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After reading Borats comments in the, um 'interesting' topic in General Chat about, er, 'tasting ones produce', I began to think about one of his comments, that odd thing one could call 'morbid curiosity', that rather strange event where we are interested in things that really we don't want to see any more than the next person.
It's like seeing something so shocking that you can't help but look. Not in the sense that once you establish eye contact you can't help but look again and again (unless the person really is that shocking..), but in the sense we see something, usually very morbid and want to see more, while the other part of us feels revulsion. Of course, there are some things people never like to see because of the inate reaction, such as death and sickness, because they invoke primal fears within us that are to much to combat. I think. Anyway, it's more to do with the other things..
Websites like 'Rotten' (my curiosity has so far never taken me there) are infamous for their horrific pictures and the like. I remember in one of my classrooms at school there were photos of horrific sporting injuries (really vile things) and there was an image of a hand cut in half on the middle finger joint, so the tips were on the floor while bone peeked out the remaining arm. It was nauseating, and yet I couldn't help but look at it. I think this is because it is natural curiosity, just it falls into the category of morbid because of the subject matter. The same with the aforementioned topic - people will click on it because of a morbid interest and curiosity in the matter. I'm not totally sure what I'm trying to grasp, except I do have a fascination in the way humans work, in particularly (actually, exclusively) in their minds, and the so-called 'Human Condition'.
Any thoughts? Bit random, but hey, that's why it's here and nowhere else!
It's like seeing something so shocking that you can't help but look. Not in the sense that once you establish eye contact you can't help but look again and again (unless the person really is that shocking..), but in the sense we see something, usually very morbid and want to see more, while the other part of us feels revulsion. Of course, there are some things people never like to see because of the inate reaction, such as death and sickness, because they invoke primal fears within us that are to much to combat. I think. Anyway, it's more to do with the other things..
Websites like 'Rotten' (my curiosity has so far never taken me there) are infamous for their horrific pictures and the like. I remember in one of my classrooms at school there were photos of horrific sporting injuries (really vile things) and there was an image of a hand cut in half on the middle finger joint, so the tips were on the floor while bone peeked out the remaining arm. It was nauseating, and yet I couldn't help but look at it. I think this is because it is natural curiosity, just it falls into the category of morbid because of the subject matter. The same with the aforementioned topic - people will click on it because of a morbid interest and curiosity in the matter. I'm not totally sure what I'm trying to grasp, except I do have a fascination in the way humans work, in particularly (actually, exclusively) in their minds, and the so-called 'Human Condition'.
Any thoughts? Bit random, but hey, that's why it's here and nowhere else!
Morbid Curiosity?
Did anyone watch that programme tonight about parasites?
oh my GOD it nearly made me wretch, but I was compelled to watch. One guy volunteered to have a tape worm grow in his gut. when it left his body, it was more than 7 foot long.
truly sick
Did anyone watch that programme tonight about parasites?
oh my GOD it nearly made me wretch, but I was compelled to watch. One guy volunteered to have a tape worm grow in his gut. when it left his body, it was more than 7 foot long.
truly sick
English_Bloke wrote:
> I am only going to the PM under the advice of my tutor so that I’m
> not so shocked when I see my first dead body, first body that has
> been dead for a while or maybe even something like a decapitation.
Heh. I'm doing a forensics course next year. Not looking forward to the grusome stuff. Maybe I should have a look on rotten to prepare myself...
:^)
> I am only going to the PM under the advice of my tutor so that I’m
> not so shocked when I see my first dead body, first body that has
> been dead for a while or maybe even something like a decapitation.
Heh. I'm doing a forensics course next year. Not looking forward to the grusome stuff. Maybe I should have a look on rotten to prepare myself...
:^)
it's all to do with the fascination of something different, something we *shouldn't* look at. If someone told us not to look at something for whatever reason we would always wonder *why* we have been told not to look. When it comes to things like dead bodies or the hand cut open which someone spoke about, we try not to look because we do not want to appear morbid but we want to, as someone said it's just natural.
It's like if we got told *not* to look over a wall, we wonder why we cannot look and what is beyond that wall, therefore many of us will climb that wall to look at what it is we cannot look at.
It's like if we got told *not* to look over a wall, we wonder why we cannot look and what is beyond that wall, therefore many of us will climb that wall to look at what it is we cannot look at.
I realise that. It's perhaps a morbid fascination that grows out of seeing things like that.
And things like Rotten, and rubbish like that.
And things like Rotten, and rubbish like that.
Sometimes such images can be an education.
What if there were no pictures of such things in Wars, would we be as appalled at the holocaust had we not seen images of the camps and mass graves of naked bodies?
What if there were no pictures of such things in Wars, would we be as appalled at the holocaust had we not seen images of the camps and mass graves of naked bodies?
English_Bloke wrote:
> Black Glove wrote:
> I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
>
> And this is what scares me
Don't worry. I wouldn't waste my time seeking out such images. But if I happen to stumble upon them, then yes, I would watch.
> Black Glove wrote:
> I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
>
> And this is what scares me
Don't worry. I wouldn't waste my time seeking out such images. But if I happen to stumble upon them, then yes, I would watch.
Black Glove wrote:
> I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
And this is what scares me
> I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
And this is what scares me
I like watching lions and tigers slaughter zebras and wildebeests, and I'm a vegetarian. When I see footage of executions, fatal accidents or soliders being killed in documentaries, I *really* watch.
I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
I think it's natural to want to see gruesome images.
Morbid curiosity is indeed curious.
I will soon be attending a post mortem in the line of duty to try to prepare me for anything I may see. I have seen pictures since joining the force of car crashes, injuries and all sorts, why anyone in their spare time would go searching for these pictures is beyond me.
I am only going to the PM under the advice of my tutor so that I’m not so shocked when I see my first dead body, first body that has been dead for a while or maybe even something like a decapitation.
Blood on the whole doesn’t bother me, just the other day we were dealing with a guy who’s hands were bleeding a lot, I didn’t think twice about it. But it does genuinely concern me that there are people that “enjoy” looking at these horror injuries.
Human nature, is it?
Oh, I also think Rotten is one of the worst web sites about and as I think I have said, can’t understand the mentality of the people who search it for “fun”.
I will soon be attending a post mortem in the line of duty to try to prepare me for anything I may see. I have seen pictures since joining the force of car crashes, injuries and all sorts, why anyone in their spare time would go searching for these pictures is beyond me.
I am only going to the PM under the advice of my tutor so that I’m not so shocked when I see my first dead body, first body that has been dead for a while or maybe even something like a decapitation.
Blood on the whole doesn’t bother me, just the other day we were dealing with a guy who’s hands were bleeding a lot, I didn’t think twice about it. But it does genuinely concern me that there are people that “enjoy” looking at these horror injuries.
Human nature, is it?
Oh, I also think Rotten is one of the worst web sites about and as I think I have said, can’t understand the mentality of the people who search it for “fun”.
After reading Borats comments in the, um 'interesting' topic in General Chat about, er, 'tasting ones produce', I began to think about one of his comments, that odd thing one could call 'morbid curiosity', that rather strange event where we are interested in things that really we don't want to see any more than the next person.
It's like seeing something so shocking that you can't help but look. Not in the sense that once you establish eye contact you can't help but look again and again (unless the person really is that shocking..), but in the sense we see something, usually very morbid and want to see more, while the other part of us feels revulsion. Of course, there are some things people never like to see because of the inate reaction, such as death and sickness, because they invoke primal fears within us that are to much to combat. I think. Anyway, it's more to do with the other things..
Websites like 'Rotten' (my curiosity has so far never taken me there) are infamous for their horrific pictures and the like. I remember in one of my classrooms at school there were photos of horrific sporting injuries (really vile things) and there was an image of a hand cut in half on the middle finger joint, so the tips were on the floor while bone peeked out the remaining arm. It was nauseating, and yet I couldn't help but look at it. I think this is because it is natural curiosity, just it falls into the category of morbid because of the subject matter. The same with the aforementioned topic - people will click on it because of a morbid interest and curiosity in the matter. I'm not totally sure what I'm trying to grasp, except I do have a fascination in the way humans work, in particularly (actually, exclusively) in their minds, and the so-called 'Human Condition'.
Any thoughts? Bit random, but hey, that's why it's here and nowhere else!
It's like seeing something so shocking that you can't help but look. Not in the sense that once you establish eye contact you can't help but look again and again (unless the person really is that shocking..), but in the sense we see something, usually very morbid and want to see more, while the other part of us feels revulsion. Of course, there are some things people never like to see because of the inate reaction, such as death and sickness, because they invoke primal fears within us that are to much to combat. I think. Anyway, it's more to do with the other things..
Websites like 'Rotten' (my curiosity has so far never taken me there) are infamous for their horrific pictures and the like. I remember in one of my classrooms at school there were photos of horrific sporting injuries (really vile things) and there was an image of a hand cut in half on the middle finger joint, so the tips were on the floor while bone peeked out the remaining arm. It was nauseating, and yet I couldn't help but look at it. I think this is because it is natural curiosity, just it falls into the category of morbid because of the subject matter. The same with the aforementioned topic - people will click on it because of a morbid interest and curiosity in the matter. I'm not totally sure what I'm trying to grasp, except I do have a fascination in the way humans work, in particularly (actually, exclusively) in their minds, and the so-called 'Human Condition'.
Any thoughts? Bit random, but hey, that's why it's here and nowhere else!