they're not scary.
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they're not scary.
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You only see human skeletons when something very, very bad happens to a person. So most cultures around the world began to associate human skeletons with bad things happening to people. Human instinct isn't all that deep.
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I really doubt anyone thinks that way.Originally Posted by IronyTaken
I think it is pretty simple. Nobody is used to seeing a skeleton every day on your life. There are no resurrected skeletons walking on the street, working beside us in work or playing basketball with us in school.
However, people who are in contact with death, skeletal bodies or pretty much all of the disgusting stuff we see on TV everyday, they are not scared of it and not even taunted.
But of course all that voodoo hoodoo, hardcore religious stuff comes in effect and it is pretty hard to judge on it correctly.
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^ What Z0M said, they're not scary.
They are horrifying, I think, but not scary. Like all that gory stuff in us as well, that's just horror.
I think for something to make us fearful, it would have to play on the psyche and penetrate deep into some... threat to our being.
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Well I have met a lot of people in my life and most don't like to hear what makes themselves tick.
They don't like knowing about what goes on in their mind.
That what makes you....you....is just genetics and some chemical reactions.
If you ever knew a person with dementia you would know what I mean.
The person you once knew is no longer there due to it.
Everything that made them what they were is mostly gone.
And I think most people are not afraid of death itself but if anything comes after it or if they will just end up being an inanimate object that will lose what made them different in the first place.
Sure a skeleton carries some differences in anatomy but they are all inanimate.
They don't feel, think or breathe.
They just become objects.
That object was once a living breathing human.
And that object is what you will become.
Humans don't usually think too deeply into their own emotions or actions unless something peaks their interest but there are usually deeper meanings whether we try to simplify them or not.
You are partially right that skeletons are scary because most of us are not around them all the time.
But getting used to something doesn't mean you get rid of the fear for it.
You just build up resistance to it.
You begin to understand it.
For example, even when someone understands the mind of a killer and is always around them (as in a job) it doesn't mean they are not afraid of them.
The same can be said for other things.
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Skeleton army > Zombie army
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Zombies would be skeletons if all their flesh fell off.
Although without a brain they wouldn't operate.
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Even people who deal with them on a daily basis would still be scared if one got up growled at them and started chasing them.
idk about you guys but I have never seens a walking skeleton. But yes skeletons just lying around eh not very scary or horrifying its just a pile of calcium thats shapped into bones.
I would be more freaked out by a skeleton if it still had the outer membrane layer that houses the blood cells and nerves...
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@kurono I saw evil dead skeleton armies can be beaten as long as you have one man who has a chainsaw for a hand!
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Half decomposed body is scarier
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Dunno why people freak when it comes to skeletons, they're really easy to disassemble.
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Skeletons are morbid but not scary.
A decaying corpse that smells of death is way more scary. The smell adds atmosphere.
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