Watching all the identical animals struggle away from a predator... It reminds me how much we are just clones of eachother. Why live if I'm just like everyone else, selfishly struggling for survival?

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    yeah, discovery channel freaked me out a lot as a kid

    i remember seeing a documentary about global warming and then one about ancient aliens and the antichrist and then watching the new War Of The Worlds and I became convinced the world was gonna end and was constantly looking at numbers and thinking that if I saw 11:11 it was the 11th hour and God was gonna come and end the world but that was after the space aliens took over

    I was like ten years old lol :agony-consuming:

    • Trouble [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Destroying children's ability to tell fantasy from reality, as a treat

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Filling educational TV channels with reactionary garbage because it's slightly cheaper

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        cable fucks your head up, I remember as a smaller child I noticed I didn't have cable and just watched PBS and was like, "more normal" than the people around me who (since their parents were always working at like fucking burger king) were just in front of the TV all day were like obsessed with sex and money

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Lol I went to a Christian "school" until about 13 and they absolutely batted you over the head with end of days bullshit. It for sure triggered my anxiety order, I remember having panic attacks before I was 10 from that garbage.

      Needs to be illegal. Took me forever to not just randomly freak out and think my entire family has disappeared leaving me to rot in hell