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Title: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:23:02 PM
growing up compared to now? We were just talking about Tornadoes at work. I was terrified of them growing up. Now, not so much. I think my biggest fear now is heights. I need drugs/booze for flying and I freak out looking over the edge of a roof top on a sky scraper. I do not want to go out that way. What say you?
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Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 01:24:21 PM
spiders for both
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Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 27, 2014, 01:24:48 PM
I'm scared of the dark right after watching a scary movie - then & now. (That's why it was so rude to make me watch The Conjuring right before bed.)
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Post by: everyone shut up on March 27, 2014, 01:25:48 PM
getting "left behind" in the rapture. grew up with a very religious mother.
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Post by: Tobias on March 27, 2014, 01:27:03 PM
spiders and heights 4lyfe
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Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:27:42 PM
My dad getting killed on the job. Now that he's retired, probz spiders.
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Post by: pissclams on March 27, 2014, 01:28:57 PM
I'm scared of the dark right after watching a scary movie - then & now. (That's why it was so rude to make me watch The Conjuring right before bed.)

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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: TownieCat on March 27, 2014, 01:30:10 PM
It's a 3 way tie between heights, snakes, and getting my eyes poked out.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: kso_FAN on March 27, 2014, 01:35:00 PM
For a long time after I watched this movie as a kid, every time I saw jet contrails in the sky I thought WW3 was happening.

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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: AppleJack on March 27, 2014, 01:35:36 PM
sharks.

people think that's dumb as i live nowhere near the ocean but its still sharks.

sharks.
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Post by: kso_FAN on March 27, 2014, 01:36:25 PM
sharks.

people think that's dumb as i live nowhere near the ocean but its still sharks.

sharks.

Where you scared Jaws would come out of the toilet or bathtub? I was.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: pissclams on March 27, 2014, 01:36:38 PM

jaws was on last night, and so was jaws II
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:36:48 PM
My dad getting killed on the job. Now that he's retired, probz spiders.
I could only imagine. Great to hear he's retired. :thumbs:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:37:55 PM
It's a 3 way tie between heights, snakes, and getting my eyes poked out.
Whenever I see someone sitting in a pit of snakes on fear factor or in a movie, I FREAK OUT!
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Gooch on March 27, 2014, 01:38:06 PM
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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: AppleJack on March 27, 2014, 01:38:43 PM
sharks.

people think that's dumb as i live nowhere near the ocean but its still sharks.

sharks.

Where you scared Jaws would come out of the toilet or bathtub? I was.

Jaws is terrifying but the scariest scene in any movie ever is the scene in Open Water where the sharks are circling below them in the lightning storm. nope. nope nope nope nope. i couldnt watch it.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:39:08 PM
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OMG!!! After I saw that as a kid, I slept in my parents room for a week.  :ohno:
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Post by: kso_FAN on March 27, 2014, 01:42:25 PM
Jaws is terrifying but the scariest scene in any movie ever is the scene in Open Water where the sharks are circling below them in the lightning storm. nope. nope nope nope nope. i couldnt watch it.

Yes it is. Fortunately I saw that when I as much older; I saw Jaws when I was like 7.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:42:31 PM
My dad getting killed on the job. Now that he's retired, probz spiders.
I could only imagine. Great to hear he's retired. :thumbs:

thanks, wacky. it was something I worried about a lot when he was working with the feds. he really enjoyed what he did, but my family is certainly glad that he has moved on to a less dangerous career.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: TownieCat on March 27, 2014, 01:42:46 PM
It's a 3 way tie between heights, snakes, and getting my eyes poked out.
Whenever I see someone sitting in a pit of snakes on fear factor or in a movie, I FREAK OUT!

They used to not bother me until I was bitten by one when I was 12. One of the most traumatic experiences in my life...never recovered.


A harmless rat snake bit my finger during science class in the 6th grade. Everyone else was taking turns touching it so I gave it a shot too. Nope.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: WildcatNkilt on March 27, 2014, 01:44:00 PM
Spiders my entire life.   :ohno:

Used to be scared of Tornadoes but educated myself on storms when I was young and learned to love them.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: CNS on March 27, 2014, 01:44:56 PM
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Pretty great call here, gooch
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:45:35 PM
metalheadSister is deathly afraid of fish.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:46:03 PM
Spiders my entire life.   :ohno:

Used to be scared of Tornadoes but educated myself on storms when I was young and learned to love them.
That's what I did. That's how I moved on from it.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 01:47:42 PM
Pickles
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Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 01:48:21 PM
Girls
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 01:48:46 PM
Snakes
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 01:49:55 PM
Accidentally slicing my wrist(s) open on something sharp
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 01:50:30 PM
More snakes
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: _33 on March 27, 2014, 01:51:18 PM
Wasps.  Bees.  Also spiders. And really large moths.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 01:51:32 PM
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You could have just posted "the clown from It" you jerk.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 27, 2014, 01:57:22 PM
regret
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: lopakman on March 27, 2014, 02:26:29 PM
Hey Gooch,








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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 02:27:32 PM
 :buh-bye:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 02:27:40 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Trogdor on March 27, 2014, 02:29:14 PM
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OMG!!! After I saw that as a kid, I slept in my parents room for a week.  :ohno:
Watched Poltergeist when I was 9 or 10, right there with you
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: The1BigWillie on March 27, 2014, 02:29:54 PM
Growing up:  Ghosts

As a Grown up:  Poor people.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Institutional Control on March 27, 2014, 02:31:36 PM
Rats
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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Trogdor on March 27, 2014, 02:33:52 PM
Venereal Diseases
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 02:37:11 PM
i figured out what my fear as an adult is: fathering a child. it's definitely fathering a child.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 02:38:44 PM
i figured out what my fear as an adult is: fathering a child. it's definitely fathering a child.

one of mine is not doing that  :sdeek:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 02:40:29 PM
i figured out what my fear as an adult is: fathering a child. it's definitely fathering a child.

I was literally just about to post the exact same thing.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: TownieCat on March 27, 2014, 02:41:00 PM
It's a 4 way tie between fathering a child, heights, snakes, and getting my eyes poked out.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 02:48:55 PM
Add falling off a cliff to your death, cause your gf pushes you.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 27, 2014, 02:51:17 PM
Add falling off a cliff to your death, cause your gf pushes you.

Don't worry, she won't do it until 8 days after you marry her.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 03:14:51 PM
Add falling off a cliff to your death, cause your gf pushes you.

Don't worry, she won't do it until 8 days after you marry her.
At least I'll get the honeymoon in. :surprised:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Trogdor on March 27, 2014, 03:15:46 PM
The snake in the toilet while going No.2
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Post by: Fldermaus on March 27, 2014, 03:23:26 PM
For a long time after I watched this movie as a kid, every time I saw jet contrails in the sky I thought WW3 was happening.

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As a little kid is was volcanoes, then nuclear war as a bigger kid.  Now, it is cancer.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 03:58:49 PM
Bats.  :runaway:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 04:02:18 PM
Ending up so feeble or incapacitated that I couldn't end it.
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Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 04:03:03 PM
Ending up so feeble or incapacitated that I couldn't end it.

I'd have no issue helping you out if that was your wish to do so.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 8manpick on March 27, 2014, 04:08:44 PM
Ending up so feeble or incapacitated that I couldn't end it.

I'd have no issue helping you out if that was your wish to do so.

 :surprised: MURDERER  :surprised:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 04:13:14 PM
Ending up so feeble or incapacitated that I couldn't end it.

I'd have no issue helping you out if that was your wish to do so.

 :surprised: MURDERER  :surprised:

Dr. KevELLkian
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 04:15:57 PM
Ending up so feeble or incapacitated that I couldn't end it.

I'd have no issue helping you out if that was your wish to do so.

 :thumbs:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Gooch on March 27, 2014, 04:25:38 PM
Hey Gooch,








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:buh-bye:
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Post by: Trogdor on March 27, 2014, 04:26:25 PM
Family dying
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Post by: Stevesie60 on March 27, 2014, 04:44:43 PM
When I was a kid it was definitely dinosaurs. My dad took my to Jurassic Park when I was way too young. And then I rewatched it a year later to try to concur my fear. It did not work in the least.

Now I'd say snakes.
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Post by: Stevesie60 on March 27, 2014, 04:45:03 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.
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Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 04:46:20 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

Can you and Mrs Stevesie60 adopt me?
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: TownieCat on March 27, 2014, 04:50:40 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: AbeFroman on March 27, 2014, 04:51:45 PM
I used to get super nervous during flying. Mostly takeoff and landing. Now I love it and enjoy looking out the window at cities and things.
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Post by: Stevesie60 on March 27, 2014, 04:54:27 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 04:55:26 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.

time for us to get to work boys (respectfully)
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Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 04:55:43 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.

Dad?  :impatient:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 04:56:22 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.
I wish I would have known this back in 2006 after we beat KU on the road.  :frown:
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 27, 2014, 04:56:59 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you k

now where to find me.

Can you and Mrs Stevesie60 adopt me?

I'm too young to be a grandpa.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: SabiNation on March 27, 2014, 04:59:20 PM
Definitely heights. Also undercooked chicken
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Post by: TownieCat on March 27, 2014, 05:01:06 PM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.

 :thumbsup:

I feel like you just gave me the green light here.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: j rake on March 27, 2014, 05:23:27 PM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse. it's an awful way to live. a few months ago, while walking on the sidewalk, a driver lost control of her car, drove across the sidewalk and crashed into a wall. since then, i have tried to avoid running on sidewalks, and never run against traffic.

last night, i went indoor rock climbing for the first time, and actually enjoyed it. came home, Googled "indoor rock climbing death," and pulled up a story about an EXPERIENCED rock climber from Texas who fell to her death indoors. i might never go again.

when i was a kid, we lived in two different houses. both times, my bedroom was directly in front of the steps. i hated that because i knew i'd be the first (only?) of my family members murdered if an intruder broke in.

read a story once about a person's cruise control not working. instead, the car accelerated, faster and faster, until it wrapped itself around a tree killing both the driver and passenger. to this day, i refuse to use cruise control when driving.

i could go on and on, literally forever, about the things i won't do or never will again; or the way i've avoided doing things i used to enjoy.

my biggest fear is flying, despite the statistics.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 05:42:36 PM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse. it's an awful way to live. a few months ago, while walking on the sidewalk, a driver lost control of her car, drove across the sidewalk and crashed into a wall. since then, i have tried to avoid running on sidewalks, and never run against traffic.

last night, i went indoor rock climbing for the first time, and actually enjoyed it. came home, Googled "indoor rock climbing death," and pulled up a story about an EXPERIENCED rock climber from Texas who fell to her death indoors. i might never go again.

when i was a kid, we lived in two different houses. both times, my bedroom was directly in front of the steps. i hated that because i knew i'd be the first (only?) of my family members murdered if an intruder broke in.

read a story once about a person's cruise control not working. instead, the car accelerated, faster and faster, until it wrapped itself around a tree killing both the driver and passenger. to this day, i refuse to use cruise control when driving.

i could go on and on, literally forever, about the things i won't do or never will again; or the way i've avoided doing things i used to enjoy.

my biggest fear is flying, despite the statistics.
:frown: This just described me to a t. Especially the flying part. It never bothered me until my flight to Pittshburgh for the tourney. We hit a air pocket forcing the plane to dive really fast and pop everyones drinks up into the air. I was taking a nap when this happened. I thought I was a goner. Never again.
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Post by: EMAWmeister on March 27, 2014, 05:47:12 PM
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My great grandmother had a weird thing where she painted a shitload of clowns. They were very good paintings, but my grandparents put them in the playroom, so I was scared shitless of my grandparents playroom.

My biggest fear now is not only heights, but being off balance at heights. That Grand Canyon tightrope walker show was one of the 10 most stressful hours of my life. I lean back in my chair a lot, and sometimes when I'm super tired I feel like the ground is going to give way and leave me falling backwards.
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Post by: KCFDcat on March 27, 2014, 11:22:21 PM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse. it's an awful way to live. a few months ago, while walking on the sidewalk, a driver lost control of her car, drove across the sidewalk and crashed into a wall. since then, i have tried to avoid running on sidewalks, and never run against traffic.

last night, i went indoor rock climbing for the first time, and actually enjoyed it. came home, Googled "indoor rock climbing death," and pulled up a story about an EXPERIENCED rock climber from Texas who fell to her death indoors. i might never go again.

when i was a kid, we lived in two different houses. both times, my bedroom was directly in front of the steps. i hated that because i knew i'd be the first (only?) of my family members murdered if an intruder broke in.

read a story once about a person's cruise control not working. instead, the car accelerated, faster and faster, until it wrapped itself around a tree killing both the driver and passenger. to this day, i refuse to use cruise control when driving.

i could go on and on, literally forever, about the things i won't do or never will again; or the way i've avoided doing things i used to enjoy.

my biggest fear is flying, despite the statistics.

You're like Ben Stillers character from "Along Came Polly"
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Post by: Spracne on March 27, 2014, 11:31:23 PM
Then: that my autoimmune disease would prevent me from fulfilling my potential.
Now: obamacare.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: ksupamplemousse on March 27, 2014, 11:32:09 PM
My biggest fear used to be wasps, and it's probably still wasps. Scratch that, DEFINITELY still wasps.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Headinjun on March 27, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
getting "left behind" in the rapture. grew up with a very religious mother.

That's abuse.
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Post by: Headinjun on March 28, 2014, 12:05:02 AM
And for everyone who has the fear of fathering a child, you know where to find me.

I have no idea what this means  :confused:

We've been trying to adopt for a while. I've made a standing invitation to anyone who has an unwanted pregnancy that we will adopt it.
I wish I would have known this back in 2006 after we beat KU on the road.  :frown:

 :confused:

You're a dad? or???
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Cire on March 28, 2014, 12:05:59 AM
ghosts.  First house I grew up in had a bathroom right at the top of the stairs.  I would always imagine seeing a ghost staring up at me when I went to the bathroom at night.

Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Headinjun on March 28, 2014, 12:15:16 AM
Kid: end of the world.  In the late 80s a lot of religious loons would talk up the year 2000 and people would predict the end of the world coming and all. They talked about it in church and it just scared me to death.   Now I think about it and thank science and reason for making me an atheist/agnostic type so I don't have to worry about silly unnatural nonsense. 

Now: just getting old. I worry about Alzheimer's and dementia and living a hollow existence.  Snakes too. Poisonous ones anyway.    Snakes would be cool if they had charm and charisma, and could hang out like dogs, but they don't. 
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: sys on March 28, 2014, 12:48:38 AM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse.

i used to be afraid of death, as a child.  would wake up at night terrified of my mortality.  as an adult, i don't think about it.  i'm not sure i'm afraid of anything now (i mean, i experience momentary fear at times, but nothing that i think about when not directly confronted with it).
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Post by: Asteriskhead on March 28, 2014, 12:58:05 AM
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My great grandmother had a weird thing where she painted a shitload of clowns. They were very good paintings, but my grandparents put them in the playroom, so I was scared shitless of my grandparents playroom.

My biggest fear now is not only heights, but being off balance at heights. That Grand Canyon tightrope walker show was one of the 10 most stressful hours of my life. I lean back in my chair a lot, and sometimes when I'm super tired I feel like the ground is going to give way and leave me falling backwards.

That explains your freakout when climbing down off of Anderson that night a little bit better.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: j rake on March 28, 2014, 01:04:17 AM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse.

i used to be afraid of death, as a child.  would wake up at night terrified of my mortality.  as an adult, i don't think about it.  i'm not sure i'm afraid of anything now (i mean, i experience momentary fear at times, but nothing that i think about when not directly confronted with it).

thanks for giving me the strength to carry on.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: star seed 7 on March 28, 2014, 02:57:55 AM
i have feared death and/or serious bodily injury for as long as i can remember, and it only gets worse.

i used to be afraid of death, as a child.  would wake up at night terrified of my mortality.  as an adult, i don't think about it.  i'm not sure i'm afraid of anything now (i mean, i experience momentary fear at times, but nothing that i think about when not directly confronted with it).

yes, as someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife, death does not scare me in the least.  bodily harm scares me tho, cause i don't like ouchies.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: kim carnes on March 28, 2014, 06:51:15 AM
The only thing u have to fear is fear itself
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: puniraptor on March 28, 2014, 07:45:01 AM
Kid: end of the world.  In the late 80s a lot of religious loons would talk up the year 2000 and people would predict the end of the world coming and all. They talked about it in church and it just scared me to death.   Now I think about it and thank science and reason for making me an atheist/agnostic type so I don't have to worry about silly unnatural nonsense. 

This is ridiculous. Science has sooo many ways to end it all at any time.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: CNS on March 28, 2014, 07:48:43 AM
As a kid, needles/shots (non alcoholic type). 

Now, only been a few yrs since I stopped nearly passing out from them. 
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 28, 2014, 08:00:24 AM
Now: just getting old. I worry about Alzheimer's and dementia and living a hollow existence. 

I worry about Alzheimer's because my grandma had it. When I forget where I put something, sometimes it kind of freaks me out.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: the_ugly_clown on March 28, 2014, 08:15:14 AM
bigfoot and aliens
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: lopakman on March 28, 2014, 08:35:23 AM
five more years of oscar
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 29, 2014, 09:53:38 AM
Hey Gooch,








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Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: kslim on March 29, 2014, 10:01:36 AM
Something happening to my kids

We live in a mumped up world now and after the school shooting at sandy hook that feeling of helplessness has to be horrific.

Also ieds, those things are no joke
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: 0.42 on March 29, 2014, 02:58:54 PM
For a long time after I watched this movie as a kid, every time I saw jet contrails in the sky I thought WW3 was happening.

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Have you ever seen threads? Makes The Day After look like a rough ridin' Disney movie.

On a related note: Was pretty terrified of air raid sirens for a long time after watching Threads when I was a kid.

As an adult: Me or anyone I know getting liver cancer because eff that crap with a backhoe.
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: ChiComCat on March 29, 2014, 04:09:20 PM
Then: Spiders
Now: Dimentia
Title: Re: What was your biggest fear...
Post by: Headinjun on March 29, 2014, 06:18:40 PM
Kid: end of the world.  In the late 80s a lot of religious loons would talk up the year 2000 and people would predict the end of the world coming and all. They talked about it in church and it just scared me to death.   Now I think about it and thank science and reason for making me an atheist/agnostic type so I don't have to worry about silly unnatural nonsense. 

This is ridiculous. Science has sooo many ways to end it all at any time.

Well duh!! 

As a child I was scared of the Jesusy, rapture thing with a time period that was on the horizon. 

I understand science can end it at any time, and will. It's more understandable now and less scary.