Fear

[Rob]

Ah, so you are saying, that fear is being spread now, at the moment, say to increase public support for war?
Well, I don't have a TV, or watch any new source, and I have been feeling this too! Not a lot, it subsided a bit in the last couple of days. However, maybe I am just picking up on a global fear. bbuuuuttt if that is the case it doesn't paint a particularly pleasing picture either, since whatever is in the mass consciousness is inevitably what will manifest. The beliefs and fears of the massive are a very powerful force!

Rob

Hhhhmmm!! Maybe, maybe....if everyone was give up all their materialistic, closed minded, anit-spiritual rubbish, it would become much easier for people to reach upwards, towards enlightenment, and more people like in our group here would start to experience psychic phenoenon? Interesting....I think it very likely that the suppressive force of the sheeple is a big controlling factor....GGGRRRRRR!!!!!

[kakkarot]

i have a feeling that something in the future is going to happen. something in my lifetime. and that's not including the "visions" i had years ago. the feeling isn't based on fear, but on trepidition; as though something will make a lot of people stop and go "wow. we didn't see that coming. dang." and then some chaotic times occuring where both bad and good things happen like hasn't happened for a long time.

i don't watch television much at all anymore, maybe a single hour each week. and it's certainly NOT on the news, it's on cartoons, baby!

as for the murder rate in america going down, well it has. not because violence is decreasing, but because doctors and medicine are helping save more people's lives than ever before. violent crimes are on a rampage in the US even though deaths are less likely to occur from them.

~kakkarot

[Tarconiss]

Heh.... yeah... * raises his hand * yeah... that was me that made that post.... I haven't read the responces yet, so bear with me on this reply.

I havent seen any tv as of late, and I'm not one to be fearfull about things that are posted on the news. Infact I'm not really afraid of too many things.... And i know that if the area i live in gets nuked and i die, that i'll continue to exist.... infact i'de make the person who decided to nuke me, experience a lot of discomfort, while my energy still lingers to the real-time zone....

But anywho...  I don't think that it's fear that is causeing this feeling.... oh well... i hope things turn out for the best..

[Epsilon]

I was responding to a post in the prophecy section that was about someone who had a bad feeling about something, and others replied that they too have a bad feeling about something.  
Now I'm not saying that they're wrong, or what they're feeling is fake or anything, but I wanted to present a case that maybe they are feeling this because of fear, not because their higher-self is giving them this hunch (idea)... although that's entirely possible, and I could be wrong, but that's ok.  I've only been wrong once before, it's about time to be wrong again. [] jk.
Anyways, this was my post:

"How often do you watch the news?  Often, sometimes, never?
The media instills so much fear inside us everyday.  How often do you hear about the good things that are happening around us?  Not very often.  Most of the time you turn on the news, they're reporting another murder, or in the case of the Philadelphia area, a body was found with no organs inside.  
Do you know that over the past "x" years (I forget how many) the murder rate has gone down 20% in the US?  Probably not, because at the same time, media coverage on murders went up 600%!  SIX HUNDRED PERCENT!  From watching the news, you would think that the murder rate is on an exponential increase.  
Fear is thrown on us everyday, and when it builds up, major problems start happening.  People don't think as clearly, make rational decisions, become paranoid... etc.  I'm not saying that you're definitely not recieving some sort of messages or whatnot, but just take into consideration what is happening in the world around us today, and how much "bad news" we take in, and that maybe these thoughts of something bad about to happen is the buildup of so much fear that you are EXPECTING something bad because according to the media, that's all that seems to happen.  Just my 2 cents."

Fear is a controlling force.  The ability to instill fear is power.  When someone is so afraid of everything, they are more likely to "give in" and are less likely to think and act on their own.  All the evil dictators/rulers in the world's history used fear to gain power.  The key is to not let them (ex. the media) instill so much fear on us.  Next time you are watching the news on TV, and you hear about another murder, ask yourself why you want to watch such depressing stuff and instead change the channel, and watch something funny or interesting.  There are ways to find out current events without the excessive coverage on homicides and suicides happening around you.
A good book about this subject is "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner

Again, just my $0.02
Ethan