Exposing your existential fears

[Someone here]

 Disclaimer :  Don't Read if  you have emotional sensitivity or you get easily traumatized.

 

What are you afraid of?  I'm gonna expose and explore some of your and my deepest fears.. Full on exposure.. Full nude.. No cosmetics..

 

Are you afraid from the idea of falling forever.. An endless free fall? Imagine falling down in an endless spiral with no bottom forever..

Or maybe you are afraid from the idea of being stuck inside a room with no doors.. Just four walls.. You stuck between four walls.. For eternity? 

What about the idea of these four walls starting to get tighter and tighter untill they crush your body into pieces? 

But then you will die.. That might be a refuge.. How about the four walls getting so tight just enough to make you almost crushed.. But not fully yet.. Such that you can't move and will be stuck like that... Forever? 

How about being conscious inside darkness forever?  Losing your sight?  Are you afraid of going blind? 

Are you afraid of the idea of hell.. Being stuck inside a lava chamber burning and suffering unimaginable amounts of pain forever? 

You are afraid of pain basically.. Right? All kinds of pain.. How about all kinds of pain possible all at once for endless time.. Are you afraid of that? 

As a male..you sure have some castration anxiety no? 

As a female you are afraid of breast cancer right?  You are afraid of infertility right? 

As a child you are afraid of losing your parents in a car accident no? 

As a grown up..you are afraid to die alone or to spend your last years with the company of no one? 

Are you afraid of regret? Of failure ?  Of realizing at your death bed that you did it all wrong?  That you fucked up big time? And that there is no going back?

What else are you afraid of?  

What if I told you that reality is absolutely infinite and that you wil in fact will experience all of these things inevitably and there is no escape?  How does that change your relationship with existence?  

 

Edited July 14, 2022 by Someone here

[samijiben]

Lol is pretty funny post bro, you gotta understand that this does not warrant a response, it speaks for itself, but that being said, I do acknowledge you, right here. These fears all come from drifting away from the source from which all this creative beauty came. But you get lost and attatched to it. It is understandable. 

[Someone here]

@samijiben then why did you bother ?

[samijiben]

@Someone here 

Because I feel your post deserves recognition. It is beautiful. Still, you get lost in the beauty of your creation. It is inevitable. 

[Someone here]

5 minutes ago, samijiben said:

@Someone here Still, you get lost in the beauty of your creation. It is inevitable. 

Explain what you mean by that please .

And..do you understand the "purpose" of this post or not?

[samijiben]

I mean that you can't stand being still. 

I know something about you that you don't. 

[Someone here]

4 minutes ago, samijiben said:

I mean that you can't stand being still. 

I know something about you that you don't. 

Are you a spy ?

[samijiben]

@Someone here

You are unable to say thank you and shut the fuck up.

So, to answer your question, yes, I am a fucking spy. I am spying on you right now, but you are too little to see that.

 

 

[Someone here]

@samijiben dude you are so grumpy and almost 99.999% of your posts are hectic and disrespectful. I don't think you gonna last long in here .

Thank you ? For what? For calling me a fool just the other day ? I'm at lost of why you get personal with people. Focus on the topic not the person who wrote it.

[samijiben]

@Someone here I mean you could just say thank you for acknowledging me and move on. But instead you get all suspicious like a Kashmiri

 

[Someone here]

2 hours ago, samijiben said:

@Someone here I mean you could just say thank you for acknowledging me and move on.

 

Why should i say that ?am I a starving kitten dying in the freezing winter and you picked me up or something? 

Edited July 4 by Someone here

[hyruga]

My biggest fears are those of my parents dying and also letting down them. I am letting them down as of now anyway.

[Someone here]

6 minutes ago, hyruga said:

My biggest fears are those of my parents dying and also letting down them. I am letting them down as of now anyway.

But they are going to die .either you will die before them or they will die before you . Can't get around that. How are you dealing with this fear ?

[Joshe]

A fear can’t be dealt with until it shows up on your doorstep. Until then, you can only deal with the fear of the fear, which is typically dealt with by not dealing with it. What is the point of transcending fear? To not suffer?

Here’s an idea: don’t fret, don’t get neurotic about removing the fear of the fear, don’t make a habit of bringing the fear to mind, and just experience it when it comes. Like everything else, it will pass. 

Certain realities are absolutely devastating and it makes little sense to attempt to turn them into something you’re indifferent to or not impacted by. 

Edited July 4 by Joshe

[UnbornTao]

We could look at fear itself rather than at its specific manifestations.

For example, see if you can actually feel afraid when you are completely present (whatever that means). Without imagining a future, fear cannot exist. Or: Can fear occur if you are fully willing to go through the experience you are imagining?

Now, talking about it and understanding it intellectually is one thing; making an experiential shift is another.

Edited July 4 by UnbornTao

[Someone here]

29 minutes ago, Joshe said:

A fear can’t be dealt with until it shows up on your doorstep. Until then, you can only deal with the fear of the fear, which is typically dealt with by not dealing with it. What is the point of transcending fear? To not suffer?

Here’s an idea: don’t fret, don’t get neurotic about removing the fear of the fear, don’t make a habit of bringing the fear to mind, and just experience it when it comes. Like everything else, it will pass. 

Certain realities are absolutely devastating and it makes little sense to attempt to turn them into something you’re indifferent to or not impacted by. 

That's not the point of this thread . Anyone can poke in his imagination and bring forth a thousands different horrific scenarios.  Because the mind's capability of imagination is infinite . But the "link " is that infinite potential means infinite actual. If you can imagine you're being crossified then this abstract idea in your mind is inevitable part of reality. Otherwise you couldn't think it . Same applies to all the crazy shit I mentioned in OP.  Pretty scary huh ? But What can be done to change this ?

[Joshe]

16 minutes ago, Someone here said:

inevitable part of reality.

It’s an inevitable part of imagination, which is part of reality, but I’ll deal with the fear of crucifixion when I’m about to be nailed to a cross. Lol. I don’t see how you arrive at “because it exists in the abstract means it must exist in the concrete”.

I understand the idea that all is mind, and I’ve even witnessed living lives not my own via psychedelics, and there I realized what can be sufficiently imagined can be witnessed, so I think I understand your point, but from a practical point of view, if the horrific reality is not on our doorstep, there’s nothing we need to do, even if it exists out there somewhere. 

[Someone here]

14 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

We could look at fear itself rather than at its specific manifestations.

For example, see if you can actually feel afraid when you are completely present (whatever that means). Without imagining a future, fear cannot exist. Or: Can fear occur if you are fully willing to go through the experience you are imagining?

Now, talking about it and understanding it intellectually is one thing; making an experiential shift is another.

Is that unconditional?  How long you gonna stay present?  Can you stay present when you are forced to plan your future in life like a job meeting for example?  

Fear is what drives you in life . If you don't have any fear you will literally die.

[UnbornTao]

@Someone here What the fuck is fear? Start with that. 

[Someone here]

@UnbornTao

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

@Someone here What the fuck is fear? Start with that. 

You don't know what the word "fear" means ? Do you need to go look it up in the dictionary?  Are you gonna go Ralston mode  on me once again ? Please don't tell me you gonna ask me what is (X) ad infinitum.