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It’s weird that fear can be passed down genetically through your DNA. Think of how we all fear that thing in the dark. That monster. Because of our ancestors getting eatin by bears and wolves and giant cats. Or how you can pick up on being watched or hunted. If you’ve ever been in the woods or mountains or something and you got a sudden urge to gtfo. It’s an eerie feeling. Btw never ignore that feeling. If your gut says leave. You’re Probably in real danger. It’s like a sixth senses. I hope before I die we get some kind of scientific idk explanation for how Thats passed down or how it works. Related video https://youtu.be/2M3FlA42i1A

It’s weird that fear can be passed down genetically through your DNA. Think of how we all fear that thing in the dark. That monster. Because of our ancestors getting eatin by bears and wolves and giant cats. Or how you can pick up on being watched or hunted. If you’ve ever been in the woods or mountains or something and you got a sudden urge to gtfo. It’s an eerie feeling. Btw never ignore that feeling. If your gut says leave. You’re Probably in real danger. It’s like a sixth senses. I hope before I die we get some kind of scientific idk explanation for how Thats passed down or how it works. Related video https://youtu.be/2M3FlA42i1A

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There is a theory that your subconscious identifies threats that your conscious might not have realized yet which is why you get that gut feeling.

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Yes but how. How can you sense people looking at you. No noise. No smell. No nothing. You can just turn in a random direction and you’ll lock eyes. Iv done it in the woods before when I thought I was completely alone. How the hell does that work

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The idea is that your subconscious noticed a noise or smell or saw the threat before your conscious mind caught up to it.

Like everything you think was already thought by your subconscious before you thought it consciously.

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I've experienced this feeling while deer hunting. Of course the piles of bear crap might have been a factor.

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Bears scare the hell out of me. Grizzlies especially. They can run faster than horses. They can climb trees. They will pin you and eat you alive. They can be taller than you even when they’re on 4 legs. Fuck bears. You ever read the story of the girl who was eatin alive and was on the phone with her mom? She says oh it’s coming back. She has her Cubs. It’s ok mom it doesn’t hurt anymore. I love you. It makes me feel some kind of way

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I'm going to teach you something interesting about PTSD- it's connected to the primal fear of bears which you mentioned.

Why hasn't PTSD been a thing until the 1900s? The answer: it has always been a condition that humans can become afflicted with. It was merely identified, studied, and diagnosed in more recent times. But I always wondered- how did men who survived melee battles cope? We have men getting PTSD just from witnessing their friends getting blown up- certainly horrifying to watch, totally understandable how that can change a man. But what about hacking a man to death with an axe while your best friend is screaming in agony on the ground next to you, trying to hold his guts in after he just got speared, and there's shouting and blood and death everywhere you look, and all you can do is keep your shield up and keep swinging your axe until it's over!! This type of up close, extremely personal combat should be extremely traumatic.

So why didn't we see PTSD-like conditions being recorded in ancient history? Well, we kind of did. This is fascinating: when a Roman citizen was selling a slave, he had to disclose a few things to the potential buyer: He had to tell the buyer if the slave had ever tried to commit suicide; this makes sense, seeing as a buyer might not want to invest in this slave only to have him off himself. And the only other thing that was required by law to disclose: Has the slave ever been attacked by a wild animal, such as a lion, bear, or wolf?

Why would this be required to disclose? If a man was mauled by a wild animal, he'd surely have the scars to show it. But sometimes people get attacked by animals, mauled for a few minutes, but manage to escape with minimal injury. But the Romans noticed that people who were mauled CHANGED MENTALLY. They began to show symptoms of what we call PTSD today. So why wouldn't the slave-seller have to disclose whether or not the slave had been in battle?

The answer to that is pretty simple: back then, it was expected of men to fight. BATTLE, KILLING, WITNESSING DEATH AND HORRIFIC SUFFERING WAS NORMAL. But today, what are we taught growing up? "Violence is bad, under ALL circumstances. Killing is bad, under ALL circumstances." We are indoctrinated with this from birth. Then at age 17-18, we join the military, and they have the task of undoing 18 years of "VIOLENCE BAD, I AM A PUSSY" conditioning and turn you into a killer. I believe if we weren't conditioned to be pussies for our entire young lives, the rate of PTSD would be significantly lower.

Sorry for tangent, just thought this might interest you since it connects to your fear of bears. There is something primal about being mauled by an animal, specifically one that's bigger than you, that can fuck your mind up forever. I imagine it has to do with the feeling of helplessness in a desperate moment- if you've ever grappled with a trained fighter, you can get a taste of this feeling: "No matter what I do, this fucker has an answer for it, and I can do nothing but struggle."

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I think we see a little less ptsd today relative to you know, the vietnam war, because most people these days willingly sign up for the military while back then poor bastards where being drafted. You might be right about the other stuff. Life was a lot more violent back then so maybe people didn’t give a shit if you were a little off your rocker

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I always trust my gut brain, I don't always trust my brain brain.

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What about your little brain?

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I only listen to him when the time is right.

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This is 100% real.

The only people who do not know this are those who have to rely on the media to tell them what to fear.

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It happened to me a few months ago. I went walking in the woods at my aunts house. She lives way out in the country. Didn’t even have cell service. I was following a river for an hour or so, that way I didn’t get lost. Just enjoying the isolation then like a brick in my stomach I just got anxious. I felt like something was wrong and I needed to back. I’ll never forget the way that felt. It was way too sudden

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I recognize that feeling of someone staring at one.

As I've grown older I trust my instincts far, far more than I used to previously (zero). Logic can only get you so far, sometimes we need a million or so years of evolution to help in decision making.

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Yes your gut is always right. I met this guy a year or so ago. Soon as I met him I thought I don’t like this guy. But he seemed nice, acted nice. I told myself, I should give him a chance I’m being unreasonable. Then one day my coworkers all said they didn’t like him either. Then we got to knew him and we all hated his guts. I was debating killing him one day. I could have shoved him out a window. It was so tempting. No cameras. Easily could say it was an accident.

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It’s weird that fear can be passed down genetically through your DNA. Think of how we all fear that thing in the dark. That monster. Because of our ancestors getting eatin by bears and wolves and giant cats.

What's passed down is a genetic predisposition to fear certain things. You have it because it (originally a chance mutation) gave your ancestors an advantage in survival. Their fellow creatures who lacked that fear were the ones who got eaten, hence they have no descendants.

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Haven't you ever felt that feeling of being watched, only to spin around and someone's staring at you (and looking away while appearing embarrassed). Several times I have been thinking hard about something, say, chess moves and just happen to set my gaze on someone and they spin around like that. OTOH, one time when I was in the military, I was in the head (bathroom to you civilians) brushing my teeth with a towel wrapped around my waist and I got a very strong feeling of being stared at. I looked around, nobody was there, no stalls on the commodes to hide in or anything. Then I noticed an open window about 7 or 8 feet from where I'd been brushing my teeth and I looked outside. There was a platoon of maybe 30 woman marines listening to some ancient master sergeant WM barking something, and the ones closest to this old crone were standing at attention, but the further they were from her, the more likely they were to be staring up at my open window. As I watched them, they slowly began to turn their eyes back to the front. I'd been lifting weights a couple of years at the time and was pretty ripped, or were they just hoping the towel would fall off.

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In my case Iv found the way to use that feeling or to catch people looking is to be completely absent minded. I was once walking through the woods alone. And for no reason I just turn 180 degrees and stare directly into this persons eyes that was in the woods with me. I didn’t hear them or anything. It still weirds me out thinking about it

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I have had that, and the reverse where someone turns their head around to look at me just after I look over at them.

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Think of how we all fear that thing in the dark

Fear of the unknown is different than fear of the dark. I love the dark.

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I'm going to tell you a story from the Vietnam war. Oliver Stone was serving as a Marine infantryman.

He had a squad leader (whom the character Sgt. Barnes from the movie Platoon is based on) leading a patrol. Stone is green, and he is on point. They're creeping through the jungle, when suddenly the Sgt. grabs Stone from behind and signals for the platoon to halt, and that there are enemies directly ahead within a few meters.

The Marines spread out and encircle this little ditch in front of them... and pull six Viet Cong fighters out of there. Stone said that if he had walked three more steps, he would've literally stepped on one of these fuckers- that's how well hidden they were. After the situation was dealt with, Stone asked the unnamed Sergeant how the fuck he spotted them. His reply: "I could smell them." Keep in mind this sergeant has been in the bush for over a year total.

My point- I think that these "gut feelings" are manifestations of your subconscious mind picking up on threats and then desperately trying to signal your conscious mind by making you feel uneasy, queasy, jumpy, and paranoid. Perhaps you smell the scent of a dangerous animal- but our noses are not very good... consciously. Our sense of smell picks up an amazing amount of subconscious information. The guy in the video you provided might've been smelling scat or rotting carcasses. This puts him on edge, so when he hears a twig snap, in his mind it's not just a doe running by- it's a fucking mountain lion moving in on him.

This is survival instinct. Instinct is poorly defined and not well understood. It's absolutely a thing. You can absolutely "feel" eyeballs on you. You can "feel" when someone is sizing you up for a fight.

Slightly unrelated- shit like this is where the behavior of laughter likely originated. 150,000 years ago, before spoken language was developed beyond rudimentary grunts, your little tribe is getting ready to go to sleep for the night. But then you all hear a strange noise out in the darkness, a noise that you shouldn't be hearing. So a few of the men grab their spears and clubs, and stalk off into the darkness to investigate. They discover the source of the noise- a fox is eating a rodent! They lack the ability to verbalize "Hey guys, we got all spooked for nothing, it's just a fox!" So instead, they burst into laughter. It's amusing that everyone was spooked over something harmless. It's a way of reassuring the spooked tribe that all is well, we are safe, we are laughing! It feels good to laugh!

Too bad I can't laugh anymore. I've lost the capacity on the account of the SHEER, UNBRIDLED CYNICISM that has overtaken me.

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I havnt gone that far but Iv had a hell of week and I want everyone I work with to die. I want my insurance office to be bombed and I want the thief to shoot up the drugs he bought from stealing from me and overdose

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Hypothetically- if it was possible for there to exist interdimensional entities (entities that occupy a POV in this material dimension, and can alter variables/ aspects of our physical world within limitation, but not necessarily have a physical mass or leave a trace of energy), do you think that we could pass on a fear of such beings due to traumatic interaction, like a Poltergeist or Phantom apparition?

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Probably but they’re not real so. If they were real they would be thousands of years old so. I think ghosts is really paranoia, mental illness, and imagination, also the occasional weird thing that can be explained just not by the person experiencing it. I wish they were real. I will hunt for ghosts every opportunity I get for the rest of my life, but I know I won’t find shit. Ghosts are the proof I need to believe in an aftwr life

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Well, a "ghost" would be a rationalisation of it as being proof of a disembodied human soul. I'm not saying that at all. Even if something like an "interdimensional entity" tried to interact with me, I wouldn't just assume that they were human souls, or whatever they seemed like from the superficial aspects in how they materialised/ interacted, according to outdated man-made categorisations.

I've never experienced the paranormal/ supernatural, so I'd be inclined to agree that it's impossible, if I was still an atheist. Frankly, it's impossible that DNA was written through random chemical reactions between inanimate matter that was also randomly brought into existence by nothing. If there is a creator that is outside of our universe or realm of existence, perhaps there are dimensions hidden to us that the creator is also outside of. These hypothetical beings can only be observed in this material world on their terms, and in ways that they define. That leaves us at a disadvantage in purposely seeking them out or proving their existence.

There's so many people that have recounted their supernatural experiences, in all seriousness & emotional distress, to me, that it's actually hard for me to disregard it all as madness & drugs, are there really that many people with psychosis? or that many compulsive liars? Some also claimed that others saw/ experienced the same thing in the moment, although it's not like I went around verifying that with the people in question. It's easy for me to disregard what I had overheard people talking about on the bus or something like that, but when I've asked for the truth specifically, from friends/ family, when talking to them one on one... It's another thing entirely.

Many would call me psychotic for my worldview and perspective on Jewish power, yet those same people believe utterly ridiculous, sometimes directly contradictory things. So I can't help but think that there are people out there who genuinely experience supernatural things and then are written off as crazy whenever they speak of it.

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Yea Iv seen a couple Weird things but it wasn’t a ghost. What was it idk but it’s not a dead relative floating around. What the hell You gonna do as a ghost? Tell Me. Float around and eat ghost food. Float around an empty house. Talk to other ghosts. If ghosts were real I wouldn’t want to be one because you’ll want to die of boredom

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No. You have been trained to fear the dark. Like everyone else.

Natural selection evolution is for transgender fags.

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Jesus Christ I’m generalizing. I’m not scared of the dark. I’m saying we all have a lot of the same fears. Almost all humans have the same base level animalistic fears. Asshole