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    Dj ftw!

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    I have a fear of Mr Happy not standing at attention. I face my fear by asking my Dr. for a Viagra prescription. Problem solved.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
    "Follow the spiders? Follow the spiders?! Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?"-Ron Weasley



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    Lol, that top pic looks like ZZ Top.

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    29 FEAR definitions

    False Evidence Appearing Real
    Forget Everything and Run
    **** Everything and Run
    Face Everything and Recover
    Failure Expected And Received
    False Emotions Appearing Real
    False Evidence Appears Real
    False Expectations Appearing Real
    Feel, Elevator, Aileron, Rudder
    Feeling Everything's Awful Real
    Feelings Every Alcoholic Rejects
    Feelings Expressed Allows Relief
    Fighting Ego Against Reality
    First Encounter Assault Recon
    Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly
    Forever Escaping And Retreating
    Forgetting Everything's All Right
    Frantic Effort to Appear Real
    Frantic Efforts to Appear Recovered
    Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment
    Face Everything And Rejoice
    False Experiences Appearing Real
    Force Elements at Readiness
    Foreign Export and Recovery
    Forfeitures Endanger American Rights
    Forget Everything and Relax
    Forgetting Everything About Reality
    Future Events Already Ruined
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    well sas soldiers can pick up spiders and eat them and can also swim with great white sharks. Are Shaolin temple monks like this? Some schools are like this and only want the students who are fearless, meaning you can live the rest of your life with Ted Bundy or the Boston strangler and sleep comfortably in your bed at night.

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    Clearly the most fearsome activity, eating spiders. No but if you can do that stuff you would probably be feared in prison or something for being batsht crazy

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    Eating spiders inspiring fear in prison? Nah, you would end up being victimized and/or stuck on the bug range(no pun intended). There is "this guy is crazy, i respect him" and then there is "this guy is crazy, get him off the range or he's gonna get hurt". Big difference between the two. Eating spiders is most likely to be viewed as the latter.

    Swimming with sharks isn't as crazy as people seem to think. There's a time and place, with the right gear and attitude... anyone can do it.

    I find this one far more brave...

    http://youtu.be/jsSq8IYznJs

    jump ahead to about the one minute mark. Watch how she deals as they try to flank her. Her body language, her footwork. I love how she simulates prey then flips it on em and backs them off. Seems like it's only a matter of time, huh. Now that is some brave shit right there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syn7 View Post
    Eating spiders inspiring fear in prison? Nah, you would end up being victimized and/or stuck on the bug range(no pun intended). There is "this guy is crazy, i respect him" and then there is "this guy is crazy, get him off the range or he's gonna get hurt". Big difference between the two. Eating spiders is most likely to be viewed as the latter.

    Swimming with sharks isn't as crazy as people seem to think. There's a time and place, with the right gear and attitude... anyone can do it.

    I find this one far more brave...

    http://youtu.be/jsSq8IYznJs

    jump ahead to about the one minute mark. Watch how she deals as they try to flank her. Her body language, her footwork. I love how she simulates prey then flips it on em and backs them off. Seems like it's only a matter of time, huh. Now that is some brave shit right there.
    That's pretty crazy

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    The following was my personal experience.

    One night I walked in a dark alley in Rio de Janeiro, a guy stood with his back on the wall. He looked at me, looked at my watch, looked at me, and looked at my watch again, he then turned his head away. I knew he tried to decide whether he should attacked me for my watch. Next evening, I (a long hair China man with blue jean and leather jacket) stood on the opposite side of the same dark alley and looked at all the people who walked by. Not only street walkers started to walk on the other side of the street (away from me), those stranger guys who had their back against the wall started to disappear one after another. I suddenly realized that in a good guy's eyes, I might look like a bad guy. In a bad guy's eyes, I might look like an under cover cop. After that personal experience, whenever I had fear, I always thought that I was the bad guy. Why should a bad guy be afraid of anything?
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    To be fair, I am deathly afraid of zombies. It's the ultimate "No matter what happens or how this ends, you are f*cked anyway." Fortunately, they are fictional.

    I sometimes have dreams about being attacked by the enemy, them trying to sneak inside the compound, or shooting from concealed areas, but they aren't really nightmares. I simply react to the threat... they are very fascinating dreams, actually.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syn7 View Post
    Eating spiders inspiring fear in prison? Nah, you would end up being victimized and/or stuck on the bug range(no pun intended). There is "this guy is crazy, i respect him" and then there is "this guy is crazy, get him off the range or he's gonna get hurt". Big difference between the two. Eating spiders is most likely to be viewed as the latter.

    Swimming with sharks isn't as crazy as people seem to think. There's a time and place, with the right gear and attitude... anyone can do it.

    I find this one far more brave...

    http://youtu.be/jsSq8IYznJs

    jump ahead to about the one minute mark. Watch how she deals as they try to flank her. Her body language, her footwork. I love how she simulates prey then flips it on em and backs them off. Seems like it's only a matter of time, huh. Now that is some brave shit right there.
    Well hang on a second. No one is going to mention the huge bare ass in this video?

    I am disappoint.
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