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Your Greatest Fear

What is your greatest fear?

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Why do think you I live in basically a desert. To avoid just those kinds of critters. They would have to commit me to psch ward if I lived in a jungle. Damn spiders amplify my flight and fight responce by quite a bit. Scares the hell out of people who dont know me. I must have been eaten by one in a previous life. I go absolutely ape ****. Spiders are the ONLY thing I have nightmares about. Those only occure once a decade or so thank god. There are very few things that panic me and spiders even more so then drowning. I totaly wig out. If I were to interogated and they knew about that phobia, I would sing like a fricken canary.
 
Guy Incognito said:
You didnt list the most likely and most calamitous upcoming crisis: currency collapse.
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I considered this to be encompassed by "Overbearing Government - Taxes, Regulation, Spending," as they are basically reflexive runaway monetary policies that are used as a last refuge of failing economic empires, and have the effect of a retrospective tax.
 
Technically I don't think it fits that category because it does not involved taxes, regulation or spending per se. I suppose you could make an argument for it being a spending problem but that seems a little contorted. As a "tax," I dunno, inflation destroys money, but I have to consider the whole "inflation as a hidden tax" thing to be a metaphor. If government destroys the currency intentionally to meet its nominal entitlement obligations is that a effectively tax? Yes. But is it literally a tax? No.
 
Of the list, probably government oppressiveness.
Of other things mentioned, being framed or in general strung up by the public on some trumped up character charges would be next I suppose.


Honduras, heck, I ran into that same spider on its web where I grew up in Louisiana. Hand-sized spider (including legs), it sat perched on my head. My older sister who was following me on the trail, saw it on my head, screamed and ran home. I recall my displeasure with her leaving me to die at the fangs of a spider. My dad came back and swatted it off. Later he told me how freaked out he was too, but you know dads, nothing appears to phase them
 

Stuff like that sure does clue you in to who your friends are!:lamo
 
earthworm said:
You, Tigger, have taken the first step to recovery - admittance....Yeah, I too have fears...
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There is no recovery for people like me, earthworm.
 
DVSentinel said:
Oh crap! You mean we might have to do this all again. Ok, I can fear that.
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You won't. In your next life you're coming back as a toilet brush. :mrgreen:



(totally joking, in case anyone can't tell)
 

Helix, you seem like the coolest, calmest, most easy going guy. I really like the way you write.
 
X Factor said:
Helix, you seem like the coolest, calmest, most easy going guy. I really like the way you write.
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thank you for the compliment.

in reality, i'm a little more nervous and stumbling / awkward. however, the internet gives me that extra second to gather my thoughts.
 
DVSentinel said:
So you hate liberals also. Cool.
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No, I don't hate liberals, I agree with them on some issues too.

However, I do hate a mentality that would say religious people shouldn't vote or that religion should be discourage, persecuted, oppressed, or made illegal.
 
DVSentinel said:
So you hate liberals also. Cool.
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You are aware, DV, are you not, that "free speech" is limited, and must be.
And liberals are to counter religious extremists, a serious problem.
But, no hate necessary.
 
Is it any wonder the most fearful amongst us have mustered at "GOVERNMENT REGULATION, TAXES, ETC.," selection. 50%. Wow.

Paranoia will destroy ya....

Enjoy America. America rocks. Don't let life pass you by waiting for the sky to fall.

LOL!
 
I almost went the flu/pandemic route because I've had pneumonia for the better part of the week. But I'll get over it and still worry about the progressive Orwellian path my country is taking.
 

None of those are any where near my greatest fear.
 

I really like pet rats. They're lovely, intelligent, sweet creatures. You get a much better pet in a rat than in any other kind of rodent, I reckon. Rabbits? Stupid, unresponsive baby-eaters.

Funny thing is, I really hate wild rats. Destructive, dirty and defiant. Go figure!
 
Jobs exported outside USA is such a big fear that it deserves its place along with the others there huh?

I clicked corporate capitalism exploitation. Each day of every month they constantly think how will they be richer in the shady areas of law that the consumer is not aware about.

That of course is third in rank after: a) painful death, and b) death.
 
Captain America said:
Is it any wonder the most fearful amongst us have mustered at "GOVERNMENT REGULATION, TAXES, ETC.," selection. 50%. Wow.

Paranoia will destroy ya....

Enjoy America. America rocks. Don't let life pass you by waiting for the sky to fall.

LOL!
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Yes, I noticed that. I also noticed that every person who voted for Government Regulation was American. The non-American voters went for drugs, guns and capitalists. Interesting.
 

Pet rats..wild rats..same species...

It's like saying you hate wolves but love pet dogs...


Of course they are intelligent..they are out to get us!!
 
wolfie said:
Pet rats..wild rats..same species...

It's like saying you hate wolves but love pet dogs...
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I know, I know. I don't understand the contradiction either. Mind you, my little Roxy and White Fang might be the same species, but I ain't letting White Fang go to sleep under my jumper, in my armpit.

Roxy...



Not Roxy...

 
wolfie said:
Pet rats..wild rats..same species...

It's like saying you hate wolves but love pet dogs...


Of course they are intelligent..they are out to get us!!
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I hate rats too. My friend got her daughter one as a pet and tried to get me to touch/pet it. Ewwwwwww no! I think I was psychologically scarred by "Willard" in my youth.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
Of the items listed, which do you fear most?

If you have a specific fear that is not listed, please post it.
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I laugh in the face of danger, and throw icecubes down the vest of fear! (Edmund Blackadder)
 
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