Not exact matches
@Sam, I think it's dumbfounding for me because I was raised around people
of all backgrounds my entire
life and I guess I was just ignorant to some
of the
irrational or unfounded
fears that people could have
of another.
Strengthening the will to
live, weaning oneself from self - pity, finding release from
irrational fears and discovering the surrounding concern
of God — these factors can have a decisive effect on the return
of health.
I have done some research on the topic
of irrational fear in children and based on my understanding,
irrational fear can develop in us at various points in our
lives.
Why we
live in a culture with an
irrational fear of breasts, I don't know.
Your
irrational fear of same - gender marriage, which changes nothing about your day to day
life, confirms your status as a modest little man, with much to be modest about.
The Archbishop
of Westminster went on to make a broader attack on the treatment
of immigrants in the British media, warning that «there is a moral responsibility on all those in public
life, including the media, to avoid stirring up
irrational fears that feed prejudice».
Fear keeps us alive, but it can also ruin our
lives: Survivors
of traumatic accidents or attacks may be haunted by terrifying memories, and those with phobias are tormented by
irrational fears.
What strikes me as
irrational is that an intelligent person like Dr. Lewis, who has devoted his professional
life to science, would either pay no heed to, or dismiss, the mountains
of scientific evidence, from neuroscience and psychology and economics and sociology, that demonstrates beyond any serious question that the way we perceive risk is affective... Our
fears are a combination
of the facts and how those facts feel.
Unfortunately, too many
of America's homegrown little Eichmanns and disciples
of Mao and Al Gore — blinded by
irrational fears of Thermageddon — have lost the ability to repress their natural instinct to tell everyone else what to think, what to do and how to
live.
A bit
of radiation does you good, certainly no har, up to 400 tims theevcuation evels that we can prove epidemiologically, but
irrational fear and old hypothese that are just wrong keeps disproven beliefs as the basis for regulation and officials in hazmat suits waving meters where in radiation levels people all around the world
live out normal
lives in.
But I will suggest that public ignorance about the various electromagnetic waves we encounter in our daily
lives is immense, which, with the help
of the media, can lead to unfounded
fears and then to
irrational policy.