Colour Pencils

GAAAAAAAAAH

Okay, this was inspired was a sentance on Four Island. “Example 2 is a friend of mine who happens to be a pyromaniac. Because of this, she’s highly hydrophobic.” … My friend, Hat, is wrong about this.

Why? Well, according to Wikipedia, “Pyromania is an impulse to deliberately start fires to relieve tension and typically includes gratification or relief afterward. Pyromania is distinct from arson, and pyromaniacs are also distinct from those who start fires because ofpsychosis, for personal, monetary or political gain, or for acts of revenge. Pyromaniacs start fires to induce euphoria, and often tend to fixate on institutions of fire control like fire stations and firefighters.”

Nothing about hydrophobia, right? Let’s see the article on Hydrophobia now.

Whoops, Hat has used the wrong term! Hydrophobia is used to refer to rabies or this molucule thing. Aquaphobia is fear of water. Ooh, while Aquaphobia is extended to fear of jumping in lakes and stuff, Hydrophobia, the rabies thing, is when someone is rabid and shows fear when presented something to drink. Unless Pyro is rabid, she’s not hydrophobic, she’s aquaphobic.

Okay, don’t eat me Hat, but this is nagging on my mind. Pyromania equals not Hydrophobia or Aquaphobia.

Alright, Hattie has posted on her blog about Phobias and how people exploit them, I’m posting about something like xenophobia or curiosity and why people exploit phobias. Why? Coz I’m bored.

Humans are curious buggers. They tend to live in little communities full of people like each other. In the past, you’d live with a few people in a quaint little village who are all like you. So, how does this relate to phobias? Say we have a village. Let’s call it Lolcatty.

Now, the Lolcattians all have pet cats. They have pale skin and a small variety of hair colours. No blues, no redheads, no blacks, just brown and blond.

Say someone was born with Ailurophobia (fear of cats). He shrieks when a cat goes near him, so the people of Lolcatty think he’s funny in the head. Let’s call him… Jill.

Okay, you are a Lolcattian. You’ve lived your whole life with cats and you lurve them. What do you do with this strange cat-fearing person? You think he’s funny. You provoke him. You wouldn’t understand his fear.

Or, as a kind person, you attempt to wean him off fearing cats. You try to make him see how nice cats are. But Jill will probably never stop his phobia unless he gets professional help.

Even though now we live with a wider variety of people than we used to, there are things that are common to most people. A fear of spiders or snakes or heights are common, but a fear of cats? Or trees? That’s funny. That’s weird. So, the well meaning person will poke fun or try to convince this person that he has no need to be scared.

So that’s my theory. Woo!

I’m going to change it back either today or tomorrow (if Hatkirby doesn’t change it back by then), but thanks TR and Hatkirby for giving me the idea! *waits for Hatkirby to change it back*

I’d probably have ranted on the Colour Pencils War or something (one day I’ll rant about Scientology and how idiotic it is, but that can wait) if TR hadn’t given me the idea.

EDIT: People not in our class or absent won’t know this, but everybody knows of Hatkirby’s love for four and hatred for three? TR, a friend of ours made up Three Island when Hatkirby was advertising Four Island. Three Island dun exist, but it has a Threium, a Three Island and is inhabited by Threeies, the natural enemy of Fouries. Actually, maybe they should be called Threels or Threelas or Threeums?

EDIT (2): For the people who missed it, I changed the name to Three Island, Hatkirby changed it to Color Pencils and then I changed it back to Colour Pencils. Awww, it was fun while it lasted.

EDIT (3): Hey, this is the third post!