Horror stories from real life

Because that is true, I’ve been crying all afternoon.

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”-- Stephen King

Once again, my favorite author hits the nail on the head. No ravenous monster, evil spell, macabre ritual, or eldritch monstrosity bubbling in a human’s imagination could ever hope to compare with the horrors lurking in the world we are currently living in.

And you can thank some great writers right here on DA for recognizing and denouncing those wretched horrors:
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But Jesus H. Christ, could you imagine this?!? A faulty button or some shit prevented the east coast from being ANNIHILATED. Dr. Strangelove would have been prophetic, and I’m not even JOKING:
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About 5 months ago, I read another article about a person who literally saved the world from a nuclear war. He was (understandably), frozen and anxious, but he still managed to stop and think. I’m glad he made the correct decisions and avoided a catastrophe: www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09…  I can’t thank Lieutenant Colonel Petrov enough. Hell, we should ALL thank this man. He must have nerves of steel to face what could’ve been.

More on the inherent dangers of nuclear power plants on our health and the environment:
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This is damned alarming, since bees are instrumental in preserving the world's food supply.

All I did was cry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Ztv1…
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It breaks my heart to read about these cases; it reminds me of the Andrea Yates case— but she was in the middle of a psychotic breakdown. I first read about the Yates case when I was 12 or 13, and I was so distraught that I asked my Mom how someone would even consider killing their children. She told me that Yates “was a very, very sick woman who had terrible problems with her mental health.”

Mom was correct, and I agreed with her, but I was still terrified and upset. The case still frightens me whenever I see it referenced in an article or a text. Can you imagine the fear and anguish for everyone involved?? I’m afraid to.

And people who do this are even sicker. Or they’re pure evil.
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Only wicked, sociopathic bastards would stoop so low.
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War in Ukraine: cosmic--chaos.deviantart.com/a…
Fuck you, Putin! I hope you and your cronies choke on it! twitter.com/BSpringnote/status…

www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/20…  Not only is this an incalculably vicious act of violence and savagery, a lot of cretins in the Comment Section are far less concerned and empathic about the victims and survivors of this evil crime, instead spewing out the usual “all Christians are evil” rants and calling for their torture. And some of them are not even referring to the perpetrators of these crimes! Ecological fallacies and stupidity abounds…

Well at least ONE commenter bothered to stop and think: “Personally, my mouth is agape that this heinous story is being hijacked by the religion argument. This is a PEDOPHILE in a costume.”

Speaking of stupidity, I’d also like to give a hearty “FUCK YOU!” to Noam Chomsky for his racist, intentionally misleading, and inaccurate input on zombies in modern American fiction. www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/14… The concept of a zombie is actually from Haitian voodoo (still North American), but I digress.

This was my reaction, more or less: d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/…

If I recall correctly, George Romero’s version of Dawn of the Dead denounced mindless consumerism and the rampant herd mentality (or angry mob, I guess) by representing it as a horde of hungry, single-minded zombies.

Modern zombies in the 21st century still carry these themes, along with feelings of hopelessness, emptiness, wandering around mindlessly with no purpose other than hunger for human flesh and whatnot. I observed this in “Warm Bodies” (sadly, I have not read the book yet), but it was a great movie (I don’t want to spoil anything for you guys).

Zombie apocalypse jokes are common these days, and that’s totally understandable. I like those jokes, they’re usually funny.

Sadly, there are some schmucks who think a zombie apocalypse in the styles of The Walking Dead or The Evil Dead would be fun or badass. Of course, if they watched the show/movies or read the comic, and paid attention to any of ‘em, they would see a zombie apocalypse would not be fun at all.

I merely say: "Be careful what you wish for."

...I’ll be under my desk.