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Life & DeathScariest Thing About DEATH
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I think it has something to do psychologically. We as human beings, never have had to experience what it is to not exist or experience absolute nothingness. We're in a constant cycle of life and... |
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DrugsBad Trip: The Worst Experience of my Life
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I have had this exact experience as well.... and though I interpreted it differently than you I find your account very enlightening.
Like you I had a profound fear of losing control and hurting or... |
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Life & DeathTheories on Death
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^^you don't want to be empty??....if not then you will never be filled...emptying yourself of all social and other aquired knowledge you can only learn who your true self is.... you can only lear... |
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Why ask why?
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You also are right. I totally agree with you, it is not sinful to ask why? We are in agrement on that, but I never said it was sinful to ask why? But I would still like to ask, Why Do We Ask Why? From... |
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Is attachment weakness?
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often times in relationships people develope a great fear of loss, but it is only after this fear is abolished that one can experience true love.
the capacity to love on such a deep level that the... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsThe Matrix Is Real
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the only thing that stops most religious people from killing themselves is the notion that in doing so it may prohibit them from entering a "good" afterlife. simply put, fear.
The only r... |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
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Nobody has any experience with being dead, yet almost everyone seems to know what will happen. Why?
Because underneath the threshold of our consciousness lies a fear of death so overwhelming we are u... |
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SocietyThe End of Reason
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Excerpt: Here\'s a handy ranking of the various dangers confronting America, based on the number of mortalities in each category throughout the 11-year period spanning 1995 through 2005 (extrapol... |
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Emotions & FeelingsFear IS the problem
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I'd like to refer here to a good image okcitychild brought up. He talks of two rooms, on light, one dark, connected by a door. One lives their life in the dark room. When one opens the door the l... |
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Science vs ReligionThe "What if I'm Right?" Argument
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I was answering logically. God is not logically possible.
Maybe psychologically you could point out why people believe in God.
Lack of understanding to how the world works, God is an easy answer... |
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Life & DeathVoluntary Human Extinction Movement
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I generally conclude that fear is the culprit - fear that humanity cannot ascend, will not ascend, or will destroy itself before it ascends.
We will have no chance to ascend if we destroy ourselves... |
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At what age would you like to die?
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As i have come so close to death, it holds little fear.
My greatest fear is like Moses, i will see the promised land only to die before entering it.
To me, the promise land is a time when people c... |
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Rehab & AddictionAddiction Rehab
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Honestly I do not fear my own mortality. I cannot change what is inevitable. I can however live my life in a fashion that offers me peace of mind. Do I wish I was never a smoker? Absolutely!... |
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God in ReligionOkay...Why should I Fear God?
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If people are taught to fear God, then people are also taught to fear a higher authority?.
i think that ties in to the phrase of 'respect your elders' |
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Know then thyself and think not god to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. Alexander Pope |
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Emotions & FeelingsA Love With Out Love
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What you say I hear as truth, with truth. Only it is not the fear that she can not express her love that I have. That, is an old one to me. This fear is more of a fear that she, currently, can not lov... |
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Fear
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Can you imagine a world without the unknown? A world without fear? Without either of these, life simply wouldn't be worth living. If everything was a sure thing, the excitement of life would quic... |
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PerceptionInsecurity
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Alright, after all that blathering, I am going to try to answer this question very succinctly.
What do you fear people here will think about you physically the worst?
What makes you scared?... |
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God in ReligionCan someone disprove this logic?
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Have you ever watched a horror film when you were a small child?
The films channels your thought to go into unkowns...places which are dark.
The child born into Christstianity says God will be b... |
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to hate a parent
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interesting theory, i suppose paranoia could be a mental condition, and porbably is. but if you appear to be paranoid but everything that you are afraid of is actually true, then i dont think you are... |
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Life & DeathScariest Thing About DEATH
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There is one possibility that I fear... The possibility of anything. Some possibilities are terrifying. For example, You die... your concious remains in a state of nothingness. Nothing at all, try to... |
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Religion & HumanityThe End justifies the Means
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I think Jesus' largest problem, in my view, was to introduce the idea of evil. Why this was done, I don't know; but it could be because human's react better to fear; specifically the fe... |
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Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. |
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BooksA book like no other
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I actualy mean desensitisation of the imagery of fear.
This process, shamanically, is ancient.
You will never overcome fear. Fear is far too big to contain without fragmenting your spirit.
Wh... |
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What's wrong with the world? How do we change
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enlightenment is not necessarily freedom. i suppose your opinion it is...but tu' loco;)
you just show'd yourself, that justification is needed for another to help one understand themselves.... |
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