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[Rapunzel]

My real problem are moths. In summer, my college is full of them, FULL!!! They are huge moths, the size of a human hand, and they just have the horrible habit of STICKING in the walls , the ceiling, the windows or, worse, [b]your own chair[/b]!!!!

I kinda have well defined reasons for my phobia to moths. First of all, their boddy is fat and squishy, like a disgusting blob full of disgusting legs. Second, they have no intelligence and therefore they don't escape from you!!! It's totally the opposite: they fly straight to you!!!! That leads to my strongest reason of all: because they fly on to you and they stick to your clothes (ugh!!!) it's very probable that you use your hand (as a reflexive action) to slap them away... and they are so fragile, so squishy, that you may finish the scene with half a moth in your clothes and half a moth in your hand

I think I have made pretty clear that I am utterly terrified by moths. But now let me go to the second part of my topic: compassion. Although they terrify me, I do not approve, under any circumstances, cruelty to animals, and yes, this includes moths. I have read disturbing posts about "flame throwers" and people wanting moths and BFs to have a "slow and painful death". It's disgusting. It's insane. If our phobia is too big that we can't stand the moth or BF and we feel it really has to be killed, so be it, but let's have it done the quickest and painless way possible. Personally, I always prefer to have my boyfriend or a friend shoo it away, and that can be quite a job because in summer they like to stick PRECISELY on my house's main door, and I completely refuse to even go near if one of those monsters is anywhere around.

[jaka]

Dear Rapunzel, i reallly understand and support you point of compassion, killing only makes everything worse for them and for us. Her i just copy what i posted on the ¨where to get help¨ forum

[quote="jaka"]I´m a buddhist nun, i live in North India, in the middle in the rice fields...
I made my father-mother-friends etc... killing many b.. and m... for me since i was a child, and i actually feel regret for that now. Later, i became a buddhist, and we are not allowed to kill any sentient being, so i had to find other ways to survive.
I found out something amazing that i don´t know if you will believe or not. The more you kill them the more they come to you. Since i stoped killing them (´meaning making othes killing them) i barely meet them anymore, and i live in the fields! Is a strange phenomena, i´ve heard also from other people that when they stop killing X insect that they´re afraid of, the X insect gradually stop coming. My brother is a buddist too and he doesn´t kill any animal, not even mosquitos, and once he was with other guys in a place full of mosquitos and he was the only one that wasn´t bitten. This might sound crazy but i experienced it myself.
Also when you kill them, on top of doing a terrible mess and then having to clean it (which is extermely disgusting, i could never do i had to call somebody else to do it for me), and on top of accumulating negative karma WHICH IS TRUE, you also reafirm you feelings of hostility and heatred towards the monster, and it doesn´t help you at all, it only makes you feel more and more adversion. Without mentioning the traumatic experience of having contact with the thing.
The best thing is just to try to be away from them. For example in my monastery my room has a mosquito net in each window, so i can open all the windows and let the air come in and not having any insect coming in at the same time, which is great. Put nets on your windows, so even if it´s hot you can let the air come in and keep the beasts away, really, it works.
If for any reason the monster came in when i, for a second, left the door open, i just calle my neighbor to let it out. And i do the same for her when she finds a spider as she s aracnophobic.
And when i go to the toilet, which has no main door and the separation walls does not reach the roof (which means many of them may come in the night if they see a light) i just turn on the light from outside and then they go there and don´t come to me.
Killing them will only make things worse, phisically and mentally, PLEASE PUT NETS!!![/quote]

[butterflyhater]

extinction would be a blessing

[jzion12345]