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people say "the only thing u have to fear is fear itself"

what good does that do u, at the end of it all u still have a fear, ur still afraid of something.

just another passing thought i had during work, i get them often.

fear is only the idea that you cannot do something and alowwing it to control you. Everyone allows what they do not know to control them i just dont get it

Most people can not figure out that fear is all in the mind.All we can do is not to let are fear control us amd live with it.

Fear....A man made notion for manipulation from thoese weaker that yourself
Fear does not exsist

Oh but fear is real.Now if we let it control us is something else all together.I have always embraced my fear make it part of me.In this way I beat it.

fear is allowing your emotion to control your mind. That is fear, and fear is weakness

i agree with mistude its all in ones mind if you let it sink in that its there it will be you simply have to know yourself to know if fear is what you make or for that matter dont make it out to be

Hmm.. Fear is something you better learn to handle then otherwise when its handlig and controls yourself....

its better to have fear than not... we all fear something and we should cause if we dont something might happen to us and shish will be bad.........:| O_O

Of course fear exists, fear is a base for survival. Say if someone touches something hot and they get burnt they may have a fear of hot things, just so they can protect themselves. All things have fear because they need them to survive. One reason we have trouble with fear is we no longer are hunted or threatened. So fear is pushed out of preportion many many times. But fear can be healthy, fear maybe in the form of caution keeps us alive.
To say fear does not exist is arrogent and close minded.

Yes fear is weakness and anyone who says they have no fear are just afraid to tell the truth.We all have fear at sometime in are life.But how we handle that fear is whats tells people the most about us.

Exactly, you're exactly right. Fear is good for you but better when you know if it is appropriate or not. Many many times it is not. People need to learn to control fear but not completely ignore it. If your body is telling you to be afraid listen to it to find out why, then decide for yourself whether or not you really should feel fear.

I don't fear fear... I respect it...

I don't have too many fears... just myself and bees...lol

fear is all in ur head if you cnat get it out of there, u will have fear ur whole life, most people do hjave fear there whole life, myself i get fear out and it comes ight back in

Fear is an illusion, as is pain. If you allow yourself to be afraid of something because someone says something bad towards it, like when you ride a plane, the turbulence will make you sick, or a person goes to tell you all of the accidents that have happened, let's say, from sky diving or bungee jumping, then that's your weakness...believing everything you hear and not trying it for yourself. ~ I guess what I'm trying to say is that fear is what you allow it to be.

And the only thing I really fear is the life unlived.

OH but fear DOES exist. It is the pre-realization of excitement.

You will fear what you don't understand, and then it becomes a new emotion.

"90% scared-10% excited or 90% excited-10% scared...?" (Quoted from Armageddon)
I think that fear is the confusion of excitement.

It is not fear that you should worry about, it is the absense of fear that you should worry about.

fear is a life you live it and deal with it. what is life without fear but unlived because with all expeariances there is fear and doubt so to say you are truely fearless is a lie because everyone fears something.

The Bene Gesserit Littainy against Fear.
From Frank Herbert's Dune

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I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

well i have a fear, my fear is ending up alone and depressed. which i hope never happens. i don't think it would because my bf and i are to much in love. so i believe i will never have to face my fear again. yes i faced it before. i was faced with wondering if the one for me was other there and he was, he almost let me go, but a couple years later and some knowledge he realized i was the one for him all along, and when i thought i was over him and trying to move on i was all my feelings which never really went away where back and stonger then ever

having no fear is the lack of conscience. Be glad you have it. However remember "fear is nothing but a state of mind that can be overcome through logic" Me

the fear of death is worst than death itself...
i think this could apply on other fears...

i got a friend who is afraid of spiders.
in france those never get bigger than 1inch(including feets) and non poisonous.
so anytime my friend sees 1 she jumps on a chair and panics...
the spider couldn't do her anything, but her fear can cause an accident or heart attac...
fear of spider is worst than spider!

fear is a word that we imply as something we are very scared of, but love is jus a word and we can jus feel it, its the feeling you have torwards somethings, but yea we can only think of what we do so fear is the only things that keeps us going.

Expanding on fear I have started a poll on phobias if anyone is interested...

How many phobias can you list? with descriptions

fear is a pain the the ass it's a emotion .... therefroe you can turn it off

Well Morrigon, I do have an 'other' section as I realised it would take up WAY too much space to list them all!

I have a friend who is scared of pigeons. I dont get that :-)

Everything is feared until it is better understood. like a baby is to new things, we all have to learn exactly what it is we are afraid of and then things will become easier to handle in life. *winks*

fear is a notion constructed in our mind. I remember once Darknessbound and I were in a Hotel waiting for our friends to come over. We were so extremely bored that we started to preten that there were ghosts in the room. At first, I was pretending to be scared. I started screaming hysterically and shivering. After a while, I really believed that the room was haunted. Fear ran rampant within me. What started off as a joke had a huge impact on my mind and on what i perceived to be scary.

I believe the opposite can be done to counteract such fears. It's all a mind game.

the definition is as follows:

fear
n.

1.
1. A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
2. A state or condition marked by this feeling: living in fear.
2. A feeling of disquiet or apprehension: a fear of looking foolish.
3. Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a supreme power.

those who know no fear do not know themselves......
fear is a tool.....
use the tool though...do not let the tool use you

I encounter fear in many forms. Physical fright, personal insecurities spawned by: a single action, person or event, and many many more. I experience it, and then it passes.

I simply do not allow it to rule or dominate my life/world so that I become paralyzed by it.

Fear is all in one's mind but if you let it control you than fear can be a weakness.

One of my favorite quotes regarding fear: "The only thing to fear is fear itself... oh great, now I'm afraid of fear!" ~Ellen DeGeneres I couldn't have said it better myself...

I've learned to control my fear for the most part. The only fear that I can't control is being in the middle of a huge crowd, that makes me faint without fail.

Fear an interesting emotion, personally i have conquered all my fears save one, and to tell that would be revealing a weakness. :p

fear and all feelings r in ur head hun

I used to have a fear of crows.. I don't as much as long at they don't get to close to me.. lol

i have fear of heights (oh boy do i)...sharks.....the ocean at night....faulty elevators....snakes.....spiders...the attic

i'm scared of prosthetics, clowns, and failure.


eeek. I need to really get over it.

well im not shore what i fear

Fear to me, is only an object there to decieve me.
It is only human to fear that wich remanes unknown.

fear is weakness and everyone has weakness its just you need to concentrate on that weakness and figure out how to make yourself sronger....

fear is nothing but the unknown..you can't let it control your life or it will be a very dull life you live

it could create some pretty interesting stories though....

i don belive that fear should be supressed and feared as fear is a natural emotion, that is there to get us away from danger. iunrational fear are usualy brought on by an unrational happening. i myself hate my fear ( being emotionaly alone) it makes me over dependent and emtionaly clingy to stay in a relationship

thats why you should get over it like i was afraid of conflict now its all that runs my life i love fighting its fun. try being alone for a while believe you'll most likely like it....

i dont mean alone as in no one else in the room i mean alone as in no one loves your or wants you but thanks

Fear is weakness.

Fear is in your mind.

You are your mind.

Control yourself, and you will be in control.

I have a few fears and one of them is not being afraid to admit it. We all have weaknesses and that is just human nature. It is good to face your fears, but sometimes facing them does not always mean overcoming them. It is okay to have fears. It isn't like one of the 7 deadly sins or anything.

fear is what tells you that your still alive and the blood pumping and as well the agrenalin

I don't feel that fear is weakness. I feel that those who claim to know no fear are those who are probably in denial about a huge fear that they do have and are hiding and trying to convince themselves they don't have..

I've found that in times of fear it can spark the greatest feats of bravery, even things some would consider miracles....for instance a mother being able to "miraculously" lift a car off her child...if not for fear for her child, this could never have been possible. I feel that in some cases, fear can fuel the greatest strengths. Moreso, I've found, when the individual is scared for another, be it friend, family member, etc.

I'm not saying that it is like that in all cases, some fears should definitely be harnessed, when it is something that gets in the way of living life, then it should be worked on. Even phobias...they are said to be, in some cases, from past lives, still locked in a person's cell memory..For instance, a person with a deathly phobia of water may have drowned in a past life.. Phobias like this can often be worked through with the use of hypnotic regression to the point of the phobia (ie the life it happened in)

It's natural to have some fears, and you shouldn't go out trying to get past all fears, then it can get unhealthy when you stop being afraid of everything, and begin to think that if you're not afraid, nothings going to happen to you..that's a bad move. But it's the unhealthy fears we should all work on and try to overcome, or atleast alleviate to some degree.

MrLaven ... I like that, it's true

If you let it, fear can overwhelm you. I know of people who have phobias (sp?) I believe start out as fears and then develope over time to becoming phobias, of something as simple as stepping out side thier front door, it starts out small and soon it controls their life to the point that they have to have someone else do everything for them such as even their grocery shopping. There's only two things I fear really, but I'm not obsesed in those fears and I think that I am rightly justified in them, one is spiders, I have been bite by a spider and got very sick from it and came close to loosing my daughter as a baby because a deadly spider some how got in her bassinett, I'd say for any mother that would be enough to generate fear in them. My other fear, which I've actually been over coming the older my child gets, but my other fear was in dying while she was still a young child and her living her life as I did, not knowing her mother.

But uncontrolled fear I think becomes a phobia

Ofcourse uncontrolled fear can become a phobia, a traumatic incident can lead to a phobia, as well as what I said on past lives...there isn't once source for a phobia..Anyway I'm not going to get too deep on this because this thread isn't specifically about phobias....

Dami, I think your fear about your daughter is perfectly natural, and I believe to be a good thing. It shows just how much you love your daughter.

Some fears are justifiable, such as that and the spider thing...well I still think that could be worked on a bit..I feel I am justified on my fear of being locked/bound/not in control, because of some traumatic things in my past, one involving being locked in a basement in complete darkness when I was 4...and there were still other things...but it doesn't mean I'm still not doing everything in my power to get over this fear...I have, and still continue to do so. I believe this fear made me stronger though...even if I get over the fear, I never want to lose the caution.

Fear is all too real, but fear of fear is something that I cannot grasp. How can one fear fear? It is possible to fear such things that your mind can present you, (I personally am in fear of intelectual conversation to which a person maybe of a higher level of personal growth than myself, I can't exactly say I fear it, more like, intimidated and in anguish of their superiority) But the question is not what you fear, but as to fearing fear correct?

Like so many others have said before me, Fear is in the mind, which you control, so harness yuorself and control your emotions, for fearing is one thing, and can be tolerated, fearing too little or nothing, may appear to be somehat impossible or odd, or "stupid" but it shows a lot more of a personal strength over ones emotions, and fearing too much will make you go insane.