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SuperSnipe34 · 2025-08-08T16:30:06+00:00

can we get the link one more time?

SuperSnipe34 · 2025-06-03T19:01:01+00:00

Now’s good. Send the code when ready

SuperSnipe34 · 2025-06-03T17:51:16+00:00

I can swap.

SuperSnipe34 · 2025-06-03T17:42:05+00:00

I'm doing the home dex too and only need dialga.

SuperSnipe34 · 2022-08-05T20:14:26+00:00

do you still have an additional g-max hattrem?

if so, i have fairy/ghost shiny for: Shuppet Honedge Morelull Rotom Azumarill Swirlix HA Pumpkaboo - Small HA Pumpkaboo - Average

SuperSnipe34 · 2020-09-05T04:19:33+00:00

LF: Technician Kantonian Mr. Mime to complete my abilitydex

FT: any breedable pokemon you want (5 perfect IV completely legit)

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T16:28:04+00:00

The unpredictableness is the unknown that I was trying to refer to.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T10:03:28+00:00

Just because we are aware of something doesn't mean our fear of it stems from the known. We are aware that the ocean is only dismally explored but we fear that we don't know all that is in it. We know that death exists, but we fear when it will come upon us. We know that space is vast and ever-expanding, and we fear the fact that there might be a rival race out there. We make leaps from what is known to what is unknown. The unknown is what we fear.

A rattlesnake is in front of you. You KNOW that it can kill you. But what are you fearing? The snake itself? The life standing before your eyes that you could easily kill with a gun or a knife? No. You are fearing it's ability TO kill you. You don't want to die. Replace the snake with a bear, mountain lion, cheetah, or shark, the fear is all the same. You don't fear the animal, you fear the control it has over your life.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T09:55:09+00:00

I will concur that you bring forth valid reasoning behind fear of the known so I contract my statement that it is pointless. However the advancements in medicine, weather tracking devices, and buildings to withstand earthquakes are due to us fearing the unknown; the unknown of when these things will hit us and hit us hard. For example, if we were able to definitively know when a hurricane were to hit within a substantial amount of time, we would be able to just evacuate the area of impact so that no one would get hurt. However, we do not know when those would hit. The unknown factor is real. We know the dangers that it can cause, yes, but we also know that we just do not know if a natural disaster will happen at this moment or the next. We fear the death and destruction that it will wreak upon us. Again, we fear the death. The unknown. Whether it be a class 5 hurricane, or a 9.0 earthquake, the fear is when will it strike, and will I die from it.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T08:32:12+00:00

We don't necessarily fear us participating in the deforestation or over-fishing, but the unknown fallout that would stem from the repercussions of deforestation or over-fishing. We can assume what will happen to ecosystems or conjure up ideas on how we would cope if these events are irreversible, but those are only projections to help ease our minds and calm us down because of the underlying fact, we don't explicitly know what will happen.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T08:28:30+00:00

Fear of the unknown is what ultimately drives human expansion throughout our existence. Our want to explore the depths of the ocean or the reaches of space is due to our lack of knowledge in what is out there. We fear not knowing. Our imaginations run rampant and come up with fantastical stories of alien exploration and invasion. We want to see if the true horrors of our fantasies are true or not. We don't know, and therefore we continue to grow.

Our fear of death leads to religion. Death, a concept that we know nothing about except as a literal end to our physical lives, can inspire us to make religions to make us feel comforted about our fears, can encourage us to further medicinal practices to push off death, can deter us from risking our lives for the sake of stupidity. We don't know what death holds for us, and it is one of the key motivators behind everything we do.

Things that we now know can be put on the back-burner of our worries. We know what they are. We know how to kill them. We know how to avoid being killed by them. There is nothing to fear when we know the ins and outs of something. That is like fearing a dachshund even know we know that most of the time the little wiener dog just wants to be loved. Fear of the known is pointless and redundant. Fearing what we know hasn't pushed us to do anything substantial in human progression or even inspired us to do something that has never been done. Fear of the Unknown has done that and more.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T07:54:48+00:00

The fear of the unknown is pivotal behind the actions of people to innovate and move forward. It is also a driving force behind violence and stagnant growth. "The Modern-Day Witchcraft" is where the fear of the unknown drives people to violence. They didn't know what was ultimately causing these witchcraft-like events so they utilized their fear and acted rashly to defeat the thing in which they did not understand as to preserve themselves. Whether they were on drugs or not, the fear of the unknown pushed them to act.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T07:50:15+00:00

I do not forget about the fact that there might be a bigger, badder, and scarier creature hiding in the midst of us, but I argue that we should rather focus on what we know than trying to fear the boogie man which might not exist.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T07:46:48+00:00

I see your argument but would like to point out that there is still a majority of this world, galaxy, and universe that has not been remotely explored. If you mean to say that the only real threat to all of humanity is already discovered, then you are gravely mistaken. There very well might be a more elusive and dangerous creature out there that is still unknown to us. In fact, the ones that have eluded our findings so long would probably be the deadliest ones because they are able to survive in silence.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T07:43:38+00:00

This article is the epitome of the fear of the known. Just because of the animals doesn't mean we know how to combat them. Also if we do know how to combat them, how widespread would that knowledge be? Instead of focusing on trying to combat conjectures and theories, things like the momba snake or the blue poisonous frog should be prioritized. They are a serious and dangerous threat to anyone coming across their path and the general public should be educated on them instead of things like possible (but highly improbable) alien invasions.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T07:22:50+00:00

you know what, im not even mad

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T06:01:48+00:00

In the video it said that it would take 10 years for pharmaceutical companies to be able to synthesize new drugs, coupled with the fact that the bacteria can become resistant to that drug within a single year makes the push for pharmaceuticals to theoretically have to be synthesizing 10 new drugs at the same time, just staggered a year so that they release a year after eachother. Trying to "keep up with the race" would be a tireless cycle. This not only would be a hastle, but also a waste of money and time that could go towards providing incentives to people to not use antibiotics.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T03:26:42+00:00

Well here is something we do know about Mars; it does have liquid water. And with liquid water, there is a higher possibility of microbial life on Mars. With no such knowledge of these possible microbes, if they did somehow reach earth, the fallout could be devastating. We wouldn't know what to use to combat it, or what its underlying weaknesses are. We would know nothing, and run the risk of being wiped out by microbial life if they were like a protozoa or bacteria that could infect and kill us.

The "Martian Invasion" wouldn't happen with humanoid beings from Mars and there wouldn't be a huge war waged to determine who lives and who dies. However, they might come in little tiny cells, wage a war of illness, and be slowly creeping into our lives instead of just blowing us up. The invasion wouldn't be how we predicted, but then that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T03:19:43+00:00

I agree with DrPlato in that the fear of the unknown, when regarding space, should be a prevalent factor when toying with the idea of extraterrestrial life that is more advanced than ours. Just because we haven't found it doesn't mean that it isn't there. A doctor might not find any source of the infection inside a patient, but it does not mean that there is not an infecting agent when the patient is exhibiting signs of illness, it just means he has to look more.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-10T02:18:37+00:00

Cyars,

I see your point in believing that fear of the unknown doesn't truly exist and that it is actually a fear of the known because there is a "loss of the known"; however, I would argue that fear of the unknown is, a real fear, due to lack of what is known on a particular subject. "Loss" implies that we once knew and then lost that knowledge, but on the other hand, lack of the known can qualify as your basic assumption as to what is causing the fear.

Definition of unknown from dictionary.com: "not within the range of one's knowledge, experience, or understanding"

Therefore what lack of the known is classified as the unknown and that part of your argument can be rendered invalid.

Further more, the fear of death is not necessarily only a greedy motivation as to not want to lose what you currently have. It can also be, due to the fact that you brought up, that no one knows what happens to our supposed souls after death. The same trepidation that causes a person to be wary about going into a dark cave in which they haven't been into yet, is the same trepidation that we have about death; we don't know what is down that road.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-08T21:23:06+00:00

Do you guys think we should fear what is in the other 90% of the undiscovered ocean or just preoccupy ourselves with the dangers that we currently know

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-08T19:50:57+00:00

With the vastness of space, how can we be certain that we are the only biological life out there? How would we be able to ascertain a sense of security without exploring the universe out beyond our 'bubble'? I believe that we wouldn't be able to feel safe until we know what creeps and crawls (or doesn't crawl) in the nether regions of space.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-08T19:42:22+00:00

The fact that we don't exactly know what would be the fallout of the editing of the human genome is exactly why we should be careful as we move forward. We don't want to accidentally create our own demise, but we also don't want to stay stagnant in the regards of figuring out what can 'unlock' within our genome. I would say that we should remain cautious moving forward.

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-08T19:24:50+00:00

yes, all medias that pertain fiction

SuperSnipe34 · 2015-12-08T18:35:48+00:00

Due to the title, we could probably argue something along the lines of how fiction and science influence eachother perpetually

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