What is it?
(just like love, can you really define it?)
Why do we fear…...no really....I wonder what in the history of our evolution manifested this "fear" we feel.. Is it because we descended from animals? (if yes, then why do animals ‘feel’ fear?)
Is it just a physical response to our environment, in relation to your peptides and the right docking sites? Triggering an emotional response?
A working of the mind?
Is it real? or just a figment of our mind?
Both? a combination of the two?
or just something we have made up, and evolved, to have tangible meaning?
2007-05-01 11:18:25 · 13 answers · asked by ..*Real-ality*.. 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
OK ya'll said we fear that which we do not understand....
BUT WHY?
WHAT IS FEAR?
That's what i'm asking..
2007-05-01 11:45:45 · update #1
Great question:))
FEAR: False Events Appearing Real. This common kind of fear that seems to be a figment of our imagination. The mind is a mechanism that lives in the past and projects this past into the future...n this can result in "fear." I wonder what this is. It doesn't seem real at all.
When I'm totally absorbed into this moment, no fear exists. The mind cannot have a hold when now is the focal point.
As for what fear is, I think it's an energy felt in the body that stems from "fearful" thoughts....if i start thinking sad or angry thoughts now, the body reacts with likewise emotions---also, E-Motions are energy in motion. When the fear thoughts(or any thoughts) stop, this energy moves freely and disappears--and I feel just bliss.
So, this type of fear may be a working of the mind that stems from mis-identification. We have a mind, but we're much more than the mind...shift the awareness and fear disappears....but, I'm not sure fear can be defined at all....or if it's anything, it's sensations n energy felt in the body that we label "fear" .....when the shift takes place, fear turns out 2 b nothing that I thought it was.....so, I dunno what fear is. lol.
Well, I prolly didn't answer ur question, but only brought up more questions! lol.
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2007-05-05 10:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by .. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-07 14:42:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BOO! Are you afraid yet? Fear is not knowing the outcome of an idea, event etc. We are born with fear because when we come to this physical place called earth, we are separated from God which is the source of all love and knowledge. Fear does trigger automatic physical responses such as adreneline rises, pulse rate increases, breathing becomes labored, the body produces sweat. We all have different things that trigger our individual fears, and it is those fears that we are sent here to overcome. (And if that ain't scarey, don't know what is!)
2007-05-07 09:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by TexasDolly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We concern imaginary issues, believing them to be genuine. If Joe believes in ghosts he will be frightened of what he falsely believes - imagines - to be ghosts. He fears issues that are contained in the view of maximum persons no longer genuine. Take yet another social gathering : assume I hallucinate a menacing dogs contained in the room. In a superbly organic way of speaking, i'm frightened of the dogs; yet there is not any dogs, so I concern something it really is not any longer genuine.
2016-11-24 19:12:17 · answer #4 · answered by yanaton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear is a protection mechanism. We don't walk off cliffs because of fear. Or walk on thin ice. We don't drive too fast because of fear. The list is very long, of valid fears. The problem lies in misplaced fear or unsubstantiated fear. Learning how to control fear and all our emotions is one of lifes bigger challenges. Fear causes our bodies to produce adrenaline which needs proper expression or we pay a huge toll physically without an outlet or proper action.
2007-05-01 12:05:03 · answer #5 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
One person said the FEAR is Forgetting Things Are all Right. Simplistic, yes. But you will notice that we fear most those things we perceive that we are facing alone (in it's most existential sense).
There is no question of the physiological reaction, but that is the symptom. It is the trigger that is the cause. Ultimately the trigger is whatever we have chosen it to be.
2007-05-01 11:26:32 · answer #6 · answered by snoweagleltd 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, WE are a strange mix of nurture, nature and personal experience... Have you ever seen those people walking so high in the air, balanced on a single metal beam, during construction on some sky-scraper? (All 3, nurture, nature, & expereance) alow them to walk a mile high in the sky, just like it was nothing. Now, could you? Why not? - There's your answer!
(Live strong!)
2007-05-04 07:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The absence of love. Like when there's no light, there's darkness. Same thing with love and fear. And we're afraid because we don't have love. Very simple. And when you think you have love but are still afraid, then you don't have it. Animals are not capable of loving, and yet they are less afraid than us. Isn't that strange? Well, that's because animals are not afraid of sex, and we are. Sex is just a part of love. Animals have sex, we don't even have that. That's why we're afraid.
2007-05-01 12:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We fear that which we don't understand. We make up for it but making up lies, deceptions. And so be have religion - a foundation for our life so that people won't go crazy in wondering. So that they "know" and are content that they "do not" live in an illusion. But, alas! we do. it's proven e-mail me if you want.
2007-05-01 11:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anya 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fear is the ego flexing its muscles.
2007-05-07 01:12:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋