Topic: Rational and Irrational Fears (Read 11425 times)

Classic · « **Reply #100 on:** March 08, 2009, 09:26:00 PM »

I once pressure cooked ground beef and lamb for so long that it no longer had any pieces large enough to be identifiable as meat. It was still a pretty yummy chili. It just had the consistency of canned chili.

Minus the botulism.

Brentai · « **Reply #101 on:** March 08, 2009, 09:33:26 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on March 08, 2009, 08:36:38 PM

Quote from: Bongo Bill on March 08, 2009, 01:15:12 PM
Yeah, that is solid meat amidst liquid flavored with juices from meat.

I think meat broth actually does count as a meat substance. Does it make vegetarians sick?

y, at least the ones I've known.

Büge · « **Reply #102 on:** March 09, 2009, 07:07:27 AM »

Quote from: Classic Is On Bandwagon on March 08, 2009, 09:26:00 PM

I once pressure cooked ground beef and lamb for so long that it no longer had any pieces large enough to be identifiable as meat. It was still a pretty yummy chili. It just had the consistency of canned chili.

Minus the botulism.

So uh. How did that turn out? You know... in the end.

Brentai · « **Reply #103 on:** March 09, 2009, 07:31:14 AM »

You know. In the end.

Mongrel · « **Reply #104 on:** March 09, 2009, 09:11:15 AM »

Personally, I would hope it came out the end.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #105 on:** March 09, 2009, 09:35:25 PM »

As the Watchmen thread should indicate, I've been rereading a lot of Delany lately, wherein I came across this quote: "Artists create in rebellion against the failure to create." With that in mind, I guess right now I feel almost paralyzed by the fear that I will never be as much of a rebel as I have always wanted to be--that, nine years from now, I will be no closer to my dream of being even a minorly successful game designer than I was nine years ago.

(...huh. Didn't realize people on ifMUD even noticed my coming or going. Guess that's something, at least.)

Guild · « **Reply #106 on:** March 10, 2009, 08:04:13 AM »

I remembered an irrational fear I have: I'm afraid that while showering I'll slip and rip my butthole open on that plunger that converts the bath to a shower.

Alex · « **Reply #107 on:** March 10, 2009, 08:40:18 PM »

So Guild is afraid of prison rape?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #108 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:48:40 AM »

When I'm asleep, I'm really susceptible to believing I've killed an animal that is resting beside me. There have been multiple times when I have thought I killed my girlfriend's cat because she was lying perfectly still next to me when I woke up in the middle of the night. This feeling is compounded when the animal is a deep sleeper and takes awhile to rouse.

Last night my family's new puppy came and slept with me before my mom had a chance to put her in her cage. I drifted in and out of sleep for a little before I finally woke up for a bit and felt the dog down at my feet. I reached down to pet her to make sure she was okay, and she was just lying there stiff as a board. This began freaking me out, as repeatedly poking her and trying to wake her did nothing. At that moment, I was convinced I somehow killed the dog for the brief period I was asleep. I even picked her up and moved her, and her body was so limp that I was still convinced she was dead. Eventually my mom came and got her and she moved around a bit, so I was relieved to see she wasn't dead.

Still, having an animal sleep in my bed has become one of the most terrifying things in the world to me.

Mongrel · « **Reply #109 on:** April 12, 2009, 07:54:38 PM »

Mah kitties are widdle barancles at night. They just clamp on my legs like lil hairy limpets. it's deadly cute :3

_{It did freak me out until I realized they're smart enough to not let me squash them while I'm asleep.}

Royal☭ · « **Reply #110 on:** April 12, 2009, 07:57:07 PM »

Well, while awake I realize that the animals will naturally move with me. It is while I am half-asleep that the thought that I have crushed them easily enters my brain.

François · « **Reply #111 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:10:28 PM »

And to think that every once in a while you hear about idiots who sleep with their babies and end up killing them. These people could use some of that fear.

Guild · « **Reply #112 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:23:35 PM »

Quote from: Kazuyalex on March 10, 2009, 08:40:18 PM

So Guild is afraid of prison rape?

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And Big Clyde. Fear of Big Clyde is a rational fear.

Kazz · « **Reply #113 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:30:43 PM »

You know how babies come into the world crying their asses off? And then they have that concerned-face all the time?

I'm afraid that, when I die, my soul will be shoved into a newborn and I'll be so upset at having to live life all over again that I'll start bawling. And then I'll be concerned because I've noticed that I am slowly forgetting everything about my past life, dooming me to repeat my old mistakes.

patito · « **Reply #114 on:** April 12, 2009, 09:22:43 PM »

Don't worry Kazz, we have no souls so that can't possibly happen.

Fredward · « **Reply #115 on:** April 12, 2009, 09:26:53 PM »

Spaco · « **Reply #116 on:** April 12, 2009, 11:10:25 PM »

I fear this topic will never address the issue of death seriously.

sei · « **Reply #117 on:** April 13, 2009, 12:38:49 AM »

Quote from: Spaco on April 12, 2009, 11:10:25 PM

I fear this topic will never address the issue of death dead seriously.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #118 on:** April 13, 2009, 09:49:50 PM »

Fishhooks and fishing poles with fish hooks tied. I'm always afraid someone will swing them wrong and catch me in the face.

Kayma · « **Reply #119 on:** April 13, 2009, 09:53:26 PM »

Fish hooks are to be feared and respected. That's not an irrational fear, that's sense.

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