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08-10-2006, 12:44 PM
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| | | C'mon CE, you have to fear something, everybody fears something.
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08-10-2006, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Siberys  When it's hot, it shrinks and when it's cold it expands... | I may not be reading this right but I think that it's the other way around. When it gets hot is expands and it contracts when it's cold. The only exception I'm aware of is water at/near freezing which will actually expand as it solidifies.
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08-10-2006, 01:16 PM
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| | | A towering feeling of superiority at least.
... Not that there's anything wrong with that. In my eyes it's healthy!
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08-10-2006, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Masa C'mon CE, you have to fear something, everybody fears something. | I do fear some things, like the ones I mentioned, but they are not irrational. Right now for instance I do fear that one of my best friends have lung cancer or something similar, but I won't know this until she passed the final examination tomorrow and the fear is not irrational since cancer cells were found in the fluids from her lungs. Last time I was afraid was when I was going on a motorbike without helmet in Mali, but then I thought "what the hell, this is my once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Great Mosque of Djenne at sunrise", and since this motorbike was the only possibility, I decided it was worth the risk, but the fear was not irrational since the piste was curvy and bumpy and it is not very good to ride a motorbike without helmet.
Before that I don't even remember the last time I was afraid. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Darzog CE, Just had to step in and lord your towering rationality over the rest of us huh? | I am a tower of rationality (a very small tower though of 5'2 or so), but I am a shrink for godssake and it would be really cheap if I couldn't even keep myself from irrational fears, eh?
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08-10-2006, 04:08 PM
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| | | Well CE, my question to you is this: Do you fear fear itself? |
08-10-2006, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Phreddie Well CE, my question to you is this: Do you fear fear itself? | I fear (well, too strong word perhaps, I dislike) irrational fear, which is not irrational since irrational fear keeps you from doing things and make you avoid things and generally takes energy for no good reason at all since the fear is irrational.
I do not fear rational fear though, which is also rational, because rational fear in an important survival mechanisms that keeps us less inclined to expose ourselves for unnecessary risky situations.
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08-10-2006, 04:50 PM
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08-10-2006, 04:57 PM
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| | @BS: Heed the words of Marie Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
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08-10-2006, 05:01 PM
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| | | I can't think of any irrational fears that I have anymore.
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08-10-2006, 05:14 PM
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| | | A question to all spider phobics: A friend of mine with spider phobia recently stayed in our flat. He was sleeping in our computer room but - his phobia is so strong so I had to remove my toy spider which is hanging from a lamp in the ceiling! He said he could never sleep in the same room as this spider!
Here is a photo of the plush spider in question. It's about 25 cm across, the body is maybe 8-9 cm. I think it is so cute. What do you think, would this trigger your phobia?
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08-10-2006, 05:26 PM
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| | | If I had a spider phobia that would definitely trigger it.
And if you had something similar but as a snake I wouldn't be able to sleep near it either.
Attached is a picture similar to what my neighbors have and if it's on the ground I can't walk within about 10 feet of it. And once I see it, I have to watch it intently if it is in my line of sight. I can't walk past it without turning around and keeping my eye on it until I go around a corner. |
08-10-2006, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by C Elegans Here is a photo of the plush spider in question. It's about 25 cm across, the body is maybe 8-9 cm. I think it is so cute. What do you think, would this trigger your phobia? | It would have done when I was little but my phobia is no where near as bad anymore - in fact I happily sleep in my flat and its full of real spiders  Its really only spiders that look a certain way that bother me lol
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08-10-2006, 07:14 PM
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I think the spider is great!
Though, admittedly, I don't have a spider phobia. I always wanted a pet tarantula when I was a kid, but my parents just weren't supportive *sniff*
A number of years ago my SO and I were in Mexico, and coming back from a meal one night, we saw a tarantula squatted just outside of our door. Much to my SO's horror (I was pregnant at the time) I knelt relatively near so I could take a look at it....beautiful animals IMO. 
Sorry, I know this thread was about fears and not spider appreciation 
More on topic, I tend to be afraid of some illnesses, stuff like meningitis, for example, but I don't know if you could really call that irrational, since the consequences of contracting such a disease can be so severe.... Equally, I'm nervous about eating fish when out, but that is because I have an anaphylactic reaction to several species.
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08-10-2006, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by C Elegans A question to all spider phobics: A friend of mine with spider phobia recently stayed in our flat. He was sleeping in our computer room but - his phobia is so strong so I had to remove my toy spider which is hanging from a lamp in the ceiling! He said he could never sleep in the same room as this spider!
Here is a photo of the plush spider in question. It's about 25 cm across, the body is maybe 8-9 cm. I think it is so cute. What do you think, would this trigger your phobia? | I probably wouldn't want it hanging over my head if that's where it was located (not a fun way to wake up at night, looking up to see that) but otherwise I'd be fine with it. I would probably be more afraid of the fact that you find such a thing "cute" as opposed to "tacky". |
08-10-2006, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TonyMontana1638 I would probably be more afraid of the fact that you find such a thing "cute" as opposed to "tacky". | Cute and tacky are surprisingly often one and the same. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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