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Tue 4 May, 2004 09:22 am
Spiders, terrorism, public speaking, ostriches, clowns, the dark? Let's talk about fears, from the rational to the irrational, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
What I fear most:
The fragility of existence
Human incompetence
Loss of mental or physical independence
Women who look like your avatar.
Men with cigarettes hanging from their mouths.
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
--San Snead
Being stark naked in front of a laughing crowd while hanging by one hand from Abraham Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore while tarantulas are crawling over my body and my mother is staring at me disapprovingly.
Oh sure, Cinnesthesia, you just had to mention clowns.
I fear God's judgement and the day when I can no longer get it up.
That's it.
I'll change my avatar if kickycan's quits smoking.
My greatest fears:
Dubya's face getting added to Mt. Rushmore
Hitler's brain really has been preserved
Junior league hockey is actually a training camp for violent psycopaths
Cinnesthesia wrote:I'll change my avatar if kickycan's quits smoking.
Please don't ....I love it....
My fourth greatest fear:
Whatever is behind Cinnesthesia's eyepatch
1. Losing my long-term memory
2. Losing my short-term memory
3. Losing my shorts and going to play volleyball unknowingly
Things I fear the most:
Losing my mind or ability to control my body/bodily functions.
Becoming homeless.
GW Bush being elected to a second term in November.
Snakes and some bugs.
Cinnesthesia wrote:I'll change my avatar if kickycan's quits smoking.
I am never quitting! And I don't think you should change your avatar anyway. It's scary, but in a great way.
Fears ?
Hmmmmm, tough one this. I'm not trying to be macho or anything but I don't think I have any.
Fear is really about the unknown and I love the unknown.
Saying that however, there's absolutely no way I'd put my hand in a dark hole in a riverbank or something similar.
There is one thing I don't like though and that is loss of control.
I'll have to give you an example.
I love kayaking and I'm reasonably competent. I love being on the water and I love being in the water. It's the transition from being on to being in that I have a problem with.
I will fight tooth and nail and paddle to avoid a capsize but once I've gone over I'm happy as Larry.
Bang out of the boat and I'm having a ball swimming through the rapids as long as I don't get sucked under like I did on the river Tryweryn.
I'm not afraid of it, I just don't like it.
I think your greatest fear is admitting you have fear.
Good one kicky. All fear can be conquered by facing up to it. As some shrink and Oingo Boingo once said: There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
George, shouldn't that be...
1. Losing my long-term memory
2. Losing my short-term memory
3. Losing my long-term memory