(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 feel like this sometimes, and I feel hypocritical about it.
What I think though is that instincts impact you instantaneously a lot of times whereas logic and reasoning are more long term decisions.
Like being afraid of a balloon popping is instantaneous even if you know its a balloon popping, some people still just get scared of the anticipation of the bang because instinctive to be scared of a short sharp loud noise like that.
In the long term though having thought about the lack of danger from a popping balloon its not scary.
So in the long term if you asked me about going into the woods at night do I believe something will happen to me while I'm there I'd say no.
But in the short term while I'm in the woods at night my instincts will take over, it's dark, my senses are on high alert and every single horror film will instantly be on my mind and I'll be thinking of clowns, zombies, serial killers and the sound of squishing corpse feet running after me.
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