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What are your three greatest fears?

 
 
Reply 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
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 10:18 am
Women who look like your avatar.
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Synonymph
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 10:23 am
Men with cigarettes hanging from their mouths.
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SealPoet
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 10:27 am
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
--San Snead
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Equus
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:05 am
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.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:18 am
Oh sure, Cinnesthesia, you just had to mention clowns.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:22 am
I fear God's judgement and the day when I can no longer get it up.

That's it.
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Synonymph
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:28 am
I'll change my avatar if kickycan's quits smoking.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:32 am
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
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:33 am
Cinnesthesia wrote:
I'll change my avatar if kickycan's quits smoking.


Please don't ....I love it....
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 11:37 am
My fourth greatest fear:

Whatever is behind Cinnesthesia's eyepatch
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George
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 12:32 pm
1. Losing my long-term memory
2. Losing my short-term memory
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 12:34 pm
3. Losing my shorts and going to play volleyball unknowingly
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doglover
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 12:40 pm
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.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 01:06 pm
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.
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Heliotrope
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 01:41 pm
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.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 01:45 pm
I think your greatest fear is admitting you have fear.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 01:49 pm
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.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 02:02 pm
George, shouldn't that be...

1. Losing my long-term memory
2. Losing my short-term memory
3. Losing my long-term memory
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George
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 09:00 am
patiodog wrote:
George, shouldn't that be...

1. Losing my long-term memory
2. Losing my short-term memory
3. Losing my long-term memory


Yeah, I forgot one.
I was afraid of that.
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