And now.....Fear.
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Nothing, not one thing in this world has been at one time been both a great motivater and kept the human race back like fear. Its forced countries to both start and stop wars. Caused people to both gain and loose their faith. Kept you from talking to that certain someone because rejection is a horrible thing or talk to everyone because you don't want to be alone. It is amazing that such a feeling can force you to do things you never in an eon would think you would do. But the fear that is the most terrible, the one that will make the tears swell up in your eyes, that makes every ventricle in your heart feel as if it were to explode, that steals your breathe in the cold still of the night, that makes for awful auditory hallucinations, is he one o\that people most "enjoy". People love to be scared. Rollercoasters, movies, books, old houses, conservitives, it seems humans just can't get enough. Not just to feel scared, but also to look scary. To instill fear into someones heart like they have some kind of power over you.
Its that time of year, what are you scared of?
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When I was 16 years old with a brother a few years older, mum and dad went out and left me in his charge... as soon as they left he went off to his room, whereby I put a Neil Young album on and settled in... It only seemed like seconds later that he came back into the room, turned off the stereo and walked back out... of course I turned it straight back on..
At this point he ran into the lounge, screamed at me and with that I bolted out the room and down the hallway, he cornered me in the olds bedroom and promptly locked me in the wardrobe until their car pulled in the driveway at which time he let me out...
To this day I remain traumatised, terrified and scared shitless of being in shut in confined areas in the dark... and as for pulling the doona over my head... dont even go there!!! :-)
Yikes, siblings are cruel. I can see how that could scar one's psyche. Gotta ask,you from the U.K.?
LOl... well I supose we all have our childhood sibling story of woe, mine just includes a fear of wardrobes...you asked...lol...and no I am not from the land of beefeaters, pip pip hooray or Chris Martin.. :-)
nice. what am i scared of? the self, mostly. (not the unknown, to be sure.)
Musashi / The Book of Five Rings? Goseki Kojima? or just a random pic? i give up.
I gave fear some thought a few years ago, but I don't really want to go too far back into the state of mind that allowed me to do that thinking. From the past:
I wrote to a friend the other day and mentioned that I, and I presume many others as well, become trapped by the future, or rather planning and preparing for the future... In any case, Today I was thinking that it seems like fear is something that has to be learned. It might be that one is born with a certain capacity for fear, but over time one becomes more and more capable of fear.
I noticed this for the first time when I was around nine years old. I was riding my bike with some friends and one of them did some sort of jump but I didn't do it because I was afraid. At the time I remembered that I used to not be afraid of such things, but for some reason I then was. I suppose I had probably taken a few painful spills between the time when I was fearless and the time when I was afraid to try, thus explaining and making the fear seem perfectly sensible.
So whatever, it is the same sort of desire for pain avoidance that causes one to live in the future. It carries with it the same consequence of diminishing the amount of pleasure in ones life. Same thing.
We may be motivated by fear, but what makes fear a powerful motivator is pain; we learn fear by experiencing pain, thus fear is mostly just the desire to avoid pain. Also from the past:
There is this thing about pain. Touched nerves and that sort of jazz. It's something like certain experiences being so painful that it is impossible to resolve. There are certain things in my life that continue to be painful years after they were a part of the present.
It's a fucked up thing that a majority of life, a majority to such an extent that it really makes more sense to call it the whole, is spent in contemplation and concern over the past and future. The present is just that moment when something occurs that reflects the past and anticipates the future, yet the whole of ones existence takes place in the present. One is not just the sum of their experiences, but also the sum of their desired experiences.
I desire to avoid pain. That specific desire makes it impossible to be rid of the pain of my past. Were it my desire to embrace pain, it would be likely that I would be unable to retain the pain of the past.
After several discussions, a friend once announced that a book, any book, reconciled the conflict between past, present, and future, or at least represented said reconciliation. Evidenced by its own existence, a book is information from the past. This book also has the power of influencing the future to the same extent that the future will no doubt influence it. In the present the book is nothing, a mere object occupying space where past and future overlap. My friend is much smarter than I am. I found myself unable to fully comprehend the analogy as he presented it. As such, I have probably failed miserably in my attempt to recreate it here.
As a person I am no more than an object occupying space where past and future overlap. I am a metaphor for the conflict between past, present, and future. As the experience of pain and the desire to avoid pain intermingle in the overlap, a vacuum is created that pulls me with an irresistible force away from pain, towards the future. The slightest bump and the vacuum is reversed. New pain becomes all pain, the pain of the past.
My location is inconsistent; I reside somewhere between the beginning and end at all times, even at several places between simultaneously. This then is the present, I suppose, where past and future exist simultaneously. The book analogy makes more sense now. The book doesn't just occupy space, it actually is the past and future, experiences and desires...
In a way, then, I suppose fear is fundamental to being human, and as such we are going to do what we can to take control over fear, whether that means we are going to use it in rationed doses to remind ourselves that we still have the ability to cope with it, or that we are going to use it to coerce others into... Ah, fuck it! Bob and David pretty much said it all with this:
As for me, I'm scared of babies, birthday cake, and the color blue.
I'm scared of having nothing to scare me.
Wow, Brand X, a deeply profound explanation. I'm diggin' it. I've heard the book analogy before. The video is great and even though its tongue in cheek I could see someone thinking it was a real news cast. Babies, birthday cakes ,and the color blue huh?
Poebegone, its Konseimao Hanzui beset by demons. It was a pretty random pick, I just have this fascination with the art.
I am scared that the things I do are viewed by others as stupid, naive and amature...so often I don't do.
coolness, thanks. thought it'd be manga cover art, looked terribly familiar.