Fear

The Baffling Disappearance of Lenny Dirickson #Paranormal

In 1998, Lenny Dirickson was having breakfast with his son when an unidentified man inquired about a horse Lenny had for sale. Lenny left with the man, but failed to return home. It was later revealed that Lenny had never advertised he had a horse for sale, leading to many unanswered questions. On March 14, 1998, 39 year old Leonard “Lenny” Dirickson and his 16 year old son Jared started their Saturday morning off typically as they ate breakfast together at Larry’s dairy farm near Cheyenne, Oklahoma. At 9 AM, as they were eating, a visitor arrived unannounced in what…

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31 Funny Memes for All Hallows’ Eve #Fun

Happy Halloween!!! I hope you’ve had a wonderfully spooky October so far. There are so many festive ways to celebrate this holiday, and I’ve done tons of them! I went through a themed corn maze, painted pumpkins, watched some scary movies, and Halloween partied to my heart’s content! The only problem with that is that now it’s the actual day of Halloween, I’m pooped! I don’t want to go to a crowded house party and be late for work tomorrow! I don’t even want to pass out candy to the non-existent children in my apartment building. I just want to cower under some covers and rot for 24-48 hours. 

If you’re pooped from seasonal activities, need not fear. Some hilarious memes are here! They will take you on a marginally seasonal journey through funny memes, tweets, and Tumblr posts the likes of which you’ve never seen. Say farewell to spooky season in style!

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#Paranormal

In a new Joe Rogan podcast, the British physicist Brian Cox argued that we hold a great responsibility for prolonging our civilization because it might be the only source of meaning in the cosmos. However, in the big scheme of the cosmos, the future existence of humans might not matter, for the same reason that the extinction of dinosaurs did not attract cosmic attention. Humans arrived at the cosmic scene only over the last percent of a percent of cosmic history and nobody at cosmological distances might care about it. Other cosmic players may have no interest in making their…

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26-year-old single mom living at her parent’s home asks to switch bedrooms with her 18-year-old brother for the second time, gets offended when he says no: ‘She was meant to be saving for the past year to move out’ #Fun

When I was a student, my biggest fear was being unable to get a postgrad job and being forced to live with my parents. It’s not that I don’t like hanging out with them, but the guilt and shame of potentially being a leach to the people I had been a leach to for 22 years already enough to motivate me to get gainfully employed. 

While that neurosis plagues me for better or for worse, that doesn’t mean that everyone who lives with their parents into their 20s is an unemployed slob who contributes nothing to the household. A lot of people work full-time, live at their parents’ house, and don’t disturb the peace in their family. It’s questionable whether the young mom in this story is doing the latter. She has a 2-year-old and is asking to switch bedrooms with her brother for a second time despite saying she plans to move out. 

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26 Memes That Ease the Passage of Time #Fun

Life really does seem to press the fast-forward button as you get older. Days blur into weeks, and months into years until it’s nearly November and you’re racking your brain trying to remember exactly what it is that you have been doing for the past eleven months. It can get scary, and what do we here at Memebase believe is the best response to fear? Why, looking at a selection of memes, of course. The existential horrors seem a lot less horror-y when they are pacified with or in funny internet pictures, and it is an easy and attention-consuming way of taking your mind off the calendar for a while. No doubt that so long as the clock keeps ticking, we will all still have an appetite for the silly ways we have of distracting ourselves from that. We’ve got to be grateful that we’ve got that dilemma figured out.

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How a 15th-Century Book Fueled the Salem Witch Trials #Paranormal

Theories about the causes of the Salem witch trials range from hallucinogenic mushrooms to psychological disorders and economic pressures. However, a new scientific study may have identified the real cause behind the infamous events in Massachusetts that led to the trial of more than 200 people and the execution of 19 by hanging over 300 years ago. The study points to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century as a crucial factor. By greatly increasing the spread of information, the press helped disseminate books on “demonology,” which fueled fear of witchcraft. One such book, Malleus Maleficarum (or…

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Andrew Holleran and the Violet Quill

Andrew Holleran (pseud.) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer and a significant contributor to post-Stonewall literature. He was a member of the Violet Quill, a group of gay writers who assembled in the early 1980s to critique each other’s work and to develop strategies to overcome corporate publishers’ reluctance to publish gay-themed novels. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division collects the works of the Violet Quill writers, including Andrew Holleran, and holds the first editions of their works in the Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection.

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Saint Joan of the Cross

Transformation from greedy and surly businesswoman to saint is the story of Saint Joan of the Cross. Her conversion is credited to an elderly woman who most people thought was crazy, but who reached Saint Joan’s heart. Joan of the Cross went on to found a religious congregation and several charitable institutions.

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Dear Lord! Fill our parents with Thy choicest blessings;
enrich their souls with Thy holy grace;
grant that they may faithfully
and constantly guard that likeness to Thy union with Thy Church,
which Thou didst imprint upon them on their wedding day.
Fill them with Thy spirit of holy fear,
which is the beginning of wisdom;
inspire them to impart it to their children.
May they ever walk in the way of Thy commandments,
and may we their children be their joy on earth …

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