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Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: Unknown Target on June 24, 2003, 09:07:14 pm
(Being afraid of Tiara does NOT count :D)


Anyways, I'm most afraid of losing the ability to think. That's why Alzheimer's + after death (NOT death, just what happens after, what I don't get to see, like flying cars and stuff) scare me the most.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 24, 2003, 09:11:23 pm
1. Find suitable multi-story, open-air parking garage, fancy overpriced sedan or other smallish car on top level.

2. Acquire two sturdy wooden boards and a knife.

3. put wooden boards between car and protective garage wall, resting on top of wall.

4. Cut brake line

5. Push


Instant flying car. There, one less thing you have to worry about never seeing.

I'm afraid of the goblin under my floorboards. He dragged off my little sister a couple years back, and keeps whispering things to guests that make them go insane. I mean, I wear earplugs and am a bit too big for him, but still...
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Post by: Solatar on June 24, 2003, 09:12:39 pm
Alzheimer's scares me, but I'm not scared of after my death (pissed off that I don't get to see all the cool stuff) because isn't going to be more horrible after I die than before I was born.

And then Tia...oh..doesn't count...crap.:nervous:
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Post by: Galemp on June 24, 2003, 09:17:02 pm
Losing my ability to communicate... :nervous: Imagine being fully conscious and having everyone treat you like a piece of furniture.
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Post by: Knight Templar on June 24, 2003, 09:22:13 pm
Dired Apricots. Chinese kites and Dried Apricots.
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Post by: Turnsky on June 24, 2003, 09:32:43 pm
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Originally posted by Solatar
Alzheimer's scares me


same here, death doesn't really scare me, if i die, i die, ain't really much i can do about it is there?:doubt:

the complete loss of my hands scares the hell out of me tho.
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Post by: tEAbAG on June 24, 2003, 09:38:51 pm
Ahhhhhhh!  Horseshoe crabs!!!
(http://www.globalclassroom.org/hcrab4.jpg)
Get it away! Send it to hell!

Seriously, these are about the only things that send shivers down my spine.  They look like the fricken facehuggers from Alien.
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Post by: silverwolf on June 24, 2003, 09:59:08 pm
i'm afraid of going blind and the thought of soem guy or girl in estonia seems to love to by pass my fire wall and DoS me with out me knowing till he screws up and i see his attack in my security log
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Post by: phreak on June 24, 2003, 10:03:55 pm
bees
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Post by: Tar-Palantir on June 25, 2003, 02:10:36 am
Spiders above 3cm in size.
Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 25, 2003, 03:14:11 am
I don't know that I am afraid of much at all, to be honest, but then I've not really encountered many things that would be frightening.

I suppose I am afraid of going blind in my left eye, and this is actually quite likely, as I went temporarily blind in it a few months ago.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on June 25, 2003, 03:21:16 am
Blindness, spiders, cancer, and having unhealthy kids. Those four scare me the most. Blindness for the simple fact that I can't comprehend what it would be like to live in darkness all my life. Spiders because I had a traumatic event with the little evil buggers when I was young. Cancer, pritty obvious, one in three of us get it at some point, that scares me, not only if I get it, but if any of my friends get it as well. Having unhealthy kids scares me a lot too. Just the thought of if makes me shudder.

Then ofcourse theres that creepy little girl who climbs out of tvs...  :shaking:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 25, 2003, 03:27:37 am
Aye, I suppose cancer if very worrying, that's why I try not to think about such things. I find that if I refuse to understand the significane of anything, then I won't worry about it.
The result of this is that I am so laid back that any further I'd be upside down, never mind horizontal.
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Post by: Nico on June 25, 2003, 04:14:24 am
mmh... faraid of raising bad kids. guess that's about all.
ah, no, staying unemployed, too, how could I forget that, I think about it about 50 times an hour :doubt:.
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Post by: J.F.K. on June 25, 2003, 05:35:05 am
The dark, late at night... it still freaks me out... :nervous:
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Post by: Turnsky on June 25, 2003, 05:39:03 am
me, i love the night... dunno why, you'll never see me out of the house without sunglasses, even when it's REALLY overcast:p
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Post by: J.F.K. on June 25, 2003, 06:02:06 am
:cool: :D

I just realised, I'm afraid of strange comic artists coming up from Tasmania and kidnapping me and Setekh... :p :lol:
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Post by: Turnsky on June 25, 2003, 06:03:27 am
kiddnapping? no... causing greivous bodily harm? perhaps:p
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Post by: Gortef on June 25, 2003, 07:20:10 am
mostly bees and wasps for now I guess. And mainly because I stepped accidentaly onto one when I was a little and it stung me...
Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: kasperl on June 25, 2003, 08:29:11 am
this:

http://truechristiansunite.cjb.net/

or more specificly, this:

http://pub49.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm7.showMessage?topicID=46.topic
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 25, 2003, 08:31:13 am
Oh no. Anything but that again.
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Post by: TopAce on June 25, 2003, 09:14:42 am
I am not typically a fearful man. But there is one thing I am afraid of: Blindness. If I have to do something, I haven't done previously. I am somehow certain I won't do it the right way.
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Post by: Stealth on June 25, 2003, 09:27:32 am
fear of my family breaking up
Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: silverwolf on June 25, 2003, 10:37:35 am
oh yah i also hate wasps my favorite wya to kill htem indoor:the good old windex bottle give them a mouth ful of ammonia
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Post by: beatspete on June 25, 2003, 11:21:53 am
big dogs.
Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: Stealth on June 25, 2003, 11:30:01 am
KT's mom :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:



j/k :) :cool:
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Post by: adwight on June 25, 2003, 11:36:24 am
Spider, especially frecking huge ones.  God they scare the hell out of me, any bug for that matter...
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Post by: Solatar on June 25, 2003, 11:56:15 am
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce


Then ofcourse theres that creepy little girl who climbs out of tvs...  :shaking:


Almost forgot about that one...

Here's some comfort...my friend is trying to edit out the entire movie except for that one video.......7 days......

There's this teahcer at my school...she scares me...
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Post by: 01010 on June 25, 2003, 12:07:07 pm
Physical pain, losing my parents and that's it.  Death is an inevitability so why fear it?

"There is no pain in death, it just hurts to die" I heard that somewhere and it stuck with me.
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Post by: Unknown Target on June 25, 2003, 12:51:43 pm
I don't fear death. I fear what happens after, I just can't fathom a time without thought (I do believe in an afterlife, but sometimes I doubt it).  Plus, I miss all the really neat stuff in the future.


Another thing is losing the ability to think, which is one of my most important things, aside from sight.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on June 25, 2003, 01:32:04 pm
I'm absolutely terrified of losing my independence, like if I went and got meself crippled or something. I could see me wanting to top meself if that ever hapened. Shudder.

I can't say that I'm actually scared of death itself, in fact I think I'd be more frustrated if I knew I was going to die than scared - all the things I wanted to do, and all that. Something that occoured to me recently, though, is that at 21 years old I've probably lived a quarter of my life already. I'd never considered my own mortality before, and that did rattle me a little... but I'm not going to worry about since there's nothing anyone can do...

As for phobias, I run screaming like a little girl from the average spid (big ones have me literally rooted to the spot with fear while I yell for help), and big dogs - I got chased by a dog when I was knee high to a grasshopper, and though it's not so bad these days I'm still not confident around them. Which is why I keep cats. Go cats!


Actually, there's a spid up in the corner of the situation room. It's about 3/4 inch or so, and if it moves then I'm damn well going to paintball the little ****er.
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Post by: redsniper on June 25, 2003, 01:36:22 pm
same as what everyone else has said mostly: blindness, losing limbs, cancer, intense pain.

public speaking scares me and so do Goths.  there was this one girl at our school who really freaked me out, she had lip piercings and stuff and one time I saw she had all these scars on her arms, later I heard she gave herself the scars. she finally got sent to the funny farm when tried to attack one of her friends with a pair of scissors.  she was ugly too  :ick
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Post by: killadonuts on June 25, 2003, 01:40:42 pm
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Originally posted by silverwolf
oh yah i also hate wasps my favorite wya to kill htem indoor:the good old windex bottle give them a mouth ful of ammonia

I like to take them with some tweezers and burn them on the stove top.

Leave the former Mr.Wasp burnt to a crisp on the windowledge so other wasps will think twice before intruding
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Post by: tEAbAG on June 25, 2003, 01:47:49 pm
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Originally posted by killadonuts

I like to take them with some tweezers and burn them on the stove top.

Leave the former Mr.Wasp burnt to a crisp on the windowledge so other wasps will think twice before intruding


I thought I was the only one who did that.
I used a lighter after I was stung one too many times.
On one good day I got seven.
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Post by: silverwolf on June 25, 2003, 10:31:06 pm
hmm i should get some tweezers only one problem by the time i see them they are active enough to fly and sting so thats when the windex xome twards them in a shotgun style fasion
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 25, 2003, 10:42:50 pm
BRAINS!
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Post by: Turnsky on June 25, 2003, 10:43:46 pm
here we go again:rolleyes:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 25, 2003, 10:45:08 pm
No, really, brains. Do you have any idea how fecking HARD it is to be a zombie who's scared of brains? DO YOU???
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Post by: Turnsky on June 25, 2003, 10:45:40 pm
:lol:
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Post by: demon442 on June 26, 2003, 12:42:58 am
My greatest fear would be this.  All of reality is a mans dream, and one day the man will wake up,  instantly making reality cease to exist.


Creepy isn't it?
Title: Old thread: What are you afraid of most?
Post by: Turnsky on June 26, 2003, 12:45:06 am
this won't count but what the hell...

here's something to be afraid of.

Tiara takes up skydiving...:p
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Post by: Nico on June 26, 2003, 01:54:01 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
BRAINS!


you're afraid of brains? that's why you torned yours off? :p
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 26, 2003, 02:11:46 am
Oh, the irony.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 26, 2003, 03:48:40 am
something that would be quite worrying would be if I were to wake up, onloy to discover that I was Birmingham...
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Post by: Turnsky on June 26, 2003, 03:49:46 am
:wtf:
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Post by: TopAce on June 26, 2003, 04:44:49 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky
.....Tiara takes up skydiving...:p


Parachute jump from a plane? Isn't it?
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Post by: 01010 on June 26, 2003, 12:14:41 pm
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
something that would be quite worrying would be if I were to wake up, onloy to discover that I was Birmingham...


Not to say that there are much better places about, city life isn't for me however.

Birmingham I hate, I cannot stand the place and I am for all intents and purposes, a brummie (despite the fact I'm like 20 miles away from the place and don't have an accent at all)
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Post by: an0n on June 27, 2003, 04:52:22 am
I fear nothing. Flesh is transitory. All flesh is grass. And my mind cannot be touched. Therefore I fear not man, not beast and not anything between.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 27, 2003, 04:56:02 am
Surely you must fear children's television?

BTW, your ban count is still at 1.
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Post by: an0n on June 27, 2003, 04:59:25 am
Yeah I know.

Children's television is more annoying than scary.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 27, 2003, 05:27:35 am
What about Boobah?
That's just horrifying.
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Post by: an0n on June 27, 2003, 05:29:59 am
It's got good cinematography and graphics though.

Although it is definitely more ****ed up than Teletubbies or The Tweenies.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 27, 2003, 05:31:26 am
There you are then. Who the hell comes up with this ****e?
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Post by: an0n on June 27, 2003, 05:36:18 am
All those people you see in those old 60's documentaries on LSD.

You thought they went on to lead productive lives? Nope. They're strapped to a chair in the BBC HQ's basement with a pad, some paints and a constant feed of "Happy Happy Joy Joy" from Ren and Stimpy being blasted through the 8ft speakers.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 27, 2003, 05:37:20 am
Ahh, that would explain it.

Which reminds me, I must find a video of "Look around you"
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Post by: Sandwich on June 27, 2003, 06:15:37 am
Afraid of the most? Hmm.... My gun blowing up in my face when I fire it? Nahh. :) Uhhh... actually, the times I find myself the most tense, with my heart beating the fastest, is in playing FPSes (without cheats). Really, I hate the tension some of them have - even Serious Sam's too much at times. ;)

I've gotten used to explosions and tanks firing, so loud noises barely make me jump. Spiders - meh. Becoming mangled for life from some bus bombing or whatever, yeah, that thought is worrying, but it's not something that tends to freak me out when I think of it. Same with cancer. I do hate the thought of losing my mind in old age - I look around at some of the people around me who have the lights on without anybody being at home, and it's kinda repulsive to imagine myself like that. I value my mental faculties too much.

Of course, rejection's a killer. :shaking:
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Post by: Turnsky on June 27, 2003, 06:23:03 am
actually losing my mind, i'm afraid of (no family history thank god- and we can trace our family back to napoleon's:nod:  )

this is what i fear the most...
Middle-aged, a fat wife two kids a dead-end job & morgage and becoming an over-worked, underpaid burnt-out shadow of my former self...

i.e.. my father's second marriage (he's a postal worker):shaking:
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Post by: 01010 on June 27, 2003, 10:55:48 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
What about Boobah?
That's just horrifying.


I watched Boobah when I was stoned and couldn't help but laugh. It increased my desire to do acid tenfold.
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Post by: Flaser on June 27, 2003, 08:00:40 pm
Being hunted.
Not just some freak dream, or stupid manhunt or whatever.
Being hunted literally like the Jews during WWII.
The most f***ing terrible aspect of the whole is, that it is possible. Me and my whole family are in close connection with the successor party of the local communist party, so if any more "despotic" righter action takes place we're no.1 on their list.
Receantly the elections were so fierce that it has torn apart families and the bloody politics have spilt over the schools and churces. This time the MSP won and no one got hurt...next time, I wonder...

To TopAce and Grunt:
I have nothing personal against anyone of any moderate political position, and among my friends I give it a damn.
But when people amass on the Hero's Square and demand the death of anybody with similar beliefs to me or death of my half-sisters with a certain "additional trait of blood" ....
That gives me the chills.
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Post by: Whitelight on June 27, 2003, 08:34:54 pm
Amnesia.

Waking up one day in the hospital, not knowing who I am or how I got there and not knowing the people who come to visit me saying they are my family..
But then again maybe remembering may be..