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A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers The call of the void. This occurs when humans are on high places, like rooftops or cliffs, and get the urge to jump. It’s actually pretty common.

jstclair08 , Lucas Clara Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Everybody has a self-destructive instinct. It just manifests in different ways.

97points

#3

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers I don't know if this is fact, but apparently humans have an instinct to know when they're being stared at by someone, so when you feel like you're being looked at you're probably right.

lucyllikecat , Noelle Otto Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

It's true. And really weird. The best guess I have is that when someone or something is concentrating on you they stop breathing or change their breathing, and you hear the change in sound and it sets off an alarm. Some animals have the same spooky sense.

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Despite the fact that many of these ideas are presented as downright creepy, humans do have a weird psychological desire to artificially feel this feeling. Maybe it’s a surge of adrenaline or a sort of heightened state, but this sort of internet content and the entire horror genre all revolve around it.

For example, sometimes our hair will stand on end and we’ll break out in goosebumps when we feel, often unknowingly, unsettled. A horror franchise of the same name exists probably for this reason. In humans, there is some speculation that we have this reaction when our bodies are being moved without our control, such as an earthquake.

#4

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers That pretty much everyone has the capacity for extreme evil given the right circumstances.

anon , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Nea 1 year ago

I always say this to people. I dont know why. Nobody has ever agreed.

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#5

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Most people that die due to hypothermia get naked before dying.

This is because, blood stops flowing to your extremities, so you don't lose body heat. Just before death, the brain kinda "gives out" and allows blood flow to return to normal. This sends warm blood to your cold limbs, making you feel very hot and sweaty, so you strip.

Before this was understood, people that had died of hypothermia were believed to have been sexually assaulted because they were fully naked

diamondhound2509 , Thom Holmes Report

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Amanda Rose 1 year ago

Paradoxical undressing is the proper name for this phenomenon.

126points

#6

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers One of my favorite aspects about human nature is how there are things in nature that we are the best at. Sure we’re not the fastest, strongest, or most agile. But out of everything in the animal kingdom, we can run the longest.

Humans are adapted to do what very few animals can do, which is run for extended periods of time. Here’s where it gets creepy, I saw it explained like this:

Imagine you’re a gazelle on the plains of Africa early on in human history. You see some hairless apes running towards you, but f**k are they kind of slow. So your instincts kick in and you sprint away. Once they’re out of sight you relax and go back to eating grass or whatever you’re doing. But f**k, there they are again, running slowly towards you. How’d they figure out where you went?

You don’t know, you’re a gazelle. So you sprint away again and think you’re safe, again. Then, here come the hairless apes, slowly coming for you once again. You keep repeating this until you can’t sprint anymore. You aren’t adapted to continuously run long distances, but they are. Eventually you collapse and they get you.

That’s creepy to me. A slow moving predator who somehow always finds you and chases you until you can’t run anymore.

HallucinatesOtters , Jenny Hill Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

"But out of everything in the animal kingdom, we can run the longest " Good one, but I prefer "of everything in the animal kingdom, we can throw the furthest and most accurately." Our ability to throw would have quickly made us top predators.

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This is all fine and good, the strange part is that many people actually enjoy the sensation of goosebumps and a heightened heart rate. It’s very human, it seems, to take a biological marker of fear and danger and turn it into entertainment. Even more weirdly, there are people who can actually induce goosebumps, and this state of tension manually, which is a good party trick, but a strange ability to have.

#7

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers After a back surgery, your organs might have been moved to perform certain parts of the surgery. The doctors don't move your organs back to their original place. This funny feeling you get after the surgery is your organs moving themselves back to their original place. Yes, they are capable of that.

VetreeleekYT , Olga Guryanova Report

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184points

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Elita One 1 year ago (edited)

This isn't just for back surgery, this happens with internal surgeries in general.

101points

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#8

Humans lose rationality overtime when given power.

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

Or fame (which I guess is a kind of power).

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#9

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers You only need 30 people in order to trigger mob mentality in order to control an entire cowed of anywhere upwards to 10,000+ people blindly copying them.

Vasarto , CHUTTERSNAP Report

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BC 1 year ago

Seen it in schools, every time there’s a fight.

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There are also sounds that create this feeling despite no good explanation for them. Nails on a chalkboard and the scraping of metal utensils on metal both have this effect on many humans, but there does not seem to be a good evolutionary explanation. Our early ancestors did not need to feel fear at wasting chalk in such a manner, so there are all sorts of wild speculation as to why we have this reaction.

#10

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Risks during birth are abnormally high compared to other species. Because of our upright gait (mother's narrow pelvis) and big heads, fetuses cannot 'fully' gestate until being born. Humans have to be born prematurely while the head is still tiny and squishy. Otherwise, childbirth would not be survivable at all.

deepestfish , Leah Kelley Report

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

We are also the only idiots that cry right after birth, giving away the position of the mother and child to potential predators

120points

#11

We are all addicts, just to different things.

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El Cucuy 1 year ago

My theory is that we are all addicted to the same thing - feelings. The vessel that gets us to those feelings differs from person to person but in the end it's the way those things make us feel that we all chase.

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#12

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Because the eyes are not only incredibly vulnerable to infection due to the moisture, they're also a direct connection to our brain. This necessitates an additional layer of immune security.

A seperate immune system has several advantages. Firstly, pathogens cannot travel from the eyes to the body, or the body to the eye. You wouldn't want a stomach virus to make you go blind! A normal immune response in the eye would mean swelling, which would destroy the eye. The eye has several different layers of security specifically because they're so important.

DeadWombats , Marina Vitale Report

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

Immune privilege, your eyes won’t swell up and fill with lymph or blood during an attack from a pathogen. Your testes and ovary also have immune privilege

61points

One possible explanation for some people’s love of horror could be that the adrenaline and intensity of the fight or flight emotion is not that far from the feelings we have when dopamine is produced in our body. Domaine, famously, feels pretty damn good, so there are people who enjoy acquiring it or “similar” experiences from other means.

#13

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Learned memories, i.e. people 100% sure they remember things which actually never happened but were told many times by media/memes/others. I observed this for certain episode which happened less than 10 years ago and which everyone whom I asked witnessed themselves personally, but they all “clearly remember” it in a way it was presented in memes and jokes and not how they actually saw it happen.

p17s82 , camilo jimenez Report

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137points

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

Human memory is super fallible. It's an unreliable witness in court proceedings.

95points

#14

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers If you happen to have brain injury, there is a condition that makes you unable to recognize objects around you. Like, you will see a fork, the colors and the shape of it, but you can’t know how to use it, if it’s edible or not, etc. Pretty scary thing to imagine.

Big-Bridge-6142 , Adrian Swancar Report

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128points

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Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

I recommend Oliver Sacks' books if you want to know more about neurological disorders and stories of real people living with these.

91points

#15

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers We possess the genes for regeneration similar to starfish and salamanders. They are on the same chromosome as the genes for scar tissue formation. However they are not turned on whereas the scar tissue genes are.

So technically, we could pull a Piccolo and regenerate limbs like a starfish. But we don't because it's waaay too metabolically demanding on energy. If we could do it, you'd likely shave years off of your life in exchange. Instead we make scar tissue to reinforce the injured area.

StopFool Report

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127points

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WFH Forever 1 year ago

We DO regenerate. If you are a living liver donor, they take part of it. Both the donor and the recipient will regrow the missing part and end up with a complete liver.

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On a more general note, there is not actually a good reason why we call them goosebumps. Many other birds have similar skin, including the considerably more common chicken. Other mammals also have this reaction, but for some reason, in multiple languages, waterfowl of some sort are used to describe this biological reaction. For example, in Hebrew, it’s a duck, not a goose.

#16

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Your stomach acid can dissolve a razor blade, right? Well another thing is that your stomach is constantly fighting to not get dissolved by the acid. Have a nice day :) also thank u for 257 upvotes, most ive ever gotten

anon , Kindel Media Report

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125points

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Do not swallow razor blades to test this theory. A swallowed razor blade can do a lot of damage. Even more important, don't swallow safety pins that are clipped up, the stomach muscle movement is enough to unclip them.

86points

Doctor_Salvatore , Ketut Subiyanto Report

#17

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers We do not have any undeniable way of proving that ANYTHING going on right now is real. This might all just be an illusion made by the mind. In the grand scheme of the universe, every event that led to this exact moment are all impossibly unlikely to happen, and comparatively, it's way more likely that the life we all see ourselves is a figment of a briefly lived consciousness in the endless nothingness of an empty space.

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David Paterson 1 year ago

This idea is called the Boltzmann Brain. And it's a real thing. For "impossibly unlikely" read "incredibly unlikely", because nothing is impossible in quantum mechanics.

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Solangelo4life!!! 1 year ago

So it’s impossible to be impossible, so that means everything is pissible, the impossible is possible, but the possible is impossible and I think I accidentally found a glitch in the universe

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Bookworm 1 year ago

quantum mechanics is one of those things that I am aware of, but prefer to pretend it doesn't exist because I don't like it and ignoring it isn't going to have any real impact on my life. Like the Telescope Fish.

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Doodles1983 1 year ago

Except impossible, of course. Or is it?

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Phobrek 1 year ago

When we die, we're soul blobs emerging from a pool. "Aw man, the Human on Earth ride is so weird. I'm going back to Zog. Being a flerf on Zog is so nice."

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Mark Fuller 1 year ago

If this world is an illusion created by my mind, I must be a dark, twisted soul deep down inside. Why would anyone conjure this c**p up??

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Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 1 year ago

Isn't this essential Descartes, "I think, therefore I am"? His entire proof ended with this statement, but it was meant to show that he cannot prove anything except for the fact that he existed in some form, because he could think.

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tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Just take the blue pill and be quiet.

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Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago

thanks... as if i didn't already have enough anxiety.....

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Saturn The Furry S/T 1 year ago

Y’all need to stop, this is why I’m depressed 😭

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me McG 1 year ago

hey starfish .... regenerate thy "self"

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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago

Well then I'm getting some quatloos and betting on Captain Kirk.

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Rick 1 year ago

Not to mention spacetime warp or quantum entanglement which is happening all around us, all the time.

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Arachnid 1 year ago

also seemingly random things might be predetermined

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Nadine 1 year ago

Every morning I wake up and my first thought freaks me out that anything exists. It seems so impossible. I wish I didn't think about it.

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Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago

If its all illusion then its the only one we have...so I just live life and don't worry about it. I'll find out at the end what happens next. As long as my dogs and cats go too its all good.

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Lavern Defazio 1 year ago

Huh?

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b 1 year ago

If its an illusion made by the mind, why are there shared experiences?

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John George 1 year ago

I guess the "simulation theory" is one example of this.

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Leanne Hailes 1 year ago

#14 😳 I feel dizzy. You made my brain hurt.

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Sheryl Oberheu 1 year ago

Exactly! OR, the other, we move on . Not religion, but repurposing

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Demosthenes 1 year ago (edited)

Boltzmann didn’t have the benefit of being born close enough to full simulation immersion to conceive of such a thing. It’s far more likely you are in a simulated universe than a Boltzmann brain randomly existing in an empty universe.

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Con O Cuinn 1 year ago

I think therefore I am. Everything else is up for debate. All the rest of you are probably Sims.

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Paul Pienkowski 1 year ago

Well then I'm mad at my brain for not imagining I'm rich and hot

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Michelle C 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, some Hindus believe this: the world is illusory and is destroyed and re-created every day.

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Mikey 1 year ago

I think exactly the same

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BC 1 year ago

Why do I see the world through my eyes and not yours? Why am I me and not you? (Sleep on that, beautiful pandas!)

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Melody Valek 1 year ago

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#18

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers We are one of the most violent things on earth, yet so social. We legit will help even our enemies when needed.
Its creepy, because we will easily team up snd go back to killing eachother.

Gunnerjackel97 , Ketut Subiyanto Report

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Nea 1 year ago

People are complex, individually and collectively.

48points

#19

The Uncanny Valley phenomenon suggests that we've had to fear something in human history that *looked* human but wasn't

(Edit: I'm talking things that are ALMOST human but not quite. Corpses don't creep me out as much as duplicate horror or life-like dolls.)

LdyLna Report

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Alicia Gee 1 year ago

It’s probably just to keep us away from really diseased people who aren’t acting right so we don’t catch it, eg rabies or something.

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buttercreamandrum , ALEXANDRE LALLEMAND Report

#20

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers There really is no profile of a person who falls victim to a cult. Anyone is susceptible. Cult members can come from any socioeconomic or educational background, any race, sex, religion.

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

Seems to me like someone who believes nothing and hates following orders might have a harder time with joining a cult. Unless its run by a very cute dog, in which case, let me gather some sticks for you oh mighty doggie overlord. Also I will give you all the belly rubs you need and donate as many tennis balls as you can chew.

118points

#21

We're an invasive species. By definition.

> An invasive or alien species is an introduced species to an environment that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.

From Wikipedia.

An opinion that's heavily disputed is humans are cancer. I think it's true, but this isn't officially a fact and therefore shouldn't be counted as one.

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113points

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MrLiesegang 1 year ago

That Opinion sounds like Agent Smith from the Matrix Movies. But yeah, the Human species behaves cancerous.

50points

Captain_Poodr , Robina Weermeijer Report

#22

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Your frontal cortex makes it breaks you via your decisions. It’s where all the critical thinking goes through the manual computer of dopamine pathways.

Ever wonder why decisions are so crazy in your dreams? Or why it ask makes a little too much sense in the moment? Frontal cortex is off during rem.

Grandma didn’t abandon having a filter with age. The decay of her frontal cortex is no longer preventing her from saying awful or embarrassing things.

Bump your head in some kind of accident? Hope it wasn’t the front, because if so your chances of committing crime just rose more than 100%

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Raven Web 1 year ago

Somewhere a defence lawyer just took a screenshot.

109points

#23

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers I remember reading that if you look at pictures of sick people, your immune system will automatically give itself a little boost just by looking at the pictures

earic23 , Brittany Colette Report

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98points

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Hawkmoon 1 year ago

And if you read articles on diseases on the Internet, you will have all the symptoms in a few minutes.

186points

#24

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Eventually, all our graves go unattended.

DomingoLee , Meruyert Gonullu Report

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98points

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Coyote Osborne 1 year ago

Or become tourist attractions.

56points

smackin-my-shmackle , Miguel Henriques Report

#25

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers How one person can rule over millions of people. 100 million humans can fear one person collectively, and that person will remain in power for years until death. Once they die, that collective fear morphs into the worshipping of that evil person.

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Nea 1 year ago

Sometimes worshipping happens alongside fear.

48points

#26

Children are more or less sociopaths. We teach them empathy, kindness, and sharing. There are several psychologists that hold the belief that in a societal breakdown scenario children will actually fair better than adults once they arm themselves, because adults will have a harder time murdering another human.

Meanwhile, children who's brains and emotional response centers have not fully formed will be much more able to mercilessly kill others for survival or supplies.

LinverseUniverse Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

"sociopaths" is the wrong word here. But remember the Red Guards, Mao's army of children.

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#27

[Humans are hard wired to see faces in things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). It's thought it was to help us stay away from sabre toothed tigers and such, but now we see the Virgin Mary in a tomato slice.

ivylass Report

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Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago

But the lady! She is in the blueberry muffin! /s

36points

#28

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers "Cute Aggression."

Have you ever seen a cute little puppy? or a soft fuzzy chinchilla? or a cut tiny little baby, and gotten this urge to squeeze it? The reason for this is not nearly as innocent as you might think.

It's highly speculated that the reason humans develop this urge is because our wirings do not allow us to comprehend what we are feeling when we see something "Cute" our sensors go kind of haywire, and because of this we have a subconscious urge to "Destroy" this cute entity to relieve us of the distress we are experiencing as a result of its existence.

Very dark stuff

Saint_Circa , Pixabay Report

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago (edited)

This is interesting. Grandmas telling babies they want to eat them just got more understandable.

125points

#29

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers **Aphantasia:**

Almost 4% of people do not have visual imagination, and cannot use the "movies in the head" effect at all. Their imagination works on either language, abstracts and raw emotions or on imagining sounds and tactile input.

Imagine how absolutely creepy and alien their thoughts must be to a regular phantasic person. Their minds work more like hyper advanced ChatGPT than like those of other homo sapiens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Freevoulous , Natasha Connell Report

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Mat Hall 1 year ago

I have aphantasia, but it was only a few years ago that I learned that when most people "picture" things it's a *literal* picture in their head - I'd always assumed it was metaphorical!

113points

#30

I don’t know what this is called but this is when I realised that human beings are extremely selfish. And I was equally horrible and a part of this.

I was in second or third grade, around 8 years old I guess? So when school got over, it was the last day or something and all the kids in my class (about 40-50 kids) ran out the door at the same time. One of the girls in my class fell over. Kids kept trampling over her. And some of us noticed that. But if we stopped to help her or bent down, we would also get trampled over. So we just ran and left. I still feel so bad about that. Thankfully nothing happened to her and she just scraped her knees and elbow. But I feel so bad about it till today.

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Nicola Roberts 1 year ago

I think your brain was just trying to keep you safe.

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#31

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers On a recent date with a CSI I learned that a lot of people die naked on or near the toilet. Apparently people get very hot and try to strip down when close to death.

KingPnutticua Report

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

Could it be that they're naked near the toilet because they're getting into or out of the bathtub or shower?

51points

#32

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers If you're bored enough you will begin to intentionally hurt yourself.

anon , Magnet.me Report

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Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

Do not worry for me... I have such an interesting internal life.

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#33

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers You're not as perceptive to touch as you might like to think. Particularly in areas like your back, I could poke you with two fingers inches apart and you'd think I was only used 1 finger.

braindawgs0 , Yan Krukau Report

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imontape 1 year ago

I remember a game we played when i was little. You would write a word with your finger on the persons back and they would have to guess the word. Most people would have no clue what you wrote.

55points

#34

We all have our flaws and quirks, but there are some aspects of human behavior that are just plain creepy. Here are some creepy facts about human nature that will make you shudder:

**We're drawn to the macabre:** Whether it's horror movies, true crime podcasts, or haunted houses, many people have a fascination with the darker side of life. It's thought that this interest stems from our primal need to understand and prepare for danger.

**We can be cruel to animals:** While many of us love our pets and consider them part of the family, there are also people who are capable of unspeakable acts of cruelty towards animals. From puppy mills to animal testing, it's a sad fact that some humans view animals as nothing more than objects to be used and abused.

**We're easily influenced by authority:** Studies like the infamous Milgram experiment have shown that humans can be easily influenced by authority figures, even if it means causing harm to others. This is a disturbing reminder of how easily we can be manipulated.

**We're capable of extreme violence:** While most of us would never dream of harming another person, there are those who are capable of extreme violence. From serial killers to war crimes, it's a chilling reminder that human beings can be both the best and worst of creatures.

**We're fascinated by death:** From Victorian post-mortem photography to memento mori jewelry, humans have long been fascinated by death and the macabre. While some may view this as a morbid curiosity, others see it as a way to confront and understand our own mortality.

These are just a few examples of the creepy and unsettling aspects of human nature. While it's important to acknowledge and understand these darker sides of ourselves, it's also crucial to remember that the vast majority of people are good and decent. As always, it's up to us to choose which aspects of our nature we want to cultivate and which we want to overcome.

Jr_smr_Gupta Report

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LillieMean 1 year ago

I really like the post-mortem pictures. There is a beautiful quiet calm about them that touches my soul. I've never found them macabre. Death is an inevitable part of life and it comes with bittersweet melancholy. I'm a tortured artistic soul, so that might explain it.

34points

#35

We create weapons and kill other humans just because we disgaree with each other.

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David Paterson 1 year ago

"Disagree" is the wrong word here. "Feel threatened by" or "Feel jealous of" would be better.

46points

#36

Some people play sick twisted games with other people's lives .

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Austin L 1 year ago

This is so true; not me but a friend told me this. His Mom was quite the psycho. He claimed if she was mad at one of her boyfriends she would really talk them up and get them in a good mood, then get them drunk so the point memory was suspect. She would then pick a fight which usually ended with them just going outside to get away from her. She would then get in her car and go brush them just enough to cause minor injuries. She would then load them up and go to the ER where she would present this as, "he got drunk and I tried to stop him from getting into trouble and he ran into my car." He claimed she did this to build the case in the future that the person was a troublesome drunk if they got violent and she was the innocent victim.

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berripluscream , Amanda Dalbjörn Report

#37

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers The eyes have a separate immune system than the rest of the body. If your body's immune system realizes your eyes exist, it'll attack the eyes and reject them from the body as it would a virus.

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Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

Why is that creepy? Also brain and testes have this "immune privilege", and the same for fetus and placenta. It only means that such organs have different immune responses than the rest of the body.

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#38

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers Bacteria dictates our behaviour.

jackalisland , Anna Shvets Report

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59points

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LillieMean 1 year ago

Intestinal bacteria have been studied and it has been found that an imbalance causes, for example, depression. I haven't read enough to provide more examples or links to studies.

37points

#39

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers You want a weird design flaw? Our retinas are backwards. Meaning our cones and rods (cells that react to light) point to the back of the eye.

This is evident by the blind spots everyone has which are basically the optic nerve going from inside the eye through the retina and then out to the brain.

WattebauschXC , lil artsy Report

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48points

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Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago

It's not a design flaw. It prevents the receptors from being overly stimulated due to light touching them directly if it were built they other way around.

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#40

How some behaviours are so hard wired.

cloudswarm Report

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Titian 1 year ago

A twin study extract that I read posited that 75% of our decisions are biologically (hardwired) directed, and it takes extreme awareness and force of will to make genuinely independent choices.

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#41

You don’t need to have 2 eyes to have *some* depth perception. Close one eye and look at something close and then something far away. You can still tell which is closer, even if it’s unfamiliar. That’s because there’s a feedback loop between your brain and the nerves that stretch your eye lens to focus images.

andrewb610 Report

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Mat Hall 1 year ago

It's also one of the many reasons that VR headsets can give you a headache/nausea/eye strain/disorientation/etc. as there's a disconnect between the apparent distance of objects and the point in space that your eye is actually focused on - one part of your visual system is saying "that object is close, that object is far away" due to the stereoscopic separation and another part is saying "they're both the same distance away" because your eye is actually focusing on the screen.

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#42

Sometimes, real every day human beings (you won't f*****g believe this!) copy old posts off of reddit and repost them.

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David Paterson 1 year ago

What's Reddit? 😉

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#43

You aren't you. What you see when you look in the mirror is just a protective casing created by your parents mixing their dna together. What you are is actually just your brain, eyes and nervous system. And if you want to get more into it, your thoughts are just your brain dictating what it thinks is right/wrong in-order to keep itself alive for as long as possible

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Katie Everswick 1 year ago

You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

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#44

We think with our emotions more than logic

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David Paterson 1 year ago

We think most with our "zombie", that controller of unconscious actions that never reach the conscious mind. This is not the same as being controlled by our Id / emotions.

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#45

The reason you close your eyes when you sneeze is because your body is making sure you don't blow them put of your head

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

False. The reason is so that you don’t get the stuff you sneezed out in your eyes

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#46

Humans learn by mimicking

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

Humans learn by mimicking?

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#47

We don't exactly descend from the Homo sapiens.
Most people believe that the Homo sapiens evolved into what we are now, the Homo sapiens sapiens, but that's not true for EVERYONE.
When the Sapiens migrated from Africa to Europe, there still were Neanderthal around, and in that occasion the two species mixed (some scientist believe that Neanderthal men raped Sapiens women).
A small percentage of Europeans and Asians (1.7% circa) has direct Neanderthal ancestors.

Fun fact: a gene involved in Covid19 resistance is directly correlated to the Neanderthal genome. This means that the 1.7% of the population who has some remaining of Neanderthal genes is less susceptible to infection and/or death via Covid19.

DarkNoname Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

No, you've got the right idea but you've got that back to front. Instead of "a small percentage of Europeans and Asians (1.7% circa) has direct Neanderthal ancestors" it's most Europeans and Asians that have Neanderthal heritage, and many Polynesians and some other people have Denisovan heritage. We're all descended from Homo Sapiens, but most of us have up to 1.7% Neanderthal heritage as well. As a side note, the people with the highest proportion of Neanderthal genes (myself included) come from an area that maps directly onto a people called the Anglo-Saxons. So if you see someone boasting of their Anglo-Saxon heritage, think Neanderthal.

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#48

We were all narcissists once.

dragonslayer_697 Report

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Tiramisu 1 year ago

Not me!

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#49

Sociopath just lack the empathy. People who are normal have empathy, but they have all the traits of Sociopath too. In fact, our empathy can drive a normal person to commit horrible crimes. Properly motivatef, our emotions can cause us to do things much worse the sociopath. Kick someone dog. Also their kid. Punch their grandmother. Do those things, and see people become something to fear.

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Mikey 1 year ago

There is a big difference between a sociopath and a psychopath. the author of this post confused these concepts

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#50

We think we are 90% rational and 10% emotional, but it's the opposite.

Pumpkin-tits-USA Report

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

I like the thought, but I disagree that it can be measured so precisely for every person in every situation.

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#51

look up bystander effect and mob mentality, there's another one I forget the name of as well that's similar where people will do terrible things they are not comfortable with when a person in authority is giving them orders/saying it's ok. It's scary how easy it is for good people to do terrible things or ignore terrible situations they have the convenient power to fix.

ParkityParkPark Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Yes. Look up Milgram Experiment. "The Milgram experiment is a famous psychological study exploring the willingness of individuals to follow the orders of authorities when those orders conflict with the individual's own moral judgment."

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#52

there’s another comment on here about internal voice - about that…

From my experience, I’ve noticed that people who think mostly visually/emotionally and people who think by mostly talking to themselves and questioning everything do not have a very good chance of understanding each other and one person might get sick of the other one because of how they think or how they like to have conversations (ex, someone who likes to ask lots of questions vs. someone who wants to get the idea across with as little thought as possible)

My example isn’t the best, but i’ve had conversations about this with people, and as a person who thinks mostly visually - there are people who cannot understand why or how I think the way I do.

EDIT: i’m starting to wonder if having a different way of thinking leads into being introverted/extroverted? ex. Visual = wanting to be blunt, might tie into not wanting to talk to anyone in fear of having to carry on a whole conversation.

kars0nn Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

I think you're confused.

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#53

Rounded to a whole number, the average person has one testicle and one ovary

BeneficialAids420 Report

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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

And one eye, and one arm, and one leg, and one lung, and one kidney, etc. etc.

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#54

Human babies were designed to be cute so we don’t eat them

Squallycellar Report

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Human babies aren't cute. Puppies are cute, kittens are cute, almost all baby animals are cute. But not human babies, they're ugly red wrinkly messes that scream a lot.

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#55

It's not necessarily as creepy as it is sad but it's surprisingly common to hear of men's last words before a semi-spontaneous death being a cry out for their mother.

Deadeye420 Report

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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago

What is meant by a semi-spontaneous death?

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#56

The way we decompose into the earth to give back to Mother Nature. Decomposition is so interesting in dead bodies.

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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

Rather more alarming in living bodies.

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#57

Some parasites make humans more attractive so they can pass on their parasites to the next person. Like bacteria, parasites can alter our behaviors to be attractive and sociable to spread the parasites to others.

Unlike bacteria or sudden infections that alter our behaviors momentarily, parasites sit dormant in our bodies and it lives with us for all our lives, secretly pulling the strings.

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Luke Branwen 1 year ago

Wasn't there a Futurama episode about this?

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#58

People are terrible at associating cause and effect, especially in their own thoughts.

There was a study done where parents of unruly children were wired up to study the physiology of getting angry. Parents would of course frequently get angry and explain that the child did something that caused their anger. The actual brain activity and stress responses almost always started long before the child's behavior the parents associated as the cause.

People get emotional reactions to internal things mostly, like our blood sugar levels changing. We usually blame them on external events though.

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John Legere 1 year ago

So that's why my blood sugar went up. I didn't know that.

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#59

The more people there is to witness a violent scene, such as a seeing a homeless person beging, sexual agression, fight or even murder, the less people tends to intervene to stop it.
It is called the bystander effect, the more people there is, the more they're inhibited to feel guilty in not acting towards the violent scene.

[One of its infamous victim is Kitty Genovese, that was murdered in front of 38 persons that never took action to help her. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese)

DatCopyCat Report

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David Andrews 1 year ago (edited)

This one is a bit dubious though. The Kitty Genovese case which led to the bystander effect being proposed is very misleading. One of the major newspapers at the time published a massively misleading story, which then got picked up by others and became "fact". In reality the number of "witnesses" was far fewer, most could not see the crime scene from where they were, and people did try to help and called police. A study in 2019 using real life examples on security cameras found that in most cases bystanders would help, and the chance of bystanders intervening increased with the number of bystanders present

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#60

I remember reading an article somewhere that states a person has a “voice” that they can hear, I guess like an internal monologue or something along those lines. And another that is screaming at them, but we cannot hear it.

This was probably a 3am, can’t sleep article so it may just be junk. But maybe someone knows what I’m talking about?

Edit: Was cooking dinner when I posted this so I didn’t proof read it, sorry about that.

What I meant when I said we “cannot hear” it, I meant it’s like a voice deep in our sub conscious that’s left over from the time where humanity was more primitive. It’s a part of our psyche that we’ve buried, but it’s still faintly there. Again, I don’t remember all the details and it’s probably exaggerated.

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Alyssa 1 year ago

This is rubbish.

4points

wolfshield88 , Daniele Levis Pelusi Report

#61

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers We do not hibernate

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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago

Anyone else think that this post is by a mother of a teenager?

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#62

The only thing we have to do is die. Everything else is a choice.

False_Rhythms Report

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Nea 1 year ago

What about getting born? Getting diseases? …

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#63

Our minds are different but due to our "human nature" are vulnerable to act in similar ways in similar situations. Rapes, molestation, genocides and all manner of evil things can be done by people mentally similar to you. Stanley Milgram demonstrated this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment He was asking questions how something like the Holocaust could have happened and this is the disturbing human nature answer.

czl Report

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#64

Not really creepy, but it’s in our nature to be violent. I believe it’s because we simply just get bored

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David Paterson 1 year ago

There's a Thurber cartoon that says "bored ponies develop troublesome vices". To some extent this is true of humans as well. But on the other hand, if human ancestors had no free time to experiment then we could never have developed civilization.

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#65

Cosmic rays can cause mutations on the human body.

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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)

Lots of things are more effective at causing mutations in the human body than cosmic rays. Retroviruses for example. And sunlight. And there are also plenty of mutations without cause.

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#66

Researches determined that out of every 1,000,000 people approx 1-2 will die while or from pleasuring themselves.

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Probably by performing autoerotique asphyxiation

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#67

The fact that the "uncanny valley" exists hints that there was something in our evolutionary past that looked very much like us, but was dangerous

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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago

Or was it Neandertals and Denisovans who we killed out?

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#68

You can do anything you want...at least once

Expert-Pea-324 Report

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Cat lover 1 year ago

No you can't. No one can stop their own death

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#69

Some people can’t visualize in their mind.

mooaaaaaaaan Report

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Andie 1 year ago

I find it a bit odd that people CAN visualize things! What happens if you think of something creepy/scary? Do you actually see it in your head? Wouldn't that be traumatic? Honest questions as I assumed people didn't actually "see" things.

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#70

Less than 100 years from your death no one will remember you

UniquePotato Report

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

Depends on your actions I would say, somebody like Bundy or Dahmer probably will be remembered for a long time

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#71

If you put multiple random people annonymous (mask or smth) in a room and let them controll someones life (one good one bad option in every situation) the persone will ultimitly die earlier. [The Experiment Show with Derren Brown: Remote Controll]
Sry about the Grammar.

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Cat lover 1 year ago

I don't understand

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#72

When a human die in the ocean their body will be eating by crabs and others creatures… then people eat crabs ( and other see food who ate the human dead body) … that’s the real endless cicle

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Nicola Roberts 1 year ago (edited)

Let's for a moment pretend I'm not going to be eaten by my cats, and am buried in the ground in a timely manner. Decomposition aided by insects > Insects eaten by birds > bird eaten by cats (damn I knew they'd still get me).

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#73

Everyone lives and behaves for an audience. It wasn’t that long ago when humans would pillage, rape and murder for power and resources. We are fooling ourselves by living in humane society. We are but apes and capable of worse evil and carnage than any animal because we can lie, hide and cheat to pretend we’re noble, moral and capable of living in society.

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Luke Branwen 1 year ago

Is it truly a human nature though? Or do people who write such things harbor some unsavory desires and assume everyone is like that so they can feel better about it?

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#74

we are exactly how Mother Earth made this small part of her skin.

We behave a lot like white blood cells with our us/them

luckyirvin Report

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Drinking my Covfefe 1 year ago

They/me/someone

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#75

We are an extreme anomaly. We don’t belong in this Universe.

MacaronMelodic Report

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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago

But we're part of this Universe - Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood - was created inside a star before Earth was born.

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