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Thanks for the responses so far from everyone btw.
3500 killed, 48 000 injured. I’m glad you find the 50 000+ casualties of the Troubles a source for humour.
Boru
I do not find death humorous. You never stated why you were in constant fear in NI and I didn't want to assume. I did attempt to feign some levity to provoke an answer though. I apologize if you were offended, it wasn't my intent. To recap when you were in NI you were constantly in fear ethno-political retaliation based on your geographic proximity to a specific conflict. That's very reasonable.
(July 11, 2022 at 2:02 pm)TheJefe817 Wrote:
(July 11, 2022 at 10:53 am)tackattack Wrote: I read a recent article and I wanted to poll everyone and start a discussion that's probably been had elsewhere.
The context was simple. Being African American includes, in part, living in fear of the cops. It was used to explain why innocent people run from the cops. It got me thinking about living in fear. Do you, whatever your demographic, live in fear for your life. What is it and why. This could include the recent topics of .. am I safe in America because of X,Y,Z.. Does anything trigger that fear in your day-to-day routine and does it change your actions?
I have been thinking a good deal about fear lately, not just the physical, tangible fear which seems to be the main topic here. Pardon me if I go tangential to that. Specifically, I have been feeling far less fearful, anxious and guilty (among other things) since I finally admitted I found Christianity unconvincing. I think a big corollary to that was realizing the reason that my mother has seemed so unhappy at many times throughout my life - that she lives in fear. Corrolation is not causality, but when I trace back the unhappy and fearful thoughts she expresses, they tend to converge on her faith and some element of that which she applies to the situation at hand. I can't help but think that had she jettisoned all of it earlier in life in favor of getting the counseling she probably needed all along, she would be much happier today.
All civil discussion is good discussion. There has historically been a ton of fear used is religion so it's a very pertinent topic. Did you feel fear of damnation when you were a believer?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
