1. Something big, hairy, and scary. (No, dude, not your penis...I said big :-) ) that can ACTUALLY happen to you, as opposed to an irrational fear.
2. Something not physically scary, but mentally terrifying yet very real...like an "aw, shit" moment.
2. Something not physically scary, but mentally terrifying yet very real...like an "aw, shit" moment.
Examples of rational fears:
That 90 pound Rottweiler that's about to latch onto your ass like it was a big, meaty, steak.
That 15-year old girl's father after he found out you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
Worrying that you're gonna flunk geometry because you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
That 90 pound Rottweiler that's about to latch onto your ass like it was a big, meaty, steak.
That 15-year old girl's father after he found out you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
Worrying that you're gonna flunk geometry because you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
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Hillaryforprison88: The stupid leftys at the rational wiki think being egalitarian means your a chauvinist
Normaldude14: Actually if you read the article it explains how egalitarianism and feminism are not mutually exclusive and that egalitarianism in almost certainly a good thing, and that people who claim to be egalitarians instead of feminist have fundamental misunderstandings of what feminism is and instead choose to lump all feminism into one monolithic ideological project.
Hillaryforprison88: Wait that is reasonably abstract and complex and doesn't instantly fit into my world view, therefor it must be irrational
Normaldude14: Actually if you read the article it explains how egalitarianism and feminism are not mutually exclusive and that egalitarianism in almost certainly a good thing, and that people who claim to be egalitarians instead of feminist have fundamental misunderstandings of what feminism is and instead choose to lump all feminism into one monolithic ideological project.
Hillaryforprison88: Wait that is reasonably abstract and complex and doesn't instantly fit into my world view, therefor it must be irrational
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RationalWiki is known for editors from Conservapedia who quit in response to the Conservapedia falsehoods.
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Person 1: Why did the banana turn into a coconut?
Person 2: Why?
Person 1: BECAUSE IT WAS A COOKIE!!!!
Person 2: That makes no sense
Person 1: Understand my rationality
Person 2: Which is?
Person 1: I'm an asshole.
Person 2: Why?
Person 1: BECAUSE IT WAS A COOKIE!!!!
Person 2: That makes no sense
Person 1: Understand my rationality
Person 2: Which is?
Person 1: I'm an asshole.
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"I may be going out on a limb, but I will make a rational assumption and say that in 20 years there will not be a single white NBA player left because they are all afraid of Lebron James's big black cobra."
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