NOT THE BEES
5 (Loneliness) followed closely by 10 (Losing your freedom).
In order from weakest to strongest for me:
- Disappointment
- Loneliness
- Losing my freedom
- Misery
- The Unknown
- Failure
- Ridicule
- Death
- Pain
- Rejection
@OP: Strange; mine aren't on there.
Then you sir have truly become a GOD! (or else your standards of living and reality are different from othe people, mmmm?)
Oh My
I fear death, loneliness, and the unknown most from that list.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Failure, Rejection and Losing my Freedom are the big ones for me from that list.
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That One Guy
Where's fear of heights? 
Oh My
Change wasn't on there to my disappointment...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
I used to be afraid of cockroaches when I was young. But then I started killing a few and lost the fear.
I think that's it for me.
@garglewargle: Maybe on the former, and negative on the latter; I'm just fortunate enough to have the mental/spiritual fortitude necessary to deal with shit.
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Wouldn't that count as "The Unknown"?
Death, Rejection, and Ridicule,. here
vigilantly taxonomish
Can't decide. None of them seem that scary right now, but all are things that I do find scary.
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Oh My
Not necessarily, Zeal. I could know what the change is and still fear it. Which I often do.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
NOT THE BEES
Honestly it's the changes I do know that tend to scare me worse than the others.
Proud Canadian
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If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
I'd say loss of freedom. The others are hard to rank. Misery/loneliness go hand in hand sometimes.
They should have included those grates at the bottom of pools - only half joking.
One Winged Egret
I'd say "Failure" covers everything I'm afraid of.
- Rejection
- Loneliness
- Ridicule
- Disappointment
- Misery
- Failure
- Pain
- Losing My Freedom
- The Unknown
- Death
edited 30th Sep '11 4:42:01 PM by TheBatPencil
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
I think Fear itself beats all of those "strongest fears".
vigilantly taxonomish
Wait, no, I figured out what my strongest fear is.
That I am adrift. That I am a set of vague and unfixed attributes with no consistent material substance, lacking in any real purpose, possessing no particular talent, and being an outsider wherever I go.
Is that covered by fear of failure or isolation? It's slightly different, I think.
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I changed accounts.
Death, the Unknown, and Failure, roughly speaking...
I am now known as Flyboy.
1.Spiders 2. Spiders 3. Spiders 4. Spiders 5. That picture of a female wolf spider on The Other Wiki. 6. Spiders 7. Spiders. 8. /\/\(;::;)/\/\Oh My God Spiders Skree Skree Skree/\/\(;::;)/\/ 9. Spiders 10. "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself. And spiders." ~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Darn, I was expecting this was a scientific study (or at least a survey.)
Personally, I'd put #2 at the top. Just because you're lonely now, or a failure now, doesn't mean you'll always be lonely and a failure, but I expect to stay dead when I die.
On the other hand, #9 isn't even on the list for me. (This is one of the reasons I hate horror stories—writers keep trying to scare me by barely describing their monsters, and instead of thinking about what the monsters might do to me, I start thinking of what I might do to the monsters. I become frustrated when the protagonists die without even putting up a decent fight.)
edited 30th Sep '11 7:26:39 PM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
I was looking at an article http://listverse.com/2011/09/30/top-10-strong-human-fears/
from Listverse detailing (according to the author) the tope ten strongest human fears. I found most of these fears interesting and for the most part a valid collection of humanity's collective fears. I think the number #1 on the list is my strongest fear (failure), right behind #9 (the unknown)