What worries/frightens you more...- Page 2

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:29am

Natural disasters, for some reason, scare me more. Living in an earthquake prone area, and having grown up in a country where earthquakes happened... you'd think I wouldn't mind. But I do. You have no control at all. And the area that is affected is so large.

But, honestly, overall, I also figure it happens when it happens. I'm not going to stop traveling because of fear of terrorism or accidents. I am not going to leave the city I really like simply because of my fear of earthquakes.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:24am

Natural disasters bring people together. Neighbors help neighbors repair fences, people donate canned goods to food pantries, blankets and teddy bears are given away, and tears of loss are shed as a community.

Terrorist attacks tear people apart. Prejudices are formed and/or deepened and people grow distrustful and full of hate.

Terrorist attacks scare me far more.

[lildogs]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:46am

I'm not really scared of either one--both are events that are well beyond our control. I think about the terrorism more, mostly because I take the subway and live in NYC--but i was on that same subway on Sept 12.

I tend to fear abstractions, like failure and loneliness...makes you WAY crazier!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:06pm

Neti pots.

[mominator]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:17pm

Most natural disasters we can prepare for, still they worry me more than the terrorist attacks.

[BoxFive]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:14pm

Natural disasters are terrible, but a sudden terrorist attack seems more numbing.

[bdwybelle]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 4:54pm

Terrorist Attacks worry and frighten me.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:07pm

Natural disasters, for the same reason DayDreamer said. Even though we may get enough time to 'prepare', it's almost the anticipation that's the most frightening. Look at New Orleans - these people had advanced notice, but there was still mass destruction and hundreds (pushing thousands) dead, and likely the vast majority of those people had the same advanced notice as everyone else. Reading about the CNN journalist who saw people trapped in their attics and trying to get their attention as the water was rising...that type of slow death terrifies me. I've always been of the belief that I don't fear death itself, but the process of dying.

Updated On: 8/31/05 at 05:07 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:11pm

That's how I feel, Tiff. I want it to be QUICK.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:28pm

The only way I want it is me in my bed and very old. Any other death will obscure my accomplishments in life, which begs the question of why I lived. (In this respect, I think of someone I knew in childhood who was dragged to his death by a speeding car; now, when his name comes up, that's the only thing people discuss.)

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 5:31pm

i'm most worried about evelyn bursting into tears. will we have enough tissues? is evelyn a whimperer or a wailer? what will the children think? think of the children, i beg of you.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:00pm

Whimpers giving way to wails giving way to frozen "holler" expression.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:07pm

Natural Disaters and fires

I am so scared of being asleep when a house catches fire and having to jump from the second story,stupid

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:13pm

Stupid?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:13pm

Terrorist attacks

With all the weather satellites and geologists and everyone studying everything and giving warnings months ahead of time that a volcano could blow, even the most "sudden" of natural disasters aren't as unexpected as terrorist attacks. The flood watch interruptions on my TV screen are a nuisance. The news that the Metro has been shut down due to some unknown security problem are more frightening to me.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:17pm

sorry,I meant my fear was stupid

but I just realized that's not what the thread is asking,oops

I'd have to say Natural Disasters

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:40pm

Terrorist attacks..Sept. 11 really hit home, I knew about 5 people.