What scares the shit out of you?

[Le Socialiste]

Simple question. What scares the shit out of you? What has the potential to keep you up at night? We all have something, what is it?

For me it's the thought of life post-uni. I'm not exactly going into the most profitable of career choices (teacher/educator), and the demand for teachers has been way down in my neck of the woods for some time now. :(

I'm also terrified at the prospect of being burned alive. Or drowning.

[Ostrinski]

The thought of losing my mother.

[Art Vandelay]

I'm constantly scared that my actions and existence hurts the people I care about most.

[Yuppie Grinder]

That I'm going to end up having a dull 9 to 5 job. Nothing I enjoy doing has practical career potential.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The thought that billions of us could die in screaming agony because a powerful minority were too bigoted, greedy and selfish to comprehend the real-world consequences of their decisions.

The thought of fascism gaining more than the foothold in Europe it has gained so far, and actually arriving on my doorstep to bring oppression and misery and to divide proletarian against lumpen. I suspect that if fascism comes to the UK, it won't be the jackboots and brown shirts characteristic of the kind of fascism with modernist pretensions - no, it will be the kind of fascism that Middle England would approve of; it will be all that fucking antiquated Queen and Country bullshit that drives me fucking nuts even today. Imagine if the Daily Mail ran the country and you wouldn't be far off.

[bcbm]

bills, accomplishing something with my life, death

[Pelarys]

Whatever the hell is going to happen to me next.

[Comrade Samuel]

The state of the world right now.

[Le Socialiste]

The thought that billions of us could die in screaming agony because a powerful minority were too bigoted, greedy and selfish to comprehend the real-world consequences of their decisions.

I'll admit this has come up for me as well - from time to time. Every report I read, every news article that comes up, brings me that much closer to believing that the Earth is nearing its tipping point.

Edit - Sorry, just realized you might not have been referring to climate change. Eh, still stands. I'm terrified of that too.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Never finding a partner to share my life with...
Ending up along and in a dead-end job with no future...
Dying in my sleep...

[Doflamingo]

While I don't fear death (well, at least I don't care that I'm mortal and I want to die someday, just not yet), I fear knowing when my last day will be, because I will know of my impending death. I would try to have the "best day" I possibly could, and at the end of the day realize that I could have had a better day.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

The thought that billions of us could die in screaming agony because a powerful minority were too bigoted, greedy and selfish to comprehend the real-world consequences of their decisions.

The thought of fascism gaining more than the foothold in Europe it has gained so far, and actually arriving on my doorstep to bring oppression and misery and to divide proletarian against lumpen. I suspect that if fascism comes to the UK, it won't be the jackboots and brown shirts characteristic of the kind of fascism with modernist pretensions - no, it will be the kind of fascism that Middle England would approve of; it will be all that fucking antiquated Queen and Country bullshit that drives me fucking nuts even today. Imagine if the Daily Mail ran the country and you wouldn't be far off.

Never fear the fascists. They gain strength from your fear. Instead it is them that should fear you!
You must make them understand that you will not tolerate fascism, and that you have the people on your side. A whole different thing is if your country has fallen to fascism, in that case you either GTFO, or you try to do something about it.


The state of the world right now.

You mean the fact that Portugal is closer to socialist revolution than it ever was since 1974?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'll admit this has come up for me as well - from time to time. Every report I read, every news article that comes up, brings me that much closer to believing that the Earth is nearing its tipping point.

Edit - Sorry, just realized you might not have been referring to climate change. Eh, still stands. I'm terrified of that too.

Well, I think climate change could play a part in such a disaster, but I don't think it will ever be a primary cause of death for billions. It will certainly add to the misery of whatever civilisation-scale clusterfucks do come along.

A regional nuclear war between say, China and India was more along my line of thinking. Even if I'm on the other side of the planet to ground zero, the economic and humanitarian repercussions are sure to be felt where I live, and then there's the state of the world after the fact to consider!


Never fear the fascists. They gain strength from your fear. Instead it is them that should fear you!
You must make them understand that you will not tolerate fascism, and that you have the people on your side. A whole different thing is if your country has fallen to fascism, in that case you either GTFO, or you try to do something about it.

Fear is a completely rational reaction to the prospect of fascist rule. It's how one deals with that fear that is important.

[Tenka]

Death, disease, injury; being stuck as I am in a sea of cities and towns built for automobiles and not for people--especially not for impoverished people who cannot drive and would not care to own an automobile; getting shot or beat up for being atheistic and homosexual and gender-non-conforming; losing access to the internet; being in the presence of cops....

Edit to add: prospect of homelessness, getting older and uglier, losing my cherished long hair (father started going bald in his late 20s...).

[Landsharks eat metal]

-big crowds of people
-people in general

[LOLseph Stalin]

I'm scared of spiders, most dogs, and also the fact that I feel like I'm never going to accomplish anything in life.

[IrishWorker]

Cancer.

[Arlekino]

Wars

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Bills.
^ On a similar note, getting fired and not having money for all my bills & debt.
My mom's mental health.
My own health and what could happen if I don't kick it into gear already.
Mustard (i'm not joking)
This dead-end slump I've been in the last 12-14 months. Finally gave up school, just sticking out my crappy job, living day-to-day... doesn't come off too well or sound promising or full of potential when I've been single for over 16 months. Now that I'm lonely enough to be looking around, every girl I come across doesn't even give me a chance, between that and my social awkwardness and nerdiness.... I'm 23 and finally realized I haven't transitioned from dating outside of high school. It was easy back then to meet people, and all that. After putting myself into a 3 year relationship immediately outside of highschool, and giving up on college, meeting girls is awkward for me.


#nerdlyfe

[homegrown terror]

my generation leaving the world even worse off than it already was by the time my kid's generation takes over.

[Let's Get Free]

Dying without having accomplished anything in this world

[Quail]

Wasps and mouldy food. Got stung by a wasp when I was a kid and have been scared of them ever since. I really don't know why I'm so afraid of mouldy food though.

I constantly fear that I will accidentally or (more disturbingly) deliberately hurt the people I love through action or inaction.

The idea of fascism taking hold scares me, as does just the general state of the world.

[La Guaneña]

Torture and getting old lonely.

[Goblin]

Dying alone

[ВАЛТЕР]

Drowning or burning alive. I don't want to have that feeling of inhaling nothing but water. Also, I enjoy not being on fire.

[Fourth Internationalist]

What I fear most is dying young because losing my one and only life without ever really living it is the most devastating idea ever. Sometimes I wish heaven was real...

[The Jay]

Wasps and mouldy food. Got stung by a wasp when I was a kid and have been scared of them ever since. I really don't know why I'm so afraid of mouldy food though.

I constantly fear that I will accidentally or (more disturbingly) deliberately hurt the people I love through action or inaction.

The idea of fascism taking hold scares me, as does just the general state of the world.

I sat on a yellow jacket nest when I was 12. I do run from wasps but I also seek better ways to exterminate their nests muahahaha!

[Brutus]

My sanity. I think i may never go insane

[Brutus]

Also, I think I'll shit myself when I'm in armed conflict.

[Pirate Utopian]

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[Sinister Intents]

My extremely violent thoughts about what I would do to fascists.

I've often thought of shackling one of them and ripping teeth out one by one slowly. Then I would do the same with finger nails, then I'd cut their hair off, then rip the flesh away from their torsos.

I've thought much worse but thats an example, and I'm sure their are more violent things I can do and anyone else can do

[Pirate Utopian]

Wow. You're a real badass. I bet you lift.

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Loneliness.
Post-uni life.
Shit job teaching underage criminals (not all of them are, of course).

That's about it.

[Goblin]

The illuminati

[Decolonize The Left]

Spiders. Nothing comes close. Except some other crazy looking insects or fish things that live in the depths of the depths of the sea.

And napalm.

[Prometeo liberado]

A cage attached to my face with a rat in it. That and running into the Aqua Teen Hunger Force in dark alley without a valid reason. Yeah, those two thngs.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

Various ways of dying: getting my throat slit, eaten by an aquatic animal, etc.

Having a girlfriend, specifically living with a partner.

Not being able to do my dream career.

[homegrown terror]

a meaningless death is a pretty scary concept.

[Chris]

The thought of getting disability benefit.

[LOLseph Stalin]

The thought of getting disability benefit.

What's so bad about that? I get disability benefits.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

What's so bad about that? I get disability benefits.

It sounds pretty sweet.

[Chris]

What's so bad about that? I get disability benefits.
Well, it's more getting disabled in the first place. At least here, people on benefit are not respected by most (my mother and some other relatives are on disability, so seen some of it from that). It happened rather suddenly with her (aneurysm), so I'm a bit scared of it. More the exclusion from the workforce than the illness itself.

[human strike]

Responsibility and wage labour.

[roy]

drowning. almost drowned when i was 13 now im kinda scared to swim in rivers or the ocean at all.

heights a little bit i guess, or maybe im just timid in general and adverse to risk-taking

people

[GPDP]

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These fuckers.

[LOLseph Stalin]

Well, it's more getting disabled in the first place. At least here, people on benefit are not respected by most (my mother and some other relatives are on disability, so seen some of it from that). It happened rather suddenly with her (aneurysm), so I'm a bit scared of it. More the exclusion from the workforce than the illness itself.

Well you can't really blame the disability benefits themselves for that, but capitalism. Capitalism teaches you to demonize the disabled since they can no longer "contribute" to society, at least not in a way that the bourgeoisie view as useful.

[Leftsolidarity]

Spiders

[Rugged Collectivist]

I'm scared that someone might use the internet to discover my fears and then incorporate them in my murder. That's why I won't state them.

But I am afraid of being murdered. Who isn't?

[Sinister Intents]

I'm afraid of revlefters. Damn commies:rolleyes:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Death, though not quite as much as before.

Not finding love again.

Capitalism and its relationship with technology and intelligence.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

These fuckers.

As someone who has a phobia of these monsters and lives in an area where there are species of them that grow to the size of a small bird of prey, that literally made me jump a few feet.

[Ele'ill]

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[Durruti's friend]

Suffocation in any form. Also Myriapoda, those insects.

On a political side, I'm afraid of fascists taking power. I've been trolling around on Facebook lately and I'm surprised and depressed after finding out how many nazis there are... :(

[Art Vandelay]

Not being good enough at my new job and negatively affecting this young man's life.

[Lobotomy]

Loneliness. Fungus. Losing the physical ability to be able to take care of myself (by a car accident or something). Leading a boring and unfulfilling life.

[Philosophos]

My mother whenever she screams so loud that only dolphins and aliens can hear her....

[Orange Juche]

Bats. Demon flying rats from fucking hell.

[Il Medico]

Death and spiders...and death by spiders.

[Starship Stormtrooper]

When I first found the site, but before I registered, people with 2000+ posts were quite intimidating. Now they scare me for a different reason, knowing that I could be a bitter and jaded vet like some of them are in 10-15 years.

Also, meningitis. One of my friends had it a few years ago and almost died.

[Quail]

I'm just going to reiterate mould, after seeing some mouldy bread and running screaming out of the kitchen :o

[Orange Juche]

Well you can't really blame the disability benefits themselves for that, but capitalism. Capitalism teaches you to demonize the disabled since they can no longer "contribute" to society, at least not in a way that the bourgeoisie view as useful.

It's one of those quiet discriminations that's just kind of there but rarely talked about.

[Sinister Intents]

Endermen in minecraft freak me the fuck out....

[Comrade Nasser]

Some stuff that freaks me out:
-Nazis (I don't mean the new wannabe assholes we have now I mean like 1940's nazis sometimes I have crazy dreams at night of them blitzkrieging my house)

-Conservatives- I feel like they have a bone to pick with me because of the way I look. Y'know the whole "oh my god never forget 9/11 I love meh sum ammuricaaaa" and I'm middle-eastern so yeah.

-Hoodrats/Gangbangers- I always feel like i'm going to be attacked if I go down the wrong neighborhood down here LOL

-Some Teachers- I have some annoying teachers who never get off my case and want me to do all my homework assignments even if i'm swamped because I have 3 A.P. classes lols

[Sinister Intents]

I have a massive fear of escalators...

I have a massive fear of large tarps flying in the air above me, it makes me think I'm gonna be suffocated.

Spiders.

And Nazi's

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

I don't think too much about my fears. Now and then I worry about my mother and family members dying since my grandfather, childhood dog and step-father died in the last two years. But my political fanaticism really occupies my brain to where I don't really care about anything other than spreading anti-capitalist, pro-socialist sentiment and educating others through debate and literature.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Cliche response; something happening to my kids (illness, death, being scared / alone).

[∞]

-Hoodrats/Gangbangers- I always feel like i'm going to be attacked if I go down the wrong neighborhood down here in SoCal LOL
because I have 3 A.P. classes lols

We're all talk boy.

[Art Vandelay]

People.

[DasFapital]

relationships. not so much whether I find one or not but rather how badly I will fuck it up.

[rednordman]

Never finding a partner to share my life with...
Ending up along and in a dead-end job with no future...
Dying in my sleep...100 percent this. Exactly what was in my mind even. That and dying from a heart attack or having a bad stroke due to pushing myself during exercise.

[JPSartre12]

Clowns, ever since I had one at my birthday party when I was in pre-school.

[Brutus]

People.

Misanthropic solidarity.

[Vanilla]

Potatoes that are old and start budding. I feel the same when I see that as when I see blood.

[rednordman]

Also Vomit and vomiting. I know that must seem really strange but its been with me all my life, and very small spaces or rooms without windows and such.

[skitty]

greed and ignorance

[smellincoffee]

The ever-increasing power and will-to-abuse that power of the state in the US.

That and swarm insects.

[slum]

"success"

being committed again

kafka

[Hermes]

I've always been really, really, terrified of losing all or some of my memory/consciousness, especially if I'm aware of it slowly happening.

[MarxSchmarx]

Cockroaches. I can't explain it.

I enjoy holding and admiring rhinoceros beetles, I've eaten grasshoppers and ants. I lived vicariously through the pet tarantula my schoolroom class kept at one point. Even having silverfish and spiders in my house doesn't bother me.

But damn roaches, I see one, imagine the 30 others I don't see, and I squeal.

[VDS]

Is it cliche to say death? It's not just dying. It's really the way I think about death. The loss of consciousness forever, and then the rationalizing of how long forever actually is.

Also, used to be DEADLY scared of elevators, took me 15+ years to conquer it, but finally did.

Also, regret. Links back to death. Death is scary enough. A life that I didn't want to live to begin with is even worse. It's a paralyzing fear often unfortunately.

[Brutus]

But you'll be dead, so you won't care or know.

[Tifosi]

I'm claustrophobic :sneaky:

[VDS]

But you'll be dead, so you won't care or know.

Yeah, and when I'm dead, I won't care. But for now, I care entirely too much at times. I get lost in my head a lot. Though I've been making headway.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Cockroaches. I can't explain it.

I enjoy holding and admiring rhinoceros beetles, I've eaten grasshoppers and ants. I lived vicariously through the pet tarantula my schoolroom class kept at one point. Even having silverfish and spiders in my house doesn't bother me.

But damn roaches, I see one, imagine the 30 others I don't see, and I squeal.

While we're on the subject of insects I have to add bed bugs. Those things are a fucking nightmare and have literally kept me up at night.

[Yuppie Grinder]

silver fish

[Crixus]

A cage attached to my face with a rat in it.


Welcome to room 101 Winston.

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My room 101 is filled with death. I'm afraid of death. Ive been surrounded by death the last two years and it's horrifying. I've had two family members die (brother ,allergic reaction March 3'rd 2011/father,cancer March 24'th 2012) and one has been given around 4 years to live (mother,Alzheimer's). It's a constant in the back of my mind. Knowledge of our eventual death is a cruel joke. A curse. Especially for atheists. Funerals are shit. Mourning is shit. Watching people slowly die is shit. This post is depressing. Sorry about that.

[Crixus]

My sanity. I think i may never go insane

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[Il Medico]

I'm pretty scared of what might happen when I finally give into my wanderlust. I really want to explore and see the world, but I'm terrified when I strike out by myself I'll never be able to connect to anyone new and I'll be utterly alone.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I'm pretty scared of what might happen when I finally give into my wanderlust. I really want to explore and see the world, but I'm terrified when I strike out by myself I'll never be able to connect to anyone new and I'll be utterly alone.

do it

[slum]

I'm pretty scared of what might happen when I finally give into my wanderlust. I really want to explore and see the world, but I'm terrified when I strike out by myself I'll never be able to connect to anyone new and I'll be utterly alone.

do it

it is the best goddamn feeling

i've found its actually a lot easier to have real interactions with people when you dont have to see them again and you're not worried about how you're perceived- it's easier to talk with very different sorts of people than you usually would, and people are nice to travelers. nothing made me like people as a species more than hitchhiking did; now i'm home and sour and disagreeable.

do it man

[melvin]

the possibility of becoming an abusive person because of how much other people hurt me.

[Comrade #138672]

Monsters in my closet.

Like Capitalists.

[∞]

Ever having to leave California.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Bees / wasps, death, groups of two or more intoxicated lads aged 14-30 (same for if they're female or a mix), casual conversations with strangers, the idea of my kids growing up to be arseholes, people flirting with me (rare but still scary),turning into my dad,...yeah, lots of things