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MollyBloom

Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: rotten.com---> a morbid post |
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Can you look at these websites? Sometimes I get curious, but it is too much for me to handle. Blood and gory things really don't bother me too much, but it's the pics where mouths are gaping and the dead have horrible looks on their faces that bother me...the whole psychological aspect of it all.
Can you remember the most disturbing thing you saw on that site?
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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no problem |
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IncognitoHFX

Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, me too.
It's funny, I can spend hours playing video games that involve hacking your opponents to bits with chainsaws or sending entire armies into machine gun nests knowing they'll be slaughtered... and I enjoy it.
But if it becomes personal, such as I hear a disturbing tale on the news or see a posthumous photograph of someone who thought they could leap from one skyscraper to another... then I can't handle it. Real, personalized visuals of death make me sick, as do stories, video and all of that.
I don't know why that is.
I think the worst case of it I experienced in years was when I got wind about that exhibit travelling the world with preserved, modified human corpses on display. The idea is really sick, and the lack of sanctity/respect they have for the human body really bothers me at a fundamental level... I can't really justify it either, as I'm not a religious person. This exhibit came up in a Philosophy class I was enrolled in towards the end of my studies the other year, and I was the only person who disagreed with the exhibit.
Before I was about to be laughed out of the discussion (when I was asked to defend myself to a bunch of people who thought "it's great for teaching the populace about science"), I just said that "I don't know why it bothers me... it just does. It really bothers me."
It's just a natural response I have to such things, I suppose.
But yes, rotten.com... haven't been there since I was in High School and I can't say I want to go back. |
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MollyBloom

Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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IncognitoHFX wrote: |
Yeah, me too.
It's funny, I can spend hours playing video games that involve hacking your opponents to bits with chainsaws or sending entire armies into machine gun nests knowing they'll be slaughtered... and I enjoy it.
But if it becomes personal, such as I hear a disturbing tale on the news or see a posthumous photograph of someone who thought they could leap from one skyscraper to another... then I can't handle it. Real, personalized visuals of death make me sick, as do stories, video and all of that.
I don't know why that is.
I think the worst case of it I experienced in years was when I got wind about that exhibit travelling the world with preserved, modified human corpses on display. The idea is really sick, and the lack of sanctity/respect they have for the human body really bothers me at a fundamental level... I can't really justify it either, as I'm not a religious person. This exhibit came up in a Philosophy class I was enrolled in towards the end of my studies the other year, and I was the only person who disagreed with the exhibit.
Before I was about to be laughed out of the discussion (when I was asked to defend myself to a bunch of people who thought "it's great for teaching the populace about science"), I just said that "I don't know why it bothers me... it just does. It really bothers me."
It's just a natural response I have to such things, I suppose.
But yes, rotten.com... haven't been there since I was in High School and I can't say I want to go back. |
Are you talking about that exhibit, Bodies? I was interested in seeing it, but then I saw on the news a special where the bodies might have been stolen corpses from China...which made me feel not so good. When I was younger I was thinking about getting into profiling or some other law enforcement job, like being a cop in the homicide department.
I went to the local state police headquarters one day after high school and explained my situation. The state police gave me a tour, let me talk to detectives and the people in charge of autopsies, even gave me a tour of the morgue. But after looking at some crime scene photos, I decided it was best that I not try to go for that job. |
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crescent

Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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www.muchosucko.com
It's all Rotten is, and much much more. Use the video link at the top left of the homepage. The most disturbing, was a video of some Middle Eastern guy getting his arms and legs pulled off by two trucks. Or maybe it was the machete attack in Ivory Coast.
No, it had to be the Japanese porn video with two girls eating each other's shit and puke. |
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OneWayTraffic
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: |
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crescent wrote: |
www.muchosucko.com
It's all Rotten is, and much much more. Use the video link at the top left of the homepage. The most disturbing, was a video of some Middle Eastern guy getting his arms and legs pulled off by two trucks. Or maybe it was the machete attack in Ivory Coast.
No, it had to be the Japanese porn video with two girls eating each other's shit and puke. |
Bookmarked.
Fwap fwap fwap.....
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mindmetoo
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Mostly not. I find several of those videos depressing and such images last with me a long time. Like the local politician who put a bullet in his brain in front of a press conference. There was another horrible one of Chechin rebels cutting the throats of Russian conscripts. It's weird how they sliced their throats and these guys just then went and lied down to die. One guy got up and ran for his life instead of getting his throat slit but they quickly shot him down. Still, I'd rather run for it. |
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PeteJB
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:11 am Post subject: |
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Hm I remember a long time ago when I was a teenager downloading music off peer to peer, one time I got this fake that ended up to be a video of some guy getting shot in the head (executed) and the image haunted me for a long time. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:18 am Post subject: |
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For your own sanity you'd be best advised to stay away from those sites!
You don't want to suffer from PTYD, or Post Traumatic Youtube Disorder.
PTYD often strikes after viewing something so horrendous on a website that it won't get out of your mind for over a month. |
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komtengi

Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:29 am Post subject: |
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I most admired the one of the guy who fell off his motorbike and ripped open his face |
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peach Mod Team


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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: |
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That's enough descriptions of what we've seen on the yucky sites, please.
Sites Posted are NOT Work-Safe
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Join Me

Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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OK. This one is sure to give me nightmares tonight I now know for certain why war screws people up for life. If I saw this in person, I would never be the same again.
http://poetry.rotten.com/failed-mission/ |
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IncognitoHFX

Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: |
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I'm just going to assume that it's god awful without even clicking on it, and perhaps you should attach a warning to it. Everything on that site is awful. |
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tfunk

Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: Re: rotten.com---> a morbid post |
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The most disturbing thing about those sites is the fact that they are interesting.
People in power (e.g. soldiers that are bored/frustrated/angry) push the boundaries the same way viewers on the internet are inclined to. I think the same compulsion that brings you to those sites is the same inclination to see something shocking in real life.
I see the potential for evil in me. |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Any of the beheading videos circa 2004 are just God awful. Still refuse to watch them. Accidents or shootings I can take, but those are just inhuman. |
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