The Shame Thread.

[BadBeast]

BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY MOM IS WAITING TO BAIT ME INTO CONFLICT WHEN I STRIKE UP A CONVERSATION WITH HER, I AM USING PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE SILENCE.

I bet she would call it "Sulking".

[Forsooth]

I IMAGINE THAT MY GF DIES SOMEHOW AND THEN I IMAGINE WHAT ALL OF MY POSSIBLE REACTIONS TO IT COULD BE AND WHAT SORT OF THINGS OR PEOPLE I WOULD DO AFTERWARDS

(i love her, i don't want her to die...)

[BadBeast]

I IMAGINE THAT MY GF DIES SOMEHOW AND THEN I IMAGINE WHAT ALL OF MY POSSIBLE REACTIONS TO IT COULD BE AND WHAT SORT OF THINGS OR PEOPLE I WOULD DO AFTERWARDS

(i love her, i don't want her to die...)

I may be wrong, but I 'm sensing a silent "but" on the end of this.  I fantasise about killing people quite often, it's a very common fantasy.
(Well, at least it is for me)

[Jasper]

Well...

Sometimes it's pleasing to imagine things on fire.  Well, nouns actually.  People and places also feature in these daydreams too.

But if it comes down to it, I imagine what I'd do if people/things were trying to kill me far more often.

[BadBeast]

Well...

Sometimes it's pleasing to imagine things on fire.  Well, nouns actually.  People and places also feature in these daydreams too.

But if it comes down to it, I imagine what I'd do if people/things were trying to kill me far more often.

That, my friend, is a valuable lifeskill. Putting yourself in an imaginary scenario, and seeing how you think you'd react. Admittedly, we don't always act in the way we did in the fantasy, but most of the time, we do quite well to avoid those scenarios. And that's a good thing too. It means we live longer.

[Jasper]

It's a version of Zimbardo's "heroic imagination".  If you imagine yourself behaving a certain way, you become it, eventually.

[NWC]

Dunno about you guys, but I use this thread as a therapeutic tool to say things I'm ashamed of that I would only say to 2 people, both of whom live on another continent.

I'm ashamed to be very strongly attracted to another girl, when I've based my life around the love of another. Mostly I'm mad at myself and at this passion(passion in the ancient greek sense, of something to which you are passive, to which you are submitted), but there's definitely shame in there.

I'm ashamed to say that I speak French fluently, even though I do. I feel like I'm going to sound like such an asshole, so I always say that I make alot of mistakes.

I'm to ashamed to admit to my girlfriend or anyone else really how much I play videogames, which is around 1 hour a day nowadays. I really feel like this is a weakness, and I say that I just spent the hour on the internet. Sometimes I say I played a game, but no more than once or twice a week.

I don't know at all why I'm ashamed, ever. I really have a hard time understanding it, because on a theoretical level, on which I often think, I don't think that I could ever be ashamed of anything. I guess the gap between what I do, and what I think others should expect of me is part of it.

I'm ashamed of my English. The last paragraph was conceived in French and poorly translated. I can't do this type of thinking in English.

[LMNO]

SHAME. MY WIFE AND I WERE ARGUING SO I POURED HER MORE WINE, AND THEN MORE WINE, BECAUSE I KNEW SHE WOULD FALL ASLEEP AND STOP BEING MAD AT ME.

[Eater of Clowns]

SHAME. MY WIFE AND I WERE ARGUING SO I POURED HER MORE WINE, AND THEN MORE WINE, BECAUSE I KNEW SHE WOULD FALL ASLEEP AND STOP BEING MAD AT ME.

Why be ashamed of a plan falling into place?

[LMNO]

Because it's chemical manipulation of someone you love, dumbass.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I got drunk and fried my brother's goldfish alive, in front of him, and dared him to eat it.

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I don't know at all why I'm ashamed, ever. I really have a hard time understanding it, because on a theoretical level, on which I often think, I don't think that I could ever be ashamed of anything. I guess the gap between what I do, and what I think others should expect of me is part of it.

I'm ashamed of my English. The last paragraph was conceived in French and poorly translated. I can't do this type of thinking in English.

That's interesting, I have a similar intuition about shame but it resists being transformed into words, let alone another language.

And I can't detect anything wrong with your English. For the longest time I thought you were native to the US.

[Eater of Clowns]

Because it's chemical manipulation of someone you love, dumbass.

Oh, okay you were serious.  I thought this whole thread was a bit tongue-in-cheek.  Well my apologies.  But dumbass, really, for misconstruing your post in the context of the rest of this thread? 

[LMNO]

LOGIC WOULD PRESUME I AM ALSO DRINKING.

[Jasper]

Call me an irredeemable rat bastard, but I'm saving that trick in case i need it.