Sentences with phrase «own irrational fear»

Each can be debilitating with irrational fears and worries.

Driven by one irrational fear, business leaders ignore host of financial pratfalls by Campbell / Clark.

One of the main reasons why retirees continue to save during retirement is due to the irrational fear of going broke.

The problem with over savers is that there's this irrational fear that Doom is right around the corner.

For example, in the bear market environment of the early 1970s, countless people were apoplectic over an irrational fear that ITT (the International Telephone and Telegraph company), which had begun a program of taking over smaller companies, would take over the world.

I see a lot of Atheists responding to the last 2k years worth of mankind's legacy of irrational fear in trying to explain who God is, using those silly fears interpreted in the Bible (although yes I agree, they stated them as fact) as justification to deny the existence of God, & not the concept itself.

But it takes religion to make people have irrational fears and hate for other groups of people when they probably wouldn't have those feelings in the first place.

«WARNING: Religious belief can cause closed - mindedness, poverty, intolerance, irrational fear, reduced intelligence, and make you delusional.

«My dear, I am diagnosing you with Pregnantophobia — an irrational fear of pregnancy.

What I am saying is David, I can understand the concern but the irrational fear is confusing.

Indeed, this widespread and largely irrational fear has become a second epidemic — one that must also be addressed by pastors concerned for people's spiritual health.

Something awful was likely to happen there, and it happened to John F. Kennedy, who had gone to Dallas to defend the politics of reason against the politics of irrational fear.

It can help calm irrational fears and raise rational concern.

I do not have an irrational fear of xians.

Being «homophobic» is the irrational fear of gay people (that would be what you have).

Being non-authoritarian, AA does not use irrational fear as a motivation.

Orthodox in any religion means intolerant and not given to thinking outside a tiny little box in which they confine themselves out of irrational fears.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

It is not an irrational fear.

City liberals have an irrational fear of guns that could be cured with a little education in the country.

(e) Intense irrational fears, guilt feelings, obsessive thoughts, or compulsive actions.

So the only thing keeping you in line is an irrational fear of what happens to you after death?

Here again I appeal to Susanne Langer's evidence, which consists largely in noting cases of irrational fear on the part of chimpanzees, fear that can not be explained either by instinct or by learning.

If you have an irrational fear of it, it is you who requires treatment.

But there is also a Utopian liberalism, a blind hatred of all social order, an irrational fear of anything that sets limits to individual caprice.

They can not stop for a moment and clearly examine the bigotry arising from their irrational fear of someone different than themselves.

Homophobia refers to an irrational fear of homosexual persons.

Speaking about the decision to tackle his fear of heights for the stunt, Dr John added: «Isn't it a fairly irrational fear in a way because you know that everything that is around about you is going to hold you.

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.

A third destructive factor in some sermons is the arousal of irrational fear.

I hope we will have the courage and faith to turn away from irrational fear, panic and the temptation to place personal security above compassionate care for the marginalized and ravaged.

So your irrational fear that taking god out of public schools and the public in general would lead to a huge catastrophe is ridiculous and is fear mongering that I am sure has been hammered into your head since you were a child.

Because people generally trust the church, it should be able to combat the irrational fears and rumors by presenting facts and respected counsel.

Arachnophobia is an irrational fear of spiders and claustrophobia is an irrational fear of small places.

A phobia is an irrational fear.

:) Haha, I never liked oatmeal cookies either (because... irrational fear of raisins) so thank you for doing it right with some big ol' chocolate chunks!

My husband and son have an irrational fear of being sticky (true story), so there is no way they'd eat these with their hands.

His mistake was helping me to get over my irrational fear of turning on the gas grill...

This has grown an irrational fear of drafting him in me.

However irrational these fears may be, to a new dad, they are very real fears.

I hate mayonaise, like I basically have an irrational fear of it bc I don't want to eat anything even made with mayo - which means I also don't eat Ranch Dressing bc ewwww.

I have grown up with an irrational fear of dogs, one that wasn't backed by unpleasant experiences in the past.

This is the same kind of irrational fear that causes parents to avoid vaccinations, opening them up to diseases that were all but wiped out hundreds of years ago.

Unfortunately, many of the families in the study who were informed of the strangulation hazard preferred to continue to use them because of their irrational fear of seeing their child in distress.

I had irrational fears about what it would be like at work, felt completely helpless on multiple occasions, and had a very hard time letting my son out of my sight even to run to the bathroom (when my husband was home).

It could have been an irrational fear, like fear of the dark or night terrors.

But it also means there's none of the mind - melding brain - fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the irrational fear that a bird is going to fly in through the window and take the baby hostage *, along with the never - ending ride on the hair - raising postnatal emotional rollercoaster, with happy joy followed with the deep panic that you have no idea what you're doing and are going to break them and why am I crying again?!.

If your toddler demonstrates some sort of irrational fear when faced with the idea of using the restroom and you've ruled out constipation, there are several other possible explanations.

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.