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FITZZ wrote:I've pondered this over the years, and basicly come to the conclusion that there's no point in fearing death...as no matter what we do...sooner or later everyone of us is going to die...not a damn thing we can do to prevent it.
Sure, you can take steps to lessen your chances of dying....but even if you lock yourself in a room and never set foot outside...some day...you have to die.

It's not so much the instance of death that horrifies me. Just...what happens after death.

Continuation...or oblivion?

Goddard wrote:

FITZZ wrote:I've pondered this over the years, and basicly come to the conclusion that there's no point in fearing death...as no matter what we do...sooner or later everyone of us is going to die...not a damn thing we can do to prevent it.
Sure, you can take steps to lessen your chances of dying....but even if you lock yourself in a room and never set foot outside...some day...you have to die.

It's not so much the instance of death that horrifies me. Just...what happens after death.

Continuation...or oblivion?

I suppose that is part of personal opinion or religious idea...
But honestly...it's a giant " who knows".

The religious who claim you move on to some paradise or punishment don't really know...no matter how much they profess that they do.
And the " Faithless" who claim " You die..you rot" ( this would be my camp) don't really know anything either...we're just making an educated guess.

... I guess in the end we'll all find out...or we won't know anything anymore.

FITZZ wrote:... I guess in the end we'll all find out...

I suppose we will.

I only hope I can find a way to deal with it. But it's just such a hard feeling to ignore; soul-crushing despair.

Goddard wrote:

FITZZ wrote:... I guess in the end we'll all find out...

I suppose we will.

I only hope I can find a way to deal with it. But it's just such a hard feeling to ignore; soul-crushing despair.

I don't know that it's a feeling that should be ignored ....we should be aware ( on some level) that our days are finite....and in such attempt to enjoy our time here as much a possiable.
The knowledge of ones impending ending shouldn't be a source of fear...but an inspiration to enjoy the time you've got as much as you can.

And this is depressing me.

I'm going to go watch ponies.

FITZZ wrote:

Goddard wrote:

FITZZ wrote:... I guess in the end we'll all find out...

I suppose we will.

I only hope I can find a way to deal with it. But it's just such a hard feeling to ignore; soul-crushing despair.

I don't know that it's a feeling that should be ignored ....we should be aware ( on some level) that our days are finite....and in such attempt to enjoy our time here as much a possiable.
The knowledge of ones impending ending shouldn't be a source of fear...but an inspiration to enjoy the time you've got as much as you can.

And thanks...I'll try and remember that.

Not trying to depress you man, wasn't my intentions at all...just expounding my own personal outlook on the situation.

I don't have an irrational fear of death, I accept that I'm destined to die (not if I can help it!) I just hope that its painless when it comes.

My biggest irrational fear, and what everyone should fear the most, is loneliness, not death:

I honestly cry every time I read that (in fact, I'm crying right now as a result). I've actually had dreams that are almost identical to this (except I'm not a cat), and it scares the gak out of me every time it happens.

Man made heights. I'm fine climbing a tree, or hiking along a cliff, but god forbid i have to climb a ladder or go up a skyscraper

FITZZ wrote: Not trying to depress you man, wasn't my intentions at all...just expounding my own personal outlook on the situation.

No, you didn't make me despressed, I made myself depressed. In fact, you helped me get over it a little : )

All of my hate is rational.

Goddard wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Not trying to depress you man, wasn't my intentions at all...just expounding my own personal outlook on the situation.

No, you didn't make me despressed, I made myself depressed. In fact, you helped me get over it a little : )

Well, I do what I can...

FITZZ wrote:

Goddard wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Not trying to depress you man, wasn't my intentions at all...just expounding my own personal outlook on the situation.

No, you didn't make me despressed, I made myself depressed. In fact, you helped me get over it a little : )

Well, I do what I can...

Well...you're alright man, haha.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:How did you activate your Dakka account?

Back when I started emails weren't needed to activate accounts.

I hate spiders...the big ones. Huntsmen. I can deal with stuff like daddy long legs, redbacks and funnel webs easily, just brush em off before they bite, but huntsmen I run and cower...

Warork, that wasn't nice at all, borderline trolling. Anyway, I used to have a fear of never living away from home. I got married and moved out...problem solved.

Bet there are a fair few parents with a fear that the kids will never leave home!

Doctadeth wrote: Warork, that wasn't nice at all, borderline trolling.

I put it in a spoiler so the people who aren't scared of spiders could have a good laugh and so the people who are scared of spiders wouldn't be creeped out...you didn't have to look...

I have a stepmother who jumps at even the sight of little jumping spider, I guess I'm a little prejudiced toward arachnophobes because she always yells for me to come kill it and flush it (No, not throw it in the garbage, she makes me flush it because she's convinced that if that is not done then the spider is somehow still a threat. ) and its annoying.

I have to admit though, the videos of those people who prank others by placing tarantulas on their shoulders aren't cool...if someone did that to me, I would not be responsible for what I did to them...

Wouldn't killing yourself be the ultimate experiment?

Cockroaches, needles, and broken glass are my phobias.

Roaches make me freeze in my tracks and I have a hard time approaching them to kill them.

When having any sort of blood work performed in a hospital I nearly pass out when jabbed with a needle.

I won't go into a room barefoot for a couple of weeks if a glass broke in that area. No matter how well I think the glass is cleaned up I inevitably find a shard in my foot. I also refuse to go barefoot outside unless I have a reasonable assurance that broken glass wouldn't be present. Enclosed patios are usually okay, but dashing down my driveway or out onto the sidewalk barefoot--hell no!

All of these fears I recognize as being silly and irrational, but I cannot seem to get over them. :(

heights

losing my teeth

I am scared of Snakes.

I have massive hatred of Nazis and I hate women that assume that I am stalking them on facebook because I like to.

Which in itself is absolute BS.

My Irrational Fear are clowns, and sharp objects (Yet i love knives and collect them.)

Asherian Command wrote:My Irrational Fear are clowns, and sharp objects (Yet i love knives and collect them.)

Oooh, scary!




A moderate fear of heights and the dark. Not really anything crippling, but unnerving.

Also, while not a phobia, it makes me nervous to have people sitting behind me.

Phototoxin wrote:Wouldn't killing yourself be the ultimate experiment?

Depends what you expect to happen. I would simply be expecting the end of existence, in the sense that I do not in any way believe in any religious text or the existence of any other "realm of being", thus for me killing myself isn't too much of an experiment - it would be a genuine shock if I were to somehow continue living in some way.

Scary clowns with knives
can understand that Ash YIKES!

may be a future project to sculpt some.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Scary clowns with knives
can understand that Ash YIKES!

...Wait...what's wrong with clowns...?

Don't ya like clowns?

Poor, misunderstood Captain Spaulding.

Scawwy clowns
like Fitzz
but ...

Hooray for Captain Spaulding!

"...I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he managed to get into my pajamas I'll never know!"

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Scawwy clowns
like Fitzz
but ...

Hooray for Captain Spaulding!

"...I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he managed to get into my pajamas I'll never know!"

...

I put it in a spoiler so the people who aren't scared of spiders could have a good laugh and so the people who are scared of spiders wouldn't be creeped out...you didn't have to look...

To be honest, the spoiler could've been labelled a lot better.

We didn't have to look, but there wasn't really anything about there being spiders underneath about from a sentence that implied it; Biccat's post is an example of the right way to go about it.

Avatar 720 wrote:

I put it in a spoiler so the people who aren't scared of spiders could have a good laugh and so the people who are scared of spiders wouldn't be creeped out...you didn't have to look...

To be honest, the spoiler could've been labelled a lot better.

We didn't have to look, but there wasn't really anything about there being spiders underneath about from a sentence that implied it; Biccat's post is an example of the right way to go about it.

Except, despite having a fear of clowns and sharp things, I'm pretty sure the picture didn't cut it.

It's like the following for people who have a fear of spiders:

Mummies.

Just. Eugh.