Scientific Evidence of Monsters

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Timshel

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http://www.cracked.com/article/177_6-popular-monsters-myths-that-prove-humanity-doomed/

f you don't believe in monsters, you're part of a tiny minority of humans. Pretty much all of the cultures on Earth have believed in monsters for most of their history and, even stranger, they all believed in the same monsters. We recently pointed out that every culture has some variation of the vampire legend and that's true of all the standard monsters--zombies, werewolves, etc.

But why? Well, it has to do with the wiring of the human brain, the evolution of cultures and, most importantly, the fact that people are dicks. All of which may spell bad news for the human race...
 
In about 100 posts you'll tell us you weren't talking about scientific evidence for the EXISTENCE of monsters, since you left that word out.
 
Exoendo said:
wait so this must mean there ARE vampires! or else why would we believe in vampires??!?!?
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Of course there are vampires.... they are quite abundant in the District of Columbia... constantly sucking the life out of the citizens they supposedly represent.
 
the really funny thing is, we aren't distorting dixie's logic at all. This is his exact logic chain.

Someone really needs to make an image that we can post after dixie starts threads saying something like "**WARNING: DIXIE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS **"
 
Exoendo said:
the really funny thing is, we aren't distorting dixie's logic at all. This is his exact logic chain.

Someone really needs to make an image that we can post after dixie starts threads saying something like "**WARNING: DIXIE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS **"
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If I make an image, can you force Dixie to use it as his signature?
 
RStringfield said:
http://www.cracked.com/article/177_6-popular-monsters-myths-that-prove-humanity-doomed/

f you don't believe in monsters, you're part of a tiny minority of humans. Pretty much all of the cultures on Earth have believed in monsters for most of their history and, even stranger, they all believed in the same monsters. We recently pointed out that every culture has some variation of the vampire legend and that's true of all the standard monsters--zombies, werewolves, etc.

But why? Well, it has to do with the wiring of the human brain, the evolution of cultures and, most importantly, the fact that people are dicks. All of which may spell bad news for the human race...
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Monsters are used, and have been used, since the dawn of time as a tool of education and thus of control. Monsters who come in the night to eat villagers spawn heroes. Heroes spawn gods. Gods allow control. Control gives the controller a life of comfort and riches.
Monsters who lurk in dark places warn children not to go there. The Little Red Riding Hood's wolf serves to warn young girls that not everyone is safe to be with.
Organised education is a very modern development. For thousands of years most knowledge was handed down from parent to child in the form of stories.
 
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