Al_U_Card Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 C'mon now, admit it.....we all fear some things irrationally. I fear heights and I really don't like spiders.....but what about you? btw, Firday the 13th, bushwah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 If everyone else is unlucky, shouldn't I be very lucky today? BTW fear of 13 called Triskaidekaphobia Ancient Greek for 13 = Tris KAI Deka (i.e. 3 and 10) I kinda like spiders - not only fascinating creatures but they eat mosquitoes and I really don't like mosquitoes. But I don't fear those either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Damn! Well I certainly have no fear of phonetics! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillHiggin Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 What is the name for "fear of forgetting to try to win the last trick with the beer card". One must focus on the important things in life :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 septadamasobliviophobia - fear to forget ♦7 sept = 7adamas = diamondoblivere = to forget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 I was adopted on a Friday the 13th in 1990, so I always smile a little more than usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 I read in the paper that Norwich Union Insurance group confirm that fear of Friday 13th is not irrational but statistically sound. Empirical evidence, so we are led to believe, is that it truly is unlucky. Perhaps it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you are driving along worrying about its being Friday 13th you may not be concentrating on missing that pedestrian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Phobophobia - I have an irrational fear of having irrational fears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Phobophobia - I have an irrational fear of having irrational fears. I think fearing having irrational fears is quite a rational fear considering how damaging irrational fears can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Phobophobia - I have an irrational fear of having irrational fears. I think fearing having irrational fears is quite a rational fear considering how damaging irrational fears can be.So you are saying if there is rational reason for irrationality with regards to a rational rationale then irrationality becomes rational reasoning? Right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 NoBut perhaps a fear of knowledge ala Boghossian? There is a way things are that is independent of human opinion, and we are capable of arriving at belief about how things are that is objectable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. for other viewpoints see Kuhn, T or Rorty, R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Phobophobia - I have an irrational fear of having irrational fears. I think fearing having irrational fears is quite a rational fear considering how damaging irrational fears can be.So you are saying if there is rational reason for irrationality with regards to a rational rationale then irrationality becomes rational reasoning? That's one way of looking at it. It might become clearer if we consider phobophobiaphobia (the fear of having a fear of having fears). Since most phobias (or should that be phobiae) are irrational, it is rational to fear having them. But then to fear fearing having fears is again irrational. I hope that clarifies matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Phobophobia is in fact listed in The American Heritage Stedman's medical dictionary, 2nd edition copyright 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Just because the fear of fear may be rationalised it does not necessarily mean that an individual's morbid or obsessive fear of it follows that rationale. Indeed it seems that quite a lot of individuals have it, often alongside another phobia. I may fear wasps and rottweilers. There may be some rational foundation for that fear. But if I break out into a cold sweat and panic attack when a wasp enters the room, I may yet be suffering from a phobia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGee Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia I used to have a problem with this, but I've forgotten what it was. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Or even, veritasaphobia aka Bush et al, fear of the truth..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Or even, veritasaphobia aka Bush et al, fear of the truth..... Pardon me, they don't fear it as they have never acknowledged its presence.... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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