I’ve never understood this attitude. I didn’t exist before 1968, and it didn’t bother me back then, so not existing after I die doesn’t bother me either: it’s not like I’ll be around to care. Hell, in the grand scheme of things I’ll only be around for an infinitesimal span of time, so I’ve spent most of my time not existing already.
Exactly! I have never found anyone else that thinks like this! Everyone is so concerned about what happens after they die? Why don’t you care about what you “were” or what happened to you before you were born? Same thing.
Ditto - and my Uncle used to be Bo Bo the clown…to this day, I cannot get his creepy ass clown face out of my head. Totally gives me the willies!!
My feet hanging off the bed - like something is going to grab them…seriously.
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What the masses feel is ‘normal’ or ending up in ‘the suburbs’
Normalcy - scares the heck out of me!
Something getting stuck in my eyes and blinding me. My eyes are so vulnerable, and I couldn’t live without them.
Becoming unable to care for myself, physically or financially.
Giant freakin marine dying.
And those damn uppy-down bridges on roadways.
Nothing much else fazes me, but those three give me wake-up-screaming nightmares.
The sort of global disaster that could bring down society.
I get the feeling most people don’t realize how precarious our existence is. The majority of us live tens, hundreds, and thousands of miles from where are food is grown. The necessities of life come to us through an infra-structure of incredibly complex design and growth, and the more complex a system is, the more failure points exist.
It could be a 21st century plague, spread by air travel and global commerce. It could be a natural disaster like the Yellowstone supervolcano going off or a mega-tsunami hitting the east coast of North America. It could be an ecological disaster brought about by our own changes to the biosphere - global warming, monoculture farming, loss of rain forest, whatever.
There aren’t enough backups to protect large populations of people, and if the infrastructure fails, you can say goodbye to law and order.
The idea of living in a world of anarchy scares the bejeezus out of me. I like the benefits that come with paying taxes. I like hospitals and doctors and pharmaceutical companies making money off of me. I like police and fire fighters and elections and civil law. I like all the dressings that come with civilization.