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Wyarian Pryde posted 06-14-99 10:08 PM ET
Hmmmmmmm... mine would be...
... i dont know, damnit
Kefaed posted 06-14-99 10:14 PM ET
A dictator rising in China...
I think his name would be Sheng-Ji....
Picker posted 06-15-99 08:32 AM ET
Other people.
JT 3 posted 06-15-99 08:33 AM ET
Me being the last person on earth.
Stasis Archon posted 06-15-99 08:40 AM ET
That thing in the basement.
4Horses posted 06-15-99 09:00 AM ET
You guys..........ya'll scare me.
Frodo83 posted 06-15-99 04:14 PM ET
Moths.
DanS posted 06-15-99 04:15 PM ET
After rewatching "12 Monkeys" it has to be viri.
JohnIII posted 06-15-99 04:18 PM ET
An Evangelistic rampage....
John III
Pinko34 posted 06-15-99 04:25 PM ET
Falling from over 600,000,000 feet in the air and having all that time falling to think about what was going to happen. (shudder)
jsorense posted 06-15-99 04:37 PM ET
Mindworms! EeeeeeeuwW! Yuck!
Valtyr posted 06-15-99 05:18 PM ET
I suffer from various kinds of anxiety. Social anxieties, like fear of talking to people (e.g. I don't use the phone unless I have to.), fear of crowds, fear of being alone, fear of being looked at, fear of being ignored... The list goes on. I also have a fear of falling and a fear of flying (at least I think I have, I don't tempt fate.). My worst fear right now is that those irrational fears are going to stop me from having a normal life, getting a job, having a family etc.
Trappist posted 06-15-99 05:27 PM ET
Having my intestines wound around a stick in front of my living eyes.

Or catching scabies. Or screw-worms. Or just about anything that eats it's way under your skin. Yuk.
Philip McCauley posted 06-15-99 06:30 PM ET
Valtyr, I'm interested from an analytical perspective. Does posting on the board bring the same fear as face to face (voice to voice) interaction? If this is too personal, just forget I asked.
If you mean what's the worst thing I fear, that would be a beetle attempting to crawl up my ass. If you mean what's the thing I fear most, that would be my computer fouling up. Hey, it's the most likely bad thing to happen.
Pinko34 posted 06-15-99 06:35 PM ET
Actually now that i think about it: living forever is my worst fear.
Philip McCauley posted 06-16-99 08:10 PM ET
That WOULD suck. Living forever doesn't mean forever young. Imagine how crappy life would be if you actually lived to be 400(0000) years old.
Frodo83 posted 06-16-99 08:15 PM ET
Phillip McCauley: Did you see the Mummy? (the new one). Those Scarab Beetles sure were scary.
Stasis Archon posted 06-16-99 08:17 PM ET
Being chased by rabid vegetable-rights activists with chainsaws.
Becoming the average American.(That's the worst thing that could happen to anyone)
Philip McCauley posted 06-16-99 08:50 PM ET
I read a good book, (The Trinity Vector, by Steve Perry), that had a funny quote in it.
"Fear is the first time you can't get it up twice. Terror is the second time you can't get it up once." -Anonymous (He writes a lot of stuff, doesn't he?)
Doctor Who posted 06-17-99 05:41 AM ET
My worst fear: TIME
Having either too much or too little really bothers me.
HolyWarrior posted 06-17-99 11:45 PM ET
Gore winning the 2000 election.
Dreadnought posted 06-17-99 11:49 PM ET
Being trapped in an enclosed, dark box, unable to move, for all eternity
That always freaks me out.......
Koshko posted 06-18-99 12:59 AM ET
I'm afraid to say.
dilbert posted 06-23-99 08:33 PM ET
What things are more scarier than tortures?
Imagine yourself being sliced by thousand cuts, being eaten alive by ants, or simply being crucified.
Death itself is not scary, the way to die may be horrific.
Galen posted 06-23-99 11:07 PM ET
Pat Robertson running the country. Or any other idoit Religious Wrong Reactionary. Like George W Bush
OldWarrior_42 posted 06-23-99 11:15 PM ET
My daughters being old enough to move out but deciding to stick around awhile for the hell of it and torture me.(J/K haha)
Well my oldest is leaving in august for college but she says she plans on returning often for visits(doh).
jig posted 06-24-99 02:39 AM ET
I remember a 'Top 10 worst fears' thread or some such a while ago. Someone want to dig it up? Anyway, in that thread I said something like...
1-49: Various ways of losing access to the internet.
50: Being stuck in a prison cell with Roseanne.
51-10820102: Various forms of painful torture.
Eccles posted 06-25-99 01:56 PM ET
Kilrathi.
The bastards killed Angel!
I would not like to be in a room with those 9ft hairy bastards.
BTW did you know Enigma Sector has just fallen to the Kilrathi?
We need more pilots! Get the Damn Concordia out there....
The Concordias where?! V
Send the damn TCN Victory.

Spoe posted 06-25-99 02:26 PM ET
Two words: Microsoft VisualLinux

ARRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!

walruskkkch posted 06-25-99 02:39 PM ET
Isn't being stuck in a cell with Rosanne a hideous form of punishment and should not be listed seperately?
Worst fear: A fully Democratic China, they would bury a socializing US.
Eris posted 06-25-99 03:06 PM ET
I have no real fear of ordinary physical torture (as distinctly opposed to psychological torture), just to point out my further weirdness. I've had some pretty painful things happen to me. I know it would be extremely unpleasant and I do not want it to ever, ever happen, but it doesn't precisely /scare/ me... and it'd be a pretty rational fear if it did.
I have an irrational fear of death. I am not ready to find out what, if anything, comes next. Hopefully, this will not be an issue for many, many years. However, I have known a couple people who died in their early 20s.
I have an irrational fear of having my breathing passages obstructed. Actually, I suppose it's rather rational, but what it takes to trigger a panic (not as bad as it used to be) is irrational. I am /not/ claustrophobic in the classic sense. Small, enclosed spaces are unlikely to bother me. But having my face covered with a blanket can.
I have an irrational fear of going blind. I already have pretty bad vision.
I have an irrational fear of being forced to listen "Achy Breaky Heart". Or the number of times I'm going to hear TAFKAP's "1999" this year. No, wait, those are rational fears.
Eris (Look, real answers...)
JayPegg posted 06-25-99 03:23 PM ET
TOO HORRIBLE TO IMAGINE SPOE!!!!! ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Raven of Despair posted 06-25-99 04:34 PM ET
Here is one that is more plausible. Imagine being summoned for jury duty. You must wait (and wait) in one room all day. There is a television. For some bizarre reason it shows mostly episodes of the Rosie O'Donnell show. Due to the fact that some perspective jurors are hard of hearing, the volume is turned all the way up. For hours and hours and...
Oh wait, this already happened to me. But what if it happens AGAIN?
Noisy posted 06-25-99 05:11 PM ET
Eris' response really resonated with me, because for years I seemed to have a perpetual cold - resulting in a blocked up nose. Because of this, whenever I saw someone being gagged in a play or film on television, I used to think: "What would happen to me if I was gagged? It would be terrifying to have to struggle to breath through a blocked nose ...".
Numbers two and three:
2) Daddy Long-legs. (I can now copy with moths, and most spiders - except for the really big ones with long spindly legs.)
3) Heights. I recently visited the Cape in South Africa, and right at the tip of the Cape is a lighthouse on a peak. Climbing up to the platform around the lighthouse was OK, but moving to the wall (3'6" to 4' and built of stone) surrounding the paved area, and looking over the edge down the 600ft(?) cliff was scary. The worst thing about it was the wind! However, I love flying in aircraft - I'm more scared of trains.
Noisy
Macroweed to the Stars
Valtyr posted 06-25-99 05:48 PM ET
Philip McCauley: To finally answer your question (I'm slow, aren't I? ): No it doesn't. Not any more .
Noisy posted 06-25-99 07:03 PM ET
Valtyr:
Ten days to respond to a post is a little slow.
Can anyone else cite an instance that beats this?
Noisy
- starting to get a bit desperate, now -
Pinko34 posted 06-25-99 10:03 PM ET
I changed my mind. My WORST fear would be being the only person to live forever .
Natguy posted 06-26-99 01:31 PM ET
Failure.
Close followers are snakes and weird-looking bugs.
Major Bloodnok posted 06-26-99 06:15 PM ET
Eccles! Wheres your medication?
The damn battle for K'thrak Mang has driven him mad. that, and spending 10 years in a backwater.
Yes mon amis, Colonel Devereux is dead, I would have told you when the Concordia went down, but I wanted to protect you.
Kilrathi Cruiser off the Starboard bow!
Get Eisen up here!
Women and Space Marshall Tolwyns first.....

(I am not eccles!!)
Sinapus posted 06-26-99 09:20 PM ET
My fears? I have a slight bit of arachnophobia (I don't mind little spiders, it's the ones bigger than my hand that creep me out especially the one in that movie that had lungs big enough to *hiss*) and a fear of snakes.
The idea of immortality doesn't scare me per se, but I do think I might get mind-bogglingly bored at some point if I were immortal.
Earwicker posted 07-01-99 01:58 PM ET
Wild snakes. I don't mind them as pets (kinda like 'em actually) or as an ornamental motif, but when i see them out slithering through the grass my legs just start backing me up the opposite direction. Even when it's a dinky little garter snake.
OhWell posted 07-01-99 02:19 PM ET
Waking up and finding out that this is all real!
No, Spiders... I hate spiders.
No, being buried alive.
Wait, being buried alive with spiders!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
OhWell
Runs away screaming.
DerekM posted 07-01-99 02:34 PM ET
I have two irrational fears.
1) I hate insects. When I was a small child, my family was vacationing next to a pond in the woods. As I was wandering around out back, I stumbled into a nest of ground hornets. I think the combination of being in a strange place and having it take what seemed like hours to get rid of all of the crawling, stinging things caught in my clothes and hair warped me a little bit.
2) I have a fear of falling. Airplanes don't bother me, but exposed heights do. At one point I had a contact lens get caught under my eyelid...at the top of the staircase in the Statue of Liberty. For those of you who have never been, that staircase is very narrow, with a railing that is only about four feet high. It spirals around a pole in the center of the statue, and you can see (and fall) all the way to the base of the statue. Feeling my way down that staircase half-blind is not something I want to do again.
ZRand007 posted 07-01-99 02:55 PM ET
My worst fear is the fear of not being perfect. I dunno why, but that's my goal right now, to be perfect!
-007
Q Cubed posted 07-01-99 03:28 PM ET
1. Failure. Plain and simple.
2. Being told that everythig I've striven for, everything I've worked for, etc., is wrong and in vain, and it being right.
3. Poisoned by any method.
4. Dying with regrets.
5. Dying suddenly without a choice.
6. Abandonment by someone I'm close to.
7. Hmm....some of those can be grouped together. And, I can't really think of anything else.
8-9-10. Goodbye.
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Author	Topic: Poll: Worst Fear
Wyarian Pryde	posted 06-14-99 10:08 PM ET Hmmmmmmm... mine would be... ... i dont know, damnit
Kefaed	posted 06-14-99 10:14 PM ET A dictator rising in China... I think his name would be Sheng-Ji....
Picker	posted 06-15-99 08:32 AM ET Other people.
JT 3	posted 06-15-99 08:33 AM ET Me being the last person on earth.
Stasis Archon	posted 06-15-99 08:40 AM ET That thing in the basement.
4Horses	posted 06-15-99 09:00 AM ET You guys..........ya'll scare me.
Frodo83	posted 06-15-99 04:14 PM ET Moths.
DanS	posted 06-15-99 04:15 PM ET After rewatching "12 Monkeys" it has to be viri.
JohnIII	posted 06-15-99 04:18 PM ET An Evangelistic rampage.... John III
Pinko34	posted 06-15-99 04:25 PM ET Falling from over 600,000,000 feet in the air and having all that time falling to think about what was going to happen. (shudder)
jsorense	posted 06-15-99 04:37 PM ET Mindworms! EeeeeeeuwW! Yuck!
Valtyr	posted 06-15-99 05:18 PM ET I suffer from various kinds of anxiety. Social anxieties, like fear of talking to people (e.g. I don't use the phone unless I have to.), fear of crowds, fear of being alone, fear of being looked at, fear of being ignored... The list goes on. I also have a fear of falling and a fear of flying (at least I think I have, I don't tempt fate.). My worst fear right now is that those irrational fears are going to stop me from having a normal life, getting a job, having a family etc.
Trappist	posted 06-15-99 05:27 PM ET Having my intestines wound around a stick in front of my living eyes. Or catching scabies. Or screw-worms. Or just about anything that eats it's way under your skin. Yuk.
Philip McCauley	posted 06-15-99 06:30 PM ET Valtyr, I'm interested from an analytical perspective. Does posting on the board bring the same fear as face to face (voice to voice) interaction? If this is too personal, just forget I asked. If you mean what's the worst thing I fear, that would be a beetle attempting to crawl up my ass. If you mean what's the thing I fear most, that would be my computer fouling up. Hey, it's the most likely bad thing to happen.
Pinko34	posted 06-15-99 06:35 PM ET Actually now that i think about it: living forever is my worst fear.
Philip McCauley	posted 06-16-99 08:10 PM ET That WOULD suck. Living forever doesn't mean forever young. Imagine how crappy life would be if you actually lived to be 400(0000) years old.
Frodo83	posted 06-16-99 08:15 PM ET Phillip McCauley: Did you see the Mummy? (the new one). Those Scarab Beetles sure were scary.
Stasis Archon	posted 06-16-99 08:17 PM ET Being chased by rabid vegetable-rights activists with chainsaws. Becoming the average American.(That's the worst thing that could happen to anyone)
Philip McCauley	posted 06-16-99 08:50 PM ET I read a good book, (The Trinity Vector, by Steve Perry), that had a funny quote in it. "Fear is the first time you can't get it up twice. Terror is the second time you can't get it up once." -Anonymous (He writes a lot of stuff, doesn't he?)
Doctor Who	posted 06-17-99 05:41 AM ET My worst fear: TIME Having either too much or too little really bothers me.
HolyWarrior	posted 06-17-99 11:45 PM ET Gore winning the 2000 election.
Dreadnought	posted 06-17-99 11:49 PM ET Being trapped in an enclosed, dark box, unable to move, for all eternity That always freaks me out.......
Koshko	posted 06-18-99 12:59 AM ET I'm afraid to say.
dilbert	posted 06-23-99 08:33 PM ET What things are more scarier than tortures? Imagine yourself being sliced by thousand cuts, being eaten alive by ants, or simply being crucified. Death itself is not scary, the way to die may be horrific.
Galen	posted 06-23-99 11:07 PM ET Pat Robertson running the country. Or any other idoit Religious Wrong Reactionary. Like George W Bush
OldWarrior_42	posted 06-23-99 11:15 PM ET My daughters being old enough to move out but deciding to stick around awhile for the hell of it and torture me.(J/K haha) Well my oldest is leaving in august for college but she says she plans on returning often for visits(doh).
jig	posted 06-24-99 02:39 AM ET I remember a 'Top 10 worst fears' thread or some such a while ago. Someone want to dig it up? Anyway, in that thread I said something like... 1-49: Various ways of losing access to the internet. 50: Being stuck in a prison cell with Roseanne. 51-10820102: Various forms of painful torture.
Eccles	posted 06-25-99 01:56 PM ET Kilrathi. The bastards killed Angel! I would not like to be in a room with those 9ft hairy bastards. BTW did you know Enigma Sector has just fallen to the Kilrathi? We need more pilots! Get the Damn Concordia out there.... The Concordias where?! V Send the damn TCN Victory.
Spoe	posted 06-25-99 02:26 PM ET Two words: Microsoft VisualLinux ARRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!
walruskkkch	posted 06-25-99 02:39 PM ET Isn't being stuck in a cell with Rosanne a hideous form of punishment and should not be listed seperately? Worst fear: A fully Democratic China, they would bury a socializing US.
Eris	posted 06-25-99 03:06 PM ET I have no real fear of ordinary physical torture (as distinctly opposed to psychological torture), just to point out my further weirdness. I've had some pretty painful things happen to me. I know it would be extremely unpleasant and I do not want it to ever, ever happen, but it doesn't precisely /scare/ me... and it'd be a pretty rational fear if it did. I have an irrational fear of death. I am not ready to find out what, if anything, comes next. Hopefully, this will not be an issue for many, many years. However, I have known a couple people who died in their early 20s. I have an irrational fear of having my breathing passages obstructed. Actually, I suppose it's rather rational, but what it takes to trigger a panic (not as bad as it used to be) is irrational. I am /not/ claustrophobic in the classic sense. Small, enclosed spaces are unlikely to bother me. But having my face covered with a blanket can. I have an irrational fear of going blind. I already have pretty bad vision. I have an irrational fear of being forced to listen "Achy Breaky Heart". Or the number of times I'm going to hear TAFKAP's "1999" this year. No, wait, those are rational fears. Eris (Look, real answers...)
JayPegg	posted 06-25-99 03:23 PM ET TOO HORRIBLE TO IMAGINE SPOE!!!!! ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Raven of Despair	posted 06-25-99 04:34 PM ET Here is one that is more plausible. Imagine being summoned for jury duty. You must wait (and wait) in one room all day. There is a television. For some bizarre reason it shows mostly episodes of the Rosie O'Donnell show. Due to the fact that some perspective jurors are hard of hearing, the volume is turned all the way up. For hours and hours and... Oh wait, this already happened to me. But what if it happens AGAIN?
Noisy	posted 06-25-99 05:11 PM ET Eris' response really resonated with me, because for years I seemed to have a perpetual cold - resulting in a blocked up nose. Because of this, whenever I saw someone being gagged in a play or film on television, I used to think: "What would happen to me if I was gagged? It would be terrifying to have to struggle to breath through a blocked nose ...". Numbers two and three: 2) Daddy Long-legs. (I can now copy with moths, and most spiders - except for the really big ones with long spindly legs.) 3) Heights. I recently visited the Cape in South Africa, and right at the tip of the Cape is a lighthouse on a peak. Climbing up to the platform around the lighthouse was OK, but moving to the wall (3'6" to 4' and built of stone) surrounding the paved area, and looking over the edge down the 600ft(?) cliff was scary. The worst thing about it was the wind! However, I love flying in aircraft - I'm more scared of trains. Noisy Macroweed to the Stars
Valtyr	posted 06-25-99 05:48 PM ET Philip McCauley: To finally answer your question (I'm slow, aren't I? ): No it doesn't. Not any more .
Noisy	posted 06-25-99 07:03 PM ET Valtyr: Ten days to respond to a post is a little slow. Can anyone else cite an instance that beats this? Noisy - starting to get a bit desperate, now -
Pinko34	posted 06-25-99 10:03 PM ET I changed my mind. My WORST fear would be being the only person to live forever .
Natguy	posted 06-26-99 01:31 PM ET Failure. Close followers are snakes and weird-looking bugs.
Major Bloodnok	posted 06-26-99 06:15 PM ET Eccles! Wheres your medication? The damn battle for K'thrak Mang has driven him mad. that, and spending 10 years in a backwater. Yes mon amis, Colonel Devereux is dead, I would have told you when the Concordia went down, but I wanted to protect you. Kilrathi Cruiser off the Starboard bow! Get Eisen up here! Women and Space Marshall Tolwyns first..... (I am not eccles!!)
Sinapus	posted 06-26-99 09:20 PM ET My fears? I have a slight bit of arachnophobia (I don't mind little spiders, it's the ones bigger than my hand that creep me out especially the one in that movie that had lungs big enough to hiss) and a fear of snakes. The idea of immortality doesn't scare me per se, but I do think I might get mind-bogglingly bored at some point if I were immortal.
Earwicker	posted 07-01-99 01:58 PM ET Wild snakes. I don't mind them as pets (kinda like 'em actually) or as an ornamental motif, but when i see them out slithering through the grass my legs just start backing me up the opposite direction. Even when it's a dinky little garter snake.
OhWell	posted 07-01-99 02:19 PM ET Waking up and finding out that this is all real! No, Spiders... I hate spiders. No, being buried alive. Wait, being buried alive with spiders! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... OhWell Runs away screaming.
DerekM	posted 07-01-99 02:34 PM ET I have two irrational fears. 1) I hate insects. When I was a small child, my family was vacationing next to a pond in the woods. As I was wandering around out back, I stumbled into a nest of ground hornets. I think the combination of being in a strange place and having it take what seemed like hours to get rid of all of the crawling, stinging things caught in my clothes and hair warped me a little bit. 2) I have a fear of falling. Airplanes don't bother me, but exposed heights do. At one point I had a contact lens get caught under my eyelid...at the top of the staircase in the Statue of Liberty. For those of you who have never been, that staircase is very narrow, with a railing that is only about four feet high. It spirals around a pole in the center of the statue, and you can see (and fall) all the way to the base of the statue. Feeling my way down that staircase half-blind is not something I want to do again.
ZRand007	posted 07-01-99 02:55 PM ET My worst fear is the fear of not being perfect. I dunno why, but that's my goal right now, to be perfect! -007
Q Cubed	posted 07-01-99 03:28 PM ET 1. Failure. Plain and simple. 2. Being told that everythig I've striven for, everything I've worked for, etc., is wrong and in vain, and it being right. 3. Poisoned by any method. 4. Dying with regrets. 5. Dying suddenly without a choice. 6. Abandonment by someone I'm close to. 7. Hmm....some of those can be grouped together. And, I can't really think of anything else. 8-9-10. Goodbye.