(May 8, 2015 at 7:37 pm)KentuckySkeptic224 Wrote: Okay, so I recently saw, The Babadook and it freaked the everloving shit out of me. For the past week or so I've been barring my closet with a chair, looking under my bed, and sleeping with the light on. So, I'm just wondering, even though I'm an atheist and I don't believe in the supernatural, am I being hypocritical in my nonbelief by being spooked by a horror film?
I watched the same film recently (it's amazing) and was scared to sleep with the lights off for a couple of days, and when I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep i was scared to turn away from the door in case it came in while i wasn't looking - what difference it would make whether i was looking or not i have absolutely no idea
I never seriously believed it was real, but still couldn't stop imagining it for some reason, i think some horror films can just be very unnerving and make you feel more vulnerable than usual, probably a sign of an over-active imagination rather than any hypocrisy, i'm not sure it could be hypocrisy anyway unless you really thought it was real and had a rationale for believing so.
The Babadook is a metaphor for some non-specified mental illness, maybe you picked up on that on some level and that's what you're afraid of? In that case it would be a perfectly rational fear, albeit not one you can get rid of by barring your closet shut
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
