What Is Your Greatest Fear? - Page 3

Penguin · 08-22-2008, 12:16 PM

Hospitals, Operations etc.
Loved one's passing away.
Big, fat, hairy spiders.
Heights.
My temper!
Drowning (I almost drowned in the sea as a kid)
Fear for mankind and it's future.

greymare · 08-22-2008, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

lol... In certain situations where say one of your childrens lives was at risk... Say an armed robber? You wouldn't be inflicted by fear?

that is hardly the same thing.
Actually fear and anger were my emotions when my boys lives were in danger, more anger than fear tho.

but an actual phobia, no. sorry, nothing comes to mind

Dream · 08-22-2008, 11:45 PM

Well, this is a bad time for tragedies happening anytime soon for my parents or siblings. My fear is that anything else tragic will happen anytime soon. Now is definitely not the time.

Only Special To God · 08-23-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

Hospitals, Operations etc.
Loved one's passing away.
Big, fat, hairy spiders.
Heights.
My temper!
Drowning (I almost drowned in the sea as a kid)
Fear for mankind and it's future.

Nice to meet you Penguin! *Extending hand to shake*

Yes, operations can be a scary thing, not hospitals as I consider them places that can find out what is wrong with you physically even though that is where the operation has taken place....they do go hand in hand.

Loved one's passing away, I am happy for them!! As they will now be healed, whole and happy. They will always have a place in my heart, it is just that I will physically miss them. But, I know spiritually they are with me watching me, laughing at me and helping me to do the right things in life.

WOW!!! I know what you mean about those big, fat hairy spiders!!! They look like they could be a player two when playing a video game.....there was one so big that when I went to suck it up in the vacuum cleaner that is was holding on to the nozzle!! After, finally succeeding in sucking it up, I didn't go into the basement for 3 whole days to empty the vacuum cleaner (as it is bagless)!!! Dang that was scary!

Heights a little, but I try to overlook it and admire the scenery.....if I fall...I pray that I will die before I hit, but then again the pain would be so enormous that it probably wouldn't even phase me.

Ah, yes temper! I have a nasty one also......so bad that I will cut my nose of to spite my face, just to get my point across! Nasty temper must be from the German Italian mixture! lol

I am glad that you did not drown and that you are here with us today! Have you taken swimming lessons since then?

Fear of mankind and it's future, I believe that one has been a worry since the beginning and we are still here.........a little bit more crowded, polluted and the enormous consumption of resources.

Thank you penquin for replying to my post, and I do apoloigize for not responding to you sooner.

God Bless
Ian

Only Special To God · 08-23-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Dream

Well, this is a bad time for tragedies happening anytime soon for my parents or siblings. My fear is that anything else tragic will happen anytime soon. Now is definitely not the time.

It is nice to meet you Dream, *extending hand to shake*

I do understand where you are coming from. But, there is never a good time for tragedy to point it's ugly finger at anyone.

Thank you for replying to my post,
God Bless
Ian

wil · 08-24-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

Fears are like a "price" Everyone has one...

Interesting...

Now one of the backronyms (creating an acronmym backwards from an existing word) is False Expectations Appearing Real.

Fear I agree we all experience fear, or trepidation, or anxiety in certain situations. Mostly because we haven't expereinced it before and don't know the outcome. ie my fear center is activated on a roller coaster ride...the first time...the second time..I just get the thrill...the more times I do it that reduces as well.

But to have a Fear that everyone has, is to me worrying about the future, we don't all have to worry, there are plenty out there that worry so much so often that a few of us don't have to.

Quahom1 · 08-24-2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

...I have fears.... But no greatest fear... Example I have a fear of bodies of water... What am I doing to get over it? Anything but get in it..

I will forever avoid water.

How ironic. I would live underwater, if I could. Since I can't, I do the next best thing, which is to log thousands of hours a year underwater, yet, I fear drowning.

Part of my job is that of a firefighter. I've been in some doozies, but I fear burning.

My greatest fear is not meeting God, but what he will say when I do meet him on that final day. Will I have made the grade, or did I waste what he gave me?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 08-24-2008, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Quahom1

My greatest fear is not meeting God, but what he will say when I do meet him on that final day. Will I have made the grade, or did I waste what he gave me?

Ah, similar to my greatest fear (or, to paraphrase your post: you fear disappointing G!d!) Am I correct?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Quahom1 · 08-24-2008, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Ah, similar to my greatest fear (or, to paraphrase your post: you fear disappointing G!d!) Am I correct?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Indeed.

China Cat Sunflower · 08-25-2008, 05:20 AM

My greatest fear is that my wife will realize what a sh** I am and divorce me. Of course I won't see it coming. Then my kids will be living with her and some prick that I'll have to pretend to get along with while I live in a hovel and go broke paying child support.

Chris

Muslimwoman · 08-25-2008, 06:13 AM

No 1 on the short list has to be the Day of Judgement .... I KNOW how bad I have been and no doubt Allah can add a few million sins I can't even remember ..... boy am I in BIG trouble!!

No 2 is snakes, I can't even look at them on the tv.

No3 is personal failure, be that in work, personal relationships or goals I set myself. Of course I regularly disappoint myself so am rather used to it now

17th Angel · 08-26-2008, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Quahom1

Indeed.

Heck, we all disappoint him... But he is amazing and can forgive, we just need to learn and move on... learn, and move on..... We're going to foul up we're just humans...

OH And brother, I don't have a fear of drowning... Just a fear of water... lol... Drowning would possibly happen as I am a weak swimmer as I said, I sink.. But my mind offers me many, many more dark images than drowning when I think of water or see water...

--Edit--

In basic training there is a swimming test... lol I got a "pass" on that... Didn't even go near a swimming pool amazing eh?

Tao_Equus · 08-26-2008, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

My greatest fear is that my wife will realize what a sh** I am and divorce me. Of course I won't see it coming. Then my kids will be living with her and some prick that I'll have to pretend to get along with while I live in a hovel and go broke paying child support.

Chris

Got the T-shirt

Only Special To God · 08-26-2008, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Quahom1

My greatest fear is not meeting God, but what he will say when I do meet him on that final day. Will I have made the grade, or did I waste what he gave me?

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Originally Posted by Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Ah, similar to my greatest fear (or, to paraphrase your post: you fear disappointing G!d!)

Hello Q and Phyllis,

IMO I don't feel that we are rated, graded or judged when we go and meet our Maker. I know that he will discuss the paths that we had taken, and why? When we were offered so many choices along the way, that could have or would have changed our lives. Those are forks that appear in the road, or even bridges that we had to cross over, and that was when we contemplated as to what way we should go. Then when we did ask him for help and guidance and he gave it to us. That was when we refused it, we did not appreciate it, or we did not even take the time to notice that it was there until it was too late. I also think that he will discuss the trials and tribulations that he had set before us and how we handled them or how we over came them. But, I think that the most important of them all were the life lessons that we had to learn and go through sometimes many times that made us better than we were before we started on our journey.

I do not feel that we would disappoint him as we did make it through to the end to be with him. We lived life, we laughed, we cried, we loved and most of all we enjoyed being alive and are thankful to him for being the Creator and creating all of the living things that is on this earth.

Thank you for replying to my post.

God Bless
Ian

Quahom1 · 08-26-2008, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Only Special To God

Hello Q and Phyllis,

IMO I don't feel that we are rated, graded or judged when we go and meet our Maker. I know that he will discuss the paths that we had taken, and why? When we were offered so many choices along the way, that could have or would have changed our lives. Those are forks that appear in the road, or even bridges that we had to cross over, and that was when we contemplated as to what way we should go. Then when we did ask him for help and guidance and he gave it to us. That was when we refused it, we did not appreciate it, or we did not even take the time to notice that it was there until it was too late. I also think that he will discuss the trials and tribulations that he had set before us and how we handled them or how we over came them. But, I think that the most important of them all were the life lessons that we had to learn and go through sometimes many times that made us better than we were before we started on our journey.

I do not feel that we would disappoint him as we did make it through to the end to be with him. We lived life, we laughed, we cried, we loved and most of all we enjoyed being alive and are thankful to him for being the Creator and creating all of the living things that is on this earth.

Thank you for replying to my post.

God Bless
Ian

There is a "tiny" problem there Ian. With much given, much is expected...