Originally posted by Tanks

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I was almost bitten by a black widow. I'm not kidding! I was at scout camp and we were building shelters for our wilderness survival merit badge. My friend and I went to get a big log somewhere. I picked it up and the bark fell off. out of the bark comes the black widow crawling up my hand. To image how I reacted: (insert the sissiest, most Female-ish, high pitched scream a boy can make while going through puberty) yeah I shook that FUCKer off and Stomped it to DEATH!!!!

HA HA HA!!!!!! I regained my manliness at that point. but yeah it was pretty scary.

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Originally posted by SamuraiX

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Why am I--in a world of such dissimilar people--alive?

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Because your parents fucked and then you were born.

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Originally posted by SamuraiX

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Originally posted by Tanks

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I was almost bitten by a black widow. I'm not kidding! I was at scout camp and we were building shelters for our wilderness survival merit badge. My friend and I went to get a big log somewhere. I picked it up and the bark fell off. out of the bark comes the black widow crawling up my hand. To image how I reacted: (insert the sissiest, most Female-ish, high pitched scream a boy can make while going through puberty) yeah I shook that FUCKer off and Stomped it to DEATH!!!!

HA HA HA!!!!!! I regained my manliness at that point. but yeah it was pretty scary.

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Since robbing another of life is truly the essence of manhood.
I don't see why spiders are so awful, just because they bite, or that they can, improbably, kill. What doesn't?

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I am not sure, but spiders are probably "scary" because they are one of the few creatures that can kill that we come into contact within in our own homes and back yards.

Other animals kill, but we don't seem to have as much contact with them so I don't know if they freak as much of us out.

Plus, growing up you get to see everyone else freak out and then you adopt that fear / phobia yourself.

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Originally posted by Sweet Kassy Molassy

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Originally posted by SamuraiX

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I know it's silly to speak of fear as something rational, but there are lots of things in our backyard that could just as easily inhume us.

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I fear spiders because they're something over which I have no control.

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Cause nothing has happened thus far to cause your health to fail or internal organs to be severely damaged enough for you to die. Your parents managed to avoid killing you in the womb and in your early years, and you've managed to avoid killing yourself since.

If you're after a reason or a meaning behind your existence... I personally don't believe in that. You have to make your own reasons.

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Originally posted by Sweet Kassy Molassy

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Originally posted by Bloodstar

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(but those just make life even better because you're happy as hell when they stop. )

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Amen, dude. I had the flu and a lower respiratory infection for Christmas and I felt so much more wonderful the first day that I was well that it was almost worth it =P

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Originally posted by Tarale

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You don't have to do anything if you don't want to.

If you don't want to live, then don't. Doing so will hurt other people, but then that only matters to you if you value those people. If you don't, then does it matter at all?

Do you actually want some kind of help, or are you just philosophically babbling?

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Originally posted by SamuraiX

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Originally posted by Tarale

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You don't have to do anything if you don't want to.

If you don't want to live, then don't. Doing so will hurt other people, but then that only matters to you if you value those people. If you don't, then does it matter at all?

Do you actually want some kind of help, or are you just philosophically babbling?

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It won't bother anyone. In such a case, should I quit "babbling" and get to the point, as some might say?

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There's a point? Really??

The Officer's Club is traditionally a place where people seek help for things. I would like to know if you are actually trying to seek help, or if you are trying to start a philosophical debate. Because if its the latter, I'm out, never had the stomach to go and read a bunch of Nietzsche or anything like that.

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Originally posted by emcee

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Most people with arachnophobia aren't only afraid of poisonous spiders. I think the real issues that they're so foreign. It's all the legs and eyes. The same way the lack of legs makes people afraid of snakes.

I'm not really afraid of spiders. But I would still be pretty freaked out if I rolled over in the middle of the night an saw a massive tarantula in front of my face, even though I know they're harmless.

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Originally posted by Koryo

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True, nuclear power is dangerous, but are the occasional leaks, spills, and meltdowns anymore dangerous than the billions of dollars in oil revenue going to the likes of the Saudi government and the Iranian government?

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Originally posted by SamuraiX

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I'm quite sure that whatever that post was supposed to be, I'd be better off not reading it.

I got my Microeconomics book today in the mail, and it seems fun, and not mangled. And my physics teacher gave me a set of books, and they are shiny and yellow and green. Jubilations! O=

After further reflection, I shouldn't really care about fitting in, now should I? It would be rather boring, I suppose.

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It's nice to have some sense of belonging, but I guess it depends what you mean by "fitting in". I "fit in" with a bunch of weird geeky types, but other than that, everyone else thinks I'm weird.

I'm happy with most people thinking I'm weird though Or crazy.

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