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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #30 - October 29, 2012, 09:58 PM

All joking aside, my answer is "No". I can think of things that I obviously wouldn't enjoy if they were actually happening (like being dropped in a tank of piranha or some shit) and I can contemplate the effects of said situation in detail, but it doesn't elicit any real emotional reaction.

Now obviously if I really was in such a situation, there would be an emotional reaction of some sort. No phobias, though.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #31 - October 29, 2012, 09:59 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on October 29, 2012, 09:42 PM
TBH I don't think you would. You're too tough and practical. I reckon after a day or so you'd start to enjoy it, providing you weren't actually in iminent danger of drowning.

Well, maybe. But I guess the other problems of being stranded at sea are good enough reasons to not want to try conquer that particular fear.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #32 - October 29, 2012, 10:46 PM

Quote from: Ishina on October 29, 2012, 09:37 PM
I'm not scared of insects (though if one of significant size lands on me, I might go a bit crazy for a moment). I actually think spiders are cute and always carefully put them outside instead of killing them. I can't help feeling they are a degree above other creepy crawlies and get too much bad press. They make webs that catch the pretty dew, keep the fly population down too.

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Personally, I can't think of any phobias. With every year that goes by I feel more and more apathetic. Nothing really bothers/excites me anymore except science and individual freedom.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #33 - October 29, 2012, 10:51 PM

Quote from: Ishina on October 29, 2012, 09:37 PM

Yeah the open ocean is very terrifying now you come to mention it.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #34 - October 29, 2012, 10:56 PM

I dunno, I love the open ocean, although I'm scared of drowning, but I like the idea of escape and possiblity.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #35 - October 29, 2012, 10:56 PM

i have become more and more afraid of flying. It should be less and less.

I pay attention to news stories of plane crashes, and once you start doing that, you feel like they are happening all the time.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #36 - October 29, 2012, 10:59 PM

Always remember that even post 9/11, it's the safest mode of transport.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #37 - October 29, 2012, 11:01 PM

its not the frequency of the event. Its the minutes of falling to your certain death, plus the general panic of everyone around you. I imagine that maybe you are with your family or something too. You would have time to look at their face and see them scared as fuck
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #38 - October 29, 2012, 11:05 PM

But you're certain to die anyway, and since you don't know how it'll happen it could easily be far worse than a plane crash. Why not constantly worry about that instead? A change is as good as a holiday, they say.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #39 - October 30, 2012, 12:19 AM

Snake

Sea (with all weird creatures below the surface)

Being tortured or being burned to death.

Being in England for longer. I though to move out. its getting worst and i sense something not good coming in the future.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #40 - October 30, 2012, 12:30 AM

Quote from: osmanthus on October 29, 2012, 11:05 PM
But you're certain to die anyway,

you're right. people die. i do not believe in afterlife. no one like to die and that is perfect naturally but no point in thinking about it, just think about survive as much as you can. also enjoy your life while u can.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #41 - October 30, 2012, 02:20 AM

Scared of pain, or rather not being able to manage and handle the pain. Situations like torture immediately come to mind, although others like a chronic illness also do the trick.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #42 - October 30, 2012, 05:42 AM

I'm afraid of heights, in that I can climb stairs or walls, but once I'm on the roof, its hard for me to climb down the way I came.

Was on a plane once, and the wing happened to be right outside my window. Everytime it turned or went up or down I felt nauseous. Bad experience. Never get the window seat behind the wing.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #43 - October 30, 2012, 07:37 AM

Cockroaches. Bugs in general make me uneasy/freak me out, but cockroaches are just special.

And intense physical pain. If I'm watching a movie/TV show and they start torturing someone I run away.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #44 - October 30, 2012, 10:11 PM

Not sure if I've said this out loud before but every now and then I'm paralysed by the fear that I will find out what I am and I will despise it. Not in a 'son, you're a robot' kind of way, but like... finally understanding what human conciousness is and realising it'll just be a footnote in the grand scheme of life/evolution/the universe. (I suddenly remember why I've never said that out loud.)

Most of my fears are related to life/death/being human in some way, I'm generally too detached to be afraid of tangible things unless I'm in immediate physical danger or they look like silverfish.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #45 - October 30, 2012, 10:16 PM

Just think, the higher-functioning mammals of Earth might be the only things in the universe that are conscious.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #46 - October 30, 2012, 10:18 PM

Yeah but only some of them.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #47 - October 30, 2012, 11:34 PM

Quote from: Prince Spinoza on October 30, 2012, 10:11 PM
Not sure if I've said this out loud before but every now and then I'm paralysed by the fear that I will find out what I am and I will despise it. Not in a 'son, you're a robot' kind of way, but like... finally understanding what human conciousness is and realising it'll just be a footnote in the grand scheme of life/evolution/the universe. (I suddenly remember why I've never said that out loud.)

Most of my fears are related to life/death/being human in some way, I'm generally too detached to be afraid of tangible things unless I'm in immediate physical danger or they look like silverfish.

I hear ya, existential anxiety. Have had that on and off since I was about 10 but look-

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The concept of existential anxiety is rooted in existentialist philosophy...Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche helped shape existentialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the meaning of existence and the significance of the individual .

From an existential approach, anxiety is considered a normal part of living. Normal anxiety should not be eliminated, but channeled into rational decisions and constructive behavior.

All about keeping that balance as best you can.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #48 - October 31, 2012, 12:57 PM

I'm afraid of stupidity...

Of becoming stupid, appearing stupid and being surrounded by stupid people (as in being in a crowd of idiots for example).

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #49 - October 31, 2012, 10:59 PM

The only organism that creeps me out are spiders. But then that's a disgust of spiders not fear.

I fear losing my best friend. (I fear losing him more than losing my family because he is literally the only person that I have told everything about my life too).

Knowing that there is a person who knows everything about me and who I can always count on to have a heart to heart conversation is a really comforting feeling. Actually I think it's the best feeling in the world.

In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #50 - November 01, 2012, 02:12 AM

starless, black ocean at night, the waves, it's beckoning, lulled you to get in.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #51 - November 02, 2012, 08:01 PM

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #52 - November 02, 2012, 08:06 PM

Quote from: Sara198 on October 30, 2012, 11:34 PM
I hear ya, existential anxiety. Have had that on and off since I was about 10 but look-

All about keeping that balance as best you can.

Kierkegaard makes me want to poke my eyes out and Nietzsche was a lunatic.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #53 - November 02, 2012, 08:07 PM

@ thread - running out of distractions.
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #54 - November 02, 2012, 08:58 PM

Quote from: Prince Spinoza on November 02, 2012, 08:06 PM
Kierkegaard makes me want to poke my eyes out and Nietzsche was a lunatic.

that's the spirit, keep striving for positivity

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #55 - November 02, 2012, 09:00 PM

Spinach just doesn't appreciate philosophy.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #56 - November 02, 2012, 09:06 PM

Quote from: Prince Spinoza on November 02, 2012, 08:06 PM
Kierkegaard makes me want to poke my eyes out and Nietzsche was a lunatic.

And Spinoza was a pantheist.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #57 - November 02, 2012, 09:38 PM

Spider webs - Makes me feel like there are bugs crawling over me.
Drain hair - Makes me wanna throw up and I almost have on a few occasions.
The sides of the shower cubicle - I have to wash any area that accidentally touches the sides while I'm showering. No idea why.

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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #58 - November 02, 2012, 11:22 PM

Quote from: arX on November 02, 2012, 09:06 PM
And Spinoza was a pantheist.

Because he was just that cool.

Actually, I don't believe saying 'everything is God' is meaningful, so that's about the most irrelevant aspect of his philosophy. I doubt he had a reason to call his monistic-substance 'God' beyond "that's kinda cute" / "I'm so fuckin' high right now".
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Re: What are you afraid of?
Reply #59 - November 02, 2012, 11:31 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on November 02, 2012, 09:00 PM
Spinach just doesn't appreciate philosophy.

Hey, I appreciate the kind that acknowledges the tragedy of humanity and doesn't try to rationalise it away. Schopenhauer was cool. Let's all be like that guy.
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