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Author Topic: Rational and Irrational Fears  (Read 11878 times)

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #101 on: March 08, 2009, 09:33:26 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #102 on: March 09, 2009, 07:07:27 AM »

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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #103 on: March 09, 2009, 07:31:14 AM »

You know.  In the end.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #104 on: March 09, 2009, 09:11:15 AM »

Personally, I would hope it came out the end.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.)
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #107 on: March 10, 2009, 08:40:18 PM »

So Guild is afraid of prison rape?
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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

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It did freak me out until I realized they're smart enough to not let me squash them while I'm asleep.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #112 on: April 12, 2009, 08:23:35 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #114 on: April 12, 2009, 09:22:43 PM »

Don't worry Kazz, we have no souls so that can't possibly happen.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #115 on: April 12, 2009, 09:26:53 PM »

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #116 on: April 12, 2009, 11:10:25 PM »

I fear this topic will never address the issue of death seriously.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« Reply #117 on: April 13, 2009, 12:38:49 AM »

I fear this topic will never address the issue of death dead seriously.
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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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.

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Re: Rational and Irrational Fears
« 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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