Do you let your fears drive you?

Sorry but that's ridiculous.

 

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown – H P Lovecraft

 

I love Lovecraft so much

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

H. P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft

 

I am sure that we all do, to an extent.

 

I fundamentally disagree that the oldest and strongest emotion is fear. But whatever.

 

Color Out of Space, Rats in the Walls, and The Dunwich Horror, are a just few of my favorites

 

Nope, mostly I just slap and wallop them with flip flops. Because I fear moths and spiders.

 

Fear springs from love. You only fear because you don't want to lose something you love.

 

Yeeey it's an Irminsul

 

Wise response. Fear can be a powerful motivator. And i agree, if fear arises its best to listen or be attentive to it rather than ignore it.

 

I will repeat my response.. The thread title asks if we let our fears DRIVE us, which is unhealthy. You and Eric are talking about letting fears GUIDE us.

 

Best way to conquer a fear is to stand up to it . Bullying for example . I just stand up to them like my next door neighbour and that drives me in knowing he isn't going to win. He has threatened me and my family with violence now 3 times and so far he hasn't laid a finger on me despite the threats . Police intervention hasn't stopped him but standing up to him has.

Interesting thread

 

If you don’t have a gun, get one. Then target practice in your back yard and if you can’t target practice, then, dissemble, clean and lube your rifle, pistol, or shotgun (or all of them ) out in plain site where he can see you as he looks out the window. Practice some quickdraw techniques while you’re at it. That could cease a lot of the bullshit between you and your neighbor, especially if he knows you are prepared if things get out of hand.

 

I heard about people who shot themselves with guns and still survived with exploded faces.

 

One thing wrong with that Eric . I live in the UK . Just handling a gun is illegal unless licenced .

 

I dont get how a lot of people have guns in the USA.

People use knifes in Turkey. Gun isn't that common.

 

For the USA ,its part of their constitution " The right to bear arms"

 

I live in Texas. People just give me guns.

"Happy graduation! Here's a pistol!"

 

"Go threaten your bully neighbour with it!"

 

Is it hard to get your license?