You know, I'm not even sure what the fuck I'm talking about anymore. (627 hits)
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Submitted by erosion_rules (View user info) at 2006-03-09 10:36:57 EST
It's strange what frightens each different person. I don't mean the standard shit, like fire, or dogs, or anything like that. I mean things that are uncommon, and usually irrational.
Take spiders for a first example, since they're one of my biggest fears. I know where my fear comes from, since I'm allergic to them. They so much as walk across my arm, I get a red welt that traces the path they walked. They bite me, the inflicted area swells for at least two days, and feels like I've been hit with a shovel. But for most people, the fear of spiders is more like an offense. There are few things in the world like a spider, and it's just something most humans can never get used to.
So this string of thoughts got me thinking about similar fears, but much less realistic. Let's say you have two kinds of malicious alien creatures. One of them is a freakish monstrosity, the culmination of everything that frightens you. The other looks exactly like a human. Personally, in a direct confrontation, I would still rather go up against the monstrosity. One might ask why I would choose this thing with unknown strengths over something that seems so familiar...That's exactly my problem. The more familiar it seems, the more comforted we would become, and the less likely to defeat this invader.
The monstrosity, however, would seem to be more of an offense to nature, so deep down, it would be like having a much greater determination to take the fucker down.
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Submitted by beatjunky (user info) at 2006-03-13 10:25:54 EST (#)
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Submitted by erosion_rules (user info) at 2006-03-10 09:32:30 EST (#)
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Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2006-03-09 23:02:40 (#)
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i saw a film on mating animals in high school. sometime after the fucking turtles (which was hilarious) there was a frog that gave birth out of it's back. the baby frogs would come out of relatively large holes in its back, a dozen or so at once. that shit freaked me out and made me sick to my stomach. i hate to even think about it.
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When I was ten, I found this weird segmented thing that was kind of shaped like a violin sucking blood out of a turtle, and when I knocked it off the turtle, I stomped it. It was filled with thousands more of the little things. I had nightmares about until I was 14.
Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2006-03-09 23:02:40 EST (#)
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i saw a film on mating animals in high school. sometime after the fucking turtles (which was hilarious) there was a frog that gave birth out of it's back. the baby frogs would come out of relatively large holes in its back, a dozen or so at once. that shit freaked me out and made me sick to my stomach. i hate to even think about it.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-03-09 22:41:50 EST (#)
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I'm not afraid, I'm just very, very cautious.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-03-09 18:03:31 EST (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:00:03 (#)
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I'm scared by open ocean. I could never join the navy, despite the abundance of buttsecks. Drowning, and all manners of dying by lack of air terrify me to the point of rocking to and fro just at the thought.
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I can't swim in the open ocean - thinking about having 500 ft of water beneath me creeps me the fuck out.
Submitted by Ferretnose (user info) at 2006-03-09 13:11:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:16:14 (#)
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i'm scared to shit of being eaten by a shark. i'm on th gulf of mexico and was swimming yesterday, i noticed something in the corner of my eye coming at me and shit my bathing suit.
turned out it was a pelican, luckily i was in the ocean and my shit just floated away.
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Wahaha!
I am afraid of both sharks and the Gulf of Mexico. I almost drowned in the gulf when I was 9. The first movie I remember seeing, ever, was Jaws at a drive-in. It's not really their teeth that bother me, so much as their soulless black eyes. You would shit yourself for sure at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, where they have this glass half-bubble you can get inside of that protrudes into the shark tank.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:17:58 EST (#)
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i'm also in constant fear of terrorists killing me! I'M AMERICAN AND LOVE FOXNEWS AND CANT FIGURE THIS FEAR OUT!!!!?!?!?!?!? WHY?
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:16:14 EST (#)
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i'm scared to shit of being eaten by a shark. i'm on th gulf of mexico and was swimming yesterday, i noticed something in the corner of my eye coming at me and shit my bathing suit.
turned out it was a pelican, luckily i was in the ocean and my shit just floated away.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:14:59 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:00:20 (#)
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I'm scared of carpenter ants (the big black ones).
Normally I don't give a fuck about insects but these just made me feel completly powerless. They swarmed my apartment last year and there was just no way of getting rid of them except maybe burn the fucking building down. There was also no way to get away from them...tingling your face at night...ARGH!!! GET THE FUCK OFF ME!
I'm actually moving because of that. I'm not sure I can handle the debiliating effects of the CONSTANT presence of fat ants in the corner of my eye. I started hallucinating them at some point.
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I thought frogs ate ants.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-09 12:00:20 EST (#)
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I'm scared of carpenter ants (the big black ones).
Normally I don't give a fuck about insects but these just made me feel completly powerless. They swarmed my apartment last year and there was just no way of getting rid of them except maybe burn the fucking building down. There was also no way to get away from them...tingling your face at night...ARGH!!! GET THE FUCK OFF ME!
I'm actually moving because of that. I'm not sure I can handle the debiliating effects of the CONSTANT presence of fat ants in the corner of my eye. I started hallucinating them at some point.
Submitted by Grimm (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:57:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by erosion_rules (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:48:51 EST (#)
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It seems the most logical fears are the ones I have the fewest problems with. Like, I've been in car accidents, and near-death spinouts, and I wasn't fazed. But I can't handle a roller coaster that goes upside down.
Submitted by flimflan (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:15:11 EST (#)
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I am thrilled that I am not the only one with illogical fears...although my top three are a bit more bizarre:
1. Vertically challenged people (dwarfs, midgets, the like)
2. Men with hairy backs
3. Clowns
Why do other peoples fears make me feel better?
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:13:39 EST (#)
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How about spiders eggs in the eye of your DICK?
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:00:15 EST (#)
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Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:54:50 (#)
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Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:52:48 (#)
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Yeah, I'm scared of spiders too. I'm also scared of others touching my feet. Shuddddders
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How about SPIDERS covering your feet..
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*gets up off the floor* Thanks for the seizure, ass.
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:00:12 EST (#)
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i fear emos
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-09 11:00:03 EST (#)
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I'm scared by open ocean. I could never join the navy, despite the abundance of buttsecks. Drowning, and all manners of dying by lack of air terrify me to the point of rocking to and fro just at the thought.
Submitted by youarewrong (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:58:20 EST (#)
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Everything scares me, especially ladybirds... sorry I meant ladyboys.
Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:54:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:52:48 (#)
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Yeah, I'm scared of spiders too. I'm also scared of others touching my feet. Shuddddders
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How about SPIDERS covering your feet..
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:52:48 EST (#)
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Yeah, I'm scared of spiders too. I'm also scared of others touching my feet. Shuddddders.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:48:22 EST (#)
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I am scared of all animals except dogs.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:46:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:40:21 (#)
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This was well written, would have been a +2 if it was longer.
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Yeah. Also, don't ever mess with any Australian wildlife...as Terry Pratchett said, the only non-lethal things are 'some of the sheep'.
Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:46:34 EST (#)
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Spider fear IS standard stuff...
In my world.
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:46:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:40:21 (#)
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There are poisonous spiders in Britain.
Really.
Not deadly, but poisonous.
I am not amused.
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All spiders are poisonous. It's how they kill their food. It's the toxicity that varies.
Submitted by mikeedapikey (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:44:27 EST (#)
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Very true. Although I'm only really scared of women during bleed week and my old head master at school. Fuck....I'd be fighting an emotionally unstable uber-angry educator......
Fuck....random boner. Why now? Why......?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:40:21 EST (#)
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There are poisonous spiders in Britain.
Really.
Not deadly, but poisonous.
I am not amused.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-03-09 10:40:21 EST (#)
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It's the sea with me, everything hates us in the sea and wants to feast on our man-flesh.
This was well written, would have been a +2 if it was longer.