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The Lure of Horror

Aperture | November 15, 2025



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Many of the early horror stories are rooted in folklore and function as cautionary tales. They are meant either to deter or encourage particular behaviors. Why do we love being scared? Is it the way our hearts pound in our chests? Or is it something even darker?

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  2. @javierpupo8042

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    I don't see enough examples of analyzing horror from a lens that I feel I relate to more. I NEVER am scared by horror movies. I love horror movies but I am never scared by them. Sometimes I'll jump or be surprised from a horror game but I tend not to feel any real fear. I honestly just like the dark vibes horror creates. Death, decay, the act of hunting or being the hunted, it's fun for me. Perhaps it's a bit sadistic to say I derive pleasure in seeing other people even if just in a movie afraid, but honestly, I do, so long as it isn't traumatic or something terrible. In a way I like pretending I am the monster, I love frightening other people in games and what not. I don't really have any answers for why all this is but I just wanted to share it. I love horror because I feel it is a part of me, and I enjoy the spooky season and frights they give, even if I'm not the one who feels them.

  5. @Grow_YOW90

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    So i had this conversation with my 84 year old viet vet friend, he said he has always been afraid, his fear never stopped him though, i didn't understand that until a while ago.

  10. @BigJohnDaDon3217

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    Wait…I got a serious fear of heights I mean, freeze up and squeeze for dear life terrified to move kind of fear, does that mean exposing myself to it over and over (safely) over time desensitise myself from it??? Plz help I can't go up a ladder without praying 😂😂

  13. @blackalchemy222

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    This channel is just way too good. This video was LOADED with information and perspective shifts. I cant imagine the work that goes in to editing,writing and research this tool💚

  15. @satanix

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    i enjoy that adrenaline rush and a feeling of near heart-attack or cardiac-arrest. I enjoy feeling my heartbeats at their peaks. I enjoy walking down through the dark alleys and roads and ready to accept whatever(or whoever) is coming.

  18. @dmtdreamz

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    The surest way to piss off a human is to invalidate their suffering.
    Imagine telling someone that their rape is imaginary.
    Imagine telling someone that their trauma is imaginary.
    Imagine telling a parent that the death of their child is imaginary.
    Imagine telling an African-American that slavery is imaginary.
    Oh the horror, Lego!
    But please, stop playing stupid.
    As upsetting as that may be, it does not change the fact that those things are imaginary.
    "But Lego! How dare you tell me that my suffering is just some game I play!"
    Yeah, well… you play some very serious games. But just because a statement pisses you off does not make it untrue. Just because something hurts like a bitch does not make it true. And just because you're in a nightmare does not make it real. This isn't bad news, this is actually a doorway to salvation.
    All suffering is imaginary. This is completely unacceptable to the finite self. Because the finite self's modus operandi is the avoidance of suffering. Which means it has to take suffering as real. To invalidate the self's suffering is to invalidate the self's material reality. The realness of suffering is baked into the very core of how self constructs reality. This is not merely a psychological thing, it's a metaphysical thing.
    The point of spirituality is that at high enough levels of consciousness it allows you to see through the illusion of suffering and trauma. This is salvation. But don't go trying to tell a human that her suffering is imaginary. That will only make humans hate you. Because the finite self is incapable of loving Truth. If you could love Truth, you wouldn't suffer in the first place. The finite self would rather live in a self-constructed hell than surrender itself to Truth.
    Notice this about yourself: you are a suffering and drama addict, and you refuse to give it up because it is completely intertwined with your definitions of reality. It is this way because suffering keeps you alive. If you didn't care about suffering, you would not survive as a finite human self for very long.
    Suffering is the greatest illusion. All God has to do to fool someone into believing that something is real is make it extremely painful. Then 99.9999% of people will never question it.
    Humans are too biased and immature to accept this. They want their suffering validated. They want their illusions validated. This is the human condition. Humans are puppets pulled by emotional strings and they cry, kick, and scream like children at the suggestion of cutting those strings.
    Waking up requires growing up.
    Isn't it amazing how the greatest news you could possibly be told — that all your suffering and trauma is imaginary — is received by most humans as something horrible and insulting?
    Truth is way more serious than people are ready to handle, so usually its best to keep it to yourself. When someone comes crying to you about their misery, you give them comfort, not Truth. An important lesson in your spiritual journey will be learning to meet people where they're at, not where you're at. I've made this mistake many times.

  19. @dmtdreamz

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but a psychedelic is that times a thousand. See so again the point is not to achieve some blissful state or to see some cool colors or to travel to some new dimension you can do all those things. That's nice, that's fun. The point is the lessons the insights you get and the meta understanding of how this entire process works because as you're exploring all your different domains you're learning about your own mind. How the mind of God is generating reality and why it's generating it.

  22. @ligma5058

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    I find it strange that we humans are scared or afraid of things that are too close to being human. Something that looks like human, but isn't a human.

  34. @ringtone690

    November 15, 2025 at 9:55 pm

    Can you make video on a.i who a.i change humanity who a.i would be dangerous to humanity.
    A.i ever get sentient. Ever achieve consciousness, emotions , urges, self awareness or it just mimics this thing
    And if a.i able to mimics this thing than we call it has consciousness and stuff
    Or a.i is just become a new generation of operating system.
    And if a.i get consciousness than its threat to mankind
    Or help us getting better
    A.i at some time beat human in intelligence but it will beats us in emotions, consciousness,self awarenes or not
    And if it beats us than what about our
    Believe, religion that god created us
    And now we created conscious intelligence
    Plzzz make a video on this plzzz

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