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What's your phobia?
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 (February 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'Courage is the complement of fear; the man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.' - Heinlein or Clausewitz, I'm not sure which. Sounds like something out of The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, methinks. That would make it from RAH.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
Sounds like Heinlein. Jonny Rico always got the shakes before a drop.
In terms of irrational fears I'm afraid of the majority of flying animals that come close to me.
Its very variable though, animals that are ugly with wings I can feel and that seem to have wild flying patterns go to the top of what triggers the fear for me. Bats and moths, things like that. I've got a lot of extreme fears but they're all pretty rational I think. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason.   (February 3, 2019 at 8:56 pm)Fireball Wrote:(February 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'Courage is the complement of fear; the man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.' - Heinlein or Clausewitz, I'm not sure which. I believe you're right. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(February 4, 2019 at 7:25 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/135408-...man-who-is Yup! I was going to go thumb through my copy of Time Enough for Love and find it, but life obtruded. Squirrel!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
"Rub her feet."
RE: What's your phobia?
February 5, 2019 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2019 at 9:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The dark, missing time, sleep, backpacks.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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