Fiction books don't actually "prove" anything about psychology and social science because - brace yourself - they are made up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
You would think this would be obvious but no The worst was when I had a Christian teacher read us the story "The Monkey's Paw" and then warn us that the story proved messing with the occult is no laughing matter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
I’m seeing all the likes come in on the post & it leaves me shaking my head. Was this really “the worst?” Like it was so awful that a Christian teacher read a fable to you that warned against the occult? So bad that it weighs on you still to this day? Really? This is your worst?
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Replying to @GintheLou @nberlat
It's not the worst thing that ever happened to me but it's the stupidest example of someone making a spurious argument from fiction to make a point about real life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
It "weighs on me" how fucking stupid it was, even among the many many stupid things I was "taught" my Christian teachers growing up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
The fact that you are holding on to this is concerning. Nothing that irrelevant should populate your daily thought process.
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Why? It's a really weird thing that happened. It's like, you want to dismiss this bizarre situation where a teacher contorted fiction in an awful way to suit their agenda as nothing, but simultaneously pathologize the simple act of remembering it.
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But the teacher didn’t contort much. The short story is about getting wishes that have a huge consequences for interfering with fate. I mean is a safe space needed? C’mon. Is it crazy to think a Christian teacher might teach that dabbling in the spirit world is bad
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Yeah because it's a fucking made up story, and OBVIOUSLY a made up story - there are no magic monkey paws resurrecting zombies in the real world, more's the pity And he wasn't using it for its intended purpose of saying "be careful what you wish for", he meant it literally
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His followup was describing how some kid he knew growing up tried to speak to ghosts with a Ouija board and thereafter kept hearing strange knocks and bumps in their house at all hours of the night
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"They said they never actually found anything making the noises... But no one found what was knocking at Mr and Mrs White's house either" BECAUSE IT'S A MADE UP STORY YOU DUMB WEIRDO BOTH OF THEM WERE MADE UP
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I was a fucking CHILD and I knew that when someone tells you a spooky story like that they're exaggerating or making shit up for attention And that when someone writes a short story to be published in a horror fiction magazine they are making something up for money
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Wait, but the hook from the escaped serial killer found on the car of the couple at make-out point was real, right?
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