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[Noureli]

1. DUPPIES
2. DUPPIES
3. DUPPIES

[captain kirk]

Duppies, two meanings.

1. Depressed Urban Professional
http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/12/pf/saving/duppies/
So Duppies come to your door like zombies?

2. Duppies, Jamaican type of ghost.
http://www.nlj.org.jm/docs/folklore_duppy.htm
So Jamaican ghosts come to your door like depressed urban professionals?

Duppy

[daskalos]

1. Toss up between dying before selected loved ones and not dying before them. On the one hand, I won't have to live through that grief. But then they will have to, and I'm emotionally stronger than some of them, so ... it's a toss up.

2. Spending my last years in a nursing home drooling on myself.

3. Earnest, influential, well-intentioned idiots.

[Privateer]

1. Spiders. The thought of a spider running up my arm makes me want to go into a frenzy.
2. Sharks. I too get nervous swimming in deep water or where I can't see what's underneath me.
3. Being burned alive. Worst death possible.

I've also become scared of plane crashes, falling off the platform in the subway, and walking along narrow mountain edges - none of which used to bother me at all. The thought of a loved one dying is also very unpleasant of course, but more upsetting than scary.

[gotte00]

heights
snakes
trenchcoats, especially seeing men at the airport in trenchcoats.not exactly sure where that comes from though. before terrorism became all the rage, i used tho think that's how terrorists would carry bombs, within the trenchcoat. i'm not talking about the nice wool coats, i'm talking cheap material or leather, steven segal looking coats with the stupid ass flap on the shoulders. those things should be banned more for bad taste than giving someone like me the heebie jeebies

[Woland]

I faced up to one of my fears today - heights/edges. I climbed Jaun Bong in Pukhansan National Park. It's 740 meters up at the top. Most of climb itself is perfectly fine for me - just plodding away higher and higher up the mountain along the trail.

But the last 30 feet or so here involved pulling myself up bare rock face by two ropes. Sheer terror. I could picture the rope breaking (or pulling the tree it was tied to out by the roots) and me tumbling backwards down the rock face. So I sat at the bottom just gathering courage, while ajummas and ajosshis passed me by, going up like mountain goats. I got around the first rope by following a circuitous path to the tree it was tied to used by a haraboji who passed me. The second rope was better because the rock face was less smooth and I fely like I could stop myself, but it still took ten minutes of standing there to work up to it.

I made it to the top of mountain, pulling myself over the last edge onto the flat top of Jaun Bong. It was 25 - 30 feet long, with two levels and only about 3-4 feet wide. Terror. One ajosshi started chatting to me about how nice it was and I realized I had better pull myself together, stand up and maybe move to the higher level. I stood up and immediately got hit by the wind. And yes, the immediate thought was that it would blow me off the edge. I grabbed the rail and gingerly walked my way up to the higher level. There, I found a place to sit and take pictures. I stayed up there about 15 minutes and felt better about it as time went on. But the Koreans standing on the downward slope, with their backs to the edge, having pictures taken, still made me nervous. Going back down was just as nervewracking until I felt I was at a safe level.

But I made it. Ten years ago, I could not have done what I did today. I have pushed myself on my fear of hieights/edges, gradually getting better at making my rational mind take over from my emotional one. I know those ropes are solid, that the wind won't blow me off the mountain, but it still takes time to talk myself into it.

Anybody else got tales of challenging your fears?

[potblackettle]

1. Somehow losing/being seperated from my best friend/husband. I'd be one of those people who actually died of a broken heart.
2. Christians (UBER-SCARY!)
3. George W. Bush

[pegpig]

I think you can add stingrays to my list. Probably reduces my chances of swimming in the ocean.