tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post1384101098085784733..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: Of birds and worms and other beastiesThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-61541491393332120492011-11-17T00:00:51.687+00:002011-11-17T00:00:51.687+00:00I love birds very much but I go freaky if they com...I love birds very much but I go freaky if they come indoors.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-18096001155106966162011-11-16T21:06:56.745+00:002011-11-16T21:06:56.745+00:00I bet your dancing is just fine.
Missed you, Mark...I bet your dancing is just fine.<br /><br />Missed you, Mark<br /><br />JulieFrench Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-13029425754828998332011-11-16T12:50:49.835+00:002011-11-16T12:50:49.835+00:00True. I have a phobia of moths but mankind hasdone...True. I have a phobia of moths but mankind hasdone me wrong far more often!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-58627867613338230632011-11-16T10:42:14.571+00:002011-11-16T10:42:14.571+00:00Surely the only REAL thing to fear is fear itself....Surely the only REAL thing to fear is fear itself.<br /><br />I'm ashamed to admit, I get a bit silly when a moth flies overhead, and slugs make me heave.<br /><br />Fear of the unknown can almost paralyse one if you let it take over, and can be worse than the actual reality.<br />I wonder if deliberately facing your fears helps, or just creates a bigger one each time you conquer them?<br />A first world problem gripping people regardless of how much money or power they have, seems to be 'fear of getting old'. Is that not the most ridiculous thing to fear?lucy joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04863146546863419637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-66817253193473181132011-11-16T09:50:25.315+00:002011-11-16T09:50:25.315+00:00We have these phobias necause emotion is more powe...We have these phobias necause emotion is more powerful than reason.<br /><br />Poor Kerrie, that's a tough one, as there are birds around us all the time. She would hate it here, when the huge flocks of starlings go over. They remind me of the Spy birds of Crebain.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003521059890699861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-44376722225376830582011-11-16T09:34:55.921+00:002011-11-16T09:34:55.921+00:00Yep - I'm with you on that one.Yep - I'm with you on that one.VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-26325078747629985672011-11-16T09:12:56.186+00:002011-11-16T09:12:56.186+00:00Spiders are the ones I can't easily cope with,...Spiders are the ones I can't easily cope with, though I know they can't hurt me. I know my fellow-humans can, and some would without a qualm, and yet, irrationally, I find it hard to fear them. There's nowt so queer as folk....Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-48175050128473609362011-11-16T06:57:24.569+00:002011-11-16T06:57:24.569+00:00Hello Mark:
As you say, most of these kinds of pho...Hello Mark:<br />As you say, most of these kinds of phobias are completely irrational and yet are very, very real. We are inclined to agree with you that, on a day to day level, it is the human species which is most to be feared.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-48704656479550557542011-11-16T01:45:00.202+00:002011-11-16T01:45:00.202+00:00And so we mutate our fears of of our own kind into...And so we mutate our fears of of our own kind into totem figures...<br />A little more reading of The Golden Bough might help here.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-72467697530815934132011-11-16T01:06:00.165+00:002011-11-16T01:06:00.165+00:00Too true and sadly so.Too true and sadly so.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.com