Halloween: 10 Things that Haunt Me (977 hits)
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Submitted by ahumblefool (View user info) at 2008-10-02 13:26:48 EDT
10. Snowfields: This is one that I can not fathom as to why it bothers me so much. Big open expanses of snow make me nervous. Walking out on a big field of snow, the sun reflecting off the white carpet, I swear sometimes it moves. That is stupid as hell, but if you have no bearing as far as trees around you or hills, and it is flat, sometimes that damn snowfield moves. As if it is going to rise in a giant wave and consume you.
9. Falling: Do not like to fly for one reason, falling. People constantly ask me, "Why are you afraid to fly?" Look, if they could guarantee that plane would take off, and land safely, even if the dam think bucked like a rodeo bull, I could handle it. It is the thought of dropping 35,000 feet that leaves me on edge the entire trip. It is the same reason why I do not do rides with drops, even Splash Mountain. I do not like the feeling of my stomach sitting in my chest, it is not appealing.
8. Spiders: I will watch them spin a web, I will even safely evac them from my home, but I don't like them. Even watching them spin a web, although fascinating, is creepy. I suppose that is because they are natures little killing machines. They don't mean any harm, but really neither does a vampire, they are just looking to feed.
7. Crowds: Crowds set me on edge. Being in a large crowd of people always makes me think, "If just one of these idiots does something stupid, we are all going to get trampled." I have seen what happens when large crowds get spooked. Humans are like cattle, and we tend to run with everyone else, so, I just imagine a crowd of 50,000 people suddenly spooked and everyone trying to go the same way. A tidal wave of people that out of fear simply step on everything and everyone to get out, a mass of human flesh with absolutely no mindset other than to get away. This is a reason I tend to avoid large events like Bumbershoot and Bites of Whatever.
6. Cluttered Homes: I am OC but also a minimalist. The fewer things on the walls, the less furniture in the home, the better. I walk into homes where the room is filled with knickknacks and furniture, and I start to wonder what the hell is hiding in here. No one can possible dust all this, or vacuum under all of these chairs. I feel trapped, why the hell are there two couches and three chairs in this room? The walls seem to close. Open homes that have little clutter are like open spaces at the park, calming.
5. Methods Mom: Everyone else gives Method shit, thought I would fling some as well.
4. Open Water: If I can not see land I am extremely uncomfortable, and you can forget about me getting out of the boat to swim or scuba dive, not happening. I am not afraid of sharks or giant fish, just the open water. Actually the movie Open Water, although lame throughout most of it, the ending to this day, just gives me the chills, because I can so see that same response coming from myself.
3. Death of one of my children: Sometimes the feeling of terror I get when I leave my children somewhere or at home alone for a couple of hours, is overwhelming. That thought of someone breaking in or swiping my children, it can bring me to my knees. It overwhelms at times that I can actually hear my daughter crying and saying in her head, "Daddy always said he would protect me." I think this fear is escalated by the fact that I nearly lost my daughter to cancer when she was very young, so it becomes irrational at times.
2. 2918 South Wilkes Road: I am part of a group of amateur ghost hunters, been doing it now for 10 years. I am the skeptic in the bunch that brings reality back when some in the group go over board. This house though, it does not belong. It is the most wrong place I have ever been. Its malevolence is all encompassing. There are no past scary stories to build it up, no history that surrounds it, it is just there. I have come to realize that it could very well be a living inanimate object. If I was a religious man, I would have a tendency to believe that the reason satan has no heart is because it is buried somewhere in this house. It is dark, it is spiteful and you feel stained when you leave. Why? I have no reason. But I can tell you it sits on its plot of land like a sore, no one goes around it. Kids are all over the neighborhood, but every time I go by the place, no one is around it. The for sale sign is so old that it is browed with age. It is just waiting. Watching.
1. Deep Woods: I backpack a lot and camp as often as I can. I know others here do as well, so maybe they have sensed the same things. Old growth forests, the ones that are so dense that nothing grows on the ground except for some moss, salal and ferns are one of the creepiest places I have ever gone. I do not know if it is the absolute silence, not even birds chirping or the fact that because it is so dense that even in mid day it seems dusk, you feel very unwelcome. Something primeval about it. These trees have guarded for hundreds of years and you feel like a trespasser within their domain. I camped one time in the California Redwood Forest; I will not camp there again. It is beautiful, breathtaking and amazing all in one, but at night it is so dark and still. There is no sound and you know you are sleeping around these trees that are thousands of years old, and the dead quiet is so intense that your ears actually buzz just to make noise. There are no stars, no moon, no sky, just immense living trees that surround you. And you wonder if maybe you should not be here, permission was never granted.
Irrational, absolutely, but aren't most of our fears?
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Submitted by jared.melton (user info) at 2008-10-09 04:16:48 EDT (#)
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%222918+South+Wilkes+Road%22
"No results found for '2918 South Wilkes Road'"
Hrrm.
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2008-10-04 11:12:07 EDT (#)
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Spiders have lungs. I'm not sure if that's surprising to anyone else, but for me it just... I don't know, seems odd. Like you know spiders have to breath, but you just can't seem to picture it.
Also, the bit about your kids and thinking that they'd be thinking that you would protect them... Up until a few years ago, whenever I'd get scared in my room at night, that's what I would think. That my dad and my brothers would protect me. Even though one of my brothers doesn't live at home anymore, the other one is such a heavy sleeper I could probably be brutally murdered and he wouldn't wake up, and my dad lives in Indonesia. I suppose if the fear is irrational, it's kind of ok for the solution to be irrational too?
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-10-03 22:32:03 EDT (#)
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Thank you, LM! That was sweet in a Sapphic sort of way.
Humble man, I was just thinking about another interesting possibility. I believe there is an empirically tested (valid and reliable) psychological measure of suggestibility.
It would be interesting to test your cases with the instrument and see how much (or strong) of a correlation exists between people who score high on the suggestibility scale and their belief their house is haunted.
Intuitively but with no data to back me up, I believe there would be a very high correlation.
Of course you would need a control group and a group who scores low. The low scorers could be taken along on a hunt where previously "unexplained" phenomena occur, and see how they react if anything happens.
I'll hush now. Thanks for listening.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2008-10-03 17:22:53 EDT (#)
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this why I secretly hope that fg will let me become her secret lover across the water.
I can only hope and dream.
WE ARE TOGETHER IN MY DREAMS!
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-10-03 16:55:52 EDT (#)
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I went and found your haunted house post. I also listened to the EVP on the next post. I had earbuds in and the volume all the way up but I couldn't hear anything.
You know, I never gave it much thought before but you've got me interested in paranormal investigations.
I'm a skeptic through and through. I think that almost everything can be explained scientifically and if not, it's just because we haven't figured out a proper way to examine the unexplained.
I think I'm going to investigate and see if Kansas City has any "ghost busters." I may want to join them as one of the skeptics. Like the role you fill with your team.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2008-10-03 06:55:57 EDT (#)
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Most of these i have to cope with aswell.Fuck that!
Fortunately, m's mom is no challenge, as long as she stays on the other island.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-10-03 06:00:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-10-03 03:44:55 EDT (#)
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Im tired, I just walked to work.
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:16:34 CDT (#)
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On a recent vacation in St. Augustine, I met a guy at breakfast in the inn who said he was in town with a group of Supernatural Phenomena Investigators and Ghost Hunters. I laughed in his face because I thought he was joking. Turns out he wasn't. He actually takes that shit seriously.
He said he showed me a picture taken with an infrared bolometer (thermal imaging camera) of a closed glass french door in a room. There was (his words) 'a supernatural apparition standing in the middle of the doorway with it's arms stretched forward like it is beckoning me to come forward to the door'. He offered that as proof that such things are real.
As I have such a device that I use for real science, I asked if he took the picture and if he was standing directly in front of the door at the time. Of course he said he was. I asked if knew that glass reflects infrared light fairly well (which is why your IR remotes don't work too well from an angle through your entertainment center doors), and he didn't answer.
See, there's no eyepiece on the IR bolometer so you have to use the display screen to see what you're shooting. That means that you have to hold the device in front of you when you use it to take pictures.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Skrap is my personal Penn Jillette.
You need to do your own Bullshit! show, Skrap! I can be a female Teller. I won't say a word and I'll stand around and do stupid human tricks for you.
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i fucking LOVE Penn and Teller and i love Bullshit. i think i'm going to watch an episode now while i'm downloading all the episodes i don't have yet.
Submitted by Falafel (user info) at 2008-10-03 01:29:21 EDT (#)
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10. God, you just reminded me of my trippiest dream ever. I dreamed I was walking in 10 ft of snow with the viscosity of thick water.
Submitted by John_H_Kim (user info) at 2008-10-02 19:30:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 16:14:10 EDT (#)
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As my son would say, I think I just got powned. roflcopter.
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Not at all. I wasn't kidding - Venture stores really did creep me out. I just didn't ascribe the cause of the feeling to anything supernatural or actually believe that there really was a whole spy thing going on in there. Once going into one of them I told MLW about how the Venture stores put mu nerves on edge. She's never been more succinct in letting me know how she felt about something. "Well, that's just stupid" she said, and she was right.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2008-10-02 16:18:18 EDT (#)
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good grief man, how do you get anything done when you are scared of so much?
Life terrifies the daylights out of me, I get through it by drinking a lot and singing the themetune from the poddington peas in my head. If it gets really bad (like at work today when a patient got irate and started chucking things at us) I sing it out loud.
Peanut butter on crumpets helps too.
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 16:14:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:23:56 EDT (#)
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skrap: some of them get way carried away. I go because we get to go into some really cool historical places after everyone leaves. I have had some weird experiences, but most can be explained. This house I cannot explain, and it truly is creepy as hell.
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I used to get the same feeling in Venture department stores (used to be in business around Chicago). I'd walk in and it was like everyone there is a spy or secret agent or something and they were all watching without looking like they were watching to see if I was one of them or not. Just occurred in Venture stores, but it was just a feeling I got. Creepy.
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As my son would say, I think I just got powned. roflcopter.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-10-02 15:41:58 EDT (#)
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Submitted by write-of-way (user info) at 2008-10-02 15:18:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-10-02 15:18:21 EDT (#)
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This +2 is to encourage you to vote Astley.
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Now do it.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:55:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:23:56 EDT (#)
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skrap: some of them get way carried away. I go because we get to go into some really cool historical places after everyone leaves. I have had some weird experiences, but most can be explained. This house I cannot explain, and it truly is creepy as hell.
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I used to get the same feeling in Venture department stores (used to be in business around Chicago). I'd walk in and it was like everyone there is a spy or secret agent or something and they were all watching without looking like they were watching to see if I was one of them or not. Just occurred in Venture stores, but it was just a feeling I got. Creepy.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:47:27 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:16:34 CDT (#)
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On a recent vacation in St. Augustine, I met a guy at breakfast in the inn who said he was in town with a group of Supernatural Phenomena Investigators and Ghost Hunters. I laughed in his face because I thought he was joking. Turns out he wasn't. He actually takes that shit seriously.
He said he showed me a picture taken with an infrared bolometer (thermal imaging camera) of a closed glass french door in a room. There was (his words) 'a supernatural apparition standing in the middle of the doorway with it's arms stretched forward like it is beckoning me to come forward to the door'. He offered that as proof that such things are real.
As I have such a device that I use for real science, I asked if he took the picture and if he was standing directly in front of the door at the time. Of course he said he was. I asked if knew that glass reflects infrared light fairly well (which is why your IR remotes don't work too well from an angle through your entertainment center doors), and he didn't answer.
See, there's no eyepiece on the IR bolometer so you have to use the display screen to see what you're shooting. That means that you have to hold the device in front of you when you use it to take pictures.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Skrap is my personal Penn Jillette.
You need to do your own Bullshit! show, Skrap! I can be a female Teller. I won't say a word and I'll stand around and do stupid human tricks for you.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:34:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:23:56 EDT (#)
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skrap: some of them get way carried away. I go because we get to go into some really cool historical places after everyone leaves. I have had some weird experiences, but most can be explained. This house I cannot explain, and it truly is creepy as hell.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:16:34 EDT (#)
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On a recent vacation in St. Augustine, I met a guy at breakfast in the inn who said he was in town with a group of Supernatural Phenomena Investigators and Ghost Hunters. I laughed in his face because I thought he was joking. Turns out he wasn't. He actually takes that shit seriously.
He said he showed me a picture taken with an infrared bolometer (thermal imaging camera) of a closed glass french door in a room. There was (his words) 'a supernatural apparition standing in the middle of the doorway with it's arms stretched forward like it is beckoning me to come forward to the door'. He offered that as proof that such things are real.
As I have such a device that I use for real science, I asked if he took the picture and if he was standing directly in front of the door at the time. Of course he said he was. I asked if knew that glass reflects infrared light fairly well (which is why your IR remotes don't work too well from an angle through your entertainment center doors), and he didn't answer.
See, there's no eyepiece on the IR bolometer so you have to use the display screen to see what you're shooting. That means that you have to hold the device in front of you when you use it to take pictures.
Submitted by iambetteratit (user info) at 2008-10-02 14:00:10 EDT (#)
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I really want to go hiking in an old growth forest, never been to one. I wonder if I think it will be creepy.
Crowds really dont bother me. As long as you run the same direction as evreybody else and dont fall down youll be ok.
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:58:57 EDT (#)
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2. 2918 South Wilkes Road: I am part of a group of amateur ghost hunters, been doing it now for 10 years. I am the skeptic in the bunch that brings reality back when some in the group go over board. This house though, it does not belong. It is the most wrong place I have ever been. Its malevolence is all encompassing. There are no past scary stories to build it up, no history that surrounds it, it is just there. I have come to realize that it could very well be a living inanimate object. If I was a religious man, I would have a tendency to believe that the reason satan has no heart is because it is buried somewhere in this house. It is dark, it is spiteful and you feel stained when you leave. Why? I have no reason. But I can tell you it sits on its plot of land like a sore, no one goes around it. Kids are all over the neighborhood, but every time I go by the place, no one is around it. The for sale sign is so old that it is browed with age. It is just waiting. Watching.
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YOU CAN'T INCLUDE THAT AND NOT ATTACH A PIC. You should do a whole post on this and attach a picture.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:52:23 EDT (#)
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I share almost all of these.
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:44:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:41:36 EDT (#)
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You can't do this to me. You can't tell me this tauntingly spooky little story and not provide a PICTURE or something! Did you and your ghost hunters go in the house?
You know, you should do a post about your ghost hunting adventures.
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I have done one in the past. And we did go in that house, spent the longest three hours of my life in that house. We all wanted to leave, but we were determined to stick it out. The owner has asked us to come back twice, we have declined.
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:41:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:38:42 EDT (#)
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D'ju know that if you got out of an airplane at 35,000 feet and knew you were going to die so you went for it head-down for maximum terminal velocity of about 215 mph, you'd still fall for almost two minutes? Hold your breath for two minutes to get a feel for how long that really is. If you flare and go slower at about 125mph, you'll have over three minutes to think about how far away from the impact crater the smaller gobbets will land.
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Pretty much sums that shit up right there!
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:41:36 EDT (#)
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YAY! AHF sighting!
7. Crowds: Crowds set me on edge. Being in a large crowd of people always makes me think, "If just one of these idiots does something stupid, we are all going to get trampled." I have seen what happens when large crowds get spooked. Humans are like cattle, and we tend to run with everyone else, so, I just imagine a crowd of 50,000 people suddenly spooked and everyone trying to go the same way. A tidal wave of people that out of fear simply step on everything and everyone to get out, a mass of human flesh with absolutely no mindset other than to get away. This is a reason I tend to avoid large events like Bumbershoot and Bites of Whatever.
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Me too! It's worse when you actually make a point to look at the dumb, staring expressions people have on their faces most of the time. You think, Jesus, people really ARE stupid. I always shudder when I hear how someone was "trampled."
2. 2918 South Wilkes Road: I am part of a group of amateur ghost hunters, been doing it now for 10 years. I am the skeptic in the bunch that brings reality back when some in the group go over board. This house though, it does not belong. It is the most wrong place I have ever been. Its malevolence is all encompassing. There are no past scary stories to build it up, no history that surrounds it, it is just there. I have come to realize that it could very well be a living inanimate object. If I was a religious man, I would have a tendency to believe that the reason satan has no heart is because it is buried somewhere in this house. It is dark, it is spiteful and you feel stained when you leave. Why? I have no reason. But I can tell you it sits on its plot of land like a sore, no one goes around it. Kids are all over the neighborhood, but every time I go by the place, no one is around it. The for sale sign is so old that it is browed with age. It is just waiting. Watching.
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You can't do this to me. You can't tell me this tauntingly spooky little story and not provide a PICTURE or something! Did you and your ghost hunters go in the house?
You know, you should do a post about your ghost hunting adventures.
1. Deep Woods: I backpack a lot and camp as often as I can. I know others here do as well, so maybe they have sensed the same things. Old growth forests, the ones that are so dense that nothing grows on the ground except for some moss, salal and ferns are one of the creepiest places I have ever gone. I do not know if it is the absolute silence, not even birds chirping or the fact that because it is so dense that even in mid day it seems dusk, you feel very unwelcome. Something primeval about it. These trees have guarded for hundreds of years and you feel like a trespasser within their domain. I camped one time in the California Redwood Forest; I will not camp there again. It is beautiful, breathtaking and amazing all in one, but at night it is so dark and still. There is no sound and you know you are sleeping around these trees that are thousands of years old, and the dead quiet is so intense that your ears actually buzz just to make noise. There are no stars, no moon, no sky, just immense living trees that surround you. And you wonder if maybe you should not be here, permission was never granted.
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You just KNOW that some cryptozoological creature is wataching you whilst you sleep.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:38:42 EDT (#)
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D'ju know that if you got out of an airplane at 35,000 feet and knew you were going to die so you went for it head-down for maximum terminal velocity of about 215 mph, you'd still fall for almost two minutes? Hold your breath for two minutes to get a feel for how long that really is. If you flare and go slower at about 125mph, you'll have over three minutes to think about how far away from the impact crater the smaller gobbets will land.
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:32:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:30:17 EDT (#)
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are you based in the future?
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Yes, unfortunately, the sun explodes next week and all these financial worries are futile.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-10-02 13:30:17 EDT (#)
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are you based in the future?