Exposure Therapy

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by KC911

I have this fear of sleeping with gorgeous young wimmins .....

I need help

Don’t worry about it. Won’t happen.

Ever.

[KFC911]

^^^^ LOL ... thanks CB! .... I feel a whole lot better now

I also have this acute fear of dyin' ???

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by KC911

^^^^ LOL ... thanks CB! .... I feel a whole lot better now

I also have this acute fear of dyin' ???

Dying is easy living is harder. Actually, I'm not afraid of dying. I'm more afraid of not living.

[KFC911]

I'm not askeered either FB ... just wanted to see if crowbob would answer the same way twice

[fintstone]

When I was about 9 or 10, I remember the school bus stopping because there was a very large rattlesnake coiled up in the dirt road. The kids piled out for a better look. I was one of the older boys still on the bus as almost were already delivered to their home and we were far out near the end of the route. Poisonous snakes were common, but mostly copperheads, so this was the first experience with such a large, venomous snake for many. Despite fact that the snake was pretty scary looking, it was quickly dispatched with several large rocks from some of the boys...and the bus driver pulled out his knife and removed the rattles and hung them from his mirror. Although some of the younger boys were probably scared, they learned that they did not have to be afraid if they kept an appropriate distance. They learned that the right actions make almost any "emergency" or fear just a routine thing...and no one was coming from somewhere else to solve the problem for them. I saw the same when pulling non-swimmers out of streams or putting out fires, treating injuries, etc. It is just what you do...like going to work every day, working as hard as you possibly can, and providing for your family...then coming home and working some more.

I am less scared of dying than getting old (where I cannot do what I want to do). It really does terrify me.

[KFC911]

Copperheads scare me .... I do NOT want anymore exposure therapy than I've already had .

Fortunately, all the rattlers and Cottonmouths had vacated this area by the 70s .... but they used to be here.

[fintstone]

My dad and I had an "eradication" program for poisonous snakes when I was young (as they were dangerous for livestock and dogs...and people to some extent). He killed many rattlesnakes before I was old enough to shoot a gun (10 maybe?) and they were pretty much gone, but we never could completely eliminate copperheads. He usually killed them with a hoe. He carried one pretty much all summer, but I got to shoot them with a shotgun. Big fun, so I was always eager to tag along. I know that preservationist would say differently, but we considered that 'the only good venomous snake was a dead one'.

I am pretty wary of copperheads as well...as I am not sure I would see them as well as when young (too old and citified). They use their natural colors/markings to hide themselves rather well. So do the timber rattlesnakes (what we had in the mountains).

We had no cottonmouths. The water is too cold in moving too fast in the rushing creeks in our area/mountains.

[Superman]

My grandmother killed rattlesnakes with firearms. She kept their rattles in quart jars.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by Superman

My grandmother killed rattlesnakes with firearms. She kept their rattles in quart jars.

We usually used a stick or rock (or hoe if handy) if they were out in the open. Shells were too expensive to waste on something we did not eat (or was not a person that could potentially shoot back). I only shot copperheads that were in places where they could escape (in a rockpile or under a big overhanging log). They were pretty quick. I used a shotgun with lead bird shot because there was little risk of ricochet (lots of rocks).

Our startled neighbor shot a rattlesnake on top of the wood cookstove in his kitchen with a shotgun and it made a mess.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

I'm not afraid of dying as I've done it already 😆

Exposure therapy sounds like a woke term for growing up, getting a job, becoming independent and finding your own direction in life 🤔

People need to get busy living instead of busy whining

[fintstone]

If you don't give it a cool, scientific sounding name...it will never sell to the woke. Let's make responsibility cool again.

[Superman]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

Exposure therapy sounds like a woke term for growing up, getting a job, becoming independent and finding your own direction in life 🤔

People need to get busy living instead of busy whining

This Pelicanhead said it best, I think.

[flatbutt]

"He not busy being born is busy dying"