Comments on: On fear

By: marshmallow

marshmallow — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:41:08 +0000

you’re almost a poet, mig!

By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:17:50 +0000

This is simply great. Great writing. It so perfectly captures my general feeling of panic.

One time, somebody told me I was mellow. I couldn’t believe it. Is it not evident that I’m simply one step below absolutely losing my shit from sheer terror and panic? How does one function as “head of household” in such a state? I’ll never know.

By: wildsoda

wildsoda — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:56:51 +0000

How apt that I should have just read this quote earlier today. I think it describes what you’re talking about quite nicely.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

&mdash Will Durant

By: D

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:32:06 +0000

I have always maintained that it is my paranoia that keeps me alive.

By: mig

mig — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:36:54 +0000

And microwave death rays. And low-frequency theremins, to cause nausea.

By: Guanaco

Guanaco — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:24:09 +0000

Maybe you don’t hear bullets whizzing overhead because now they’re using lasers.

By: joeri

joeri — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:44:47 +0000

Noli timere, Mig! (or to parafrase Bart S: Don’t have a cow, man). No need to feel apocaplectic :) (remember: http://metamorphosism.com/archives/000030.html)

I was already trying to invent a new kind of phobia but couldn’t think of anything other than timeophobia, which is not very inventive.