Phobias
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I was just reading a short article on FoxNews about celebrities and their phobias. What are your phobias? I am afraid of spiders and crowded places because I am afraid a fire will break out. I was afraid of fire for years and wasn't sure why. Turns out I mimicked my parents and took the hot car cigarette lighter to my lips as a toddler and hated all hot things after that. I didn't even try to light a match until college. I used to keep a car door open while starting the car in case the car started on fire during startup and then I could make a quicker getaway. I finally conquered that fear. I still hate spiders and will panic at packed places (like the mall during the holidays). Not sure if I will get over those. Anyone willing to admit your phobias? BTW, what would the fear of not being able to read CP be?
_________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.
I used to be terrified of heights, until I finally realized that I don't fall down very often, and the chances of me falling off of anything is really very small.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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* comes around and sits near fire waiting for Maunder to begin story *
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
I share Maunder's phobia, ya never know when they will turn on you![^] (Reuters) :omg:
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I was just reading a short article on FoxNews about celebrities and their phobias. What are your phobias? I am afraid of spiders and crowded places because I am afraid a fire will break out. I was afraid of fire for years and wasn't sure why. Turns out I mimicked my parents and took the hot car cigarette lighter to my lips as a toddler and hated all hot things after that. I didn't even try to light a match until college. I used to keep a car door open while starting the car in case the car started on fire during startup and then I could make a quicker getaway. I finally conquered that fear. I still hate spiders and will panic at packed places (like the mall during the holidays). Not sure if I will get over those. Anyone willing to admit your phobias? BTW, what would the fear of not being able to read CP be?
_________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.
I never really gave phobias must thought and never really thought i had any real fears till came across a situation as an engineering intern. I was at a construction site and had to walk across a beam about the width of a desk that was at least 5 stories high. I walked the beam but the guys on the other side were laughing so hard because the life line i was hooked to was vibrating so much due to my shaking hands. that is when i realize i have a very big fear of heights.
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I was just reading a short article on FoxNews about celebrities and their phobias. What are your phobias? I am afraid of spiders and crowded places because I am afraid a fire will break out. I was afraid of fire for years and wasn't sure why. Turns out I mimicked my parents and took the hot car cigarette lighter to my lips as a toddler and hated all hot things after that. I didn't even try to light a match until college. I used to keep a car door open while starting the car in case the car started on fire during startup and then I could make a quicker getaway. I finally conquered that fear. I still hate spiders and will panic at packed places (like the mall during the holidays). Not sure if I will get over those. Anyone willing to admit your phobias? BTW, what would the fear of not being able to read CP be?
_________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.
Social anxiety. I panic everytime I need to talk in a meeting or when I am the center of attention.
Raul Macias
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I was just reading a short article on FoxNews about celebrities and their phobias. What are your phobias? I am afraid of spiders and crowded places because I am afraid a fire will break out. I was afraid of fire for years and wasn't sure why. Turns out I mimicked my parents and took the hot car cigarette lighter to my lips as a toddler and hated all hot things after that. I didn't even try to light a match until college. I used to keep a car door open while starting the car in case the car started on fire during startup and then I could make a quicker getaway. I finally conquered that fear. I still hate spiders and will panic at packed places (like the mall during the holidays). Not sure if I will get over those. Anyone willing to admit your phobias? BTW, what would the fear of not being able to read CP be?
_________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.
Extra points to those that get it without google.
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Mike Gaskey wrote:
if I drive on the outside lane of a high bridge I have to close my eyes
Like playing bumper cars, do ya?
Mike Gaskey wrote:
Fire - death by, has to be the most horrid thing going.
Absolutely. I saw a WWII video on PBS one time where GIs were flushing German soldiers out of the bushes with flame throwers. The Germans would come running out all ablaze. Even in black & white with no sound you could feel their agony.
Ed Gadziemski wrote:
Absolutely. I saw a WWII video on PBS one time where GIs were flushing German soldiers out of the bushes with flame throwers. The Germans would come running out all ablaze. Even in black & white with no sound you could feel their agony.
From what I understand, the use of flame throwers has been band from use. And they are considered a weapon of terror. Completely understandable… it would be a horrible way to die. :~
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I have a phobia for this insect[^], which I don't know how is it called in English, nor I want to know. X| I don't like crowded places, but I wouldn't call it a phobia.
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Social anxiety. I panic everytime I need to talk in a meeting or when I am the center of attention.
Raul Macias
Snakes. Don'tknow why as I've never been bitten by one. Its to the point that I couldn't go into the reptile house at the St. Louis zoo a few years back. X| Heights as heights don't bother me. If I'm on an unstable platform that tends to bother me. :sigh: :)
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Mike Gaskey wrote:
if I drive on the outside lane of a high bridge I have to close my eyes
:omg: dangerous Mike!
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Judah, I just saw yesterday that there is a Messianic congregation in my town (a small city of @50K, with maybe 100K in the entire county). Several months ago, I noticed a group of people at a restaurant answering their phones with "Shabbat Shalom" and making reference to "Rabbi said such-and-such." I assumed the group was headed to the Messianic congregation Columbus OH. Perhaps they were just headed around the corner.
"You've made your point - you're a puerile little penile gland with the cerebral activity of a grain of sand. Stop your bullsh*t and let us be hypocrites in peace. If you haven't figured it out yet, we don't give a redneck dick slap about your opinions of CP or its users. So, go back to your GameBoy and leave the grown-ups alone." -- someone who surely knows whereof he speaks. 'Dhimmitude' is a state of mind.
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Judah, I just saw yesterday that there is a Messianic congregation in my town (a small city of @50K, with maybe 100K in the entire county). Several months ago, I noticed a group of people at a restaurant answering their phones with "Shabbat Shalom" and making reference to "Rabbi said such-and-such." I assumed the group was headed to the Messianic congregation Columbus OH. Perhaps they were just headed around the corner.
"You've made your point - you're a puerile little penile gland with the cerebral activity of a grain of sand. Stop your bullsh*t and let us be hypocrites in peace. If you haven't figured it out yet, we don't give a redneck dick slap about your opinions of CP or its users. So, go back to your GameBoy and leave the grown-ups alone." -- someone who surely knows whereof he speaks. 'Dhimmitude' is a state of mind.
Yes, God is opening many Jewish eyes to Messiah. :cool: He's also opening many gentile Christian eyes to the Hebraic roots of faith in Messiah.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: The "Church" at Mt. Sinai The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
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I was just reading a short article on FoxNews about celebrities and their phobias. What are your phobias? I am afraid of spiders and crowded places because I am afraid a fire will break out. I was afraid of fire for years and wasn't sure why. Turns out I mimicked my parents and took the hot car cigarette lighter to my lips as a toddler and hated all hot things after that. I didn't even try to light a match until college. I used to keep a car door open while starting the car in case the car started on fire during startup and then I could make a quicker getaway. I finally conquered that fear. I still hate spiders and will panic at packed places (like the mall during the holidays). Not sure if I will get over those. Anyone willing to admit your phobias? BTW, what would the fear of not being able to read CP be?
_________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.
Cool thread... just noticed it now. The only phobia I'm aware of is of spiders... I don't have anything against them - in fact I'll try to catch them and put them outside gently when I see them about the house, but getting near the bigger ones starts my heart racing and my stomach tightening. I don't mind letting small ones run on my hands though... I suppose I do have a fear of death... and I can be easily daunted by new and difficult knowledge domains - I start to procrastinate reeeally badly sometimes, like right now for this compiler construction assignment due in 32 hours! :)
