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Old 02-15-2008, 10:20 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor View Post
Fear mongering is as old as the wheel. It sells. Just ask religious text publishers.
I fear you were implying that I thought that Bush came up with fearmongering. I fear that I need to add more winky faces when I write.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
(Dune, Litany Against Fear)

"All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right... we loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly under half-steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build." (AA 12&12, page 49)

Life is full of really bad sh*t sometimes. It's bad enough worrying about the things you CAN control, let alone those you can't.
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