnation is not bound by time - anything horrible one can think of that can happen will happen: being tortured to death, suffering insanity with horrifying hallucinations, rotting from an agonizing disease, having one's home village raided and burned to the ground by an invading army, being an African crammed like a sardine in a slave ship bound for the South... And with reincarnation, one could be born a genocidal dictator, someone like CWC, or someone like Nick Bate. And if reincarnation isn't limited to being human over and over, one could be reborn as an animal that lives a terrible existence, like a male anglerfish. And of course there's the fact that reincarnation would mean losing one's personality and loved ones over and over and over - a different being in every life after life.

(I've heard the disturbing conspiracy theory that there's these evil "energy vampires" who use the tunnel and creepy "being of light" of near death experiences to lure spirits leaving Earth into a trap of reincarnating back on Earth. The theory goes that the "energy vampires" feed off of the endless misery and suffering on Earth.)

Reincarnation is challenged though. "Past life memories" could be cobbled together from stuff from one's life. If there's an afterlife, the memories of spirits who have passed on could be tapped into, believing they are one's own. And of course, the field of "reincarnation research" is full of fraud and delusion.

And of course, there's "traditional" hell: burning in unending agony for a literal infinite amount of time. For that kind of hell to be real, any deity presiding over it would be unforgiving and evil - certainly not an embodiment of love.
The best way to combat this is to realize that there are no souls, and that human consciousness is just a weird emergent property of the very complex system that is your brain, a combination of the brain’s physical structure and chemistry and the electrical signals conducted through it.

Any sort of afterlife or resurrection would imply that the consciousness is something that can exist and maintain continuity independent of a physical body, but there’s no scientifically plausible mechanisms for this to occur. More importantly, there’s no plausible explanation for how such a mechanism would evolve, considering we have the entire animal kingdom to look at, running the entire gamut of mental complexity. What’s more likely: that human brains are just slightly more advanced versions of other animal brains, or that humans uniquely have the capacity to host a consciousness disconnected from their body? If not, do all animals, even ants, have consciousness? Is there some arbitrary bar of intelligence an animal must pass before they are granted a “soul”? Does that mean retards don’t have souls?

Basically, if you don’t believe that a god created humans or influenced human evolution, then there’s no need to worry about reincarnation or the afterlife, because the concept of any sort of consciousness or life after death automatically assumes that consciousness can exist outside of a physical body, which simply is not supported by science.
 

A way I can see an afterlife being possible is if one is a spirit already that somehow only has awareness of a natural mind during this life, and the natural mind happens to reflect the thinking of such a spirit. Another would be if God somehow recreates someone after death. No way to prove either though, AFAIK.

If there's no afterlife, it sucks that some get great lives with their only shot in life, while others get crappy lives. But at least nonexistence after death means one can't experience the lack of experience. Unless there's eternal recurrence that causes time to reset and one experiences their mortal life endlessly. But like I said earlier, it's unlikely recurrence can happen as several things must line up.
 
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A way I can see an afterlife being possible is if one is a spirit already that somehow only has awareness of a natural mind during this life, and the natural mind happens to reflect the thinking of such a spirit. Another would be if God somehow recreates someone after death. No way to prove either though, AFAIK.

If there's no afterlife, it sucks that some get great lives with their only shot in life, while others get crappy lives. But at least nonexistence after death means one can't experience the lack of experience. Unless there's eternal recurrence that causes time to reset and one experiences their mortal life endlessly. But like I said earlier, it's unlikely recurrence can happen as several things must line up.
Even if there were some sort of reset after death, does it even matter if you don’t actually keep your memories? If, for all you’re aware, you’re still living and dying for the first time, then you’re not actually suffering from the existential horror of endless resurrection, because as far as you’re aware it ISN’T endless. Pain is only possible with perception - if you can’t perceive the endless cycle of rebirth, and each new life FEELS like the “first time”, then effectively each new life IS the first time.
 
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As I understand it or at least think of it, it is the promise that your kids or grandkids will work it off, it's an advance from future paychecks that stretches generations.

At some point in the past they made it illegal to inherit debt...
It really relies on nothing ever changing and capital growth constant. Which is possible until you hit a logical end or get black swaned, but it's dangerous and really precarious to fuck with.
 
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The torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. The worst case of mass cruelty and indifference I've ever seen. She was starved, beaten and had the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it" carved into her stomach with a needle. Not only did neighbours notice her bruises and do nothing about it, her bitch of a foster mother actually charged neighbourhood kids money to come into their house and beat the shit out of her. And while her foster brother was confessing on the stand, even though he must have known he was completely fucked, the bastard couldn't help but smirk as he described how he carved a sentence into another human beings stomach. Bastard.
 

The torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. The worst case of mass cruelty and indifference I've ever seen. She was starved, beaten and had the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it" carved into her stomach with a needle. Not only did neighbours notice her bruises and do nothing about it, her bitch of a foster mother actually charged neighbourhood kids money to come into their house and beat the shit out of her. And while her foster brother was confessing on the stand, even though he must have known he was completely fucked, the bastard couldn't help but smirk as he described how he carved a sentence into another human beings stomach. Bastard.
The novel girl next door is based off this
 
The sheer unpredictable and destructive nature of lighting always gets to me.

I love watching storms and chasing them in a vehicle, but fuck standing outside and potentially getting fried.
 
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the entire process of pregnancy is horrifying to me. having something grow inside you like a parasite, etc etc
I think the horrifying thing about pregnancy is the permanent impact of fuckups if they happen. Imagine going nine months of thinking about what kind of life your beloved child would live and all the happy moments they'll get to experience, only for them to be born horribly deformed or with a debilitating disorder that straight up removes the possibility of them ever living a long or fulfilling life. Quadruple points if it's because of something you did at a critical point of the baby's development without realizing.

Thankfully that shit is incredibly rare with today's medical advancements, but I legitimately get queasy when I think about birthing a harlequin baby or one with it's brain outside of it's skull.
 
I think the horrifying thing about pregnancy is the permanent impact of fuckups if they happen. Imagine going nine months of thinking about what kind of life your beloved child would live and all the happy moments they'll get to experience, only for them to be born horribly deformed or with a debilitating disorder that straight up removes the possibility of them ever living a long or fulfilling life. Quadruple points if it's because of something you did at a critical point of the baby's development without realizing.
Or worse, they grow up to use this website
 
The Tristan Brübach case.


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The whole background to the case is already depressing enough. Kid's mom died shortly after he was born, so his father raised him. His father had to work a lot, so he couldn't spend much time with Tristan, so Tristan basically raised himself and started hanging out with shady people, even strange adults. Other adults in his life were apparently aware of this, but did nothing to stop it.

Anyway. Kid got murdered one day while skipping school. Shortly before he was killed that day, he met a lady with a dog at a park and asked if he could pet it, because he loved animals.

He was killed in this underpass.

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He was beaten unconscious, then his throat was slit so deep that he was almost decapitated. Then he was mutilated after death, pieces of flesh were torn out of his thigh and genitals.

German police were useless and never arrested anyone.

Think this case fills me with so much existential dread because Tristan's background is extremely similar to my own. I look at his photo and think of his death and think to myself: " this could've been you." I can't imagine what it must've been like for him to get the life beaten out of him in that dark tunnel by someone he probably trusted and maybe even saw as a father figure. "this could've been you" is always on my mind.

anyway, RIP Tristan.
 
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