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Hooahguy
05-24-2009, 15:23
mine are:
1) breaking a string of my guitar or losing a pick at a gig
2) big spiders
3) having a guitar string break and whip me in the face
4) roaches
1. Spiders
2. Deep Water
3. Sasquatch
Been afraid of spiders for a long time, they just.. bother me. Strangely I'm not that way over any other thing of relative size (maybe bees).
Deep water is another thing that I hate. If I can't see the bottom my mind goes crazy in speculation.
And then of course there's Sasquatch, the :daisy: of myth. I really hate that thing (if it exists). :skull:
rasoforos
05-24-2009, 16:11
I am afraid of my own blood. I easily faint when cut.
I am afraid that I will forget to add a project on my schedule and not have a crew to do it when it is due.
I am afraid of worms.
Rhyfelwyr
05-24-2009, 16:24
I am beyond fear :knight:
Still spiders a bit, though some are fascinating, cute and adorable. Not sure where this comes from and I thus guess it's not a good idea to talk with a certified person about it. As far as I know, the most/only dangerous arachnids in Holland are lyme infected ticks.
Reverend Joe
05-24-2009, 18:29
Wasps, bees, and most of all hornets. I got stung really bad a few times as a kid, and now I do all I can to avoid being stung again. Only bees I can tolerate are carpenter bees because they have no stinger; I actually kinda like them.
Oh, and grubs... they're ****** gross to the point of being horrifying. The first time I ever saw one, my first thought was of a tiny alien creature crawling around, looking to drink some unsuspecting creature's blood.
tibilicus
05-24-2009, 18:32
Only one fear, FAILURE.
KukriKhan
05-24-2009, 19:20
Suffocation. And related to that: enclosed spaces. I was surprised a couple years ago, while crawling into a very tight space, that though my mind ordered me to continue, my body froze and refused to obey my command to "go on".
Rats. I don't so much fear them, as irrationally hate them. Perhaps because I grew up in a rat-infested neighborhood.
At this point I honestly don't consider things which make me experience fear as being "fears", rather it's the things that I am not even willing to admit that I am afraid of which I consider "fears".
It comes as quite a surprise when you get to a point where that stuff starts to unfold. It's unsettling in a way that you can't bare to look at it even when it's right in front of you every moment of your life.
Centurion1
05-24-2009, 22:10
I'm not afraid of normal stuff, like heights, deep water, spiders, that stuff doesnt faze me at all. I doubt im even that worried about that death if it ran up to me and bit me. (part of being young i suppose). no what i am afriad of is incapacitation, like blindness, being crippled, amputation, or paralyzation. Those frighten me more that anything else. I suppose when i get older ill change my feeling but until then thats what i fear
Deathly afraid of being high up on anything man-made and rickety. Which is weird, 'cause I used to mountaineer all the time. But being up a 500-foot cliff never bothered me, 'cause I didn't think the mountain might have skimped on materials and workmanship.
Don't get long with biting or stinging insects, but I'm only afraid of them when they get on me while I'm asleep. Waking up to something that bites or stings, that sends my blood pressure into the stratosphere.
seireikhaan
05-24-2009, 22:16
Donny Osmond.
Sasaki Kojiro
05-24-2009, 22:18
At this point I honestly don't consider things which make me experience fear as being "fears", rather it's the things that I am not even willing to admit that I am afraid of which I consider "fears".
It comes as quite a surprise when you get to a point where that stuff starts to unfold. It's unsettling in a way that you can't bare to look at it even when it's right in front of you every moment of your life.
Well said, I agree.
Hosakawa Tito
05-24-2009, 23:27
My biggest fear is headaches. After going through that brain aneurysm ordeal a while back I never want to experience another.
I don't much like dentists either. When I was a kid our family dentist didn't use novacaine when filling our cavities. Getting your teeth drilled without it was pure torture. Subsequently I didn't go to any dentists as an adult for almost 30 years. I finally had to go due to a filling that had gone bad. I needed a partial bridge, and it was as painless as any procedure I have ever experienced. I still have that visceral distrust, but I go...grudgingly.
Kralizec
05-24-2009, 23:58
1. speaking in public
2. death
1 the future
2 Geert Wilder
3 Wasilewski and Chabal
4 public humiliation
5 not finding true love
6 being compared to filip de winter, Fragony ~;), Price Charles
7 Bartix deathray
Reverend Joe
05-25-2009, 00:09
5 not finding true love
Nice one.
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 00:10
5 not finding true love
your right hand will never fail you.... :smash:
Ramses II CP
05-25-2009, 00:25
1. Death of my child.
2. Every other horrible thing that could happen to my child.
3. That I'm too paranoid.
4. That I'm not paranoid enough.
:egypt:
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 00:33
3. That I'm too paranoid.
4. That I'm not paranoid enough.
:egypt:
you remind me of my mother. and my friends mother. and my other friends mother. ect.
Megas Methuselah
05-25-2009, 00:50
Heights. It was a childhood fear which I overcame a long time ago, but despite this, I still get shivers up and down my spine when I'm on something high above the ground.
Exceedingly deep water with no land in sight.
Small, enclosed spaces.
A slow, painful death.
Heart attack. Which is odd because my heart is lovely and my family has no history of heart disease. Just the thought of the Sternum Vice.... Gah!
Being handcuffed and locked in the back of a cop car. I'm sure I'd have an asthma attack, not be able to use my Ventollin, and slowly asphyxiate while the cops outside ignore me and talk about the weather.
That I'll never get to :daisy: a particular ex-girlfriend ever again. She looked like a young Elizabeth Taylor. Even now at about 40, she's still... oh my.
Wasps, bees, and most of all hornets. I got stung really bad a few times as a kid, and now I do all I can to avoid being stung again. Only bees I can tolerate are carpenter bees because they have no stinger; I actually kinda like them.
I have Apiphobia, self diagnosed. I have never been stung, but once I see a bee, I'm suddenly covered by irrational fear and paranoia. If there is one familly type I would gladly see exterminated and completely wiped off the face of the planet for all eternity would be bees, hornets and/or anything remotely connected with them. I don't care about honey. Don't even like it, so its a win-win situation for me.
Beefy187
05-25-2009, 02:05
Roaches
Mega size mosquitos
Mantis
In grade 8 music lesson, Mantis was hiding behind a guitar case.. She thought it would be funny if she jumps on my finger and cut me with her thing...
After a few swing, I managed to get her off.. Since then, I hate Mantis..
Theres always two mantis outside my Grandmas room. Hate walking passed that bit..
Water, lots of it. If I have a bad dream it's usually about the sea going nuts, being being chased by something, usually a T-rex gwad these things are scary. That T-rex is a real party-pooper then can appear at any time in any dream. It's kinda awesome really.
Togakure
05-25-2009, 05:38
Wow Kurando, that is a heavy, insightful perspective.
I fear becoming homeless and alone without friends or family; mentally, physically, and spiritually broken; hungry, filthy, destitute and adrift in a sea of indifferent modern-day Americans, without purpose, noble or otherwise. Odd, as I'm pretty much a loner these days anyway--my friends are always on my case for being distant and often unresponsive to their e-mails and calls. My family claims I "push them away" all the time, though I honestly don't see myself doing that to any great degree. Self-fulfilling phobia? Ugh, let's hope not.
Veho Nex
05-25-2009, 06:03
Despite the fact that I don't believe in god or religion, Im very afraid that there is nothing after this.
And a more current fear, that like the #5 from above, I'll never find true love.
Cute Wolf
05-25-2009, 06:45
1. Lightning (run like crazy when it comes)
2. My girlfriend have a crush to another boy...
Strike For The South
05-25-2009, 07:24
Alcoholism, Alzheimers, and, strokes. Everyone who ever died that I was close to had 2 of 3.
pevergreen
05-25-2009, 07:41
Heights: Kind of ok if I cant see around ie in an office building, but put me on the second step of the ladder and I physically shake. A lot. Which is bad, because work requires quite a lot of ladder work.
Sharp pointy things: I don't like my skin being punctured. I would rather catch the disease than get the needle to prevent it.
People 'teleporting': have you ever been in a group conversation, and you turn around to where you think person x is, but they are gone, you turn back around and they are sitting over there? Scares the bejeesus out of me.
Drugs, Alcohol, Medicine and other things: Anything that :daisy: with how I think scares me. Thats partly why I refuse to drink, because nothing is :daisy: with how I think.
Heights: Kind of ok if I cant see around ie in an office building, but put me on the second step of the ladder and I physically shake. A lot.
I know what you mean, I get the feeling that I am pushed towards the edge. It isn't so much the height but the possibity of falling. If there is no fence I won't come into a 5 meter of the ridge. My general rule, if it's higher than a tree I don't belong there.
Rhyfelwyr
05-25-2009, 16:44
Last night in my dream I was waking down a big road, but there were no cars. And all of a sudden, I realise there's nothing under my right foot, and I have to rebalance myself, because I look down and there's a massive chasm so deep I can't see the bottom. I thought, hmm, that's strange, and went another way.
The moral of the story is... I am beyond fear. :knight:
Of course, I am not really. A regular fear of mine is finding myself walking into an exam room, to remember right then that I have done no revision! Now that's scary!
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 16:55
being cocky is a vice. just letting you know... :book:
Rhyfelwyr
05-25-2009, 17:06
being cocky is a vice. just letting you know... :book:
I is joking. Well actually that dream story is true, I am not scared of the usual things. My actual fears are pretty rediculous, but man do they get to me. :sweatdrop:
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 17:10
so what are you afraid of?
Rhyfelwyr
05-25-2009, 17:14
so what are you afraid of?
They are so ridiculous you would pobably not believe me.
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 17:19
how do you know we wont?
They are so ridiculous you would pobably not believe me.
MUHA PHOBIA
You really shouldn't have said that, now I will have to become your next if you don't tell me.
your right hand will never fail you.... :smash:
Okay...
5. Not finding true love
Breaking both my arms at the same time!
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 20:06
both arms? what do you have, a yew log or something?
:inquisitive:
Aemilius Paulus
05-25-2009, 20:06
Debilitating, slow as well as painful disease, such as cancer for instance and bankruptcy/unemployment. I do not have any phobias really, rational or irrational, and I am not particularly afraid of death either. I would eat any bug as long as it is cooked too, so picking up cockroaches and spiders is OK with me.
Megas Methuselah
05-25-2009, 20:07
Breaking both my arms at the same time!
I heard some guy managed to do it with his feet. :shrug:
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 20:09
I heard some guy managed to do it with his feet. :shrug:
not too hard. jump off a building and land with both legs at the same time. or a heavy object falls on them.
seireikhaan
05-25-2009, 20:11
not too hard. jump off a building and land with both legs at the same time. or a heavy object falls on them.
I don't think that's what he was referring to. :smash:
Hooahguy
05-25-2009, 20:15
oh. now i understand....:rolleyes:
rasoforos
05-25-2009, 20:34
People 'teleporting': have you ever been in a group conversation, and you turn around to where you think person x is, but they are gone, you turn back around and they are sitting over there? Scares the bejeesus out of me.
Oh you do not ever want to meet me in person...
I do that all the time.
Heights.
Virtually the only thing. I have very little fear of anything natural. Be it spiders, insects, cockroaches, millipedes, centipedes, I'm not really afraid of them anymore.
I have no fear of snakes, spiders etc or the dark, living in australia, I would basically be a shut-in if I had these fears, and I have quite the opposite to a fear of heights. I love the feeling of free-falling, I particularly like jumping from waterfalls, and when I am on a tall building I quite often get a strong urge to jump so I can feel the rush of falling. Maybe I should take up skydiving.
My greatest fear is the death of any family members.
Beefy187
05-27-2009, 02:12
Heights: Kind of ok if I cant see around ie in an office building, but put me on the second step of the ladder and I physically shake. A lot. Which is bad, because work requires quite a lot of ladder work.
Sharp pointy things: I don't like my skin being punctured. I would rather catch the disease than get the needle to prevent it.
People 'teleporting': have you ever been in a group conversation, and you turn around to where you think person x is, but they are gone, you turn back around and they are sitting over there? Scares the bejeesus out of me.
Drugs, Alcohol, Medicine and other things: Anything that :daisy: with how I think scares me. Thats partly why I refuse to drink, because nothing is :daisy: with how I think.
How the heck did you survive Jacobs ladder?
I love teleporting :laugh4:
pevergreen
05-27-2009, 03:03
How the heck did you survive Jacobs ladder?
I love teleporting :laugh4:
You got me a few times by doing that.
Jacobs ladder is a set of ropes attached to a wire that is held between two trees. You attempt to climb the logs that are attached to the ropes. The tenth is the top, each other is steaidly higher, so the first you can step onto, next you have to pull onto and so forth. The three of you together have to give boosts and so forth to get up. I got to rung three and couldnt go any higher.
my biggest fear?
seeing *her* again,
and maybe water(depending on the day of the week). :clown:
otherwise, people find my attitude to "scary" things frighteningly apathetic.
both arms? what do you have, a yew log or something?
:inquisitive:
They do call me the tripod over here...
Veho Nex
05-27-2009, 15:20
Jacobs ladder is a set of ropes attached to a wire that is held between two trees. You attempt to climb the logs that are attached to the ropes. The tenth is the top, each other is steaidly higher, so the first you can step onto, next you have to pull onto and so forth. The three of you together have to give boosts and so forth to get up. I got to rung three and couldnt go any higher.
That actually sounds cool, whered you do that at? A ropes course maybe?
pevergreen
05-27-2009, 22:22
That actually sounds cool, whered you do that at? A ropes course maybe?
The school we went to has three campuses, two schools and a big farm property. Its called Ironbark and its a 35 day camp that Year 9 goes on.
If you come to australia, you can go there over summer, but the rest of the year its taken up by the school.
Tristuskhan
05-27-2009, 23:11
the most/only dangerous arachnids in Holland are lyme infected ticks.
You point my biggest (and justified) fear with a needle there.
Virtually the only thing. I have very little fear of anything natural. Be it spiders, insects, cockroaches, millipedes, centipedes, I'm not really afraid of them anymore.
What about being on a Safari with no trees around and having a Chita running towards you at full speed, presumably to reach you in 5 seconds? I think I'd be scared of that natural thing.
Hooahguy
05-28-2009, 13:46
What about being on a Safari with no trees around and having a Chita running towards you at full speed, presumably to reach you in 5 seconds? I think I'd be scared of that natural thing.
well, i think you have to be insane not to be scared when a cheetah (correct spelling :tongue3:), or a lion, or a tiger, is running towards you. unless you have a very, very big gun.
Rhyfelwyr
05-28-2009, 18:05
Maybe you could put a log on your head or something? I heard that makes animals think you are bigger and so they leave you alone...
I have authoraphobia. Fear of authoritarism. Selfdiagnosed.
Samurai Waki
05-28-2009, 22:07
As a parent, I honestly have to say my greatest fear is failing my daughters as a good father. I have phobias, certainly, things I don't like, give me the chills, make we want to throw up and such. Perhaps its instinctive, but theres a part of me that doesn't want to allow anything bad to happen to them, and then the logical where I know bad things will happen to them. However, I'm not certain I can trust myself to react wisely if something severe were to happen and there is a great fear in that thought alone.
King Jan III Sobieski
05-31-2009, 14:54
Right now, I'm afraid of being unemployed and alone all my life.
Otherwise...
I'm afraid of furry spiders and heights.
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