What is your single biggest fear in life?

Quote from optionpro007:

Cool thread guys.

I find it hard to believe nobody mentioned the worst fear humanity has had to endure since the beginning of time.

Flying cows......
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Not to worry. All you need is a sturdy umbrella for those nasty cow pies. I think marketsurfer may sell them with his logo tastefully embroidered thereon. Operators are standing by.
 
"Let's take a few moments for a bit of self-indulgent introspection, by answering four questions."



Something tells me this will take up much more than just a "few moments"
 
Actually, I talked to a 73 yr old guy who says his biggest fear is "prostate scraping." He told me about going in for this procedure and I had to stop him .

Anyway, my biggest fear is losing all my money in a nigerian 419 scam.
 
Well, Trish, to summarize Tolle I suggest it is instead about 'stillness' and if anything how to interrupt & stop thinking for periods of retreat.

I like your reference to the 'holes' in the individual because you can have a reaction to someone's real or imagined 'hurt' to you without hardly thinking about it or even remembering it.

And while I like the notion behind 'What the bleep do we know' which is empowering the individual, it is in fact very fanciful and unproven in its claims.
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Getting rid of your girlfriend and then years later she becomes the next "Hollywood movie Star" or a fixed income trader at Goldmans earning millions.

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1): alzheimer' s. or a stroke which induces a similar condition: imagine living the rest of your life as a zombie, without being aware of the damage you cause to all around you ... a truly living death. dreadful ! nothing else bothers me a whit, except for the paranoid fear of being long 100 in the minis when someone nukes chicago ....

2): i monitor carefully for any signs of the disease ... this does make me somewhat paranoid ... i dread nights when i do not get enough sleep ... on balance, i do not think this phobia has affected my outcome much, at all ... it exists, and i am aware of it

ps: i am never long 100 mini' s
 
Quote from BabaNamKevalam:

Personally death doesn't scare me as much as what I will be thinking about just before I die. I believe in reincarnation and it is my belief that my thoughts at or just before my death will determine to a large extent how my souls passage will be. Certainly, the thoughts that I would have cultivated throughout life (especially doing meditation daily) will no doubt influence that period, however, anything can happen. So my biggest fear (even though I prefer not to dwell on it) is the thought that I will not be thinking of the Supreme Consciousness (to the best of my understanding) at the time of death.
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Fear of death is a universal fear which is seldom discussed in great length. This is the most complete description of the process of death from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view. Excellent read.



The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying
 
Quote from dagobaz:

1): alzheimer' s. or a stroke which induces a similar condition: imagine living the rest of your life as a zombie, without being aware of the damage you cause to all around you ... a truly living death. dreadful
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having been a co-caregiver for an Alzheimer patient in my house. Trust me its worse. In the beginning the patient is aware of the damage he is causing to the family as the care givers lie thru their teeth. The patient hates the situation and wishes he was dead.

p.s. Dago...they think its got a genetic component...anybody else in your family had it..:D
 
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