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Fear
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Fear
What is fear?

Why are we afraid? What are we afraid of?

Here is my interpretation.

As a general consensus, of all of the people I ask this in real life (not a huge amount of people but my close friends mostly) they all agree that they are afraid of the unknown, and of death.

You'll always get the common answers too mixed in: height, snakes, spiders, men with chainsaws, the dark, deep water, etc.

What do these things have in common? They are all related to the unknown and death.

Why are people afraid of heights?

I can see how if you are high up on top of a building, you are afraid of falling down to the ground, which could kill you.

Why are people afraid of snakes, spiders and men with chainsaws?

Snakes, spiders and men with chainsaws kill people. (or cut trees down)

Why are people afraid of the dark, and deep water?

You can't see in the dark, and you have no idea what's beneath you in deep water. This leads to not knowing, which is the unknown.

I think those two things are what causes fear.

Why do Christians believe in such a far-fetched story about a cosmic Jewish zombie that can make them live forever if they symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that they accept him as their master, so he can remove an evil force from their soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

They are told that if they sin, they will go to hell. It is that Christians are afraid of not knowing if they are going to spend eternity in heaven or hell after death.

Sad that humans could be so easily deceived in these modern times...

Honestly, I am not afraid of many things. I am not afraid of spending eternity in hell. I am not afraid of many unknown things. It is scary not knowing what is going to happen to my love ones after I die and things like that. I believe death is just like before we were born. Wink

My interpretation of what fear is, I'm sure you guys have your own ideas as well.
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Fear - by Loading Please Wait - October 23, 2011 at 10:41 pm
RE: Fear - by reverendjeremiah - October 23, 2011 at 11:23 pm
RE: Fear - by kılıç_mehmet - October 24, 2011 at 4:25 am
RE: Fear - by Zen Badger - October 24, 2011 at 6:34 am
RE: Fear - by reverendjeremiah - October 24, 2011 at 11:06 am
RE: Fear - by frankiej - October 24, 2011 at 4:33 am
RE: Fear - by Violet - October 24, 2011 at 6:15 am
RE: Fear - by Erinome - October 24, 2011 at 6:54 am
RE: Fear - by frankiej - October 24, 2011 at 6:56 am
RE: Fear - by ElDinero - October 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
RE: Fear - by searchingforanswers - October 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm
RE: Fear - by Violet - October 24, 2011 at 12:45 pm
RE: Fear - by reverendjeremiah - October 24, 2011 at 12:47 pm
RE: Fear - by Violet - October 24, 2011 at 12:56 pm
RE: Fear - by ElDinero - October 24, 2011 at 1:30 pm
RE: Fear - by searchingforanswers - October 24, 2011 at 5:47 pm
RE: Fear - by Phaedra - October 24, 2011 at 6:23 pm
RE: Fear - by ElDinero - October 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm
RE: Fear - by searchingforanswers - October 24, 2011 at 9:02 pm
RE: Fear - by Phaedra - October 24, 2011 at 10:54 pm
RE: Fear - by searchingforanswers - October 25, 2011 at 7:42 am
RE: Fear - by Kayenneh - October 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm
RE: Fear - by Welsh cake - October 24, 2011 at 3:54 pm
RE: Fear - by Phaedra - October 24, 2011 at 4:01 pm
RE: Fear - by Loading Please Wait - October 24, 2011 at 7:07 pm
RE: Fear - by Phaedra - October 24, 2011 at 7:34 pm
RE: Fear - by Napoléon - October 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm
RE: Fear - by ElDinero - October 25, 2011 at 8:16 am
RE: Fear - by searchingforanswers - October 25, 2011 at 9:37 am
RE: Fear - by KichigaiNeko - October 25, 2011 at 9:46 am
RE: Fear - by KichigaiNeko - October 25, 2011 at 8:51 am
RE: Fear - by Zen Badger - October 25, 2011 at 9:05 am
RE: Fear - by Jay1982 - October 25, 2011 at 12:01 pm
RE: Fear - by Welsh cake - October 25, 2011 at 12:39 pm

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