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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:15:18
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Terrifying Wraith
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Like, as a child, my irrational fear was never a big clawed monster under my bed, but a man, a simple man could have been any one, under my bed ready to kill. The monster in my closet was always a person in a mask, the scratches at my door where always mental patients, and so on. I still occasionally fear being stalked from the shadows, though really I should have grown out of this by 14. I find that the root of this fear staying so longs is because, in part, its logically. With monsters, you grow up, realize they only exist in your head. But people, they exist, they in a sense ARE monsters, and are undeniably real. Any one else have this problem?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:26:41
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Nope, I was always scared of monsters as a child. I felt much better when I discovered that we drove them all to extinction.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:27:26
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Fate-Controlling Farseer
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Tornado's. That was what scared me gak less as a child.
Now I love them.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:30:23
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Posts with Authority
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I was always scared of undetected congenital defects. I can shoot a werewolf or a mental patient.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:31:21
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Stealthy Space Wolves Scout
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Bromsy wrote:I was always scared of undetected congenital defects. I can shoot a werewolf or a mental patient.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:41:05
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Fate-Controlling Farseer
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Bromsy wrote:I was always scared of undetected congenital defects. I can shoot a werewolf or a mental patient.
I always did carry a gun with silver bullets whenever I'd go into the woods hunting.
Just in case...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:43:24
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Much like Stephen Colbert I fear only one thing;
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:49:52
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 05:58:47
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 06:02:42
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Terrifying Wraith
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Bears are destroying american values, goddammit!
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Dear old friends, remember Navarro |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 06:11:53
Subject: Re:Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Michael Myers for me, which counts as sort of a person.
I watched a lot of horror movies in my youth - well, I still do. Anyway, although I always enjoyed them, I was never particularly, you know, scared by them. The sole exception has been Michael Myers from Halloween 1&2. Not the parts where, you know, she's hiding in a closet and he's trying to get her? No, the parts that freak me out are when someone is having a conversation in front of a window, and you see him outside staring.
I was also terrified of Sleestaks when I was a kid. As my mother tells it, I'd always ask my older brother, "hey, wanna watch Land of the Lost?" like, no big deal. Then we'd watch it, but I'd stand behind the couch peeking over it from behind him.
In my defense Sleestaks were legitimately terrifying.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 06:14:22
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
Did you guys know Canada has a friggin desert?
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Clearly you've never heard of manbearpig.
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You're not playing the game like I play it...why aren't you playing the game like I play it?! O_O |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 06:18:59
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Please. No one takes manbearpig serial.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 06:29:33
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Terrifying Wraith
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Manbearpig is super real guys! I'm super cereal!
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Dear old friends, remember Navarro |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 08:58:22
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Nope. Monsters and men are not nearly as scary as orchids that are actually just lures for giant subterranean tulips that burst ouf of the ground and swallow you, paralysing you with a burst of gas then slowly digesting you in acid.
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"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 09:00:06
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Posts with Authority
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Furyou Miko wrote:Nope. Monsters and men are not nearly as scary as orchids that are actually just lures for giant subterranean tulips that burst ouf of the ground and swallow you, paralysing you with a burst of gas then slowly digesting you in sexy acid.
fix'd
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 09:21:21
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Major
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Spiders, feth those guys...
In general though, horror movies have always scared me and I stay scared for way longer than I should, no idea why though. Like I'll still remember a horror movie and be afraid of it for weeks after.
As a child though I was always afraid of someone putting overs over the pool when I was under the water.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 10:30:57
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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Not really, I always was extremely afraid of vampires, but they don't really exist. I will have to admit though that I am sometimes still afraid of being stalked in the dark as well.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 10:53:23
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Dakka Veteran
Anime High School
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The future.
Oh, and abandoned buildings, deep woods in the middle of the night, and fraternities.
On that last one, I have always thought of frats as nothing but syndicated and organized gangs of violent sadists with entitlements. I know that's not the truth, but I still don't like them. People who identify with their frats after college and make it some sort of talking point are awful. Almost as bad as Marines, heh
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 11:00:18
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Hive Fleet Cerberus wrote:Like, as a child, my irrational fear was never a big clawed monster under my bed, but a man, a simple man could have been any one, under my bed ready to kill. The monster in my closet was always a person in a mask, the scratches at my door where always mental patients, and so on. I still occasionally fear being stalked from the shadows, though really I should have grown out of this by 14. I find that the root of this fear staying so longs is because, in part, its logically. With monsters, you grow up, realize they only exist in your head. But people, they exist, they in a sense ARE monsters, and are undeniably real. Any one else have this problem?
I hear ya. Humans are the real monster, and they are very very real.
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-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 11:00:42
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Worthiest of Warlock Engineers
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I fear nothing because I am fear itself!
Except clowns. Clowns are freaking scary!
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Free from GW's tyranny and the hobby is looking better for it
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 11:59:36
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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People are freaking scary, I agree. Also, I fear velociraptor attacks. They happen frequently in my area.
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 12:07:23
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Major
Middle Earth
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timetowaste85 wrote:People are freaking scary, I agree. Also, I fear velociraptor attacks. They happen frequently in my area.
Velociraptor attacks are no joke, they can open doors.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 12:07:29
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Terrifying Wraith
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timetowaste85 wrote:People are freaking scary, I agree. Also, I fear velociraptor attacks. They happen frequently in my area.
Those happen all to often where I live. Some one really needs to take action against them. If we let these pre-historic reptiles terrorize us, whos to say the T-rexs wont start?
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Dear old friends, remember Navarro |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 12:43:23
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Stephan King once said something along the line that he's more afraid of what the man in the next hotel room over might be up to than monsters.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 12:48:22
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Sharks.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 16:05:53
Subject: Re:Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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My Dad had a library of Stephen King books, which I read as a kid. This book scared the crap out of me. The book described in detail the terror of the little boy re: monster in closet, which fed right into the encounter with the dog. I thought the cover was literally a depiction of the closet monster, that it was a horseshoe crab monster (the top two holes look like dead black eyes).
Only much later did I realize it was the dog's muzzle, which actually still works to interpret it as the closet monster.
Also the short story "Sometimes they Come Back" in the Night Shift anthology. Read that at about 8 years of age and didn't sleep for a while.
Dad read us Cycle of the Werewolf, while camping, when it first came out... so when I was 10. I thought it was funny until it was dark, and I realized we were in the wilderness, so all I had was a tent between me and claws and teeth.
When I grew up there wasn't too much of the whole "stranger danger" paranoia. No, we were scared of Satanists and the McMartin preschool ritual abuse, which my Grandma told me about in excruciating detail. Oh, and the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez. So yeah some real, some imagined.
The imaginary monsters scared me more than the real guys, but at the same time, the false hysteria over Satanic ritual abuse made even the purportedly real stuff sound exactly like the stuff in the stories I was reading. It didn't take long to get over the hysterics and learn to actually assess risk. As in, there are hundreds of millions of houses in SoCal, why would the Night Stalker just happen to climb in MY window and slash my throat?  Made it seem stupid to be afraid when I thought of it like that.
Horror movies are awesome, but I get bored with slasher gorefests. I like the psychological stuff that makes me think.
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"When your only tools are duct tape and a shovel, all of life's problems start to look the same!" - kronk
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 16:15:41
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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I had an irrational fear aliens would take over the planet.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 16:18:07
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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They haven't already? I thought Obama was an extra-dimensional alien lizard person. That's what the crazy drunk hobo I get 40K rumors from told me!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/11 16:19:08
Subject: Any one else afraid of people more than monsters?
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine
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That is just plain silly. Aliens don't want to rule us. They will just wait for us to kill ourselves and take our nice planet and make it livable again.
They might keep some of us as pets or slave labor so keep that in mind
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