Name Your Fear > Likes and Comments

Hello.

This is a game - list your current fear and move on for somebody else - explain it if you like, but just one fear at a time.

See my next post.

Fear of not being liked.

the return of the repressed.

Suffocation

This is so embarrassing, but: chickens, commitment, social interaction and failure

Spiders

WTF, chickens?

Just one fear at a time, remember.

Once someone posts you can go again.

Ohh, got it.

Chickens, then

Fear of cockroaches

Fear of revealing a fear that could be used against me

Fear of heights

Fear of crowds

stefanny wrote: "Ohh, got it.

Chickens, then"

But why?
😂

Fear of headless chickens

Loosing my mind (e.g., dementia)

Richard Alex wrote: "stefanny wrote: "Ohh, got it.

Chickens, then"

But why? 😂"

when i was eight, my grandma had a rooster and it chased me all over her backyard 😩

submechanophobia

Being stabbed to death

Deep Water

Fear of Smart devices

Fear of dying a painful death

Fear of drowning

Fear of living in a violent world

Fear of being trapped in an elevator

Fear of indoctrination. Just in general - political, religious, social, media indoctrination.

Roxana wrote: "Fear of indoctrination. Just in general - political, religious, social, media indoctrination."

My children are practicing Christians, I am not. They're spiritually happier than I am but I reserve the right to be miserable if I want.

Being burned alive! Deep, deep fear of fire! 😱

Richard Alex wrote: "Roxana wrote: "Fear of indoctrination. Just in general - political, religious, social, media indoctrination."

My children are practicing Christians, I am not. They're spiritually happier than I am but I reserve the right to be miserable if I want."

Yes. I also get the feeling that religious people are happier than I am.

I had a dream a while back where I was alone within a 19th century mansion with some odd, 'M.C. Escher,' geometry going on with the stairs.

In the main room, a massive ornate mirror dominated a wall without reflecting me.

A telekinetic force as inexorable as gravity took hold of me and pulled me toward the mirror, and I was filled with terror - absolutely horror struck.

I had to pull away from the mirror and I tried with everything I had to resist the mirror's pull, and yet ... step by step ... I came closer...

I screamed, "No! No! No!" with every step.

Then I woke up.

I sat up, threw back the sheets and paced the house until I calmed down.

I'm not joking. This really happened.

I've had some fearful moments in my life. I don't like heights or tight, closed in spaces, and I've had my share of worries and concerns for loved ones when they are at risk, but this was of a different order altogether.

I conclude that I'm terrified of interdimensional portals opening onto a hellscape.

... or loss of agency before the unknown ...

😱😊

Fear of the picture.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Deep Deep Fear Of The Sea...Hate Going Anywhere Near It🪼⛵🌊🪸🐚🧜‍♀️🦈

Diane wrote: "Deep Deep Fear Of The Sea...Hate Going Anywhere Near It🪼⛵🌊🪸🐚🧜‍♀️🦈"

I get that.

The thought of being lost in the ocean, at night, all alone, is high on my fear list.

Climate change. Especially how our refusal to behave affects other animals who are no longer able to navigate their environment or no longer have an environment, wildfires, increased heat waves, the death of winter, melting ice sheets and glaciers, droughts, floods.

I fear being interrogated by the enemy, and being told, "If you do not answer truthfully, we will shove this giant ball of cat hair in your mouth."

Fear of zombie's and living dead. I've been writing about that more. Just can't get it out of my head XD

Roxana wrote: "Richard Alex wrote: "Roxana wrote: "Fear of indoctrination. Just in general - political, religious, social, media indoctrination."

My children are practicing Christians, I am not. They're spiritua..."

Generally speaking, yes, we are, but we'd love for you to join the group and share the joy.

Editing isn't always the best on Goodreads when responding to nested comments, although better than the app that doesn't allow responding at all!

Mike's comment above to Roxana, who was responding to me, is about the happiness of religious people in comparison to non-believers.

Anyone want to comment?

I personally know (and have known) many happy nonbelievers, including myself. I've known nonbelievers who weren't all that happy. I also know believers who are not very happy, and believers who are. I've also known believers from belief systems other than Christianity; some were happy, some not so much. Clearly, happiness depends on more than one's belief system.

Mike wrote: "we'd love for you to join the group and share the joy"
Richard Alex wrote: "Anyone want to comment?"

I'll comment. I don't feel connected to religion on an emotional / spiritual level or a rational / intellectual level, so I have no desire or intention of joining.

I'm anti-dogma, I refuse to blindly accept any belief or value without examining it myself. And I refuse to blame some abstract manmade construct for humanity's shittiness or to lie to myself that "God will judge them" when various human institutions fail to hold them accountable.

I have nothing against religious people as long as they don't try to push their religion onto me.

New fear: somehow at some point losing my sight. Really, any of my senses, but I feel like sight would be the worse one.

👆 It's about belief, Roxana.

People who believe are blessed and fortunate.

If you don't believe then don't do it.