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Good movie. I recommend it
Will check out the DVD from the library.
Underrated, for sure. I’ve watched it a couple of times.
Here’s another one, encouraging us to not act from fear, but hope:
MONOPOLY – Who Owns the World? by Tim Gielen, 2021
(Spoiler alert: it’s Blackrock & Vanguard)
Will watch. Ernst Wolff has been saying that for a while.
Satan is CEO.
Look how they used the fear of corona virus to steal away our rights, and the sheep gladly went along with it. There are people who will never go out in public without thier face diaper because they still fear the “virus”
A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.
When I go out it’s all Asians and Indians wearing it. I thought these people were supposed to be smart?
Fear only has power to cripple you if YOU allow it. Its an emotion, take control of it and turn it back onto those that would wield it for control… make them afraid…
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Your soul is immortal, so what is there to be afraid of? Nothing…
Not a big fan of pain (my own or of those I love). Know its all temporary, but in the end I hope to go in a big aneursym, not slowly tortured by evil men.
One of my best friend’s Dad died from aortic aneurysm rupture this year. Age 91, still jogging every day. Went for a walk with wife, had abdominal pain, dead an hour later.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Eternal, inescapable torment.
Death is the biggest illusion. Once you understand this. You are on the way to spiritual liberation. More correct is. I am Soul. Soul is the real me that is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent.
Fear is an enemy that makes us think we’re safer doing nothing:
Light a single candle. If we resist, we win.
I liked the post HSF. We raised 4 sons, and when little and afraid of things that go bump in the night or under the bed I would recite with them the Bible verse Psalm 34:4 – then they grew up and some went in the military and went to scary, fearful places and when they told me of their concerns – with that phone call of, “Mom I’m leaving.” That is what I sent with them and for me also….
Here is another good help in fighting the fear that would so easily like to overtake us during these dark days……
I am more afraid than my kids. They are killing me with their fearless ways.
Edit: But I am trying not to show it. Inside, I am usually proud of them.
Well, except when my husband takes them onto 300 feet cliffs; then I just get mad at HIM.
Let them inspire you.
Years ago I was working on the roof with an articulated lift platform. Our youngest son was maybe four at the time. He asked me if he could jump off of the roof onto the trampoline- he was very good at the trampoline even then, despite the fact that we never put a net around it. So we dragged the trampoline around back and I took him up and let him have a go at it. My wife was in one of the upstairs rooms when she saw him drop past the window. I won’t tell you about that conversation, but suffice to say I prevailed and our son took quite a few more jumps.
Was there risk involved? Sure, there is always risk involved in everything we do. You can choke to death on a bite of food, slip and fall and drown in your bathtub, die in an automobile accident every time you get behind the wheel.
That’s how life works. If you don’t know that, then you missed an important lesson growing up.
Some of my fondest memories of my own childhood were of how my parents reacted when I came in the house with an arm dangling askew, or bleeding profusely from the scalp, or with a stick protruding from my leg. They calmly picked me up and took me to the doctor to stitch me up or set the bone and cast it and then went back to whatever they were doing as if it were nothing more than dropping a dish on the kitchen floor. That kind of experience gave me the ability and the confidence to face everything in life without fear. Caution, sure, and in good measure due to those outcomes. I made plenty of mistakes in my life, but rarely twice.
Fear is a sickness and we’ve all seen what it can do to people who would otherwise be considered rational and reasonable over the past few years. Don’t be one of them.
HSF,
Is there risk? Sure is. My neighbors son fell off of an 8 foot ladder. He’s now crippled for life at the age of 24.
Can happen to anyone. My parent’s neighbor had a bicycle accident at the age of 50 and is a quadriplegic. Are you going to forbid bicycling?
Come on, don’t get it twisted. Safety first. You know how much thought goes into jumping and falling as a stunt man? Nope, let’s just drag it around back…forget the net. Who needs that shit anyway? Just jump pussy.
AP,
You didn’t know you’re supposed to curl your fingers when dicing?
You can even be in your kitchen chopping chives and cut your thumb off! Are you gonna forbid cooking? Risk is everywhere.
Is that how that happened?
I wouldn’t think some macho like that knows how to cook.
Or maybe trying to make that sort of pasta.
I thought it was Italian, meaning: behavior that is traditionally considered to be male.
You need a German knife, like the Wuesthoff one I have. Would have taken the whole thumb off. We don’t do half ass jobs.
Ouch. Hurts me just to think about it. Friend of ours did some home remodeling recently and cut lengthwise into the tip of the thumb from the top with a table saw about half way down, needing surgery and rendering the thumb a good bit shorter and the joint stiff, but at least he still has the thumb for opposition. Could have always been worse.
..the longest 30 minutes in TBP history….reeeeee
Haha. Yes. It’s raining out.
When I hear the word macho…I think gold chains and shirt half unbuttoned and collar raised up.
He is manly tho…for a lot of reasons, but one is that he cooks. Men are some of the best cooks.
PIDDYDAFOO!!!
¿Quien Es Mas Macho?
First time I ever noticed his “star of david” bling…
We’d tell our kids… and now grands, If its not arterial then slap a bandaide on it, wait five minutes and git back att’r…
Grand daughter is a tough cookie too… she’s learning to rollerblade… takes a few sq inches of skin off an appendage, shakes it off and goes right back at it again…
Just rub some dirt on it…it will be ok.
Nonsense, fear is not a sickness no matter how much you want it to be. Anyone who say’s they don’t have fear is either lying or lacks common sense, succumbing to fear is a whole different matter. I think your confusing phobias, anxieties or emotional disorders with fear.
Fear:
Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to oneself.
Staying rational in the face of fear is a proper reaction and can save one’s life or even prevent physical harm.
Years ago I was going through a period of high anxiety. It was brutal. I prayed & prayed for God to take the anxiety way…and He did. (It’s how I know He is real…because of answered prayers, and a lot of other ways too).
Anyway, He did his job well because I feel so little fear these days. And it has proved very useful in the last couple of years. The biggest fear, I would say, is dying before I’m able to do what I was called to do.
Ok, I’ll keep it to myself, for now. 😊
AA – God knows the number of your days, so there is not a single reason to worry about it.
Svarga…dads are good like that. God bless the dads who raise fearless boys.
And girls.
My brain knows that, but my heart can’t help being motherly, even if that means being more fearful. Most likely, the dichotomy of the two is what children thrive on. Dad does the archery and tree climbing, I do the cuddling (boys) and the nail polish (girl), it’s all good.
Yeah, I’m sure y’all have a good balance. Just be grateful your husband is not a pansy ass raising betas. Seen it way too much when I worked in the school system.
Go give him a BIG KISS right now! 🙂
He is at work, bringing home the bacon.
And I have to go download Java Eclipse so our son can start the Java Masterclass by Tim Buchalka on Udemy, on sale for$18 for another 5 hours. (they really should pay me…) Him earning a living after the age of 16 is our retirement plan.
Good plan.
Well, ok then, give him a big surprise when he gets home from work. I’m tellin’ ya, we are in a culture of weak dads these days. BIGGEST KISS. 😉
Perhaps the vaccine against fear is an individual’s courage to act as derived from faith.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/15/the-lefts-war-on-history-is-really-a-war-on-the-god-of-the-bible/
We have seen an unrelenting campaign from TPTB to create fear, to create artificial pathos, to create hatred, and to create division. Their overwhelming agenda using all the power of modern communication and captured media has affected all of society, even (especially?) those who can’t or won’t recognize it for what it truly is.
Yet we are responsible for our own emotions. It is said that the market is driven by only two things: Fear and Greed.
TPTB leverages their Greed to install your Fear. Don’t ever let it happen. You are responsible for your own emotional and physical well-being.
Fear is indeed a disease. There is indeed venom in mania. Exhale the (real) contagion.
Bless this immunity.
Tool is awesome, just awesome!
Danny is the GOAT!
The greatest lesson I ever had in life is: Where there is love. There is no fear.
The best way to get over fear is to just do it. I remember having many fears as a teenager, mostly social. I got over them by just daring myself to do it at every opportunity.
I try to live this everyday.
Love that.
From the clip…
Fear is a sickness
it crawls into the soul.
Do not be raised to live in fear.
Strike it from your heart.
Because
Fear is the Mind Killer
Fear is not a sickness. It is a spirit. Says so right in the Bible. It was a good movie…and a good reason to never take religious advice from the hut dwellers of the world.
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have no standing in society.” – Mark Twain
The only fear factor item in my cart is riding in a Tesla. I don’t mind leaving this plane, I just don’t want to go out as a crispy critter.
Evil feeds on negative human emotions. The more scared, worried or anxious you are the more likely they will attack you. Adrenaline is their drug. It attracts demons like nobody’s business I kid you not.
Now THAT was a meaningful movie,’Life-Lesson-Wise’
AND, He made wise decisions for His family, clear up ’til the final scene.
When The REAL Terror was revealed.
AND, when the fast approaching time is upon Us, I pray for strength, that i don’t squeal like a little girl…and i PRAY even harder, that when i’m awoken, i hear a Shout and a Trump…Else The FINAL End is at hand.
Stubble and Nevermore.