Is there any good definition for "FEAR"?
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n 1: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
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I never used to have any fears when i was young.  As im getting older i seem to have loads.  I tend to be too overcautious with life nowadays!  It seems mad but crossing a bridge and looking over the wall to see the ducks in the rivers water is more of now a nail-biting experience.  The only thing i can suggest is a slow step, by step to conquer the fears.  It hasn't yet worked for me, the river that is by that bridge i dread, brings alot of insecurities for me.  A friend died near their from hypertherma and think its a case for me digging up the griefing part of things..  You never know but there could be a reason behind the lift you dread to take to fifth floor.  Theres a lot of emotional tree branches that our brain tend to keep a lock onto...!  Release the locks with the keys you hold in your hand.
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Fear doesn't need a reason.
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Yes and no; it is a product of fear because you are afraid of what will happen to you in this life and in the next, but it is also a product of evolution and a social norm.  It is a product of learning but part of learning morality is a fear of what will happen.  Also, morality is an extremely complex issue and sometimes, something that is morally right is more dangerous in the long run, so it can't be entirely the product of fear.  (Thanks for making me think)
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my personal opinion is that fear "in general" keeps us from maybe going to far, making us question wether or not we are decent humane beings someone who isnt or thinks they are afraid of nothing are weak emotionally or mentally  to bne afraid of nothing is to have no conscience
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Fear. Usually fear of the unknown. But fear is what leads to hate. I hate to be Jedi on this, but fear means you don't have knowledge, and that can lead to hating whatever it is.
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I BRLIEVE IT IS SOMETHING ON FEAR
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In my opinion it is a response to a stimuli because it's (for the most part) uncontrollable.  If it was an emotion you would just be scared of nothing for no reason, right?
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Fear.  We fear what we don't understand, and often we don't understand or misunderstand  those of different cultures. What's the answer?  I don't know that there is one.  Sure , education and learning to understand and tolerate others who are different than ourselves would help, but there will always be those in every culture who will be less open minded and try to spread their fear.  as yoda said, "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate"  this can apply to many events in the world today.
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u'll find it here\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/courage&r=67\n\n\nCourage is the ability to confront fear in the face of pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. As a virtue, courage is covered extensively in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, its vice of deficiency being cowardice, and its vice of excess being recklessness.\n\nThe precise view of what constitutes courage not only varies among cultures, but among individuals. For instance, some define courage as lacking fear in a situation that would normally generate it. Others, in contrast, hold that courage requires one to have fear and then overcome it.\n\nThere are also more subtle distinctions in the definition of courage. For example, some distinguish between courage and foolhardiness in that a courageous person overcomes a justifiable fear for an even more noble purpose. If the fear is not justifiable or the purpose not noble, then the courage is either false, or foolhardy.
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Fear is the mind killer.  Face your fear and let it pass through you.
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I can "fear" someone in the same sense as being in awe of and respecting his power. \n\nThis is a healthy fear. Even if the person I "fear" in this way is someone I trust, it's good to tread cautiously and with total awareness of my capabilities compared to his.\n\nLove means I serve someone because I respect them, value them, want to see the best for them, and am willing and even desiring to include them into my life. I am committed to serving them.\n\nBoth are useful to negate the extremes of the other. \n\nKeeping a healthy "fear" of God keeps me from presuming too much on his goodness (out of love). Without it, I'd end up being self-serving.\n\nKeeping a love for God prevent me from being a cowering animal motivated mostly by avoiding the punishment I could receive for disobeying. Without it, I'd end up fleeing God or despising him.
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Theres only one word for it:\n\nDEVASTATING!\n\nThe Establishment has developed a strategy of fear and induced hysteria to control and manipulate us into the lifestyle and political viewpoint that suits their agenda.\n\n"The people need wholesome fear; they want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them \nshudderingly submissive." \n- Ernst Roehm, leader of the Nazi SA Brownshirts...\n\nOnly fear brought them back into power on the 2nd election. Only by fear could the public be brought to accept the loss of their constitutional rights by laws such as the Patriot Act.
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A little more (or perhaps less) complex than that. Religion is a system of beliefs created by man to dilute fear. Fear is a basic emotion of all animals (yes, humans are animals)and in a relatively advanced species like humans it becomes intellectualized. Religion is absolutely nothing without fear. They go hand in hand. When they both reach hyper levels of intensity the violence will kick in. The opposite of intelligence is fear based ignorance. Most religious people have lived with fear since they were brainwashed at young age. They don't even realize it.
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fear is a response from your nervous system.... that has 2 systems: the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.... the sympathetic is your " fight or flight" response to your body and your parasympathetic is your " feed or breed" response. as long as there is something to stimulate these systems there will always be fear!!!
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Fear of the Unknown...simple.
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FDR (a truly great American President) once said, "the only thing to fear, is fear it self".  Fear (or terror if you like), is an emotion.  You can not go to war against an emotion.  Our government is abusing our fear to generate support for a War that makes the friends of George Bush even more rich.\n\nIf you are afraid of terrorists, you are being manipulated.  The real enemy of the state is the Bush administration.  We are not winning, we are only making more enemies.  People who used to admire us now hate us, because of the so called "war on terror".\n\nFight your fear and think with reason, not with rage.