Deepest Fear

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GemetZephyr

The Last Martian
‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves – who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of god that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.’

- Marianne Williamson in Return to Love: Reflections on a Course in Miracles

Is that really all we're all afraid of? Are our imaginations outgrowing what we give them?

Let's discuss.
 
Fear is the understanding that we are not perfect, that we are indeed able to be hurt, or even killed. To claim the deepest fear one has is the fear of ourselves seems much to much as an arrogent and foolish notion based upon the ideal of humanity. We want to be perfect that is the dream our species has and we will toss out anything to drive us towards that goal. I would say that the deepest fear anyone has is not spread across the entire race. Fears are drawn from conclusions, in the human mind. The only absolute fear is when a person is born and experiences pain, that causes them to have some level of fear.
 
I'm not sure if I'm answering this correctly but if your asking what my deepest fear is then this is it--
To out live and have to bury my own child is my deepest fear in life. Nothing scares me more then that single thought.
 
Fear is an emotion that for some reason connect's directly with our sub-concious levels of awareness.
There are however different levels of deep fear.
One could be entirely afraid of every single thing in this world, and yet still have a void of fear that they haven't discovered deeper inside.

Deepest fears, can often stem from self awareness or from some sort of childhood drama or experience.
Such as getting slapped around etc etc.

Being afraid is also a challange that is presented to us humans to see how far that fear can stretch before we either give in to it, or we overcome the fear entirely. We take hold of what we are and what we have, and we do so in a way that perhaps shakes the fear into releasing us.

Courage is often the countermeasure of fear.
Knowing how to face one's deepest fears is a continued struggle that isn't sure wether it can be won or lost until all is said and done.

Deepest fears also can stem from the form of nightmares and/or some sort of spiritual intrusion into one's own soulful conciousness.
 
Fear often stems from past experiences, such as childhood, teenages and from recent events, and also from the fear of judgment by those who are total strangers to you and fear of failing those you hold dear.
 
Honestly, I see Mankinds biggest fear as the fear of the uknown . You see this in mythology. they did not understand something so they made stories for the things they didnt understand to make sense out of them. Even to this day (and if this offends I apologize, this is simply my view) You see the same pattern. The best example is death.

We as humans do not know what happens to us when we die. We simply know that we will. So we have created stories to help us understand this concept of death by making the supreme being of god have a heaven we all enter and those who have done ill have a hell they go to. according to christian mythology (because IMO this is what the stories of the bible are, more recent mythology. ) A soul, after death will be judged those who have done bad will go to hell and those who have lived virtuous lives will go to heaven.

This concept also helped shape a social structure that all could understand. If you did wrong you would get punished. if you did good you would be rewarded.


So perhaps, fear is simply the knowledge that we face an unknown and simply cannot do anything at this stage of our development to change what we do not know. So we tell ourselves stories just like our ancestors did.

Right, Wrong. My opinion only. After trying to make sense of religion (raised without the whole concept of church and whatnot) I realized that sometimes a subect can be handled easier if one looks at it from an objective point. I compared old mythology to the bible, found a few comparisons (never read the entire bible, just wanted to find a few similarities) and noticed that through history lessons, this whole thing points at a need to explain something

Thus, I feel that religion is the explanation of the unknown coupled with universal guidelines for living. differant cultures, differant religions, differant guidelines, no one religion is more or less valid than others, keep that in mind please.
 
For me Fear is nothing more than a basic instinct that is necessary for human survival. If humans, indeed, any animal did not have fear it would quickly be killed. Fear is also a paradox. It keeps us alive, but at the same time can kill us. Where logic can show the correct path to take, fear comes in and stops people from realizing, or taking that path. The same instinct that keeps us alive, hurts us in many ways.

Over all I believe that fear is a positive thing. Without fear there would be far more injuries than their currently are, because often we don't have enough time to reason things out.

For example, a lady working in a burger joint dropped her chain into a vat of super heated grease. Because she had no instinctual fear of the grease ( It looked just like water, was not obviously hot ) she reached into it for her chain and burned her hand badly. If she had thought it through she wouldn't have reached into the grease, but she didn't. I doubt many people would have stopped to think either. Indeed, we could spend our entire lives thinking over the results of an action and trying to figure out if it would be beneficial to us. That is what would have to happen to people if they didn't have fear.

In the end nothing would happen, or people would die because of the lack of fear.



@Dan: That isn't quite what the bible says, though I won't disagree with some of your reasoning, I would like to point out that if the bible was just their to explain things, why does it end up being more boring than a history textbook. (Read through Numbers and you will see what I mean.) I however am a Christian for quite a few reasons. But let's not go into that.
 
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