Can we blame the child for resenting the fantasy of largeness? Big, soft arms and deep voices in the dark saying "Tell Papa, tell Mama, and we'll make it right." The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuary. How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrifies revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.
We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear's worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
The FED will let regional banks completely die out leaving only a handful of superbanks, who helped start this disaster, concentrated on the coasts near their suckling tit of Washington insiders.
I fear that the Iraq war is just the first preview of a number of crazy, expensive, destructive, short sighted things the US will do in the coming decades in a futile effort to stay lone top dog in the world community. I fear that these things will continue to backfire miserably and in turn make us more miserable than we might have been had we acted as a team player.
To take OTF's fair question, I'm assuming that in "anyone like him/her that think people with different political opinions are, ipso facto, to be feared" you also include the posters of "Commies" and "Rush Limbaugh." True?
Not taking sides here, but fair is fair if you're gonna take a shot at someone.
Thanks citizen. That's all I am asking for. I don't personally need to be the target.
aquapura,
You seem to have the same problem. The question is asked. "what scares you." I hope that personally i do not scare you. Maybe if you could describe the person you think I am, without inferring that it is me, you could represent your fears better here. Also, I am no extremist. I just know what I fear.
since i'm a liberal, i took note of on the fence's comment; it pertains to me and thus causes me fear.
fear of communists is equally to be feared because it's just sort of an irrational blanket fear.
fear of rush limbaugh is, in my mind, reasonable: both specific and warranted, especially after his statement this week that he wishes that our current president's efforts to help us all should fail. such a statement from his soapbox will cause already-present mistrust to fester. after such a comment becomes generally known, how can anyone who supports obama's policies NOT question the motives of those on the right? i.e., are they bringing new ideas in good faith, ideas that should therefore be considered or are they bringing ideas designed to make the obama policies fail?
My post wasn't personal, neither for nor against any of my fellow Archinecters. I was just questioning the notion that a purported fear of "anyone with different political opinions" seemed to include one slant but not the other. Steven clarified, and now I can go back to work ;-)
"fear of rush limbaugh is, in my mind, reasonable: both specific and warranted, especially after his statement this week that he wishes that our current president's efforts to help us all should fail. such a statement from his soapbox will cause already-present mistrust to fester. after such a comment becomes generally known, how can anyone who supports obama's policies NOT question the motives of those on the right? i.e., are they bringing new ideas in good faith, ideas that should therefore be considered or are they bringing ideas designed to make the obama policies fail? "
That isn't fear. It's paranoia.
I still do not understand how MY fear of liberals creates fear within you. I think I was used and now a smokescreen is being thrown up.
far right conservatives, conservatives, and wannabe conservatives.
kidding.
but seriously? afraid of "liberals"? aren't they all limp-wristed, latte drinking, npr listening, mother jones reading, lame-os?
now the other ones... the nascar watching, busch beer drinking, willfully ignorant, "real americans", now those are some real winners.
kidding again. see, isn't it fun to generalize?
to get back to the original topic and away from politics (politricks) my biggest fear is being buried alive. it's not the dying part that scares me, but rather the feeling of helplessness. just knowing that you're trapped, and can't move your body, and there's absolutely nothing you can do gives me the willies. drowning would be a close second. i almost drowned once (can you "almost" drown? you either drown or you don't, right?) and it wasn't fun, the same feeling of utter helplessness.
I'll explain why I feel that my fear of Rush Limbaugh is vastly different than a fear of far left liberals, liberals and wannabe liberals.
It's not a gross generalization that is rooted from an ideological difference.
I do not dislike Rush because he is a conservative. I dislike him because I believe the man is extremely hateful, fear-mongering, ignorant, responsible for much political slander that exists, and an extremist in his own right. I'd feel the same way if he was a liberal which is one of the main reason why I to a lesser degree dislike Michael Moore.
oh yeah, i'm no exception. i remember during the election i would constantly refresh politico, etc. just to keep up with the daily goings on. it's like a love/hate thing with politics for me.
i'm glad obama was elected (i voted for him) and hope he does well, but i admit i do get kind of nauseated with all the worship that surrounds him. i understand that he's just a man and, when you get down to it, just another politician so i've taken his election with a grain of salt. i'm also waiting for the let down (ha, lletdownl).
and ha ha, what do you mean by "wigglin' hips"?
i'm sure you've all read 1984... room 101... do it to her! do it to her!!!
Gillian Barre Syndrome....Never heard of it till 10 weeks ago. My uncle contracted this syndrome in Chile. He has had one heck of an uphill battle. In a nut shell your immune system attacks your nervous system....which in turn shuts down your body but leaves your mind intact. You can't speak, you can't move but you can still think.Thank God he is in a great hospital here in the USA and has a supportive family and friends.
lb, i do occasionally snowboard, so yeah, an avalanche would be exactly my fear. even if i managed to tuck myself into a ball and create an air pocket how the hell am i going to get out from under 10 feet of snow? how long would my air last? what would my last moments be like?
as morbid as it sounds, i kind of like thinking about this stuff.
like, what are we going to do when technology fails? let's say a terrorist network manages to set off an EMP bomb in a major city, killing every electrical device within a radius of so many miles. the power grid goes down, nothing works. we can't use our phones (nobody knows anyone's number anyway). communication is disrupted. far-fetched maybe, but it could happen.
and well put n_. some people don't/can't/won't see the difference.
oh damn, that is crazy snook_dude. i've heard of that. before we were able to detect brain activity, people like that would've been considered dead and (GASP!) buried alive.
Wow. I'm down with Dread completely, everything on the list.
The thought of being buried alive is terrifying to me. So is that of being restrained while being tortured. All those movies in the "torture porn" genre creep me out big time; just the still images in the print ads give me the willies.
On a personal note, I greatly fear the loss of my parents. My best friend who lost his dad, then mom a few years later, still misses them terribly, every day. (He jokingly refers to himself as an orphan --he's 56.)
I don't fear plane crashes or sharks. My fear of death however is manifested in those two things for some reason. I think I saw Jaws and Airplane at too young of an age.
OTF, were you afraid of sharks and plane crashes as a kid?
lletdownl, that's a cool song! i like LCD but hadn't heard that one so it's new to me.
actually, i first heard "politricks" in a rage against the machine song "mic check" then later on when i got exposed to reggae i learned that artists like peter tosh and bob marley would use words like "politricks" for "politics" and "shitstem" for "system", etc.
No, I am being very serious. As I have grown older I realize how ridiculous my fear of sharks and flying are. I know that what they represent is death to me and that is what I fear most. I actually like sharks. I just wont swim in waters where they live. I even like airplanes. I just don't want to be in one. Not because either of those two things scare me but because being eaten alive or crashing results in my untimely death.
Having a police car pull in behind you and trail you.
Maybe not scared but decidedly skittish.
Hitchcock captured the way we all get that anxiety perfectly in the early part of "Psycho", right down to the officers mirrored sunglasses.
On the fence, you're saying what you actually fear is death itself. I'm not being an ass, I'm just really curious whenever I hear someone say that. Death itself holds no fear whatsoever over me; it's a natural progression of life, IMO. A painful death scares me, losing my loved ones would certainly make my life less joyful, and my loved ones suffering as they die makes me manic with dread, but the actual extinguishing of life, the transition to not being ehre any more: no worries.
Do you have any insight into why death scares you? or is that too personal a topic for a discussion board? ;-)
Death is not the natural progression of life. It's the end of life. I don't know why I have it but it is there. I'm only 40 so I have some time left. With every day that comes and goes I realize I have more to do and less time to do it in. At 80 I will be nowhere near ready for death.
Am I the only person who has this fear. I probably should seek help.
Fear Central
What scares you?
anxiety attacks and nuerological issues
Monkeys and werewolves, eventhough I know they're not real.
the scope of the MBS and CDS mess, and the almost certain wave of failure by mid-year.
oh, and Pakistan.
Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrifies revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.
We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear's worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
My kid's fear: that scares me.
Two words: Rush Limbaugh
On a serious note, the possibility of losing one of my sisters or my parents scares me to death.
Other than that, I stick by my Rush Limbaugh comment.
Kids age 4 years and below (for now).
bad decisions (by me)
but i'm learning to deal with it, because they happen pretty often.
Commies!
The fact that "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is the #1 movie in the country...
the boogeyman
Far left liberals, liberals and wannabe liberals.
The FED will let regional banks completely die out leaving only a handful of superbanks, who helped start this disaster, concentrated on the coasts near their suckling tit of Washington insiders.
The Architecture Profession.
I fear that the Iraq war is just the first preview of a number of crazy, expensive, destructive, short sighted things the US will do in the coming decades in a futile effort to stay lone top dog in the world community. I fear that these things will continue to backfire miserably and in turn make us more miserable than we might have been had we acted as a team player.
happiness because it leads (in me) to hubris=disaster
What n_ said! Also, extremists of any kind. Meaning, radical islamists, radical zionists, radical evangelical christians, radical Mormons, radical vegans, etc.
On the fence, and anyone like him/her that think people with different political opinions are, ipso facto, to be feared.
Steve Ward,
I do need to ask why you felt the need to call me out personally and not peridotbritches for his/her commie post?
Any thoughts?
could be considered "extremists" just as "far right radicals."
Just going off about liberals, liberals, liberals sounds like you're the extremist.
Steven,
To take OTF's fair question, I'm assuming that in "anyone like him/her that think people with different political opinions are, ipso facto, to be feared" you also include the posters of "Commies" and "Rush Limbaugh." True?
Not taking sides here, but fair is fair if you're gonna take a shot at someone.
Thanks citizen. That's all I am asking for. I don't personally need to be the target.
aquapura,
You seem to have the same problem. The question is asked. "what scares you." I hope that personally i do not scare you. Maybe if you could describe the person you think I am, without inferring that it is me, you could represent your fears better here. Also, I am no extremist. I just know what I fear.
since i'm a liberal, i took note of on the fence's comment; it pertains to me and thus causes me fear.
fear of communists is equally to be feared because it's just sort of an irrational blanket fear.
fear of rush limbaugh is, in my mind, reasonable: both specific and warranted, especially after his statement this week that he wishes that our current president's efforts to help us all should fail. such a statement from his soapbox will cause already-present mistrust to fester. after such a comment becomes generally known, how can anyone who supports obama's policies NOT question the motives of those on the right? i.e., are they bringing new ideas in good faith, ideas that should therefore be considered or are they bringing ideas designed to make the obama policies fail?
My post wasn't personal, neither for nor against any of my fellow Archinecters. I was just questioning the notion that a purported fear of "anyone with different political opinions" seemed to include one slant but not the other. Steven clarified, and now I can go back to work ;-)
getting laid off and having to take a non-arch job which prevents me from defending my M.Arch thesis in June.
"fear of rush limbaugh is, in my mind, reasonable: both specific and warranted, especially after his statement this week that he wishes that our current president's efforts to help us all should fail. such a statement from his soapbox will cause already-present mistrust to fester. after such a comment becomes generally known, how can anyone who supports obama's policies NOT question the motives of those on the right? i.e., are they bringing new ideas in good faith, ideas that should therefore be considered or are they bringing ideas designed to make the obama policies fail? "
That isn't fear. It's paranoia.
I still do not understand how MY fear of liberals creates fear within you. I think I was used and now a smokescreen is being thrown up.
bees, getting buried alive, getting eaten by a raptor, and the death of a sibling.
far right conservatives, conservatives, and wannabe conservatives.
kidding.
but seriously? afraid of "liberals"? aren't they all limp-wristed, latte drinking, npr listening, mother jones reading, lame-os?
now the other ones... the nascar watching, busch beer drinking, willfully ignorant, "real americans", now those are some real winners.
kidding again. see, isn't it fun to generalize?
to get back to the original topic and away from politics (politricks) my biggest fear is being buried alive. it's not the dying part that scares me, but rather the feeling of helplessness. just knowing that you're trapped, and can't move your body, and there's absolutely nothing you can do gives me the willies. drowning would be a close second. i almost drowned once (can you "almost" drown? you either drown or you don't, right?) and it wasn't fun, the same feeling of utter helplessness.
dread, were all sucked in by politricks... you should know that by now... i prefer to get high on wiggilin hips personally...
I don't even know what a "wannabe liberal" is - should I fear one?
I don't ever remember fearing Madonna-wannbes back in the day, just laughing at them.
On the fence, you're making a blanket statement that one group of people is to be feared. That IS scary.
Oh and as to the Commie comment - it was came off as a joke, between the exclamation point and knowing what kinds of things peridot usually posts.
dreader, do you ski? Cause dying in an avalanche sounds pretty similar to being buried alive.
I'll explain why I feel that my fear of Rush Limbaugh is vastly different than a fear of far left liberals, liberals and wannabe liberals.
It's not a gross generalization that is rooted from an ideological difference.
I do not dislike Rush because he is a conservative. I dislike him because I believe the man is extremely hateful, fear-mongering, ignorant, responsible for much political slander that exists, and an extremist in his own right. I'd feel the same way if he was a liberal which is one of the main reason why I to a lesser degree dislike Michael Moore.
oh yeah, i'm no exception. i remember during the election i would constantly refresh politico, etc. just to keep up with the daily goings on. it's like a love/hate thing with politics for me.
i'm glad obama was elected (i voted for him) and hope he does well, but i admit i do get kind of nauseated with all the worship that surrounds him. i understand that he's just a man and, when you get down to it, just another politician so i've taken his election with a grain of salt. i'm also waiting for the let down (ha, lletdownl).
and ha ha, what do you mean by "wigglin' hips"?
i'm sure you've all read 1984... room 101... do it to her! do it to her!!!
aaagggghhh, that is pretty frightening.
Gillian Barre Syndrome....Never heard of it till 10 weeks ago. My uncle contracted this syndrome in Chile. He has had one heck of an uphill battle. In a nut shell your immune system attacks your nervous system....which in turn shuts down your body but leaves your mind intact. You can't speak, you can't move but you can still think.Thank God he is in a great hospital here in the USA and has a supportive family and friends.
lb, i do occasionally snowboard, so yeah, an avalanche would be exactly my fear. even if i managed to tuck myself into a ball and create an air pocket how the hell am i going to get out from under 10 feet of snow? how long would my air last? what would my last moments be like?
as morbid as it sounds, i kind of like thinking about this stuff.
like, what are we going to do when technology fails? let's say a terrorist network manages to set off an EMP bomb in a major city, killing every electrical device within a radius of so many miles. the power grid goes down, nothing works. we can't use our phones (nobody knows anyone's number anyway). communication is disrupted. far-fetched maybe, but it could happen.
and well put n_. some people don't/can't/won't see the difference.
oh damn, that is crazy snook_dude. i've heard of that. before we were able to detect brain activity, people like that would've been considered dead and (GASP!) buried alive.
snooke_dude, your uncle is fortunate to have such support from family and friends. Gillian Barre Syndrome sounds similar to Locked-in Syndrome.
Wow. I'm down with Dread completely, everything on the list.
The thought of being buried alive is terrifying to me. So is that of being restrained while being tortured. All those movies in the "torture porn" genre creep me out big time; just the still images in the print ads give me the willies.
On a personal note, I greatly fear the loss of my parents. My best friend who lost his dad, then mom a few years later, still misses them terribly, every day. (He jokingly refers to himself as an orphan --he's 56.)
On a more serious side.
I don't fear plane crashes or sharks. My fear of death however is manifested in those two things for some reason. I think I saw Jaws and Airplane at too young of an age.
dread, when you mentioned politricks i thought you were perhaps referencing THIS kick ass LCD Soundsystem song.
, and being exposed for the fake i am.
OTF, were you afraid of sharks and plane crashes as a kid?
lletdownl, that's a cool song! i like LCD but hadn't heard that one so it's new to me.
actually, i first heard "politricks" in a rage against the machine song "mic check" then later on when i got exposed to reggae i learned that artists like peter tosh and bob marley would use words like "politricks" for "politics" and "shitstem" for "system", etc.
No, I am being very serious. As I have grown older I realize how ridiculous my fear of sharks and flying are. I know that what they represent is death to me and that is what I fear most. I actually like sharks. I just wont swim in waters where they live. I even like airplanes. I just don't want to be in one. Not because either of those two things scare me but because being eaten alive or crashing results in my untimely death.
Koala bears! I know that they are about to lash out at any second!
Having a police car pull in behind you and trail you.
Maybe not scared but decidedly skittish.
Hitchcock captured the way we all get that anxiety perfectly in the early part of "Psycho", right down to the officers mirrored sunglasses.
On the fence, you're saying what you actually fear is death itself. I'm not being an ass, I'm just really curious whenever I hear someone say that. Death itself holds no fear whatsoever over me; it's a natural progression of life, IMO. A painful death scares me, losing my loved ones would certainly make my life less joyful, and my loved ones suffering as they die makes me manic with dread, but the actual extinguishing of life, the transition to not being ehre any more: no worries.
Do you have any insight into why death scares you? or is that too personal a topic for a discussion board? ;-)
Life and death are just things that you do when you're BoReD!
Death is not the natural progression of life. It's the end of life. I don't know why I have it but it is there. I'm only 40 so I have some time left. With every day that comes and goes I realize I have more to do and less time to do it in. At 80 I will be nowhere near ready for death.
Am I the only person who has this fear. I probably should seek help.
that one day i really will bitch slap my coworker.
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