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You are a pheonix.

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If you were to look at the inside of my home, you'd find a bunch of gruesome movie posters, movies about horror and madness, and lots of books about urban legends, witches (and various religions), serial killers, and forensics...and a bunch of other stuff people think is creepy.

You know what though, I'm not a creepy person. I'm not scary or dangerous, I'm not men to anyone who doesn't deserve it (that's right, I decide!), but all in all, I'm basically okay. I am fascinated by the way artists use fear to manipulate emotions. I look at those Night Gallery paintings almost every day. I am curiously interested in what makes someone want to kill a bunch of people they don't even know.

Yesterday I heard about the murder of someone I barely know. I am aware that I have some issues with the finality of it all...so I choose a belief system that incompasses reincarnation (no smart mouth from you, CrankyPants).

In person, knowing that someone hated another person with so much rage that they murdered that person up close, without even a gun--its just so awful. The mental process that goes on with that is horrifying. So why is it so fascinating?

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I assume you're talking about that Blockbuster employee. Yeah, that was a terrible story. That murder was the fourth or fifth in Ann Arbor already this year. I find murder fascinating too, though much less than you, I'm sure. I think its horror goes hand in hand with the fascination. If that behavior wasn't so heinous, extreme and foreign, it wouldn't be so interesting.

I guess.

Seems obvious to me. I'm sure the reasons go a lot deeper than that, though. For instance, perhaps we all have a murderous impulse somewhere in our unconscious (or maybe not-so-unconscious) that stories of murder appeal to as well.

We are information-gathering, category-using, judgement-making creatures. We look to see what happens to others to see if it will happen to us, if we relate to either side, and because we have loads of curiosity. Why do people rubberneck on the road? It's not like you haven't seen forty gazillion wrecks before, but it's human nature to peek. It's human nature to be fascinated with the morbid and forbidden, too...why do you think so many faerie tales and myths are so dark and gruesome?

Apparently, I'm a Muse. Huh. Who knew.

You are a muse.

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No smart mouth from me.....

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It's fascinating because we have empathy.