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Our chief weapon is fear
Happy Halloween everyone! 
In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears.
GaGambler
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bbfs4ever
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6 / 77
But if someone does reject me I just blame them for being stupid. I'm a great guy and I know it.
Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears.
My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears. My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
Alan_Nimm
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9 / 77
and, of course, the boogie man.
GaGambler
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12 / 77
Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears.
My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears. My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
GaGambler
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17 / 77
Smoking and/or heavy drinking make ED more likely. 40 years of abusing my body took a toll on me. Now it's time for surgery. 
GaGambler
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22 / 77
GaGambler
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24 / 77
WildJimmy!
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30 / 77
GaGambler
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37 / 77
skarphedin
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41 / 77
RroseSelavy
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42 / 77
skarphedin
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43 / 77
...he has a lot of explaining to do.
"CONGRATULATIONS: if you are reading this then you are not one of the 437,000 people whose lives ended as statistics in a grisly report on murder published on April 10th by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ... " .... How can you shorten your odds of making it through (the year)? First, don’t live in the Americas or Africa, where murder rates (one in 6,100 and one in 8,000 respectively) are more than four times as high as the rest of the world. - Be a woman. Your chance of being murdered will be barely a quarter what it would be were you a man. - Don't have a family. Nearly half of all female murder-victims are killed by their partner or another (usually male) family member. - Be older. From the age of 30 onwards, murder rates fall steadily in most places. But not everywhere. Europeans are more at risk in middle age than in youth. - Don't drink or be around drunk people. Other studies have found that alcohol featured in half of murders in Australia, Finland and Sweden, making it a more common factor than any weapon
Nearly half of all female murder-victims are killed by their partner or another (usually male) family member. - Be older. From the age of 30 onwards, murder rates fall steadily in most places. But not everywhere. Europeans are more at risk in middle age than in youth. - Don't drink or be around drunk people. Other studies have found that alcohol featured in half of murders in Australia, Finland and Sweden, making it a more common factor than any weaponRelated Link: Dicing with Death: The Odds of Being Murdered
[paraphrased from article in the Economist]
"CONGRATULATIONS: if you are reading this then you are not one of the 437,000 people whose lives ended as statistics in a grisly report on murder published on April 10th by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ... "
.... How can you shorten your odds of making it through (the year)?
First, don’t live in the Americas or Africa, where murder rates (one in 6,100 and one in 8,000 respectively) are more than four times as high as the rest of the world.
- Be a woman. Your chance of being murdered will be barely a quarter what it would be were you a man.
- Don't have a family. Nearly half of all female murder-victims are killed by their partner or another (usually male) family member.
- Be older. From the age of 30 onwards, murder rates fall steadily in most places. But not everywhere. Europeans are more at risk in middle age than in youth.
- Don't drink or be around drunk people. Other studies have found that alcohol featured in half of murders in Australia, Finland and Sweden, making it a more common factor than any weapon.
80% to 90% of homicide victims have criminal records, and a majority of homicides involve criminal interactions, usually drug-related. So, the best way to avoid being murdered is to not be a criminal. African Americans have the highest homicide victim rate, 50.6 per 100,000 population, compared to 45.9 for whites and 2.6 for other races. Note that these are percentages of the total population, not the populations of those ethnic groups. It helps to be older, too. 53% of homicide victims are between the ages of 17 and 34
"CONGRATULATIONS: if you are reading this then you are not one of the 437,000 people whose lives ended as statistics in a grisly report on murder published on April 10th by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ... "
.... How can you shorten your odds of making it through (the year)?
First, don’t live in the Americas or Africa, where murder rates (one in 6,100 and one in 8,000 respectively) are more than four times as high as the rest of the world.
- Be a woman. Your chance of being murdered will be barely a quarter what it would be were you a man.
- Don't have a family.
Nearly half of all female murder-victims are killed by their partner or another (usually male) family member. - Be older. From the age of 30 onwards, murder rates fall steadily in most places. But not everywhere. Europeans are more at risk in middle age than in youth.
- Don't drink or be around drunk people. Other studies have found that alcohol featured in half of murders in Australia, Finland and Sweden, making it a more common factor than any weapon.
RroseSelavy
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48 / 77
GaGambler
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49 / 77
Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears.
My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
In honor of the day.. let's talk about fears. My greatest fear is that my life won't end up the way I'd like it to. I want to get married at some point, and have a child (or two), and I'd like to have a successful career. But I'm not seriously dating anyone, and I've changed my major twice in school.. so sometimes it feels like things just aren't going to work out.
I also have a pretty bad fear of the dark.. being alone in the dark specifically, more specifically being alone in the dark while it's quiet. Before bed, I put my phone and my nightstand and turn on my Netflix app. I'll usually have a cartoon of some sort playing, the bright lights and sound make it much easier for me to go to bed.
So, what are you afraid of?
RroseSelavy
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51 / 77
Senator.Blutarsky
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52 / 77
I'm not following you around, GaGambler. Really.
GaGambler
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55 / 77
skarphedin
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skarphedin
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skarphedin
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GaGambler
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72 / 77
The latest Neal Stephenson, Seveneves, is a great return to form. Highly recommended.
hbyist+truth=;(
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76 / 77