Irrational fears


 * Fear is like dirt and it washes right off.
 * You 'desire' things because they are desirable. But you 'crave' things because you think they are (infinitely) forbidden.
 * The opposite of love is not hate. Its indifference.

Laws exist to increase your freedom. Not decrease it. Should people be free to enslave other people? Of course not! Having a law against slavery increases peoples freedom. Want to be free of murderers, thieves, and rapists? Then you need laws. Yet many people have an irrational fear of authority. Seeing something that you have an irrational fear of causes alarms to go off inside your head. The alarms going off inside your head causes you pain. The pain causes you to have an irrational fear of the thing that caused the alarms which caused the pain. Its a never ending vicious circle. The important thing to note is that it is the alarms that are painful. Not the original stimulus. Therefore you can break out of that vicious circle by turning those alarms off. No alarms = no pain No pain = no fear No fear = no alarms Another way of saying this is that if you believe that it will hurt then it does hurt. But if you dont believe that it will hurt then it doesnt hurt. You only need to suspend your disbelief for a few seconds to break out of the cycle If you can turn the alarms off and thereby stop the pain then why would you not do so?