You seem to talk a lot. All that insecurity must point to something.
Aaron Eel (Ehrin Lloyd) On Dec 27, 12:59 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > What am I afraid of? What do I fear? The list is fearfully long I'm > afraid. > > Well, right off the bat, I have the basic fears necessary to survival > as does every living thing. But being human, beyond that my fears are > as limitless as my imagination. Being human we have the ability to > create nighmarish monsters of fears and in some cases even bring them > into being. Our fears are a paradoxical conflict since we also love > being scared, frightened to death, terrified even as extreme sports, > horror movies and video games readily testify. > > No one fears nothing. Everyone experiences fear regardless what they > call it. Denial is fear of being afraid which is a form almost > everyone of us practices to some degree or other. And somehow I > doubt we can learn not to be afraid. What we perhaps may learn -- are > learning to do in small degrees -- is to face fears and deal with them > in ways that are not debilitating. The more we learn to take control > away from fear and unto to ourselves the healthier, the more advanced > we are I believe. But we can't eliminate fear. I think that would be > foolish. It's a good tool that for too long has been used by others > to keep us in an irrational grip for their own purposes. I'm thinking > here mostly of religion, which has been one of the greatest abuses of > knowledge in our entire history. > > As we branched out into our own species this mental ability to > comprehend and grasp concepts no other species could also began to > wonder the why of frightening things rather than simply hiding and > protecting instinctively and coming out again when all was well as all > the other animals did. No, we wondered why and began to build > defenses against these fearful things. Shelter against weather, > weapons against beasts of prey, and all the time asking why. I often > wonder about the first bright who saw that an answer to this question > was power over the others and set about strange rituals claiming a > special connection to the mighty ones who brought such horror and > destruction unless they all did as he told them. What came first? > God or a priest. My money's on the priest. > > If fear could be said to have a history one of it's first major > dysfunctional uses was by some to control others. Of course the cause > was always just. It was always for the good of others that they must > be afraid and follow the directions of the priests and shamans and > whatnot. > > But back on point, or rather getting to it, I believe the connection > between ego and fear was raised which I'm firmly convinced is that ego > is but one of fears bastard children. Greed, malice, envy ... our > seven deadly sins if you will, are the retinue of fears bastard > offspring. The rest should be behaviorist psychology 101. > > While I've never actually read any of Santayana's history, I've always > loved his simple remonstration that unless one learns history he is > doomed to repeat it. I instantly groked and have seen it applied in > and to many situations, including fear. Until we learn our fears we > are doomed to repeatedly react to them destructively. > > "Go now. You are blest. And back he went, into the city, everywhere > the electric, nowhere the subtle." WCW > > On Dec 26, 2:30 pm, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On this forum I read a lot about fear, fear of the unknown. Or fear to > > love other people. Out of these fears we usually try to confince > > ourselfs of our beliefs by telling our prespectives. Even when i write > > this I ask myself why do i tell this? > > So to cut the crap i want to ask all of you. What are we (or YOU) > > afraid of? > > > Happy New year, > > Matthijs- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
