I'm afraid. Ponderings or reflection of fear.

Today's spam is about fear.

We humans are funny creatures, in that psychologists routinely state what we threaten others with. Is what we ourselves fear the most.

For instance someone afraid of violence will usually threaten to beat up or just knock someone out. Someone will threaten with more wherewithal, vigor and offer extremes of the thing they themselves fear. This means the more pronounced the threat the more those that threaten it fear it.

My fear is mostly abuse of power and exotic weapons.

Like if someone were to tell me they were going to thump me, I'd be well that's not new.

But threaten to lock me up in a secret CIA prison and microwave me with a beam from a commercial microwave... And I pretty much well lose the plot with panic.

Part of what we fear is the fear of the unknown, I don't know how much it will hurt to be microwaved. But the anxiety of knowing one is to be microwaved and not knowing as much as one could through knowledge or personal experience about it. Leads to endless mental anguish about the horrors which only lurk in our minds.

Thus the saying, "What we hate, we become." This is because we're said to hate about others what we loathe in ourselves. But part of that hatred is the fear of what we don't know about ourselves. That we only learn through either positive or negative experiences or rationalisation of what we hold to be true through our conditioned subjective experience.

What is said in the Bible, "That the fortune of the good shall be. And the fears of the wicked shall befall them."

In a way we focus on our fears more than we should. "Good people" have a innocent naivety that makes them impervious to fear. Thus they don't focus on it and while their naivety doesn't preclude them from misfortune they merely bounce back from it more readily.

Whereas evil people focus on their fear and usually cause it to be a "self fulfilling prophecy".

What does everyone else think?

Am I merely pessimistic about irrational fears?