Courage is not the absence of fear, rather the will to carry on in the face of fear. I'm not sure where I heard that but I agree with it.
I think love is more powerful than fear. Even though I consider myself to be a rational minded person, I can imagine that I would be capable of doing crazy things given the proper persuasion. Love would probably be one of those things. So yes, love can conquer fear by clouding the mind. Just like The Architect said in The Matrix: Reloaded.
And Finti, don't you think fearing something too much can be a personal weakness? Like fearing death so much you waste your life worrying about it?
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-Albert Camus
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
Think about it....Bush has used fear to make us constantly wary of terrorist attacks that haven't happened. Fear caused the Salem Witch Trials. Fear caused the Spanish Inquisition. Fear caused the original Friday the 13th (in history, not the movie). Fear drives us to persecute other. Fear controls us. What does love do? It drives us to get rid of the tightening in our pants.
A slightly controversial theory: that fear is the greatest motivator, our greatest ally and enemy, and in itself a basis for love. It drives us to be all we can because we fear being forgotten, we fear not having money, we fear illness. It makes us obey because we fear the consequences sometimes more then our desire to do right. It promotes courage, the overcoming of fear. Even love is important. The fear of being alone. The fear of loosing the one you care for makes it so much more powerful, can you really love without fear? And it protects us. Teaches us, makes us learn from mistakes........
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Are you talking about fear, or about wisdom? There is a difference between acting to avoid pain, and acting to attain good things...
It is true that fear forms the basis for most of our actions, but love is the Other. Love is the gleam on the edge of a thrown die, love is the catalyst, love is the one thing capable of reversing emotional entropy...
Nicely done, and it is both wisdom and fear. After all, a wise man knows full well the power of fear, and that fear, if right, can be good. So much or religion is based on fear. So much of society is based on fear. So much of what we dear comes from fear. Wisdom is many things, including to how to best use knowledge and ourselves. That said we look at what is more powerful love or fear. I love love. My life is full of it, but in terms of power, I cynically see that no empire of society has successfully been built upon it, but they have, and are, built upon an ingrained social fear. And yes, we do things because they are right, but I feel that a majority of the time that often has a bit of fear in it. We obey the 10 coomandments becuase they are right? Or becuase they are right AND we fear hell? As such I stand by the theory (feary) that in an aspect fear is more powerful. We love life. Fear death. The same?
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Sep 30th, 2004 11:53 AM
Ytaker agreed with me once on October 9th, 2004
