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Poll: Have you lived in fear?
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I've fear for my life during day-to-day life
15.79%
3 15.79%
I've never feared for my life outside of an extreme circumstance
52.63%
10 52.63%
Something else
21.05%
4 21.05%
I hate polls
10.53%
2 10.53%
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Living in Fear
#31
RE: Living in Fear
I live in fear that someone, somewhere on the web is taking Drich seriously.

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
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#32
RE: Living in Fear
@BrianSoddingBoru4  I agree it was bigoted and very trope-ish as Rev said, and for the offense I do apologize. I didn't even know you were from NI or that you had lost an eye. I hope you can excuse my ignorance, and regardless it was out of place. Now back to the impact if you don't mind sharing a little more You said " I got over that feeling after a few years in New Zealand - people here just don’t seem particularly interested in killing each other." so it's lessened but not gone? I would assume that the impact of your wounds from the Poppy Day Massacre (thanks for the research and I'm sorry that you were a victim of a deplorable situation) would cause you considerable fear in going outside. Is it something that affects you regularly in an emotional or social sense?


(July 13, 2022 at 4:35 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:


Does your extreme introversion come from a direct fear like agoraphobia or is it more of a social choice?


@AFTT47 I think my mother had a fear of guns from when I was young I was playing with a rifle and it went off. I was hit by another car 3 different occasions (the other person was at fault or it was a mechanical failure) and for a few weeks after I was very afraid of getting in a vehicle. Seemed that necessity of having to go places forced that and lessened the fears.
"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

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#33
RE: Living in Fear
More of a social choice. Born with autism, so I’m already predisposed to introversion, my experiences being bullied in grade school left me afraid, but a better experience in high school just left me cold to most human interaction.
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#34
RE: Living in Fear
I do fear for my life more than a person should. I have been abducted and sexually assaulted, and managed to escape with my life, although I had serious doubts about that at the time. More recently, I was involved in a shooting incident while I was at the beach just trying to have a relaxing day. Some 19 year old kid wrote a manifesto of hate (we all know this story well) and killed someone and himself in front of everyone. Everyone around me carries a gun everywhere they are allowed, and probably a lot of places where they aren't. There was a firearms incident at a neighbor's house and I had to get out of my own house. So yeah, I am not all that happy to be out and about and I don't even feel safe at home anymore.
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#35
RE: Living in Fear
(July 13, 2022 at 1:04 pm)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4  I agree it was bigoted and very trope-ish as Rev said, and for the offense I do apologize. I didn't even know you were from NI or that you had lost an eye. I hope you can excuse my ignorance, and regardless it was out of place. Now back to the impact if you don't mind sharing a little more You said " I got over that feeling after a few years in New Zealand - people here just don’t seem particularly interested in killing each other." so it's lessened but not gone? I would assume that the impact of your wounds from the Poppy Day Massacre (thanks for the research and I'm sorry that you were a victim of a deplorable situation) would cause you considerable fear in going outside. Is it something that affects you regularly in an emotional or social sense?

I was never in fear for my life, more of an awareness that it was a possibility that one simply accepted (hence my comment about NI fatalism).

I don’t see how you could not know I’m from Northern Ireland, since my first post in this thread started out, ‘When I lived in Northern Ireland…’

Awareness of my own mortality is constant, I just don’t fret about it. I simply feel that when it comes to car bombs, shootings, and being beaten to death by Protestants, my odds of avoiding the things have increased significantly.

My injuries don’t make me fear going outside (I spend more time out of doors than I do in the house). The chief problem with being one-eyed is that, when I wink at a pretty girl, she thinks I’m falling asleep.

I excuse your ignorance. I do not accept your apology.

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
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#36
RE: Living in Fear
@Mermaid Those are very good reasons to have a heightened fear. Definitely very reasonable. Sorry that happened to you, and I'm glad you're still around. When that fear kicks in do you have flashbacks, is it more of just unknowing reaction? I'm trying to get at is your aversion a bias that is intentional or subconscious?

@BrianSoddingBoru4 - Fair. If you were to guess how you'd die, do you think it'll be peaceful or something else?
"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

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#37
RE: Living in Fear
(July 13, 2022 at 4:21 pm)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4 - Fair. If you were to guess how you'd die, do you think it'll be peaceful or something else?

I’ve honestly never thought about it.

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
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#38
RE: Living in Fear
(July 13, 2022 at 1:04 pm)tackattack Wrote: @BrianSoddingBoru4  I agree it was bigoted and very trope-ish as Rev said, and for the offense I do apologize. I didn't even know you were from NI or that you had lost an eye. I hope you can excuse my ignorance, and regardless it was out of place. Now back to the impact if you don't mind sharing a little more You said " I got over that feeling after a few years in New Zealand - people here just don’t seem particularly interested in killing each other." so it's lessened but not gone? I would assume that the impact of your wounds from the Poppy Day Massacre (thanks for the research and I'm sorry that you were a victim of a deplorable situation) would cause you considerable fear in going outside. Is it something that affects you regularly in an emotional or social sense?
I'm going to assume you have been lucky enough not to have experienced extreme trauma.  It's not something that just goes away.  You can learn to live with it but it becomes a part of your being at some level or another.
  
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#39
RE: Living in Fear
I'm not sure I have a normal fear response, I'm kinda like a deer, once the immediate danger is past, I go back to grazing. When I've been in dangerous situations I haven't felt especially afraid, more like on high alert. I've gotten held up at maybe gunpoint, had close calls driving, and had major heart surgery. I'm more likely to be kept awake by knowing I have to fire someone the next day, but that's not fear, I just hate when it comes to that.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#40
RE: Living in Fear
With the good lord FSM by my side, I fear nothing.
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming"  -The Prophet Boiardi-

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