I know I'm insane, but.....

[Strategia]

.....does anyone else have that very big desire to be a Rac Cona? I do. I dunno why, but I just wanna be one.

Yes I know I'm insane. No I do not talk to myself. Yes I do talk to the voices inside my head.

[Shyal_malkes]

ok, so first off, you know you're crazy but that is pretty standard on this forum

second off, I have imagined many times being something other then human. I have often thought it was something that made me quite odd. but these days I find it stemming from many sources. among which are my overactive (if relatively useless) imagination.

as I have searched for stories I have found it uncanny how closer and closer I get to the ideals I typically hold, if I had my choice of a magical world to be a part of, it would be a hard choice between this one and the one found <a href="http://www.delyria.com/">here</a>

there is just so much I don't know that I wish I did about both worlds. oh, well.

[SolidusRaccoon]

Sorry plain old human here, I love the raccoons, but I doubt I would want to be one. Just imagine slamming your tial in the car door.

[Yuoofox]

I often imagine about that myself. Sometimes I pretend that I'm a Rac Cona Daimh, but more often I imagine myself as a human visiting their world. Since I'm a Computer Science student, I like to imagine going to Kestrel's school and teaching them about Boolean Algebra (what computers are based on), and Fractal Geometry. I also think it'd be fun to glomp-hug a Rac Cona Daimh, but they wouldn't appreciate that very much.

I don't know how well acquainted you are with the Furries subculture, but it's fun to imagine that or wish that you're something else. I like to roleplay online as a talking Fennec fox, and I find it incredibly fun to imagine how it would feel to live as one.

However, somtimes it's hard to tell what's pretend and what's not. One question that furries often ask is, "If you had a chance to transform to your animal character in real life, would you do it?" and I think that too often people say, "Yeah!" without really thinking about it. Personally, I believe there's a time to be silly and imagine, but there's also a time to be serious and to find satisfaction with the life that you have, with who you are.

Don't laugh, but one of my favorite songs is one from Sesame Street. It's a lullaby sung by Ernie, and it explores a question that every imaginative person must face (especially furries). Link: I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

[Wayfarer]

No I do not talk to myself.

And what, might I ask, is wrong with talking to oneself?
I talk to myself all the time. There are distinct advantages. After all, when I talk to myself, I always (...okay, usually) know exactly what I mean.
I also talk to inanimate objects. It helps. I'm not sure who, but it does.

[The JAM]

[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.


I sometimes talk to myself when I'm laying out an exposition for my Sunday class. Sort of a "rehearsal" to see how the lecture will flow.

And I also say out loud some scenes of some fanfics I write to also see how they flow.

I have no problem with that, but my mom wishes I wouldn't do that in public

[Mwalimu]

No I do not talk to myself.

And what, might I ask, is wrong with talking to oneself?
I talk to myself all the time. There are distinct advantages. After all, when I talk to myself, I always (...okay, usually) know exactly what I mean.
I also talk to inanimate objects. It helps. I'm not sure who, but it does.

I talk to myself all the time and think nothing of it. The only time I get worried is when I get into an argument with myself, tempers flare, and I end up not speaking to myself.

[Fusion]

Now getting back on topic, the most insane thing ever, imagining ones self as a different type of being is a meer symptom of a condition that is quickly leaving this world. Imagination. I sometimes think about what it would be like to be my one charecter Pico. So yes, it is crazy. But the crazy people are the ones I like the most. They know how to have fun.

[Shyal_malkes]

actually as far as talking to myself, whenever I'm trying to think of a story or develope some idea or other, I'll come up with two or three characters one of which knows about the project and is trying to explain it and the other which is asking questions about it.

typically I'll 'act out' these parts on our south deck and in effect, talk to myself.

[SolidusRaccoon]

actually as far as talking to myself, whenever I'm trying to think of a story or develope some idea or other, I'll come up with two or three characters one of which knows about the project and is trying to explain it and the other which is asking questions about it.

typically I'll 'act out' these parts on our south deck and in effect, talk to myself.

You do that also? I love talking to myself, I learn a lot of interesting things. Now I have to go build a glider.

[Astral]

.....does anyone else have that very big desire to be a Rac Cona? I do. I dunno why, but I just wanna be one.

Yes I know I'm insane. No I do not talk to myself. Yes I do talk to the voices inside my head.

Nothing to worry about, its just regular furryness (although acording to my psychology teacher it 'is' a form of 'psycho-complex') Personaly I do it all the time, hence why my entire family has taken to trying to embarras me out of this so called 'phase'... a phase that has frankly been going on since I was five Somehow, I don't think their gona have the last laugh.

I like talking to myself, it meens I'm always gona win the argument.

[GrayTiger]

Why do I now have this urge to watch "The Incredible Mr. Limpet"

[SolidusRaccoon]

Why do I now have this urge to watch "The Incredible Mr. Limpet"

Fish Fry!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tbolt]

Heh, sometimes talking to yourself is the only way to get an intelligent conversation...

Imagining yourself to be something that you're not, or perhaps possibly cannot be? I don't know, It is great to have dreams. Even unobtainable ones to keep one motivated. But like anything else one should not fall into the trap of obsession.

Through Trajan as well as the Missionary I lived vicariously in the Rac-conan world, and that is cool, but it is not my life. It is a temporary escape from my real life here, a dream to slip into and then awake from. A gift that alleviates some of the stress and tedium of my regular existence.

I guess my ideal goal would be to achieve what the apostle Paul had, and that is to be content no matter what the circumstances (Phillipians 4:11) rich, poor, famous, obscure, whatever. We are only here for a short time by 2155 everyone in this forum will be gone, so will everyone alive today. And after that we will face eternity, that is what we really need to prepare for.

[Doink]

Nothing to worry about, its just regular furryness (although acording to my psychology teacher it 'is' a form of 'psycho-complex') Personaly I do it all the time, hence why my entire family has taken to trying to embarras me out of this so called 'phase'... a phase that has frankly been going on since I was five Somehow, I don't think their gona have the last laugh.

I only just got into furry recently with the Cyantian Chronicles, although it was really giving in to urges hidden just beneath the surface. I haven't had the heart to tell my parents yet . Furry is more of a hobby for me, albeit one that occupies my thoughts frequently.

[BlasTech]

Personaly I do it all the time, hence why my entire family has taken to trying to embarras me out of this so called 'phase'... a phase that has frankly been going on since I was five Somehow, I don't think their gona have the last laugh.

I get the same thing, although i think they've begun to realise that they're on the losing side . They keep trying to embarass me out of my habit of collecting sonic comics but i think it got ingrained too deeply when i was small

And as for the talking to myself thing ... i guess i dont know much about that seeing as dont do it.

*tilts head to one side as if listening to something*

shut up!, no i dont!

[RHJunior]

.....does anyone else have that very big desire to be a Rac Cona? I do. I dunno why, but I just wanna be one.

Yes I know I'm insane. No I do not talk to myself. Yes I do talk to the voices inside my head.

Nothing to worry about, its just regular furryness (although acording to my psychology teacher it 'is' a form of 'psycho-complex') Personaly I do it all the time, hence why my entire family has taken to trying to embarras me out of this so called 'phase'... a phase that has frankly been going on since I was five Somehow, I don't think their gona have the last laugh.

I like talking to myself, it meens I'm always gona win the argument.

Bah. To psychologists, every behavioral pattern is a disease of some sort.


Psychology: the ultimate medical scam. Discover a harmless syndrome. Call it a "disease." Scare the crap out of people; get them to pay you thousands of dollars to treat you, take them in <I>but never actually cure them.</i>

If psychiatry were milking, those bastards could get a rock to sprout an udder.

[SolidusRaccoon]

Can we kill lawyers and shrinks?

[Sharuuk]

Thanks Ralph.....I couldn't have said it better. And your opinion of psychologists is right on the money.

If a shrink goes to any kind of SciFi or Furry convention.....well, just thank God that they can't declare you mentally deficient for enjoying a hobby.

I wish that I had the power to transform into my character, and back of course......but knowing mankind like I do....and especially the government......well, S'aaruuk is going to need all of his powers and high tech gadgets as well as his ship to keep him alive.

I've had many a fantasy of going to a con as S'aaruuk....the real one, just to see what the reaction would be. I've also fantasized about having my partner Krell, a Tigeroid almost as big as S'aaruuk joining me. Can you imagine the reaction to a pair of massively tall and sized anthros at a SciFi or Furry con.....and I wonder how long it would take before someone realized that these two weren't in costumes!

That's why I love going to cons.....because I'm in like company....pretty much just like here. Yes, I get to become not just someone else, something else for a short period of time......and there are a couple of hundred others indulging in thier fantasy as well. And much as I don't trust shrinks, there are some who have publicly stated that indulging in fantasies of this nature is actually a healthy activity.

From a more basic standpoint, it's a great way to escape day-to-day reality withOUT drugs or excess alcohol.....and again, you aren't alone.

Talk to myself...absolutely......I've worked out a BUNCH of problems like that.....just to keep folks on their toes....I'll sometimes answer myself in a different voice. I actually got my commander concerned when he "caught" me carrying on a 4-way conversation in 4 different voices.......Yup...he sent me to the base shrink......who really needed a shrink rather than being one.

Am I crazy? That depends on your perspective....in some circles, I'd not only be thought of as crazy...but probably dangerous as well. While in other more "relaxed" or "grounded" circles, I'm as normal as the sunrise......THIS is one of those relaxed circles. I'm as confortable here, even tho' it's vicarious at best, as I am at a con, or in my own home.....being home while online notwithstanding.....I actually feel "at home" right here.

Now.....does THAT make me crazy?

S'aaruuk

[Fusion]

Yes.