Author Topic: Conquering our fears, together. (Read 14927 times)

Winters · « **Reply #25 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:10:26 PM »

Quote from: sys on July 01, 2015, 12:53:40 PM

Quote from: Winters on July 01, 2015, 12:20:29 PM
I used to be very afraid of snakes (still afraid of the ones that can kill me fwiw) but yesterday while visiting my grandmother this garter snake came right up to me and I decapitated it with a garden hoe.

you should be scared of social interaction with me. because i'll beat the rough ridin' crap out of you if i ever see you.

I'd brake your hip and clavicle you old eff.

Are you afraid of having to use a walker for the rest of your life?

CHONGS · « **Reply #26 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:13:05 PM »

I used to be afraid of going crazy (as in medically crazy). Now I am either not scared of that anymore, or my mind has deteriorated to the point where I don't know any better.

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:25:23 PM »

my Great Grandpa CF3 and my regular Grandpa CF3 both got Alzheimer's and it was terrible. My grandpa was a really smart guy, an electrical engineer who had been in the Air Force in Korea and stuff, and when he wasn't the same, it sucked. Real scared of that happening to CF3's dad or CF3.

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:26:40 PM »

When you think you peaked in college.

Ptolemy · « **Reply #29 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:32:57 PM »

Best way to look at all this stuff (we prolly figure this out as we live life long enough) is you can be afraid of almost anything, but once you eventually confronting the fear, intentionally or by accident, you end up realizing that it's not that big of a deal and you just wasted a part of the limited time we all have in this life worrying about something that was no big deal.

If you worry about death, there's nothing you can do about it in most cases, so why waste time worrying about it? Just imagine your kids will ultimately be better off if you croak when they are young because they are going to improvise with the limited tools you were able to give them and will become total badasses in life.

So there you go...

sys · « **Reply #30 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:41:31 PM »

Quote from: Winters on July 01, 2015, 02:10:26 PM

I'd brake your hip and clavicle you old eff.

Are you afraid of having to use a walker for the rest of your life?

i'm like old clint eastwood in that movie about grass. i'm old enough, i don't care anymore. i just want to take some assholes who deserve to die with me when i go.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #31 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:51:18 PM »

Quote from: Cartierfor3 on July 01, 2015, 02:25:23 PM

my Great Grandpa CF3 and my regular Grandpa CF3 both got Alzheimer's and it was terrible. My grandpa was a really smart guy, an electrical engineer who had been in the Air Force in Korea and stuff, and when he wasn't the same, it sucked. Real scared of that happening to CF3's dad or CF3.

My grandma had Alzheimer's and every time I forget something it freaks me out.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #32 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:52:26 PM »

Quote from: Winters on July 01, 2015, 02:10:26 PM

I'd brake your hip and clavicle you old eff.

Are you afraid of having to use a walker for the rest of your life?

star seed 7 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:55:20 PM »

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on July 01, 2015, 02:51:18 PM

Quote from: Cartierfor3 on July 01, 2015, 02:25:23 PM
my Great Grandpa CF3 and my regular Grandpa CF3 both got Alzheimer's and it was terrible. My grandpa was a really smart guy, an electrical engineer who had been in the Air Force in Korea and stuff, and when he wasn't the same, it sucked. Real scared of that happening to CF3's dad or CF3.

My grandma had Alzheimer's and every time I forget something it freaks me out.

My gramps too. He died super young because of it

Winters · « **Reply #34 on:** July 01, 2015, 03:07:14 PM »

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on July 01, 2015, 02:52:26 PM

Quote from: Winters on July 01, 2015, 02:10:26 PM
I'd brake your hip and clavicle you old eff.

Are you afraid of having to use a walker for the rest of your life?

star seed 7 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 01, 2015, 03:08:39 PM »

I think winters is saying he'd stop sys's hip from working

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #36 on:** July 01, 2015, 03:12:49 PM »

Snakes don't even have hips, and they can still kick your ass if you are unarmed.

Gooch · « **Reply #37 on:** July 01, 2015, 03:24:38 PM »

Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on July 01, 2015, 12:50:17 PM

I'm scared of social interaction

But once you warm up to people you are a real life teddy bear. Just the best.

Pete · « **Reply #38 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:08:31 PM »

The list is far too long to name the stuff that I used to be scared of.

I have really been trying work on not worrying about the crap I can't control. However, I still have loads of stuff that I can control that I am scared of, but that's mostly because I am a pussy.

slobber · « **Reply #39 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:09:38 PM »

Alzheimer's is the worst. It's rampant on my wife's side. My mother also had it. :sad:

Gonna win 'em all!

Kat Kid · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:16:18 PM »

I mean Alzheimers is really bad and that is scary and so is the fact that you will die but good grief people. You can't conquer either of those!

star seed 7 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:33:46 PM »

Being a cubicle office drone

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #42 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:39:55 PM »

i'm not afraid of being dead but i'm very afraid of the pain that comes with death. like, it's either a slow deterioration or you feel your entire body seize up in a heart attack or hear your bones snap in a car wreck.

an in-law of mine had a bazillion heart attacks and he always said that he would try to let go during them but the pain was so great that he'd have to fight against them and he'd end up staying alive. i'm scared of that situation but i'm also scared of having a decade or two of increasingly poor health leading to the inevitable. woof.

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #43 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:41:58 PM »

Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on July 01, 2015, 10:33:46 PM

Being a cubicle office drone

you're a bright person so you have a lot of control over this one.

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #44 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:44:20 PM »

i'm not good with heights and i don't like that.

puniraptor · « **Reply #45 on:** July 01, 2015, 10:52:44 PM »

I always fear that I forgot to close the garage door. Like every single day.

steve dave · « **Reply #46 on:** July 02, 2015, 07:37:33 AM »

Quote from: Kat Kid on July 01, 2015, 10:16:18 PM

I mean Alzheimers is really bad and that is scary and so is the fact that you will die but good grief people. You can't conquer either of those!

I don't see the connection between being able to "conquer" something and it not being scary. the opposite actually makes more sense to me. like, it seems more logical that not being able to control alzheimer's onset would make it more scary.

steve dave · « **Reply #47 on:** July 02, 2015, 07:38:45 AM »

like, what's scarier: being locked out of the pilots cabin when someone slowly takes a plane down and you know there's nothing you can do about it or sitting next to someone trying to take it down and having a chance (no matter how small) to stop them? the second seems much less scary.

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 02, 2015, 07:46:33 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on July 02, 2015, 07:38:45 AM

like, what's scarier: being locked out of the pilots cabin when someone slowly takes a plane down and you know there's nothing you can do about it or sitting next to someone trying to take it down and having a chance (no matter how small) to stop them? the second seems much less scary.

1st is way scarier. Its like, what's scarier, falling off a cliff, or watching someone you care about fall off a cliff. I vote #2

kslim · « **Reply #49 on:** July 02, 2015, 07:51:02 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on July 01, 2015, 12:55:11 PM

dying. I used to not be scared of this. now I am terrified because of lil sd and both worrying about him being taken care of properly and me missing all of his stuff. also of anything happening to lil sd. I am a terrified parent.

Same, its just the worst