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Author Topic: Rational and Irrational Fears  (Read 11895 times)

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2009, 05:36:16 PM »

Biggest spider I've ever seen in person, from this summer, outside my window. Maybe 6cm long. I never saw it move from there; it was probably dead by the time we noticed it. I... I suppose it ran out of things to eat.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2009, 05:53:20 PM »

Biggest spider I've ever seen in person...Maybe 6cm long.

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2009, 05:56:27 PM »

don't post spider pictures

linking is ok
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2009, 06:14:11 PM »

Ok, I thinks it's safe to say:  We all hate spiders!
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #44 on: March 01, 2009, 06:23:13 PM »

I like spiders.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2009, 06:26:41 PM »

Biggest spider I've ever seen in person...Maybe 6cm long.

 :lol:

Yeah I know that's not much. It takes a lot for exothermic creatures of a certain size to survive even a single winter here. That it even got that big is extremely unusual.

don't post spider pictures

linking is ok

Yes that is exactly what I figured. Good of you to point it out though.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #48 on: March 01, 2009, 07:04:29 PM »

Biggest spider I've ever seen in person, from this summer, outside my window. Maybe 6cm long. I never saw it move from there; it was probably dead by the time we noticed it. I... I suppose it ran out of things to eat.

Hey! That's the same size and type as our friend!

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #49 on: March 01, 2009, 10:34:00 PM »

Echoing the sentiments of keeping spiders out of sight, out of mind. They forever wage the war upon the insectkind, and for that they have my eternal gratitude. Howver, giving them voting rights, or allowing them to drink from my water fountain, are out of the question.

:racist: Some species are more equal than others.


linking is ok

::3: Sleep tight.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #50 on: March 02, 2009, 03:01:03 AM »

I panic slightly around ants, but I was sort of swarmed and hospitalized because of a fire ant hill when I was a kid.  Other than a more-than-usually perverse interest in destroying the damn things I don't let it slow me down much.

Spiders I kill on sight, because I simply don't believe they should be allowed to live where I can see them.

Man, I just hate things with more than four legs (because they are often poisonous and like to think they can live in my house without consulting me for a background check) and it seems to work out fine when it comes to indiscriminate killings.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #51 on: March 02, 2009, 03:33:08 AM »

However, I will never kill them because I whole-heartedly believe that its spider friends will find out that I killed one of their buddies and gang up on me.

A friend of mine smashed a spider on his ceiling and left the corpse there for months "as a warning". Apparently they stayed away after that.

Personally, I think spiders are neat. Most creepy crawlies don't bother me at all. Spiders, bees, centipedes, cockroaches, I get along with all of them quite famously. Naturally, I have a healthy respect for the more venomous of our invertebrate brethren—I certainly never want to meet a camel spider in real life—but that's all perfectly rational. For the most part none of them horrify me on a deep, psychological level, as if a creature of pure nightmare had somehow spawned itself into the physical world of chitin and hæmolymph through an act of sheer blasphemy.

With the notable exception of one particular order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidZrcH5XJE

The technical term is lepidopteraphobia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_FZwNB5ANE

The fact that they are without exception completely fucking harmless apparently has no bearing on my reaction to these aberrant little fuckers. Their shape, their motion, something about them gives me the shivers like nothing else. At least, nothing that doesn't already live at the bottom of the god damn ocean.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #52 on: March 02, 2009, 05:38:37 AM »

O. Hakubi's avatar.

Damn that's scary.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #53 on: March 02, 2009, 07:39:21 AM »

I got bit by a brown recluse in my youth (Warning: read the 'habitat' section and never sleep again).  I was informed this is very difficult as they actually lack the jaw strength to inflict a serious bite on a person.

I noticed I had a purple spot on my inside left thigh about the size of a quarter.  The next day it was the size of a CD.

I was put in the hospital.  I was put on various drugs that they said would try to let me keep that spot of flesh.  Because if the flesh decayed they would have to extract the dead flesh.  The detailed description of this process the doctor explained to me, a young boy in the sixth grade, was horrifying.

A week later, they managed to purge the venom and the flesh healed up nicely.  I now keep about three kinds of insect killing products on hand under my kitchen sink and under my bathroom sink.  I used to keep a lighter next to them until I realized I am more likely to burn the apartment complex down than hear the spider scream.  I did take particularly sick joy in trapping one in the microwave.  Death to spiders.

EDIT: Oh wow, they have a name for what happens to you when one bites you: Loxoscelism.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #54 on: March 02, 2009, 09:16:45 AM »

The fact that they are without exception completely fucking harmless apparently has no bearing on my reaction to these aberrant little fuckers.

Actually there are some wicked poisonous ones in Japan, which is why they always trot out moths as something that may actually be intimidating.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #55 on: March 02, 2009, 09:21:52 AM »

Moths are terrifying.  They swoop around crazily and it's awful.  I also dislike butterflies for the same reason.

Actually, the only bugs I'm not scared of are Monarch caterpillars and lady bugs.  And really tiny ants.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #56 on: March 02, 2009, 10:28:31 AM »

Actually there are some wicked poisonous ones in Japan, which is why they always trot out moths as something that may actually be intimidating.

...you're not helping. :ohshi~:
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #57 on: March 02, 2009, 11:25:39 AM »

I've never really been afraid of any sort of bug or backyard creepy crawly. I mean, yeah, I freaked out this one time because a wasp decided to sit on my shoulder, but I've never been stung or bitten by anything, not even that time. And it's not for a lack of things out to get me; my older brother was practically tormented by wasps and bees as a child. Hell, on more than one occasion I've had a motherfucking cottonmouth slither into my backyard.

Honestly, I'm more afraid of groups of dudes. Nerd fear, I guess, I'm afraid they'd beat me up for the shear fun of it.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #58 on: March 02, 2009, 12:08:15 PM »

Probably my biggest rational fear is never finding my soul mate.

See, it's rational because soul mates don't exist.

Irrationally, besides the alone and cold after death thing, I continue to have dreams about my father trying to break into my house/room, and me being powerless to stop him.

Regarding that first one. Don't try to look for one.

Soulmates do exist, but they are only the product of excellent communication and a true emotional and  spiritual intimacy that has gown and matured over time. I.E. by being close with someone in a relationship of whatever kind.

Soulmates are made, not born.

I fear that my communication skills are far too stunted and tenuous to actually connect with people on a meaningful level.

Add to that an abbreviated attention span, and I'd say the fear is fairly rational: If I do connect with someone on an emotional/spiritual level, chances are I'll screw it up by being distant, callous or flighty.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #59 on: March 02, 2009, 01:01:30 PM »

Moths are terrifying.  They swoop around crazily and it's awful.  I also dislike butterflies for the same reason.

Actually, the only bugs I'm not scared of are Monarch caterpillars and lady bugs.  And really tiny ants.

I had a terrible phobia of insects throughout my childhood, thanks in large part to our good friends the wasps, which I completely overcame within the span of five days camping in Nova Scotia. For some reason or other there was this staggeringly massive migration of pale oak beauties tearing ass through the region, stripping all of the campground's precious birch trees to the bone and causing a huge rift through Kejimkujik staff on whether or not they ought to stuff the delicate balance of nature and work some sort of pest control on the situation.

Each night by the campfire, playin' Monopoly and such, was party to an endless tornado of light-hungry moths, covering every open inch of brightened surface - the table, the lantern, the game board, us - but not really doing anything, just sitting there and enjoying whatever it is about the light moths love so damn much. There wasn't much to be done about the situation, really, as anything you killed or swept away would be replaced by another within seconds, so we just sorta came to get used to it. I realize most bugs are a bit less docile than these fuckers, but something about being literally coated by bugs for five days made me completely cool with insects... I just got that they weren't anything more than dumb, half-blind flying machines, and being able to hold out my hand and straight Snow White these woodland critters drove home how little they seemed to notice me, and how I should naturally return the sentiment. Mutual disinterest.
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