15 links have been added on 4 ideas about #fear.
  1. “Criticism of these ideas should never be confused with an animus toward people. And yet it is. I’m convinced that this is often done consciously, strategically, and quite cynically as a means of shutting down conversation [on] important topics.”

  2. Mouthdriller should be a film. It’s a very rational fear. Reat this https://willowcreekdds.com/cant-stand-the-dental-drilling-sound-the-best-ways-to-deal-with-anxiety-at-the-dentist/

  3. Nice idea but what does Montaigne know?

    Though a practicing Catholic, Montaigne was a thoroughgoing skeptic. Man can know nothing, his reason being insufficient to arrive either at a natural-law ethics or a firm theology. As Montaigne put it, “reason does nothing but go astray in everything, and especially when it meddles with divine things.” And for a while, Montaigne adopted as his official motto the query, “What do I know?”

  4. Mentioned in a TED by De Botton, worth watching, humbling for high-horse philosophers to say the least.

  5. …. and the number of people with faith in God is increasing. Rationality has it’s work cut out, though I doubt that atheists would indoctrinate their kids as much as those who benefit from spiritual beliefs.

  6. I highly recommend this book. It explains why we, and by that I mean I, was brought up to believe. Despite it having little evolutionary benefit in the modern world.