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Post by notsuretobeme on Apr 4, 2010 1:06:15 GMT -5
My biggest fear is hurting the people I care about and being alone (like no friends, no family, just a walking shadow......)
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Post by Lex on Apr 4, 2010 1:23:55 GMT -5
My biggest fear is hurting the people I care about and being alone (like no friends, no family, just a walking shadow......) Now that I think about it, I guess my greatest fear is the death of my best friend or my family members (mother, father, sister, brother).
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Post by stephen5000 on Apr 4, 2010 1:49:23 GMT -5
I've definitely lost sleep over fears of nonexistence.
Even more terrifying is the idea of being completely alone, while surrounded by people.
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Post by Insane_Zang on Apr 4, 2010 2:18:44 GMT -5
that's funny, cuz i absolutely love them. Yes, I love them too. Me three ^_^ My biggest fear is hurting the people I care about That happens to me everyday :/
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2010 4:00:05 GMT -5
becoming boring.
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Post by xxmachak94xx on Apr 4, 2010 10:14:45 GMT -5
:-D I do too! Not big spiders though. :3 Noo! The big spiders are the cutest ones! :O Especially tarantulas. Come on people, most spiders are harmless. I prefer the black widows, but tarantulas are OK !!! :) ;) Most people are afraid of their own ignorance. Babies are afraid of darkness because they do not know what is hiding there. But fear is just a feeling, it can not hurt us.
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Post by Elise on Apr 4, 2010 13:52:48 GMT -5
But fear is just a feeling, it can not hurt us. Actually it can. Not physically, but mentally. And if you're like me it can hurt you physically aswell. Usually when I'm a situation I fear, I freak out and panic. Like every time I'm going to take a blood test I feel tempted to run out the door and jump in front of a car just to avoid it, so they usually have to hold me down. Idk, maybe I'm just crazy. I don't freak out to this extent with all my fears though, just my biggest ones like needles and seeing/hearing people that aren't really there (which has never really happened, but the thought of it scares me so much I'm pretty sure that if it actually happened I would do something out of panic that I would probably regret later on). I'm also scared of heights, but if I'm somewhere high up I usually just close my eyes and try to think happy thoughts.
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Post by TheIslander on Apr 4, 2010 14:40:20 GMT -5
I fear disease/illness.
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Post by Jub on Apr 4, 2010 15:39:37 GMT -5
I'm not scared of death. I'm not scared of spiders. I'm not scared of snakes. IM SCARED TO FREAKING DEATH OF BEES or other bugs that buzz loudly. I'm kinda scared of people breaking into my house. Like robbers and killers and stuff... But I'm not scared that I'll die.
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Post by bleabot on Apr 4, 2010 16:13:21 GMT -5
I'd like to pose a question here: how does anyone know they're afraid or not afraid of death until they actually face it? I can't imagine knowing whether or not I'm afraid of something until I see the actual thing. For example, I thought I'd be comfortable pricking my finger in anatomy. I'm afraid of needles, but I didn't see these as needles (as in a shot, tube and all)...just a pin tip. I was wrong. I stood there for about ten minutes with the pricking device thingamabob in my hand until I finally told my friend to do it for me. The point is I didn't know I'd be afraid of the pricking. I'm not afraid of being cut, blood, or scrapes; I see those on a daily basis.
The only exception I see to this is anyone who has died or come pretty darn close.
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Post by Wolfdude on Apr 4, 2010 18:09:35 GMT -5
I dont FEAR detah.. i try to avoid it. Like when i almost fell of a cliff , i just got high on adrenalin and climbed al the way up in like half a second.
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Post by xxmachak94xx on Apr 4, 2010 18:29:48 GMT -5
But fear is just a feeling, it can not hurt us. Actually it can. Not physically, but mentally. And if you're like me it can hurt you physically aswell. Usually when I'm a situation I fear, I freak out and panic. Like every time I'm going to take a blood test I feel tempted to run out the door and jump in front of a car just to avoid it, so they usually have to hold me down. Idk, maybe I'm just crazy. I don't freak out to this extent with all my fears though, just my biggest ones like needles and seeing/hearing people that aren't really there (which has never really happened, but the thought of it scares me so much I'm pretty sure that if it actually happened I would do something out of panic that I would probably regret later on). I'm also scared of heights, but if I'm somewhere high up I usually just close my eyes and try to think happy thoughts. I see what you mean. When i think more about it, i get that your standpoint depends on what point of view do you have. If you look to a fear as a filing-it cant hurt you.BUT if you look to a fear as a beginner of some consequence-it definitely can. I think that if you hold down your fear, it will become absolutely harmless. In some part i agree with you and in some of them i dont, but any way i thank you for showing your arguments to me. I appreciate it! :) :D :) :D
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Post by Lex on Apr 4, 2010 19:44:46 GMT -5
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm only afraid of how I might die (ex: being slowly dismembered)
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Post by AMagicalCat on Apr 4, 2010 21:08:41 GMT -5
For me it's a big difference between things I am afraid of, and things I hate and try to avoid. If i'm really scared of something, I rund away, and if I can't: I get hysteric and/or I cry.
I remember two things that I am afraid of: 1. Bees and Wasps, or other flying yellow and black insects. (that can sting). If I see one: I run away. If I can't, I don't cry - but I can get a bit hysteric.
2. Certain types of Syringes: like local anesthetic injections, or blood samples. The last time I had to take a blood-sample: I cried. And I had a really bad experience with a local anesthetic injection, that was really painful, so after that experience I became afraid of them.
But I think the reason why I am afraid of both of the above, is because both of them creates pain if stung with bee or needle. So I would have to say that Pain is my biggest fear. (physical pain)
With that said:
I am not afraid of death because everyone is going to die, and a lot of people have done it before me, so why should I be afraid of it? it's just a part of life. I wouldn't be afraid if I died right now, but ofcourse I don't WANT to die, no way! but the way I see it, it's just as natural as beeing born. ofcourse it's sad though, I don't like death. At all. It's under the cathegory: "Things I hate and try to avoid". - If there is anything about death I'm afraid of it would be HOW I die, I don't want to die in pain, or in an embarrassing situation. And I want my head to be clear, I would rather die than to live with e.g alzheimers.
Other things that I strongly dislike are: - Feet (I freak out if they get too close to my face, they just discust me) - Insects (I kill them, because I hate them...) - Blood (I personally don't have anything against blood except for that when I can smell it, I get really dizzy and almost faint.)
(edit: typos)
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Post by eod89 on Apr 4, 2010 21:36:08 GMT -5
I'd like to pose a question here: how does anyone know they're afraid or not afraid of death until they actually face it? I can't imagine knowing whether or not I'm afraid of something until I see the actual thing. For example, I thought I'd be comfortable pricking my finger in anatomy. I'm afraid of needles, but I didn't see these as needles (as in a shot, tube and all)...just a pin tip. I was wrong. I stood there for about ten minutes with the pricking device thingamabob in my hand until I finally told my friend to do it for me. The point is I didn't know I'd be afraid of the pricking. I'm not afraid of being cut, blood, or scrapes; I see those on a daily basis. The only exception I see to this is anyone who has died or come pretty darn close. Keep in mind that I am not psychologist of any kind. This is just what I think, as a person who fears dying. The fear of death and the fear of needles are two different kinds of fears. One is the fear of something physical like needles. That kind of fear would fall within the same category as the fear of spiders or snakes. The fear of death, on the other hand, is more of a vague fear. It's the fear of an idea. While, by your logic, we can't fear death, we can certainly fear the idea of dying. After a few day of personal contemplation, I've come up with another hypothesis as to why an alarming (to me) number of people do not fear death. Evolutionarily, fearing death serves no purpose. In fact, it is probably more of an detriment to our evolution and existence as a species to fear death. As a result we, as a species, developed a sort of cognitive way to inhibit that fear. It's a shaky hypothesis, and I have no way to gather data, so a hypothesis it remains.
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Post by stephen5000 on Apr 5, 2010 3:44:03 GMT -5
The fear of death is weird because some people are absolutely terrified of it, and other are completely unaffected. We can see that with the responses here, but also I remember one time way back when a teacher of mine asked the class about their fears - she was surprised not many people feared death.
Frankly, I'm surprised so many people can rationalize away the fear of death; it's something I've never been able to do. This may seem strange, but not believing in an afterlife makes it even harder. The real fear seems to be nonexistence. I'd gladly go to Hell rather to to cease to exist.
To me anything is preferable to nonexistence. On a side note, I was intrigued to find this sentiment echoed in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman by the character Mrs. Coulter.
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Post by eod89 on Apr 5, 2010 15:07:09 GMT -5
The fear of death is weird because some people are absolutely terrified of it, and other are completely unaffected. We can see that with the responses here, but also I remember one time way back when a teacher of mine asked the class about their fears - she was surprised not many people feared death. Frankly, I'm surprised so many people can rationalize away the fear of death; it's something I've never been able to do. This may seem strange, but not believing in an afterlife makes it even harder. The real fear seems to be nonexistence. I'd gladly go to Hell rather to to cease to exist. To me anything is preferable to nonexistence. On a side note, I was intrigued to find this sentiment echoed in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman by the character Mrs. Coulter. If I were to judge you just by this quote I would say that you and I are very much alike. I'll have to check out His Dark Materials.
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Post by bleabot on Apr 6, 2010 15:11:54 GMT -5
You should read His Dark Materials. That is an amazing trilogy. I haven't read it in a couple years, but I suppose Mrs. Coulter did have that mindset. I didn't think about it much then! eod89That makes a lot more sense to me. Fear of an idea is perfectly understandable; I can believe that. I'm not sure if your hypothesis is correct either, but it sure sounds good from my perspective. I'll think about it more =P
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Post by newschooled on Apr 6, 2010 15:54:57 GMT -5
Fear this dude. FEEEAAAR HIIIIIIIM.
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Post by Lex on Apr 6, 2010 16:11:43 GMT -5
Oh, lol. To add onto my earlier post, I have something vaguely related:
Yesterday, in Biology class we began covering the circulatory system. Given my problems with blood, I nearly threw up in class. It's not like I saw blood or anything, they were just giving descriptions of certain things and I felt sick to my stomach.
At this point, I felt like I ran a mile, and I couldn't pay attention to anything. Everything was like slowing down, my hearing was going all fuzzy and my sight began to fade away into colours like the ones you see when you press on your eyeballs. My hands were freezing, but I felt like I had just been placed in a furnace and I was sweating like crazy.
This has happened several times before in the past six or so years. The last time it happened was the most severe, where my vision totally blacked out, but I could still faintly hear. Eventually my sight came back and I had to be escorted out of the classroom by the teaching assistant. I got taken to the office where they called my parents and I got picked up and taken home. They said I was as white as chalk. I don't know exactly how pale I was, but everyone was looking at me funny in the school office.
My mom says I've been experiencing slight shock, but I don't know how exactly to stop it from happening.
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