No, no, we do don't this here. This is bait and it is intentionally misleading. If you want rational discussions, don't present arguments in bad faith.
Getting falsely accused of something that requires me to interface/deal with, and potentially be incarcerated within, the US justice system. Fuck all that with a bundle of rusty rebar.
The worst is that it can possibly happen at any given moment. You could look at a redcap Karen in a store, they take it the wrong way, and bam, your life is a loving hell for the next decade or more. Nope.com
Cancer. Everyone has a bunch of fucked up cells at all times, but your body keeps you healthy by repairing or killing them, time after time after time… until one of those cells says “fuck the system” and goes rogue. No one is safe.
Yup. My SO got mouth cancer a couple years back in their early 30's, even though the operation was succesful and chemo & radiation worked and they'll be considered cancer-free in about 9 months, the fact that it happened so early means it's quite likely they'll get it again. How does one live with that information? And as a partner how do I build my life around it? Of course it's possible they'll never get that shit again, but it would be foolish to not prepare ourselves mentally for the worst. If it's around the head they can't get more radiation. If it's in the same place than the previous one they'd would probably lose their ability speak, eat properly etc. The chemo probably made them infertile so if we'd like to have biological childer we have just a couple years to make the decision, and I have restrictions about that so we'd have to look for other opportunities anyways, and we should start looking for them now but we * can't *. If we move elsewhere, as we'd like to, the chances are they won't get as good treatment as here. I don't feel like I'm ready to consider all this in my mid 30's while I'm still trying to find my place in the world. So yeah, fuck cancer.
also HPV has been implicated in mouth cancers, which are typically rare diseases, although alot them seems to stem from smoking, tobacco,,,etc.
the one scary mouth cancer is the one that forms from your gums(ameloblastoma, or the carcinoma variant)
There are various factors that increase the risk of course, but according to the doctors for a person this young the exposure is not the reason for getting sick. Epigenetics could be the reason for the increase in young people's mouth cancers as epigenetic changes in genes can transmit across generations, meaning it's possible that, for example, environmental exposure that occurred in one generation, could be transmitted even further beyond their children and grandchildren.
Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can't open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can't lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.
Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.
And the entire time, people shame you for being lazy and not exercising. They blame your diet, your screen-time, and gleerfuly take joy in your "just" suffering.
EDIT: You then find an actual cure, and are desperately using it. You can barely keep up, then someone yanks it out of your hand "stop using that! It's making you worse!".
Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor's trying to push my bones back in line.
I woke up getting my wisdom teeth out. They were at the “hammer and chisel to break them down into chunks” part. I could see, I could smell, and I could feel the thud, thud, thud, and the little bits of tooth land on my tongue. They’re was NO pain whatsoever, but it was an extremely freaky experience.
I thought I had dreamt it before realizing 1. you don’t dream on anesthesia and 2. They showed me my chiseled out teeth
Damn. I'm deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I'd rather stay awake
I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you're here, now you're gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
some people have reported getting numbess around the bite wound like days after, which is a sign of the rabies already infecting the nerves around the bite area. there was a house episode like this, where foreman dint realize house has stabbed his bite wound with a needle.
That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.
Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.
As a counter point, when I see the super rich, they sll have huge egos. So while they may sceme together occasionslly when it suits them, I can't see them all conspiring together because they all seem to think they know what's best.
Yes, that's true, of course, and it's the reason why no clear patterns can be found here. However, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, this could also be dismissed as a distraction from the conspiracy.
But you are absolutely right: we should stick to the facts—this idea is just a nightmare scenario for me because even in democratic systems it would make freedom, self-determination, and above all the hope for better times almost completely impossible.
Maybe (I believe so, ofc, peep the username 😅), but you can't "know" (and yes, I understand epistemologically "objective truths" are at least somewhat unreachable but if I don't hold the apple whilst on Earth it will inevitably fall), you just have to take it on faith.
Here's a question Id like to know the answer too. Where does consciousness come from? I guess everyone has the same question but more specifically. Is it just like the testing and probing of systems in-between the movement of data or 'matter'?
Say consciousness has an echo. Like if the system was removed but the energy remains and is still experiencing entropy. As it dissipates into infinity could it maybe persist by finding a new system that is similar to the one it use to inhabit? Doesn't it do that constantly. Like the synapses that make up your consciousness arent the same synapses they were before. Consciousness latches on to itself, a continuum of processes that make it a whole. As the energy that makes up consciousness fades into nothing it travels through infinite amounts of states before we can no longer observe it and even after. If it were layered onto a 'new dimension' that was similar enough to the previous one, would it latch?
I don't know if this is a question that can be answered, and certainly not a question I have an answer to (or at least not a satisfactory one besides "everything comes from the Creator", like, duh, ofc). I can tell you, from personal experience, that consciousness is not the mind, which is shaped by experience and ideology, but is behind it. A consciousness watching a mind watching a body, that's the human experience. Recent studies (with some experimental backing!) talk about 'tubules' in the structure of the neurons and quantum physics which, to me, sound promising, if you're interested (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction). And that's all the insight I can provide on the matter, sorry! 😅
I don't really believe in an afterlife, as such, but I do hold on to the possibility that conciousness is less about our physical meat and something more quantum mechanical, and thus is a chance that none of the information that makes up our experiences and thoughts is ever just "deleted" it just becomes part of the universe.
Meh, something that doesnt exsist doesnt feel... well... anything. Not so bad if you ask me. I get it would suck if youve been gifted with capitalism compatible dopamine receptors.
...evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades...
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
the worst one is FFI, which you dont sleep til you die. and there other variants of CJVD, thats just as strange. prions are also found in FUNGI, although it does the opposite rather than a disease state, its an evolutionary benefit rather than a disease.
also the "so called protocol to put someone in a coma" on treating rabies, is largely been criticized and debunked as a various dangerous procedur, they could not replicate the same effect.
unit 731 (seriously, genuinely, don't look it up if you're unfamiliar, it's beyond nightmare fuel the kinds of torture imperial japan committed and got away with)
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
Your nightmares may come true soon, I won't be able to find it, but I'm pretty sure I saw an article of company or whatever testing tech to let people serve a 10,000 year sentence in an hour or something.
Warning: i might be spreading misinformation i never clicked into the article im a HEADLINE READER!!!!!
Would it be one of those things where if we get hit by a rogue black hole we wouldn't have enough time to worry about it before we were gonners or would we know years in advance?
In terms of anything that does not include something related to death or torture its probably having an operation on your eye while being conscious. I know someone who had to get surgery on his eye and could see while two doctors were doing stuff on his eye. Even just hearing this scared the living shit out of me.
If enough psychologists and civil servants wanted to, they could have you declared insane, and then nothing you say can come to your defense as you are now deemed too insane to be listened to. I know this isnt as straight forward as the average person thinks, but the possibility of it even happening once to someone is terrifying.
Oh that and trigeminal nueralgia, the worst pain possible forever.
transmissible cancer, some surgeons had got cancers from thier patients by accidentally pricking themselves with a contaminiated instrument, although it was treatable and non issue once the tumor was removed. other forms like transplant patients is another source. rare t-cell cancers like mycosis fungoides, you go from patches, to "plaques" to tumors.
and there has only one case of animal to human cancer, the guy had AIDS and got tapeworm cancer from it, which is the most unusual situations out there.
Rape and murder always top this kind of conversation. The other day i was thinking about japanese occupation and man, that shit must've been scariest shit for all the victim involved.
I just finished a re-listen of Dan Carlin’s “Supernova in the East, which is like 30 hours covering everything Japan did during the great wars. It was insanity.
Becoming a quadriplegic or suffering from "locked in" syndrome, where I can no longer move anything myself, cannot feed myself or use the toilet, etc, just laying there, 100% dependent on other people for everything. I'd rather be dead, thanks.
Bears. They don’t kill you right away, they just crush your face and start gobbling at your gutty works. Sometimes they leave for a bit to digest while you’re still not dead and come back to finish their meal later.
There are existential horrors and real life scenarios that are probably worse than death, but bears still take the cake for me.
The idea of lobotomies.
Just being trapped in a shell of who you once were, for the remainder of your life... Bloody hell, what a horrible part of history.
Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.
How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I'm religious, and what I'm gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like "enough" (of a gift, if you're religious) and I don't see a working alternative... but perhaps I'm not creative enough? 🤷
It's both a tool for self restraint and social eudaimonia (especially for those who cannot conceive being righteous out of personal pride and self respect), and a way to make peace with death. 👍
Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.
I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess. 🙃
But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...
Pedantic thought experiment side note that is ironically long for a side note:
How is it a void if it contains the ecosystems and consciousness(ess? (Gut biome and the various microscopic skin mites, etc)) of a human body?
That's a fuck ton of biology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, etc for a space where nothing is supposed to be. Does time also exist there? Because if it didn't you couldn't be aware of your self in there, so that would be a problem solved.
If time does exist in this void though, by entering the void you will have changed its nature, it will stop being a void and it starts just being more of you. ...And if you still can't feel anything, I think this is called depression.
let’s go with entropy exists as we know it, gravity is welcoming to a human body but there is no ground. no up or down. the arrow of time is what we know it as. it’s just an endless void where any action you take doesn’t affect your environment and the environment doesn’t affect you. lol not depression, thinking in terms of horror
Trapped in space but you just ate a quadrillion calorie burrito so you have to exist floating in space forever and ever and ever and ever.
Slightly better than just a void because you have the views, but slightly worse because you don't know what to expect: what if I get sucked up into a black hole?
My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.
That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.
Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.
Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:
Make friends with everyone else who is in hell. Not get them to like you. You must like them too, and enjoy their company. Yes, even Mother Teresa.
Consecutively live through everyone's life who has ever lived, as a passenger in their brain, you can't control anything, but you experience all physical and emotional pain.
Suck all sand until the earth is sandless. You have to suck each grain one at a time. Also, you have to find them, they're not just in one big pile, also, there's sand at the bottom of the Marianas trench
Live your life on repeat until you live it perfectly. What does perfectly mean? You're not told. Also, you're not given any feedback after you die each time. If you try to cheat the system by having fun, you'll be yanked back to hell and raped by demons before starting back at day 1.
Achieve universal human genocide in 100 different times periods and starting points. Also every person you kill also ends up in hell, and know its your fault.
Learn every vim function, then be forced to rewrite all the world's code in nano.
Translate every book, movie, song, and poem ever written into every other language, even dead languages.
Think of a colour which doesn't exist, then invent a new instrument, and play a song with a tune which has never been performed, invent a new language with a completely new structure, and convince everyone else in hell to adopt it as their primary language.
read and reply to every comment on the internet. If someone replies, then you need to reply back. Every message must be unique and coherent. Also, spacetime warps to make it possible for everyone to be given a chance to reply to you.
I used to think point 2 was a good system for an afterlife. Except not quite as a passenger, being "in control" except obviously not because determinism or whatever in this case.
It cheers me up a little bit because every time I be kind, I can look forward to experiencing that kindness in a future life.
It scares the shit out me because I am mercilessly murderous on spiders. I can look forward to a lot of shoes. And also lusting after spiders. And being in a spiders body.
For me personally being out in nature with no cover and encountering a thunderstorm right above me. Most scary things are scary because I read about them at some point or heard about them in the news but the fear of getting struck by lightning is much more archaic.
My wife got a light headed dizziness this morning. The kids freaked out and ran downstairs trying to get me. As I approached the kitchen one of my kids, super scared points towards the kitchen area. I can't see yet. My mind naturally goes... "She's dead isn't she? Oh yeah, she's a gonner...WTF! Who's gonna do the taxes? Who's gonna feed the kids and get them to school? Who's.... I'm totally screwed! No! K love her and need her too much! Why is she just quitting on me like that! Bitch! WTF! Where is she!
Oh she's fine! I finally make the turn into the kitchen. Its just another bout of high blood pressure. But I'm the crazy one for not eating all her ethnically correct lard cooked everything. Ooh! You gotta try the chocolate! Its traditional! Here, let me just add more lard and triple fry it for you....no way hose lady! She will just not listen. The good thing is she's not that big in case I need to carry her around the house one day. I'm going to have to change her diapers and everything. That's the scariest.
going to the park with your kids and letting them play on the playground while you sit 3 feet away.
then realizing you can't see them anymore, and no matter how loudly you call for them, they don't answer.
being a kid at the park and getting dragged off to a van where you're crying and screaming for your father but he doesn't look up to see you. as you're dragged into the van and the doors close, your world is encapsulated in darkness and you know you will never escape.
Abuse of the psych. bug that leads to faschism by smart evil people that know exactly what they are doing and somehow make it work stable for centuries.
Being tied to a chair, lights and a video camera in your face with someone behind you waving a long knife, hand on your shoulder chanting Allahu Akbar over and over...
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DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 1y
On the smaller scale it's probably my wife and dog dying, in the larger scheme of things it's the rise of fascism here in Germany and Europe.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 363d
Long live your wife and dog
IronKrill@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 363d
And America, and Asia, and etcetera... :( maybe Antarctica is still chill though?
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
What kind of dog do you have?
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 363d
A Bernese Mountain Dog girl. I don't think I have to mention that she is, indeed, a very good dog.
Dog tax:
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
Awwww she's adorable!
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · -10 pts · 1y
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
The fact that you're quoting Goebbels pretty much explains your entire comment.
occultist8128@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 1y
ad hominem
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · -2 pts · 1y
If their is anyone who knows how to radicalise people its gerbals. If people are doing as he says that's what u need to worry about.
foofiepie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Gerbals is a famous jazz musician. I think the word you’re looking for is Gerbils.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
No, no, we do don't this here. This is bait and it is intentionally misleading. If you want rational discussions, don't present arguments in bad faith.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 1y
Getting falsely accused of something that requires me to interface/deal with, and potentially be incarcerated within, the US justice system. Fuck all that with a bundle of rusty rebar.
The worst is that it can possibly happen at any given moment. You could look at a redcap Karen in a store, they take it the wrong way, and bam, your life is a loving hell for the next decade or more. Nope.com
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 1y
Cancer. Everyone has a bunch of fucked up cells at all times, but your body keeps you healthy by repairing or killing them, time after time after time… until one of those cells says “fuck the system” and goes rogue. No one is safe.
Jojowski@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 1y
Yup. My SO got mouth cancer a couple years back in their early 30's, even though the operation was succesful and chemo & radiation worked and they'll be considered cancer-free in about 9 months, the fact that it happened so early means it's quite likely they'll get it again. How does one live with that information? And as a partner how do I build my life around it? Of course it's possible they'll never get that shit again, but it would be foolish to not prepare ourselves mentally for the worst. If it's around the head they can't get more radiation. If it's in the same place than the previous one they'd would probably lose their ability speak, eat properly etc. The chemo probably made them infertile so if we'd like to have biological childer we have just a couple years to make the decision, and I have restrictions about that so we'd have to look for other opportunities anyways, and we should start looking for them now but we * can't *. If we move elsewhere, as we'd like to, the chances are they won't get as good treatment as here. I don't feel like I'm ready to consider all this in my mid 30's while I'm still trying to find my place in the world. So yeah, fuck cancer.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 364d
also HPV has been implicated in mouth cancers, which are typically rare diseases, although alot them seems to stem from smoking, tobacco,,,etc. the one scary mouth cancer is the one that forms from your gums(ameloblastoma, or the carcinoma variant)
Jojowski@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 363d
There are various factors that increase the risk of course, but according to the doctors for a person this young the exposure is not the reason for getting sick. Epigenetics could be the reason for the increase in young people's mouth cancers as epigenetic changes in genes can transmit across generations, meaning it's possible that, for example, environmental exposure that occurred in one generation, could be transmitted even further beyond their children and grandchildren.
scholar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Prions - Actually nightmarish.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 1y
Except in developed countries. There it's more an inconvenience
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 364d
What do you mean?
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 363d
Usually only the case if you are rich (in any country)
chunes@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can't open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can't lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.
Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.
18107@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
I watched my father go through that. MND is horrible for the person and everyone around them.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
And the entire time, people shame you for being lazy and not exercising. They blame your diet, your screen-time, and gleerfuly take joy in your "just" suffering.
EDIT: You then find an actual cure, and are desperately using it. You can barely keep up, then someone yanks it out of your hand "stop using that! It's making you worse!".
Having no other choice, you slowly wither alive.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor's trying to push my bones back in line.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
I woke up getting my wisdom teeth out. They were at the “hammer and chisel to break them down into chunks” part. I could see, I could smell, and I could feel the thud, thud, thud, and the little bits of tooth land on my tongue. They’re was NO pain whatsoever, but it was an extremely freaky experience.
I thought I had dreamt it before realizing 1. you don’t dream on anesthesia and 2. They showed me my chiseled out teeth
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
Damn. I'm deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I'd rather stay awake
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 1y
I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you're here, now you're gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
lmao what did you say ?
Jarix@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Having rabies and not knowing it until it's too late
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y
Having it at all is already too late.
chunes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Only once you have symptoms is it too late.
You can have it for years before symptoms appear, though the average is two months. If you get vaccinated before then, you're good.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 364d
some people have reported getting numbess around the bite wound like days after, which is a sign of the rabies already infecting the nerves around the bite area. there was a house episode like this, where foreman dint realize house has stabbed his bite wound with a needle.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.
Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.
zout@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y
As a counter point, when I see the super rich, they sll have huge egos. So while they may sceme together occasionslly when it suits them, I can't see them all conspiring together because they all seem to think they know what's best.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Yes, that's true, of course, and it's the reason why no clear patterns can be found here. However, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, this could also be dismissed as a distraction from the conspiracy.
But you are absolutely right: we should stick to the facts—this idea is just a nightmare scenario for me because even in democratic systems it would make freedom, self-determination, and above all the hope for better times almost completely impossible.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Username checks out.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 1y
Non-existence.
Just thinking about not existing at all gives me this gnarly feeling of primeval fear.
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
Glad to know I'm not alone. Surely there's something behind the veil, right? Right?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Maybe (I believe so, ofc, peep the username 😅), but you can't "know" (and yes, I understand epistemologically "objective truths" are at least somewhat unreachable but if I don't hold the apple whilst on Earth it will inevitably fall), you just have to take it on faith.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Here's a question Id like to know the answer too. Where does consciousness come from? I guess everyone has the same question but more specifically. Is it just like the testing and probing of systems in-between the movement of data or 'matter'?
Say consciousness has an echo. Like if the system was removed but the energy remains and is still experiencing entropy. As it dissipates into infinity could it maybe persist by finding a new system that is similar to the one it use to inhabit? Doesn't it do that constantly. Like the synapses that make up your consciousness arent the same synapses they were before. Consciousness latches on to itself, a continuum of processes that make it a whole. As the energy that makes up consciousness fades into nothing it travels through infinite amounts of states before we can no longer observe it and even after. If it were layered onto a 'new dimension' that was similar enough to the previous one, would it latch?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I don't know if this is a question that can be answered, and certainly not a question I have an answer to (or at least not a satisfactory one besides "everything comes from the Creator", like, duh, ofc). I can tell you, from personal experience, that consciousness is not the mind, which is shaped by experience and ideology, but is behind it. A consciousness watching a mind watching a body, that's the human experience. Recent studies (with some experimental backing!) talk about 'tubules' in the structure of the neurons and quantum physics which, to me, sound promising, if you're interested (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction). And that's all the insight I can provide on the matter, sorry! 😅
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Sorry, probably was just dumping on you but its a thought that I wanted to write down. Seize the moment, as they say.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
No need to apologise! It's good to ask questions, maybe next time someone more capable will answer. 😅👍
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
I did appreciate your link!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 364d
I don't really believe in an afterlife, as such, but I do hold on to the possibility that conciousness is less about our physical meat and something more quantum mechanical, and thus is a chance that none of the information that makes up our experiences and thoughts is ever just "deleted" it just becomes part of the universe.
bunchberry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 363d
Quantum mechanics does not have much to do with consciousness.
Strider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 364d
Hm, whole being j conscious or sleeping (without dreams), what do you experience?
Nothing.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
If existence were lacking, there would be no me to percieve the lack of existence.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Meh, something that doesnt exsist doesnt feel... well... anything. Not so bad if you ask me. I get it would suck if youve been gifted with capitalism compatible dopamine receptors.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 1y
Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
lemmysquezzy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Glacier collapse causing sea levels to rise. Global ocean currents failing. A meteor hitting the earth. The next pandemic Locust Super Volcanoes
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
SkaraBrae@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Surviving my children.
Olkiss@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 364d
Mondays
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 364d
Fuck man you gotta chill
Olkiss@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 364d
😆 I am chill. I just do not like Mondays at all.
threeonefour@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Any disease that causes you to slowly go mad. Things like fatal insomnia or rabies.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 364d
the worst one is FFI, which you dont sleep til you die. and there other variants of CJVD, thats just as strange. prions are also found in FUNGI, although it does the opposite rather than a disease state, its an evolutionary benefit rather than a disease. also the "so called protocol to put someone in a coma" on treating rabies, is largely been criticized and debunked as a various dangerous procedur, they could not replicate the same effect.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1y
unit 731 (seriously, genuinely, don't look it up if you're unfamiliar, it's beyond nightmare fuel the kinds of torture imperial japan committed and got away with)
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Well that was an interesting wiki read.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 364d
I told you not to! I haven't even read most of it. I once read part of someone's really horrific account and at some point BAM, instant mental block.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Simpsons did a parody of the concept as well.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 363d
Your nightmares may come true soon, I won't be able to find it, but I'm pretty sure I saw an article of company or whatever testing tech to let people serve a 10,000 year sentence in an hour or something.
Warning: i might be spreading misinformation i never clicked into the article im a HEADLINE READER!!!!!
trk@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Like that short story about a cube
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
The normalisation of genocide, pantopicon surveillance, neoliberal fascism.
The moral framework of the West turning out to be meaningless propaganda.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The silver lining to this is that at least more and more people can see it for what it is, and the possibility for change increases, right? Right?!
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 8 pts · 363d
A lot already mentioned, so those too, but also:
Rogue black holes. Just thinking about them makes my guts queasy.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 363d
getting spahgettified is hard to imagine. since time dilation is in effect it would take years to notice.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 1 pts · 363d
True but I'm imagining more of an indirect hit. An atmospheric hoovering or something crazy.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
Would it be one of those things where if we get hit by a rogue black hole we wouldn't have enough time to worry about it before we were gonners or would we know years in advance?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
In terms of anything that does not include something related to death or torture its probably having an operation on your eye while being conscious. I know someone who had to get surgery on his eye and could see while two doctors were doing stuff on his eye. Even just hearing this scared the living shit out of me.
big_slap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
my uncle just had detached retina surgery with sclera buckle placement. he said to look it up on YouTube, and... AHHHHHHHHHHHH
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 364d
NOOOOOO WHYY DID YOU MENTION THIS
How am I gonna sleep tonight?
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
The Final Destination Intensifies
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 364d
Nice try, sleep paralysis demon
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 363d
If enough psychologists and civil servants wanted to, they could have you declared insane, and then nothing you say can come to your defense as you are now deemed too insane to be listened to. I know this isnt as straight forward as the average person thinks, but the possibility of it even happening once to someone is terrifying.
Oh that and trigeminal nueralgia, the worst pain possible forever.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 363d
Sarah Connor, that you?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 364d
transmissible cancer, some surgeons had got cancers from thier patients by accidentally pricking themselves with a contaminiated instrument, although it was treatable and non issue once the tumor was removed. other forms like transplant patients is another source. rare t-cell cancers like mycosis fungoides, you go from patches, to "plaques" to tumors.
and there has only one case of animal to human cancer, the guy had AIDS and got tapeworm cancer from it, which is the most unusual situations out there.
unknown@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1y
People who enjoy breaking down and hurting other people.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 364d
Some form of torture. The thing about torture is you can always add "and then..."
Psychological and physical
Imagine being forced to rip off your significant other's fingernail.
And you might say "There's no way I'd do that"
Sadly you will. Either to save yourself or them from more torture.
You will do it, we all would. That's scary.
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
Rape and murder always top this kind of conversation. The other day i was thinking about japanese occupation and man, that shit must've been scariest shit for all the victim involved.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
I just finished a re-listen of Dan Carlin’s “Supernova in the East, which is like 30 hours covering everything Japan did during the great wars. It was insanity.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Becoming a quadriplegic or suffering from "locked in" syndrome, where I can no longer move anything myself, cannot feed myself or use the toilet, etc, just laying there, 100% dependent on other people for everything. I'd rather be dead, thanks.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
Is assisted suicide an option if that were to happen?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Bears. They don’t kill you right away, they just crush your face and start gobbling at your gutty works. Sometimes they leave for a bit to digest while you’re still not dead and come back to finish their meal later.
There are existential horrors and real life scenarios that are probably worse than death, but bears still take the cake for me.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
Burying my kids.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 364d
The idea of lobotomies.
Just being trapped in a shell of who you once were, for the remainder of your life... Bloody hell, what a horrible part of history.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 364d
alzheimers.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I'm religious, and what I'm gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like "enough" (of a gift, if you're religious) and I don't see a working alternative... but perhaps I'm not creative enough? 🤷
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
I see nothing wrong with your logic. Acceptance of death is in some peoples opinion the main function of religion.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It's both a tool for self restraint and social eudaimonia (especially for those who cannot conceive being righteous out of personal pride and self respect), and a way to make peace with death. 👍
Libb@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1y
A failed democracy.
Strider@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 364d
Snake clowns!
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 364d
The sun moving the other way through the sky
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Elephant shit, because it is so much.
j4k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
This is me but the animals are hurting, too.
skeezix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Hey what’s up funny faces?! They call you Giggles right? Stop making snort noises my sides are splitting!
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Liquid shit.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Especially if it's sentient. And flying.
CluckN@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I think shit that is too-solid is scarier. At least with liquid I can resign myself to the throne.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess. 🙃
But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 364d
Dick spiders.
More seriously: body parasites of any kind.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 363d
Ask for a bell in your will.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 363d
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
What I'm living with right now.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 364d
Not having any feeling in your legs, but not being paraplegic, so you could legit accidentally walk outside without any pants on.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
pure void - just a void, not death, a void
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Nothing, void, doesnt feel scared.
Unless it did.
unknown@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
If it's not death, that just sounds like the best sleep possible.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
till you wake and try to get any form of input or stimulus from your surroundings ^*
unknown@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
Sounds like a great place for meditation.
Pedantic thought experiment side note that is ironically long for a side note:
How is it a void if it contains the ecosystems and consciousness(ess? (Gut biome and the various microscopic skin mites, etc)) of a human body?
That's a fuck ton of biology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, etc for a space where nothing is supposed to be. Does time also exist there? Because if it didn't you couldn't be aware of your self in there, so that would be a problem solved.
If time does exist in this void though, by entering the void you will have changed its nature, it will stop being a void and it starts just being more of you. ...And if you still can't feel anything, I think this is called depression.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
let’s go with entropy exists as we know it, gravity is welcoming to a human body but there is no ground. no up or down. the arrow of time is what we know it as. it’s just an endless void where any action you take doesn’t affect your environment and the environment doesn’t affect you. lol not depression, thinking in terms of horror
unknown@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
You'd have about 3 days of quiet contemplation before the dehydration will kill you.
Considering how horrifying the thought of a void is for you, at least you won't be stuck in there for very long.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
horrifying then probably boring few days
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 363d
Trapped in space but you just ate a quadrillion calorie burrito so you have to exist floating in space forever and ever and ever and ever.
Slightly better than just a void because you have the views, but slightly worse because you don't know what to expect: what if I get sucked up into a black hole?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 364d
Like this? https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001
myrmidex@belgae.social · 3 pts · 1y
My scariest shit was in a dream. I took a dump in a bucket in the garage, and when rising and turning to look at it, it started growing into this spider that soon outgrew the garage. I chose to wake up at that point as I'm not too keen on spiders.
That was my scariest shit. I cannot think of any scarier ones.
goldenbug@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
Ooooh you should read Cursed Bunny's first short story called The Head by Bora Chung.
Or maybe not, because that shit scared me when reading it.
myrmidex@belgae.social · 3 pts · 1y
Looks awesome, great recommendation! 😆
Zozano@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 364d
Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.
Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
You have a very dark imagination. 🫨
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 363d
I used to think point 2 was a good system for an afterlife. Except not quite as a passenger, being "in control" except obviously not because determinism or whatever in this case.
It cheers me up a little bit because every time I be kind, I can look forward to experiencing that kindness in a future life.
It scares the shit out me because I am mercilessly murderous on spiders. I can look forward to a lot of shoes. And also lusting after spiders. And being in a spiders body.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
For me personally being out in nature with no cover and encountering a thunderstorm right above me. Most scary things are scary because I read about them at some point or heard about them in the news but the fear of getting struck by lightning is much more archaic.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
I tend to think if I get struck by lightning and survive i'd be a badass. I'd definitly try to find a way to use it to get pussy.
satanmat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ebola
Read The Hot Zone bloody terrifying **
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 363d
My wife got a light headed dizziness this morning. The kids freaked out and ran downstairs trying to get me. As I approached the kitchen one of my kids, super scared points towards the kitchen area. I can't see yet. My mind naturally goes... "She's dead isn't she? Oh yeah, she's a gonner...WTF! Who's gonna do the taxes? Who's gonna feed the kids and get them to school? Who's.... I'm totally screwed! No! K love her and need her too much! Why is she just quitting on me like that! Bitch! WTF! Where is she!
Oh she's fine! I finally make the turn into the kitchen. Its just another bout of high blood pressure. But I'm the crazy one for not eating all her ethnically correct lard cooked everything. Ooh! You gotta try the chocolate! Its traditional! Here, let me just add more lard and triple fry it for you....no way hose lady! She will just not listen. The good thing is she's not that big in case I need to carry her around the house one day. I'm going to have to change her diapers and everything. That's the scariest.
fin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 364d
Dying painfully
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Being drafted during war and not dying in the first days
Stern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
dick falls off
note: not a universal scare
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
windows usb detach sound plays out of nowhere
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
Compacted.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
going to the park with your kids and letting them play on the playground while you sit 3 feet away.
then realizing you can't see them anymore, and no matter how loudly you call for them, they don't answer.
being a kid at the park and getting dragged off to a van where you're crying and screaming for your father but he doesn't look up to see you. as you're dragged into the van and the doors close, your world is encapsulated in darkness and you know you will never escape.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 364d
Abuse of the psych. bug that leads to faschism by smart evil people that know exactly what they are doing and somehow make it work stable for centuries.
Oberyn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 364d
Don't even hafta exhaust mental energy to try to come up with such thing bcus it already occupies my mind basicly 24/7
No . Not telling you what it is
ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Being tied to a chair, lights and a video camera in your face with someone behind you waving a long knife, hand on your shoulder chanting Allahu Akbar over and over...
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
chant it with them, try to confuse them