Fear does not exist

Can you touch it? Taste it? Does it have a body in which you can interact with?

Saving the poetics... of course not.

Fear is a creation of self. A reaction of self to XXXX for XXXX.

To be afraid is to think.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

Fear is a reaction to Casltemaine 4x?

I'm afraid I don't understand...

 

That's terrible logic.

 

It depends on how afraid I have been.

Sometimes I can scrape the residue from my Jockeys.

Almost everything in this world is a reaction to the self, but that doesn't make it any less real for the beholder(if you will).

Something original(random even), please.

 

To BE in a state of fear is to THINK fear.

The concept of fear is a suggestion.

Logically, to be in a state of fear is counterproductive in regards to the enjoyment and continuance of life.

If you are afraid that you do not understand, you are limiting your ability to understand... for example

If you are afraid of falling to the ground that is 2000 feet below while you stand on a ledge, you are internally occupied by a thought that has nothing to do with maintaining your balance so that you *don't* fall.

Clearly fear is unreasonable.

If you are afraid of your mother scolding you in front of your friends, you are not focusing on directing actions so that she may be most proud - the focus is merely on avoiding the tongue-lashing, as opposed to finding inspiration (or any other action).

If your fears are that of a phobia... perhaps, a fear of spiders... the situation may arise where you are ironing, see a spider on the ironing board, scream, throw your hands in the air wildly while flinging the iron into a pile of clothes that for the purpose of this example set on fire and burn down the entire continent you live on.

If the spider made you smile, your day would have been brightened instead of burned.

Such is the result of all fear... such is the result of all perception.

Fear of the unknown is not part of what is prescribed as the human condition. The human condition does not exist - it is merely a suggestion to put humanity into a class of seperation that does not represent the oneness of all things that is true. Fear of the unknown is obviously unreasonable... for if there "could" be the boogie man in that dark basement, there "could" be a genie wishing only to grant you infinite wishes.

Being obsessed with the unknown without directing self to solve the question of its existence is paranoia.

I draw example now to a man... living his life with his eyes closed, kneeling in front of an image created by man... day in day out on his knees because he does not know the truth of his mortality. Intrinsically fearful - the true definition of being selfish.

Being willfully ignorant points to a fear of knowledge - life itself is based upon knowledge... each moment a learning experience. To be afraid to learn is to be afraid to live... to be afraid to live is to be paranoid... to be paranoid is to create unreasonable seperation of self from world... unreasonable seperations create conflictive situations... conflictive situations result in a confused state. Universal oneness is blurred by pointless things such as greed, war, hatred, fear... though truth is always apparant, such confusing things become reasonable after a life lead within the forcibly common perception of fear.

I am here, now, to see through such nonsense... to direct myself in such a way that focuses collective action to a constructive tendancy so that it may peacably sustain eternally.

Once we are here, now for the same purpose...

In comes the reality of fear being an absurd notion of the past....

 

What is real?

Nothing.

So fear is not real.

Neither are you.

Neither are unicorns.

Knowing the above, why choose to direct myself in such a way that causes the situations that I do not desire? Fear brings upon the fear... being afraid of something makes it more likely to happen, as focus has been directed away from avoidance to "what if".

Everything is a reaction to self. Including self.

 

If I may be incorrect.

Please explain correct.

 

I didn't read your really long post but saying that something doesn't exist because it isn't in front of you is, imo, terrible logic. That's all.

 

I have to disagree. Like everything in life, there is no black and white. So, according to your theory, if I'm afraid of being bitten by a spider, it is more likely for a spider to bite me. How? Where is the logic in this? If I'm afraid of snakes, I may choose to stay in Ireland, where there are no snakes other than the rarely seen, tiny, harmless, grass snake. How will this action make me more likely to bo bitten by a snake?

Making a difference, as you do, between 'avoidance' and 'what if' in the case of the snake in Ireland, for example, is purely a matter of semantics, rather than something that would result in a different (re)action.

 

Moving to Ireland because it has no snakes and being in a state of fear of snakes are 2 very different concepts.

Being afraid of a snake is not fear of the snake itself... the snake itself merely represents something, the fear of the snake is a fear of what the snake represents. Perception decides this.

If you lock yourself in a safe to avoid snakes, you have brought upon the fearful situation you were afraid of - the snake is irrelevant.

Fear-ful, being full of fear... full being room for nothing else.

Moving to Ireland and never again seeing a snake may help you get over your fear of snakes by elminating it from the current moment of self. perhaps the lush green will overwhelm, as opposed to the little green snake.

When I speak of fear, I speak of now.

How then, does being afraid of being bitten by a spider encourage the bite of the spider? As you said, semantics... but directed to the point of the bite being irrelevant - the fear of the bite is what is being brought upon self by self, and as a result what the spider represents in the mind is constantly "biting".

 

Howso?

here, now, I can identify what I percieve literally.

You, though, are a paragraph. That much exists... but what certainty may I have that you are a human and not an elephant?

Logic does not rest on the "likely", it rests on truth. The truth is that I do not know, a guess is not reality.

 

You said fear doesn't exist because you can't interact with it. Well if you use that you could say that no emotions exist. Heck, you could argue that no one else can think.

 

Sorry, I fail to understand what a snake may represent. If I'm afraid of snakes, I'm afraid of snakes.

OK, maybe, at a stretch it represents fear of being bitten by something venomous, But, how is my reaction to that fear(moving to Ireland) going to make it more likely to happen?

Sorry, what the hell does this mean?

Speaking from experience, I don't find poisonous spider bites irrelevant.
I would contest that being constantly bitten by a fear of spiders is rather less harmful than actually being bitten by one.



I do understand what you are getting at, but I think you have to realise that for some people fear is a more effective motivation than logic. Hence, fear deserves its place in the human psyche.

 

"the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"

This is the opening sentence to "supernatural horror in literature" one of the finest essays on fear ever written; it's author, H P Lovecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI


Hotwater

 

Catching on...

I decide what exists - thats what is meant by "perception is reality".

A mugger rapist cocaine infused maniac broke into my car and stole my radio this week.
A man in a white robe in one hand, a snake in the other, a pipe full of ham in the other, and a palm tree limb in is tooth (that he waved at my door to unlock it) stole my radio this week.
A poor woman who hadn't showered in a week stole my radio, sold it for 10 million dollars and is now seeking me out to thank me with oral sex and 5 million dollars.

Note the only thing contiguous within all the above situations is that someone stole my radio. That happened, I know that.

I was not at all upset, in fact right now it makes me smile to think of the possibilities - what a journey that radio must be on!!! It could be playing stairway to heaven for an astronaut on his way to the center of the sun!

Just as...

2 points are not measurable by inches, meters, time, or anything.

All things are relative to my perception.

 

LOL!!!!!

Cool music, why is that woman bringing a knife to an orgy?

Fear of the unknown is illogical. For that it is merely absurd. I do not believe H P Lovecraft when he says fear of the unknown is the oldest variety of fear, how could he know? He professes to know the unknown... so my question must be, what is he afraid of?

I can imagine someone named H P Lovecraft being in that bear suit....

 

Ah okay. So am I.

But everyone could perceive it differently, that doesn't mean it exists differently. It doesn't matter how you see it, it matters what it is. Only we don't know what it is, we only know what we see.

 

Fear means a state of being - now. In the process of moving to Ireland, your state of now changes... or doesn't... its entirely up to you whether you remain engrossed by your fear or not - location is irrelevant, you are always representative of self.

A spider bite is a spider bite... it happens, you get over it or you die. You know the literal cause of your agony.

Being afraid of something that is not there (a spider biting you) for the whole of your life causes life to be directed by the irrational - rather than the blissful existence that could be percieved.

"for some people fear is a more effective motivation than logic. Hence, fear deserves its place in the human psyche."

It deserves nothing, it does not exist. Fear is the *result* of something, not the motivator... what caused such an illogical thought is the motivation, perhaps there is a source yet still deeper... its up to the individual to dig within themselves to examine why they are the way they are, including why they are afraid of what they are afraid of... and why they fear anything at all...

and then of course...

why they exist . This topic cannot be clearly examined by a fearful mind.

 

Descartes... I think that he proved that it does. Most philosophers say that only nothing can come from nothing. Only something can come from something, but never can something come from nothing. We know we exist and that thought and emotion can not be separated from us. We create fear. We are something. Therefor, fear is something.

 

Exactly!

This is how one thing, one thing that MANY (ALL!) people can agree upon being there... EVERYONE says its there, it is a statue of a pencil... DEFINITELy a statue of a pencil...

HAH, but its not! Its a rock, which einstein pooped out after winning a hot dog eating contest. Everyone just thinks its a statue of a pencil, but its just petrified stool.

We may think we know that we are "drinking water from a glass"...

But the container you drink from is what it is, the liquid it contains is what it is, and you are putting it into a piece of flesh that you seem to be attached to... so that said flesh may spew it out more yellowish.

I can't speak upon the life story of each object I encounter... I do not know for certain why it is the way it is... I know that I perceive it, and *how* I perceive it is my reality.

Just as...

I'm not typing anything of use...

I'm just trying to draw a smiley face...