Why did evolution give me and all my friends a fear of grey aliens. Because we evolved to believe stories about rare dangers. Ghosts/demons seem mostly like... They're described as anomalies, shy, sneaky, rare, invisible, inscrutable, crazy, unpredictable, unnatural,
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so whenever you see a physical anomaly you say, "ah, I know what that is" but you don't really understand what you're seeing, and admitting that, that there are effects in the world that you don't understand and can't control, that's where the fear comes from.
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Replying to @makoConstruct @selentelechia
that is a good evo psych explanation, but what about things that just have bad vibes, no obvious suspension of ordinary reality, just awful get-me-the-fuck-outta-here vibes
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @selentelechia
Give an example? Usually I get those feelings irl just about like, bad architecture.
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Replying to @makoConstruct @selentelechia
anywhere that is super spooky for no good reason, any place you would never linger without being able to explain why rudolf otto describes it as "daemonic dread" to differentiate from ordinary fear.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @selentelechia
Hm maybe I've never even tried to face these places. I'll keep an eye out for the next cursed vibes place I don't even want to look at, enter it, see if I can give voice to anything
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Replying to @makoConstruct @selentelechia
i have regular dreams of a "shunned house."
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @selentelechia
The forbidden places I dream most often are... The world is a great patchwork house, and we don't know where our house ends and the others' begins. Some of the ambiguous halls and stairways have to just be avoided, least we intrude, become the monster, and be hunted
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Replying to @makoConstruct @selentelechia
in mine the shunned house is usually somewhere i used to inhabit but now has seriously bad vibes, and if passed through or by, is done very quickly with no tarrying
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @selentelechia
I do sometimes have visions of the house I live in now falling dark and silent and empty, just me, miserable in a wreck of decay. Fears of being left behind, I think.
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i once tried to stay in the shunned house thinking "ghosts can't hurt me" then I realized *these* ghosts could and had to flee. i left everything and was dressed like a buddhist monk when i came out. saved.
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