Vanadium50
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Have anyone noticed that burdock leaves are disgusting to touch? I don't have any other sensory issues, mind you, but burdock leaves are disgusting. I only accidentally touched them a couple of times when I was a little kid, and ever since then I avoid them at all costs.
This brings me to the following question: is it true that withered burdock leaves are even more disgusting then fresh ones? I am not talking about the ones that are so dry you can make the powder out of them, I am talking about the yellow ones: in other words, they still have their texture, they are just yellow. Since I avoid touching both green AND yellow, I have no way of knowing. But, intuitively, it feels like yellow ones are even more disgusting. Well at least I don't like eating withered fruit, so I feel like touching yellow burdock is like two disgusting things in one.
But then there was something else that happened that made me think the opposite. So my mom is usually very controlling. But right now that she isn't feeling well due to her age, she is less controlling. So the question is: would yellow burdock also be LESS disgusting, just like my mom. One explanation might be that the reason burdocks are disgusting to touch is the very small burs that your eyes won't see, nor fingers would feel, so instead of actually feeling the burs I feel as if its just a weird texture that I don't like. Now, when the burdock withers, its pretty logical that it would lose its bars (kind of like tree loses its leaves) and, if that were to happen, the texture would feel a lot more smooth and thus not as bad for the touch. Now, I don't know whether that is the case, I am just asking. After all, I never touch burdocks so I have no way of knowing.
In any case, EVEN IF yellow burdock were to lose its burs, I would STILL say its MORE disgusting then the green one. Why? For the same reason as eating buggers is disgusting, despite the fact that to someone who doesn't know they are buggers they might actually taste good. The fact that I know its a yellow burdock is what would make it more disgusting than green one -- regardless of actual sensation. You see, IF the burs were large enough to see, then I wouldn't have had this kind of disgust to begin with. What makes burdocks so disgusting is the fact that I DON"T see their burs and thats why whatever unpleasant sensation I am experiencing feels like a "mystical curse", and you will probably agree that a "curse" that you don't see is in many respects more scary than physical things that you do. Now, since I have this idea of "mystical curse" in my head, then nothing stops me from thinking that said "curse" is even greater on a leaf thats yellow; and since such curse is mystical, nothing would dissuade me from thinking this way, not even smoother texture or anything else.
Now, whats even more disgusting is the possibile analogy between yellow burdock losing its burs and my mom losing her energy to be controlling BECAUSE of age. IF both statements are true, then the fact that I am even more disgusted by yellow burdock than the green one should imply that I should be even more disgusted by my mother right now than I used to be when she was young! But I can't avoid calling my mom, so it makes me totally puke.
This brings me to the following question: is it true that withered burdock leaves are even more disgusting then fresh ones? I am not talking about the ones that are so dry you can make the powder out of them, I am talking about the yellow ones: in other words, they still have their texture, they are just yellow. Since I avoid touching both green AND yellow, I have no way of knowing. But, intuitively, it feels like yellow ones are even more disgusting. Well at least I don't like eating withered fruit, so I feel like touching yellow burdock is like two disgusting things in one.
But then there was something else that happened that made me think the opposite. So my mom is usually very controlling. But right now that she isn't feeling well due to her age, she is less controlling. So the question is: would yellow burdock also be LESS disgusting, just like my mom. One explanation might be that the reason burdocks are disgusting to touch is the very small burs that your eyes won't see, nor fingers would feel, so instead of actually feeling the burs I feel as if its just a weird texture that I don't like. Now, when the burdock withers, its pretty logical that it would lose its bars (kind of like tree loses its leaves) and, if that were to happen, the texture would feel a lot more smooth and thus not as bad for the touch. Now, I don't know whether that is the case, I am just asking. After all, I never touch burdocks so I have no way of knowing.
In any case, EVEN IF yellow burdock were to lose its burs, I would STILL say its MORE disgusting then the green one. Why? For the same reason as eating buggers is disgusting, despite the fact that to someone who doesn't know they are buggers they might actually taste good. The fact that I know its a yellow burdock is what would make it more disgusting than green one -- regardless of actual sensation. You see, IF the burs were large enough to see, then I wouldn't have had this kind of disgust to begin with. What makes burdocks so disgusting is the fact that I DON"T see their burs and thats why whatever unpleasant sensation I am experiencing feels like a "mystical curse", and you will probably agree that a "curse" that you don't see is in many respects more scary than physical things that you do. Now, since I have this idea of "mystical curse" in my head, then nothing stops me from thinking that said "curse" is even greater on a leaf thats yellow; and since such curse is mystical, nothing would dissuade me from thinking this way, not even smoother texture or anything else.
Now, whats even more disgusting is the possibile analogy between yellow burdock losing its burs and my mom losing her energy to be controlling BECAUSE of age. IF both statements are true, then the fact that I am even more disgusted by yellow burdock than the green one should imply that I should be even more disgusted by my mother right now than I used to be when she was young! But I can't avoid calling my mom, so it makes me totally puke.
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)(They were mortified when they saw what happened and apologized to me for what their "pretty cactus" to him.)
