morbid humor

[anotheranon]

I couldn't resist, and it is SOO wrong!





You probably like Nu-rock & Manson more then anything else, and the only reason the work "goth" is ever attached to you is because you're ignorant friends think anything in black = goth. You're still young though, and at least you probably have a bad-ass collection of collars.

What kind of goth are you?

Created by ptocheia

Even worse, courtesy This Is Broken: what a great place to put a playground!

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

COOOLL!!!! I used to LOVE going to the cemetery when I was a kid ... I still like them now, especially old ones. :-)

[semmie17.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.... I love that playground! A lot of the phobia against death nowadays comes from the idea that we have to hide it away -- that some how it's dirty or unclean. Maybe if we don't look at death, it will go away? This is so weird. To the Medieval mind, death is a natural part of life, inevitable and inescapable. Memento Mori "Remember me after I die" was the common thought in the middle ages. I suspect it was Queen Victoria's unnaturally long mourning for Alfred that turned the Western world into death-phobes -- no one was allowed to speak of death around her.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

The notion of sheltering children from the concept of death, whether of people or pets, is especially harmful ... means each generation is more deathphobic than the previous one. I'm grateful to have grown up a farm kid ... death was an everyday part of life. I helped find and bury a stillborn calf when I was nine, was present at a difficult calving that ended up paralyzing the cow when I was just a couple of years older, saw many farrowings (birth of piglets) which often involved a dead piglet or two (plus piglets could be accidentally crushed by sows later on). Not to mention deaths of various dogs, cats, rabbits (we did have pet ones as children, long before Dad took up raising 'em for the Toronto restaurant market).

One of my most striking cemetery memories is going to visit my paternal grandfather's grave with my grandmother, seeing her study the slightly sunken rectangle in the ground and then remark that she'd better see about getting more dirt on there ... my first irreverent thought (which I kept to myself) was "Why? You worried he's gonna get out?" (well, heck, he'd been dead over 20 years ... if he was planning an escape, he'd have done it long before). More parents should take their children cemetery strolling ... look at the old stones, read the inscriptions, visit friends and family. Make it NORMAL!!!! 'cause it IS!!!!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Wow, all this discussion and all I posted was a pic of a slide aiming right into a headstone! :P

Seriously - there are probably a lot of things that need to be demystified in this world, death and sex being the main two, IMHO. Death in particular is something that everyone who has ever been or ever will be will have to go through, no sense running away from it!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Ever get the feeling that you touched on a topic that people feel strongly about? ;-)

I agree with your top two on the demystification list ... I'm currently reading The Politics of Lust, which examines the origins and spread of erotophobia in our culture. Interestingly, this book has been causing me to consider parallels in the growth of cultural phobias about sex and phobias about death ... and then your post appeared. Can I call this another theme day? :P

Feel better now?

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

And that's all I've got to say about that.

What kind of goth are you?

Created by ptocheia

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Death and Sex Theme Day it is. How does one celebrate? ;)

And thanks for the book pointer, yet again - it does sound like something I'd like to read. I'm also reading through your other findings at the new book store you explored. I'm about to finish my current stack of library books!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Death and Sex Theme Day it is. How does one celebrate? ;)

Good question. Dress up as a praying mantis and devour your significant other while making love? Though I would imagine that could run into high expenses, not to mention explanations to family, friends and cops. =o

Always glad to share my book discoveries and am happy to know that they appeal. :-)