people say that the only thing to really fear is fear itslef. but i feel that fear of death is worse than fear fo fear, because everything ends in death. lets say that you are afraid of a spider. arent you afraid of the spider bting you and then you dieing. so that would make you really afraid of death. and death is really iminant. i may be wrong and i may not know anything about this but thats just what i think.
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That all horrible fear33% Voted for by Kazrith, Drakino, pnktrky.
To tell yout the truth, i believe the fear of death revolves around the unknown. we dont know what happens when we die. do we go to heaven? do we blink out of exsitance like a candle in the dark? renecarnate? what happens?
truthfully it is where all of our greatest fears are revealed. which is, mainly, does God exist.
not to make this all theological but that is the true question and when we kick the bucket, we learn if everything we believed to be true, is true or not.
now, as for the spider, i'm not afraid. my fear is fairiswheels (sp?). now dont get me wrong, it isnt irrational, its the swinging. no stability. hate it. oh, i also fear meteorites. why? because there is techniquely nothing i can do to stop it from happening.
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A question22% Voted for by TeChNoWC, AlaskaMoleman.
Not trying to start a theology debate here, but I just wish to pose a question:
Would you fear hell over death(nothingness)? i.e would you rather go to hell, given the Christian/Muslim theological concept that we have of hell, or would you rather be deemed to non existence?
I believe that your answer to this question would most likely be a preference to be sentenced to non-existence. Hence, our fear is not of death, but of anguish.
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NoVoted for by Weydon.
The "nothing to fear but fear itself" is usually in reference to overcome the fear of death to rouse people out of inaction.
"arent you afraid of the spider bting you and then you dieing."
Not at all. I used to be REALLY creeped out by all bugs but am very much over it by now. But I and others don't think that. There's very few spiders that can kill you. And fearing those spiders has nothing to do with the phobia and everything to do with "I fear that thing that's going to kill me if it bites me". Technically even a fear of heights isn't entirely related to death. With phobias, the fear is typically just very overwhelming that you're not even thinking about the likely outcomes--or even if you are, they're not getting through to you.
Fear of death is a major fear that people tend to have, one that many people never really get over but only learn to deal with it easier. I myself still get a little bugged out when I think of all the possibilites out there, but aside from my faith in God the only thing that comforts me is the fact I can't do anything about it. If that's the case, than being afraid of all the possibilities I'll never see until I get there is pretty pointless. So I should really fear wasting my time fearing it. Fearing fear itself.
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FearVoted for by Auxiliar.
In the context of the original debate, the question is whether it is worse to be dead, or to be dying (to be bitten by the spider). To be dying, in the objective, biographical sense that we all approach the moment that coincides with our death is to be alive, biographically. To be dead is to become part of the nothingness, and sometimes even on one's own terms. Given these choices, I would rather allow myself to experience fear than to experience nothing at all, even if I were entitled to more.
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No. You're wrongVoted for by TeChNoWC.
I am not afraid of death, because death is liberation. I am afraid of the unknown, eg, if I were to all of a sudden become some sadistic sex toy to a machosist malevolent being. This is fear, not death. Death is presented as a state where once you get there, you no longer care, so, rationally, there is nothing to fear about death. Pain is worse; one under severe torture would see death as the desired escape.
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Fear of Death ProbablyVoted for by SilverSuicide.
People just fear the unknown,while most people who have phobias are afraid of what might happen should they come in contact with their phobias,i.e death.(like fear of heights or water or snakes)So maybe they are equal.
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August 23, 2006
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Technically, it's spelled Ferris Wheels
These fears all revolve around a sort of Platonism, the same that Schopenhauer saw in Christianity. We'd do better to rid ourselves of such Ideal Forms, and we'd do infinitely better to realize that these forms reside within us as symptomatic of certain lines of reasoning. "I doubt that I may question, and by questioning we acquire the truth." -Pierre AbelardSeptember 16, 2006
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April 9, 2007
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i belive that fear of death is the fear of the unknown the complete unknown mind you,one has no idea about the after there are belifes but none has been proven,Please register or login to comment! It's totally free