Dying. If it's so scary, then why does everybody do it?
I plan on skipping, so you might want to change it to almost everybody.
I've died zero times thus far and don't see why it should change.
!remindme 10 years
Thanks to denial, I'm immortal
Hey, more than 6% of people haven't died. Not everybody does it.
Cities
Chicago especially
Ending capitalism to embrace a system where we end poverty, consumerism and discriminations.
I’ve always suspected people conflate communism with dictators, which is the main cause of distrust for anything anti-capitalism.
Are there any examples of a nation successfully transitioning out of capitalism without ending up in a dictatorship? I want to believe it can be done, but I have no idea what it would look like.
Have a day off.
Public speaking. I've seen surveys where more people are afraid of speaking in front of an audience than they are of dying, which is utterly insane. For the vast, vast majority of scenarios where you might find yourself speaking to a group of people, the risk level is very low. Likewise, in the vast majority of cases, few people are likely to remember much about your performance. It's just talking.
Well I mean dying is a one time thing. However if you do badly at public speaking you will never hear the end of it. And if you do good they might ask you to do it again.
Spiders (USA).
Most spiders are harmless to humans and even beneficial to have around.
Asking someone out on a date.
I had social anxiety for years, so I probably struggled with this more than most. But it's surprisingly easy. And more often than not, if your instincts are that that person likes you, you're usually right.
if your instincts are that that person likes you, you're usually right.
They're not talking about you and i, dear reader.
99.9% of every horror movie, which should be renamed jump annoyances, tada
Or the other category of horror, “that’s gross”
Universal healthcare. So scary only 33 of the world's 34 most modernized countries have managed to make it work.
Skydiving
Yes, the first few times are intimidating. Hence why most students do their first few jumps tandem and then with a Jump Master after that.
After that though, you'll be looking out the window of the plane and seeing just how much air there is to play in. As you gain experience, you will internalize the fact you're safer in free fall, than you are on the airplane.
Living in the Matrix. If you do what they want, you get to taste steak.
Needles.
The heat death of the universe.
You literally don't need to worry about it at all. You won't be there for it when it happens.
I don’t think anyone is out there scared that they’re going to find themselves present at the heat death of the universe, they’re scared of the implication: the idea that nothing matters, even on the grandest of scales, because everything will be lost in the end.
The fear isn’t physical, it’s philosophical.
Minorities.
The sun imploding in the next few billions years. I've had conversations about that that I could see in the person's eyes that they were getting really scared about it.
hunger.
I don't mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.
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