Fear

[Perianne]

Are you afraid of people who do not look like you?

My daughter and I once went to Cincinnati to watch a Reds' game. We had to park far away. On the way back, it was dark and there were lots of black people around. I admit I was afraid. I am probably a racist.

[darin]

Are you 15? Thats a childish (liberal) mindset.

[hjmick]

Not one iota. Even when I'm in North Charleston...

[LongTermGuy]

`Not at all...I do get concerned if people might seem a little cautious around me though .....usually I mind my own business and stay to myself and at times will nod the head and smile`

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

`Not at all...I do get concerned if people might seem a little cautious around me though .....usually I mind my own business and stay to myself and at times will nod the head and smile`

Fear can be a healthy reaction , survival often depends on fear to alert us of danger. Sometimes its even intuitive fear that saves us.
However , I have spent most my life eliminating most fear from it. I fear now only for others , very , very rarely for myself.
I am not eager to die but if I must obey my core principles or else run away because of fear-- the principles win ever time.
Truly damn lucky to have not bit the bullet long ago...
Or else a very powerful guardian angel was watching over me..... why I have no clue..-Tyr

[LongTermGuy]

Fear can be a healthy reaction , survival often depends on fear to alert us of danger. Sometimes its even intuitive fear that saves us.
However , I have spent most my life eliminately most fear from it. I fear now only for others , very , very rarely for myself.
I am not eager to die but if I must obey my core principles or else run away because of fear-- the principles win ever time.
Truly damn lucky to have not bit the bullet long ago...
Or else a very powerful guardian angel was watching over me..... why I have no clue..-Tyr

`aint that a fact brother...I would rather use the words...cautious...aware....focus...alert..more so than fear....fear just gets in the way when one must take action if they want to live....at some point many men have been tested so many times that they usually able to control `natural` Earth based fear...

[Perianne]

Are you 15? Thats a childish (liberal) mindset.

Why do you say this?

[LongTermGuy]

Why do you say this?

Your avatar looks young...

[Jeff]

When I first met my wife she would lock the doors in her car when she drove through a bad area of town and yes it usually was a black and Mexican area, basically what I would call downtown. I wouldn't consider that being racist I call it being safe, when traveling through a bad section of town a woman should protect herself. Now on the other hand when we first met she asked me to lock my door that will be the day I am going to lock my doors because of some punks.

But I am happy to say after 15 years of being with me, the ol lady has learned how to protect herself quite well, of course I won't allow her to put herself in a dangerous situation either ( I will ride with her if she is having to go into a bad area ) She managed apartments ( more like the projects ) in Athens GA one summer and yes it was 99% black, she had all kinds of threats ( blows my mind how people get upset when they get thrown out when they don't pay the rent ) But I would show up and for a week after the residents would come in asking her who the guy with the Tattoos was I would ride the bike in and then she would be questioned for a week about who I ride with. But seriously if she had to go in at night for a emergency I would go with her, there was a lot of folks there that had night jobs

[Drummond]

Are you afraid of people who do not look like you?

My daughter and I once went to Cincinnati to watch a Reds' game. We had to park far away. On the way back, it was dark and there were lots of black people around. I admit I was afraid. I am probably a racist.

As Tyr says, fear is a healthy reaction. And in my humble opinion, it's only natural for human beings to instinctively react with fear when faced with people, or scenarios, which you don't immediately and comfortably identify with.

What matters, surely, is what you do with that fear. Do you let it rule you ? Do you let it define how you relate to the world ?

My experiences, especially my more recent ones of London suburbs, would leave me permanently 'in a state of fear', if fear was my dominant reaction to people who didn't look, or act, like me !! After all, London suburbs - these days - are overrun with ethnic so-called 'minorities' ... where you can easily board a bus and hear not one word of English being spoken amongst some highly vocal groups of travellers.

You have to rise above it all, and do something that the English, in modern-day Britain, aren't very accustomed to doing. Namely, be supremely confident in your own sense of self-worth, your own identity, your knowledge of what makes you, YOU ... and proceed wherever that takes you.

It's something that our Left hate to see .. self-assured individualism. Which in itself makes it a VERY good thing to do .....

[tailfins]

Are you afraid of people who do not look like you?

My daughter and I once went to Cincinnati to watch a Reds' game. We had to park far away. On the way back, it was dark and there were lots of black people around. I admit I was afraid. I am probably a racist.

I can't afford to be. My entire workday involves working with people with thick accents. I am however ANNOYED with people that have a different work culture than I. For example, people from authoritarian work cultures will do EXACTLY what the boss says. If they are told for example "write code for a tab to handle claims", you'll get a tab with one selection available. They won't make something reusable for other likely selections on the tab strip. Also Anglo women like to bury and hide errors to protect their "gal-pals".

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

`aint that a fact brother...I would rather use the words...cautious...aware....focus...alert..more so than fear....fear just gets in the way when one must take action if they want to live....at some point many men have been tested so many times that they usually able to control `natural` Earth based fear...

Hell, I was tested a great many times before my 20th birthday. After that lost count, no longer cared to even count.. You see I dealt with a lot of people that did not care if they killed you in a fight. As they did anything to win it..
And more than a few that came with the intent to kill me when we fought..
Wasn't life fun when we were young and full of piss and vinegar?----
That is, fun if ya survived it...
I had many friends that never reached 30!! --Tyr

[red state]

Why do you say this?

Because only liberals FEAR being politically correct or worry if they are racist when safety or common sense is involved. The quest to ask is ANYTHING but 'am i a racist'. There are a gang of school boys (no need to describe them further) that head to a local gas station in Memphis after school is out. Almost daily, they harass those pumping gas. Is it racist to NOT use that gas station in a bad part of town? No....it is MATURE and WISE. If you were in a strange town in a strange area and saw what you saw, it would have been wise to go back, ask for a security guard to assist you to your car or something other than continue to a dark, remote part of the parking lot AFTER the game, with the obvious potential of danger. What if that group had been the same group in the video that LongTermGuy put up Sunday or so? They have sworn to kill white babies, rape the women and enslave EVERYONE who is not like them. They ARE out there and we all should be more aware of danger...especially these days.

[tailfins]

Because only liberals FEAR being politically correct or worry if they are racist when safety or common sense is involved. The quest to ask is ANYTHING but 'am i a racist'. There are a gang of school boys (no need to describe them further) that head to a local gas station in Memphis after school is out. Almost daily, they harass those pumping gas. Is it racist to NOT use that gas station in a bad part of town? No....it is MATURE and WISE. If you were in a strange town in a strange area and saw what you saw, it would have been wise to go back, ask for a security guard to assist you to your car or something other than continue to a dark, remote part of the parking lot AFTER the game, with the obvious potential of danger. What if that group had been the same group in the video that LongTermGuy put up Sunday or so? They have sworn to kill white babies, rape the women and enslave EVERYONE who is not like them. They ARE out there and we all should be more aware of danger...especially these days.

I guess that means you won't be visiting Graceland anytime soon.

[fj1200]

It's something that our Left hate to see .. self-assured individualism. Which in itself makes it a VERY good thing to do .....

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.