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you just gave me an idea lol... @Sahi96 oh man.. I wish I could help. You. Maybe @mandyjw have something to say about that..... I'm not familiar with the bible (I never was religious as well ). But I do know that entire Bible is BS. Reading genesis was enough for me lol.

What is left is exactly the same thing. Minus the label (without a name).

Lemme ask...how is my physical flesh that I can touch and see a 'thought process'?

@Gesundheit Chill out. Either the whole Bible is BS and you should not Believe it.. Or everything in the Bible is correct. And since you are convinced that 99 % is BS.. Then you should know with your rational part of your brain that even that 1% about hell and punishment is also BS. That fear is not 'rational'.. Meaning it's not based on evidence.. It's a result of religious conditioning which is literally a brainwashing process.

Me too. This idea of eternal suffering scares the living shit out of me. Not with you on this notion of 'mistakes'. This just comes from a religious background. There are no such things as 'mistakes' as in 'sins'. You'd have to be extremely non-objective to look at the world via that lens. Of course there is no one-fits-all answer. We could share... Fear of being hit by a car while crossing the highway is healthy because if you didn't have that kind of fear, you could kill yourself. While fear of cats or pets might be considered unhealthy for lack of commonality.

fear is Clearly a function of survival. Your body is programmed to fear getting crashed by a car to protect your survival. So as long as survival is at work.. Fear must exist. It doesn't have to be neurotic fear. But at least to a minimum level of healthy watchfullness. Check out Leonardo's video on fear. emotions are conscious.. subjective states. For example.. ‘feelings’ related to fear.. such as horror or terror.. are cognitively assembled conceptions of one’s situation.. rather than preformed.. innate mental states inherited from animals. Certain things are not supposed to make you feel certain way. That's why you will find people's answers vary.

Thoughts? Lol cute fears jk No tangible disaster could shake you right?

@Gesundheit I dunno.. I don't Believe it. You certainly know but you are afraid to express. Then you might be afraid of fear. (yea edited that duplicate older post).

@Gesundheit are you afraid of not knowing?

@Gesundheit ?

Great video from Leonardo. This should be taught in universities in philosophy classes.

@mandyjw SURE lol! Thanks for the tips. I'm actually doing the slow breathing exercises with stilling the body. It seems to relax the body.

Try SSRI and visiting a therapist. Journal about how you feel. Let it all out. Allow yourself to feel bad. Surrender instead of fighting. That seems to counter-intuitively work. Give yourself a permission to feel like shit. Just feel it. And soon it might neutralize all these emotions. @snowyowl Shared intersting perspectives also. Maybe try to search for a deeper reason.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out. Well as I said it's a sudden fear of death or of bad things happening to me out of the blue.. And that causes me to semi-panic. I didn't want to dig into details because obviously that in itself might cause me to panic.

Isn't That has much to do with the transitory nature of all phenomenon rather than the illusory of the 'seeker'? So you are never 'satisfied' because what you seek is always ahead of you.. Not necessarily you don't exist?

@Michael569 thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Will look into those and hopefully trying them out and let you know how it went.

No.... I don't take any medication currently

@Mu_ indeed

Yes that's pretty accurate. It's a way of relaxing and letting myself go. Escapism. But also there is the physical addiction. Once that nicotine is well established in your blood stream..you start physically depending on it to get going like food and water. It's hard. I'm making some progress recently in battling the addiction tho. I do get the sun. I eat fruits and veggies every now and then. I sleep a lot because I feel fatigue often. Definitely. Thanks . I need to make improvements in my diet and fitness. And I definitely need to put the damn cigs down. I didn't smoke for about two weeks now.. So I guess I'm making some progress. BTW may I know what pills you might suggest that can help with anxiety symptoms and can be without side effects?

Thanks. Will definitely look it up.

@Mu_ I agree. Though easier said than done. Maybe the luxury of modern life grows tendency of attachments. And it doesn't help with being unconditionally on with whatever have you. I've been wrestling with the idea of suffering for a while and I feel like I'm not making much more progress on that issue.. the evolutionary process of the universe towards a more desirable state makes more and more sense to me and it's hard for me to see it any other way. I disagree with the idea that everything that the universe experiences is desirable.. but rather that it's a necessary byproduct of evolution, which we can eventually overcome as the universe converges towards greater and greater self-love. Not enough suffering yet actually. I guess otherwise I definitely wouldn't keep riding in samsara like a chimp. Lol jk. Thanks

1 I eat whatever I find in the fridge lol. Sometimes it depends on what I can afford. I don't have a specific diet. Most of the time.. It consists of carbs (rice.. Pasta.. Bread etc) and meats. 2 I sleep 10 hours a day. 3 no exercise. 4 I'm addicted to cigarettes. 5 no digestive problems. No toxins etc 6 I took Prozac and serenace last year during a depression phase. I casued me chronic fatigue.. So I stopped. 7 kinda. Feeling low energy. Anxiety. And mild depression.

True. But you don't understand what 'Nothing' means. What is the difference between illusion and reality?