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What's your phobia?

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What's your phobia?
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 7:20 am
I read a post a while back where the poster would NEVER drink anything brewed in a Keurig, because they had a "secret" chamber where water was stored. I gathered that this was a "germ" phobia but the poster wouldn't say if it had a name.
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am (This post was last modified: January 5, 2019 at 7:39 am by onlinebiker.)
A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

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A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 7:40 am
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

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A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the Clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




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When you freeze with fear and could literally be cut into pieces before you would move, that's a phobia.
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 9:35 am
Heights and a severe fear of flying.
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 9:44 am
(January 5, 2019 at 9:35 am)Brian37 Wrote: Heights and a severe fear of flying.
And hurricanes. Razz
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#26
RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 9:51 am
(January 5, 2019 at 7:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

..

A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the Clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




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When you freeze with fear and could literally be cut into pieces before you would move, that's a phobia.

Then I suppose I qualify.  I have been known to lose consciousness when in proximity to a horse, so cutting me to bits wouldn't be difficult.

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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 5:55 pm
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

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A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




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Thinking about it, having a fear of heights is irrational when you take into account that we are on a tiny ball flying through space.
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 6:01 pm
You not afraid you'll fall off the edge?
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 6:35 pm
Heights (flying, specifically), and I also have a major case of trypophobia - an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps.

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Makes me want to simultaneously scream and vomit.
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RE: What's your phobia?
January 5, 2019 at 7:13 pm
(January 5, 2019 at 6:35 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Heights (flying, specifically), and I also have a major case of trypophobia -  an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps.  



Makes me want to simultaneously scream and vomit.

You're the second person I've met online who has that reaction.
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