Fear

[panic in paradise]

What exactly is Fear?

Im trying to really understand it from conscious and subconscious perspectives..

It seems a lot of my fears are buried deep down on a subsconsiocus level and they are just automatically activated by my body through conditioning and physiological patterns/responses to external situations/stimuli..

Fear God

heheh

i have entertained the thought that fear is god - when there is nothing feared then life has been won. there is much that we do not recognize as fear, which is mostly anxiety over not having what is wanted and needed to live or be comfortable. there is nothing to fear, the same as there is no subconscious when all is made aware consciously, they are both nonexistent as they are products of our devising and unique for us each.

Fear is linked to survival. In the modern world we have a lot more imaginary fears than we do real ones from nature.

^pretty much this.

 

[casualuser]

A deer sights a wolf, it runs in flee, for it understands if it stays it will surely be eaten. The fear has survived her, another day it shall live. Fear keeps you alive, a force driven by the understanding of what is upon you. If you had not known what was upon you, you would not be afraid. Fear is understanding.

I would argue that the deer fears what the wolf could bring(death) and not the wolf itself. Furthermore, that fear is only of the possibility of death; not understanding how events will unfold if it were to stay, it flees to avoid what is least understood, death.

 

[Tromps]

I would argue that the deer fears what the wolf could bring(death) and not the wolf itself. Furthermore, that fear is only of the possibility of death; not understanding how events will unfold if it were to stay, it flees to avoid what is least understood, death.

Ha ok you bring up a good point, however I would still say it sure knows that if it stays the wolf isn't going to make friends with it if it is hungry and chasing it down. In a similar way, it's a reaction when we are afraid and flee/hide in shelter if a tornado is approaching. If you had not known what a tornado was or that it's bringing deadly force, you probably wouldn't know better to react. Think of natural selection and how many people have died because they didn't 'know' what they were getting into. Some of us can see 'death' and understand it very well from an earthly, relative point of view. It is the end of life and the end of everything we 'know' . More so it is rooted in basic instinct. I'll rest easy and be happy admitting we are both right and both wrong, depending on how we look at it.

Fear is linked to survival. In the modern world we have a lot more imaginary fears than we do real ones from nature.

Basically this yes. I think most things today people mistake for 'fears' and aren't real fears at all, they are more anxieties and worries.