Fears thread... - Page 2

EstwingMan · 10-August-04, 07:30 PM

My biggest fear is falling to my death since I work construction and IÃ‚â€™m always on a roof, ladder, or on some scaffolding. I donÃ‚â€™t do the crazy stuff up on skyscrapers (i'm usually only 2-3 stories up), but in my line of work, I routinely hear of scaffolding going down. Plus, ever since seeing all the people jumping from the Twin Towers, IÃ‚â€™ve had recurring nightmares.

ÃœBER<>POOP · 10-August-04, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_


	aside from normal "I'm going to college" woes, I really don't ever want kidney stones

But college is awesome!

Rob · 10-August-04, 07:56 PM

Perhaps my biggest fear is a virus or bacteria. I can cope with nearly every situation where I can see my adversary and/or see a viable means to flee to safety. Having something eating away at you that you can't fight or run from is pretty scary.

I was up in Canada last year and swung by a McD's for a quick bite on my way back to the States. At three the next morning, I was up vomitting. Then, every hour on the hour I began to vomit teaspoons of water and my stools were nothing but blood (and not even clotted, either). Had a fellow officer rush me to the hospital where it turns out that I had a type of bacterial gastroenteritis that inflammed the small intestine and was called Escherichia coli, or more commonly known as E. coli enteritis (E. coli).

Went to the hospital and woke up the next day at home.

Yep, I was pretty terrified. I can sit there and watch someone pierce my skin with a needle, eat a sloppy joe riding high in the North Atlantic, and even can change a dirty diaper. Heck, I even got to play with the "blood bag" while it was filling up with my own blood (back in the days when I could give blood).

Rob

mentyl · 10-August-04, 09:00 PM

I once had a fear of dying till it almost happened to me in Iraq, I got over it after that.

I was afraid when I left the Army, I had total job sercurity and on the fast track with promotions, I was good at it too. I was afraid to find a new job and losing all my stuff. But I had friends at home who shared the same hobbies and viola now I'm a hot rod builder.
I just have to say that things can get bad, but they always seem to get better. To quote Monty Python "Always look on the bright side of Life"

BigAkita · 10-August-04, 09:28 PM

Dark, I'm surprised that you still get nervous about dropping everything and starting life over. I've seen you get through some stuff in the past that would have scared the hell out of me.

My big fears? Dude's who say, "Don't worry, it's not loaded." and spiders.

Anathema · 10-August-04, 09:31 PM

My Fears?

Slightly Serious:
Spiders, and most bugs in general, really.
Tornados, which isn't so great, living in Tornado alley.

Heights. Eeeek!

A Little More Serious
Letting my whole life go by without ever having made a difference to anyone.
Dying because I didn't take better care of myself (which, if things keep going the way they are, it won't happen

).
Losing those who are close to be before I'm ready to let them go. It happens, but you never want it to, of course.

Things I'm not afraid of (That others are):
Needles. (I LOVE giving blood!)
Snakes. Snakes are great!
Clowns.

Fatsobob · 10-August-04, 10:10 PM

only thing im afraid of is heights and needles a little bit.
both i can stand but i serious dislike it.

Iateronmly · 10-August-04, 10:23 PM

Lets see.... fear.... broken spine. Otherwise I'm okay with everything to dismemberment even.

Darksamurai · 10-August-04, 10:55 PM

Akita, this time, it feels like I have time on my back this time...

I'm not afraid to die, in most cases, I've worked through the fears of dying in any way imaginable... In life, I'm not even afraid to drop everything and walk away at a moment's notice if that's the option in front of me.

I'm not even afraid of growing older... hell, I'm looking better these days than I have in years. I even have a tan (never thought I'd have one of those anytime soon)

I am afraid of not being able to handle responsibility to the level I believe I should be performing at... or not being where I think I should be. I keep a very high set of standards for myself, and where-as it's stupid (and I know it's stupid), I have to believe I'm capable of anything life throws at me. I also have to do better than just "best I could do with what I had"... my standards for everyone else are fairly low. That's also a form of arrogance I suppose, but I gotta believe I'm on top of everything and I'm doing it my own way.

I really thought by now, I'd have the 2.5 kids, the house in the suburbs, a wife whom I'd eventually drift apart from after the kids were grown up, but we'd stay friends calling each other from time to time to find out how the other was doing (yeah, I've always had a happy outlook), a lifetime with the end goal of retirement so I could hang out at the library and read until my eyes became to old to see... then I'd spent the rest of what was left meditating on everything I'd done... everywhere I'd been...

It's not going to happen that way. I'm an all or nothing personality... right now, nothing is better than half 'cause half is just enough to break my heart. I'd always know I could do better.

I keep thinking I just want to get in the car and go... A laptop with several massive, external hard-drives for books, movies and music... and a cherry slurpee as my posessions in life. Some good music on the car stereo as I do 120 MPH across an empty highway... the world stops seeming real... nothing is important... All that matters is having to stop for gas somewhere up the road...

DuplexEmotions · 10-August-04, 10:58 PM

Usually when people say they're afraid of needles, I consider them a puss, unless they have legitimate reasons to (like a lot of people here do). Of course, I get $1,500 worth of shots every month, so I could just be used to it.

I keep having nightmares. I'm afraid that they won't stop; I'm barely getting any rest when I sleep anymore.

SpikeShot · 11-August-04, 01:35 AM

Man I feel for you. I was fired from my tech job reparing computers cause me boss was gay (yes he was really gay) and I guess I just did not fit his profile for a PC tech repair person. (******* ***) It was at CompUSA to...Boycott anyone?

Here is the important part, I got a new job, very fast I bounced pack and meet my next girlfriend who after 4 months are still going strong. Was it a life change, no, but do what makes you happy, I love my new job, I love my girlfriend, and I love my life.

I love this thread, its a breath of pimpness here in the forums, thx for posting it.

Fatsobob · 11-August-04, 02:07 AM

haha eat this compusa

HoJo · 11-August-04, 02:07 AM

A rabid fox biting me on the ass (don't laugh, it happened once already) and heights.

SpikeShot · 11-August-04, 02:55 AM

Thx Fatsob, I enjoyed reading that acticle and found alot of the things to be true!

Boycott CompUSA, Newegg rocks!

chunkysoup · 13-August-04, 01:53 AM

#1 fear - losing my daughter in any way imaginable...

#2 - same as above but my wife
#3 - falling.....I can't stand heights as there is a little voice inside me that would love to find out how it feels to "float" down
#4 not being able to provide for my wife, daughter and embryo 2
other then that...ghosts...I fricken cannot stand ghosts....

DuplexEmotions · 13-August-04, 02:03 AM

you can fix 3 with skydiving or a good bungee jump, Soup.

lokies_mom · 13-August-04, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ÃƒÅ“BER<>POOP


	My greatest fear is getting a degenerative disease, like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. I just do not want to go through that.

I live every day knowing I have Hepatits-C. No big ! Folding@home makes me feel like I have hope .

Crazy_J · 13-August-04, 05:25 AM

My biggest fear is BigAkita running over my car with his new truck.

godfoot · 13-August-04, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by DuplexEmotions


	you can fix 3 with skydiving or a good bungee jump, Soup.

"Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full!"
Going skydiving made my fear of heights worse (although I do admit it was a hell of an adrenaline rush. It took only 40 feet or so to cure my fear of heights and that was doing cabling work in warehouses with a Genie boom lift.

Slider · 13-August-04, 10:32 AM

My greatest fear is losing my daughter. She's my life, and I couldn't stand that. Really not afraid of anything else, hell I've been married for almost 15 years.

10-August-04, 07:30 PM	#21 (permalink)
EstwingMan Da Hammer Man Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NJ, where libs vote for libs, bitch about them, then vote for them again. Amazing!!? Posts: 920	My biggest fear is falling to my death since I work construction and IÃ‚â€™m always on a roof, ladder, or on some scaffolding. I donÃ‚â€™t do the crazy stuff up on skyscrapers (i'm usually only 2-3 stories up), but in my line of work, I routinely hear of scaffolding going down. Plus, ever since seeing all the people jumping from the Twin Towers, IÃ‚â€™ve had recurring nightmares. __________________

10-August-04, 07:56 PM	#23 (permalink)
Rob Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Home of the world's greatest race... Posts: 6,660	Perhaps my biggest fear is a virus or bacteria. I can cope with nearly every situation where I can see my adversary and/or see a viable means to flee to safety. Having something eating away at you that you can't fight or run from is pretty scary. I was up in Canada last year and swung by a McD's for a quick bite on my way back to the States. At three the next morning, I was up vomitting. Then, every hour on the hour I began to vomit teaspoons of water and my stools were nothing but blood (and not even clotted, either). Had a fellow officer rush me to the hospital where it turns out that I had a type of bacterial gastroenteritis that inflammed the small intestine and was called Escherichia coli, or more commonly known as E. coli enteritis (E. coli). Went to the hospital and woke up the next day at home. Yep, I was pretty terrified. I can sit there and watch someone pierce my skin with a needle, eat a sloppy joe riding high in the North Atlantic, and even can change a dirty diaper. Heck, I even got to play with the "blood bag" while it was filling up with my own blood (back in the days when I could give blood). Rob __________________

10-August-04, 09:00 PM	#24 (permalink)
mentyl Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: In the dark place under your house Posts: 687	I once had a fear of dying till it almost happened to me in Iraq, I got over it after that. I was afraid when I left the Army, I had total job sercurity and on the fast track with promotions, I was good at it too. I was afraid to find a new job and losing all my stuff. But I had friends at home who shared the same hobbies and viola now I'm a hot rod builder. I just have to say that things can get bad, but they always seem to get better. To quote Monty Python "Always look on the bright side of Life" __________________ Pick one

10-August-04, 09:28 PM	#25 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Nirvana Posts: 14,314	Dark, I'm surprised that you still get nervous about dropping everything and starting life over. I've seen you get through some stuff in the past that would have scared the hell out of me. My big fears? Dude's who say, "Don't worry, it's not loaded." and spiders. __________________ "I'll stop being an A-Hole if you will stop being an Idiot."

10-August-04, 09:31 PM	#26 (permalink)
Anathema Apex Tech Demi-God Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rawr! Posts: 1,591	My Fears? Slightly Serious: Spiders, and most bugs in general, really. Tornados, which isn't so great, living in Tornado alley. Heights. Eeeek! A Little More Serious Letting my whole life go by without ever having made a difference to anyone. Dying because I didn't take better care of myself (which, if things keep going the way they are, it won't happen ). Losing those who are close to be before I'm ready to let them go. It happens, but you never want it to, of course. Things I'm not afraid of (That others are): Needles. (I LOVE giving blood!) Snakes. Snakes are great! Clowns. __________________ Well-behaved women rarely make history. Last edited by Anathema; 10-August-04 at 09:32 PM. Reason: Cuz I've got pig's teats for fingers today and CAN'T type

10-August-04, 10:10 PM	#27 (permalink)
Fatsobob Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,629	only thing im afraid of is heights and needles a little bit. both i can stand but i serious dislike it. __________________ I may not post too often, but I will always be here.

10-August-04, 10:23 PM	#28 (permalink)
Iateronmly Smooth Operator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eugene OR Posts: 5,256	Lets see.... fear.... broken spine. Otherwise I'm okay with everything to dismemberment even. __________________ I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator.

10-August-04, 10:55 PM	#29 (permalink)
Darksamurai Sam-Hoe-rai N-Hoe-mad Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Helena, MT Posts: 5,976	Akita, this time, it feels like I have time on my back this time... I'm not afraid to die, in most cases, I've worked through the fears of dying in any way imaginable... In life, I'm not even afraid to drop everything and walk away at a moment's notice if that's the option in front of me. I'm not even afraid of growing older... hell, I'm looking better these days than I have in years. I even have a tan (never thought I'd have one of those anytime soon) I am afraid of not being able to handle responsibility to the level I believe I should be performing at... or not being where I think I should be. I keep a very high set of standards for myself, and where-as it's stupid (and I know it's stupid), I have to believe I'm capable of anything life throws at me. I also have to do better than just "best I could do with what I had"... my standards for everyone else are fairly low. That's also a form of arrogance I suppose, but I gotta believe I'm on top of everything and I'm doing it my own way. I really thought by now, I'd have the 2.5 kids, the house in the suburbs, a wife whom I'd eventually drift apart from after the kids were grown up, but we'd stay friends calling each other from time to time to find out how the other was doing (yeah, I've always had a happy outlook), a lifetime with the end goal of retirement so I could hang out at the library and read until my eyes became to old to see... then I'd spent the rest of what was left meditating on everything I'd done... everywhere I'd been... It's not going to happen that way. I'm an all or nothing personality... right now, nothing is better than half 'cause half is just enough to break my heart. I'd always know I could do better. I keep thinking I just want to get in the car and go... A laptop with several massive, external hard-drives for books, movies and music... and a cherry slurpee as my posessions in life. Some good music on the car stereo as I do 120 MPH across an empty highway... the world stops seeming real... nothing is important... All that matters is having to stop for gas somewhere up the road... __________________ “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu

10-August-04, 10:58 PM	#30 (permalink)
DuplexEmotions Bi P-Hoe-lar Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,563	Usually when people say they're afraid of needles, I consider them a puss, unless they have legitimate reasons to (like a lot of people here do). Of course, I get $1,500 worth of shots every month, so I could just be used to it. I keep having nightmares. I'm afraid that they won't stop; I'm barely getting any rest when I sleep anymore.

11-August-04, 01:35 AM	#31 (permalink)
SpikeShot Probationary User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Western Kentucky University Posts: 1,515	Man I feel for you. I was fired from my tech job reparing computers cause me boss was gay (yes he was really gay) and I guess I just did not fit his profile for a PC tech repair person. (***** *) It was at CompUSA to...Boycott anyone? Here is the important part, I got a new job, very fast I bounced pack and meet my next girlfriend who after 4 months are still going strong. Was it a life change, no, but do what makes you happy, I love my new job, I love my girlfriend, and I love my life. I love this thread, its a breath of pimpness here in the forums, thx for posting it.

11-August-04, 02:07 AM	#32 (permalink)
Fatsobob Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,629	haha eat this compusa __________________ I may not post too often, but I will always be here.

11-August-04, 02:07 AM	#33 (permalink)
HoJo Review Pimp, but still Jo's Ho Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV Most modded city in the world Posts: 4,137	A rabid fox biting me on the ass (don't laugh, it happened once already) and heights. __________________

11-August-04, 02:55 AM	#34 (permalink)
SpikeShot Probationary User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Western Kentucky University Posts: 1,515	Thx Fatsob, I enjoyed reading that acticle and found alot of the things to be true! Boycott CompUSA, Newegg rocks!

13-August-04, 01:53 AM	#35 (permalink)
chunkysoup Apex Master Tech Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Calgary Canada Posts: 463	#1 fear - losing my daughter in any way imaginable... #2 - same as above but my wife #3 - falling.....I can't stand heights as there is a little voice inside me that would love to find out how it feels to "float" down #4 not being able to provide for my wife, daughter and embryo 2 other then that...ghosts...I fricken cannot stand ghosts.... __________________ chunkysoup How much soup could a soupachunk chunk if a soupachunk could chunk soup?

13-August-04, 02:03 AM	#36 (permalink)
DuplexEmotions Bi P-Hoe-lar Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,563	you can fix 3 with skydiving or a good bungee jump, Soup. __________________ I wrote a haiku but it is not very good so I won't share it. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -Albert Einstein

13-August-04, 05:25 AM	#38 (permalink)
Crazy_J Apex Tech Demi-God Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,672	My biggest fear is BigAkita running over my car with his new truck. __________________ 3dmark01=26099, 3dmark06=5978. PCmark02=7174, PCmark04=3980

13-August-04, 10:32 AM	#40 (permalink)
Slider Ghostrider Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Kansas Posts: 2,678	My greatest fear is losing my daughter. She's my life, and I couldn't stand that. Really not afraid of anything else, hell I've been married for almost 15 years. __________________ Always remember: No matter where you go, there you are.