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[Italian Ufo]

I do not like the word "FEAR" very much. I believe that fear is a limit to happiness and self achivement. However, one has always to get fear into account when new events or situations occur in life and history.
Therefore I would like to know what really scares you about the future. Please disucss.

[eacao]

Peak phosphorus. Out of control governments or otherwise, just not having a safe place on the planet. Not finding work, especially with economic hardships from reforms in various sectors of our world. And to be honest, islam scares me shitless.

[kjaggard]

1) I fear not making there because of some political, financial or religious nut jobs and the dick measuring getting in the way of things that help humanity in general.
2) I fear that if I do make it it will be a world of interpersonal abuse and neglect.
3) Even if we pull ourselves together and do better I fear that it might be too late and the world will be a dystopian pit that we struggle in and lose much, so much that if we make it through the emotional scar deprive us of any pleasure we could take of our future.
4) I fear that some day I might not have any ties to anybody or anything and that I may wander out into the void in my anything world ship livingg out increasingly hedonistic and cruel twisted distractions from the fact that I can't find happiness and pleasure in the universe but I've fought so hard to make it through that survival instincts won't let me quit life.
5) I fear that some day I will forget who I am now and the things that make me happy now, like my family. I fear being the blank slate by accident of time and new memories, by careless miscalculation in memory storage, ... or that some day I may choose to forget this infancy by choice.

[Zeitgeist123]

corporations ruling the world without a regard to governments or regulations. i think we're witnessing the beginning of it. but just as church and state ruled the world a few centuries ago, there will be bloody revolutions. how can we separate the government from the corporate elites?

Edited by Zeitgeist123, 24 June 2012 - 10:13 AM.

[Anu]

http://www.futuretim...-union-collapse

hunger in europe and mainly on my area, kind of scary in my opinion

Edited by Anu, 24 June 2012 - 10:39 AM.

[Keitaro2011]

I fear facsism and destruction of the planet or society.

Edited by Keitaro2011, 24 June 2012 - 08:47 PM.

[NightWolf235]

The computerization of humanity. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for augmentations, implants, AI and all the others that are due to come. Hell if I live long enough, I'll modify my body with as many implants as I can. I just don't like the computerized attitude we're going for. For example, in the timeline, when humans discover alien life centuries from now, the discovery is said to be "less profound than it might have been in previous centuries." due to human "thought and endeavour becoming ever more computerised, logical and machine-like.

On top of that, I really despise how much humanity diverges from science fiction. I wanted piloted space fighters, nor automated drones. I wanted cool mechs or powered exoskeletons like Gundam. I wanted a aesthetically pleasing spacecraft, not the weird asymmetrical cobbled together looking ships that we're due for.

Edited by NightWolf235, 24 June 2012 - 10:42 PM.

[CyberMisterBeauty]

Global warming and desertification.

[SG-1]

Politicians. I think we are in for some hard times because of governments and the economy, but ultimately good will come out of the future like it always does.
Seems like every generation has its problems. Wars and depressions. Today it is extreme view points on government and stupidity like the super religious and the lazy.

[FlameWave]

Humanity.... we have such a high chance of messing up.

[Italian Ufo]

• To me that we will reason like compiuters and not as humans
  
• That augmentation and regenerative medicine will be available only for the upper class
  
• That another large scale conflict begins because of humans stupidity
  
• That not all the alien species out there are good and kind
  
• That we wont achieve immortality
  
• To not be able to bring our dears back to life
  
• That the concept of love changes
  
• That sentimental expressions become artificial
  
• An ethnic war begins in Europe
  
• That resources end
  
• That we won't create new things and stimulations once we have everything
  
• That a comet arrives and destroys everything

Edited by Italian Ufo, 17 July 2012 - 05:40 PM.

[Guyverman1990]

I fear the shrinking or delay of Democracy to countries that deserve it.

[Raklian]

Failed to be revived after being cryogenically preserved for so long, due to an inadvertent mistake or unexpected castastrophe. My body then begins to decompose.

[eacao]

I'm fearful of a lack of privacy. Service providers recording my activities online. I'm worried about unemployment, and having a hard time finding a job while food prices rise. I'm fearful of Islam - not the Muslims down the road or refugees coming in, the Quran scares me shitless. I'm afraid of dying, that's a big one. I call myself agnostic, and I don't believe the Bible or Quran and I don't trust in Christianity or Islam or Buddhism but there's that lingering doubt that I'm wrong. That a lack of faith will land me in purgatory or hell or wherever else. I'm afraid of marrying someone I'm not happy with, or marrying someone and it ends up going to shits. I'm afraid of Peak phosphorus, but I suppose that comes back to being afraid of not having enough money. I'm terrified of dementia, Alzheimer's or hallucinating or otherwise losing a grip on reality.
I'm afraid of the world lacking in safe places with stable governments. I think it's unlikely, but a world where civil rights everywhere are gone, freedom of speech has been abolished and there isn't a place left on Earth - nowhere to escape to where you're capable of being heard as today on the internet or in the paper.

Also conservatives. People who don't want technology to advance or society to change because of whatever illogical or irrational reasoning. They're like driving with the handbrake down. They f up you're care bad and slow everything down.

[SG-1]

Hell and purgatory? Even in the Bible Hell is misunderstood by preaches and thus every retard that just listens to someone and doesn't do any reading or digging into religion.

Going back the original language that it was written in, Hell always means a grave, or a dishonorable place to die. It never says anything about eternal torture. If God exists, he wouldn't ever condemn even the most evil to eternal damnation. That is freaking stupid. Hitler deserves punishment, sure, but after a couple trillion years anyone can change. That is what makes me mad about religious people. If God exists he will give everyone a second chance after death, to teach the non believers or people who never heard of him. Then he would get rid of them forever and most likely painlessly.

[Raklian]

Hell and purgatory? Even in the Bible Hell is misunderstood by preaches and thus every retard that just listens to someone and doesn't do any reading or digging into religion.

Going back the original language that it was written in, Hell always means a grave, or a dishonorable place to die. It never says anything about eternal torture. If God exists, he wouldn't ever condemn even the most evil to eternal damnation. That is freaking stupid. Hitler deserves punishment, sure, but after a couple trillion years anyone can change. That is what makes me mad about religious people. If God exists he will give everyone a second chance after death, to teach the non believers or people who never heard of him. Then he would get rid of them forever and most likely painlessly.

Although with all of technological advances we've had recently, we are still living deep in the dark ages - a continuation from the middle dark ages. That said, we haven't begun to enter the age of enlightenment. All the technological achievements we are having these days are the tools we need to get to the other side... they are just a means to an end. Just because we are technologically more advanced doesn't mean we are wiser. Look all around us - do you think we've become wiser? Even then, I ask what the heck does it mean to be wiser? Ha ha. Of course, we know the answer. We're getting there, I'll give us that, but we ARE NOT THERE YET.

Edited by Raklian, 16 July 2012 - 03:11 PM.

[Lily]

That I am too optimistic - I fear getting my hopes up, only so that they can be crushed.

I also fear loosing myself. I want to be able to look back in the future and say: "Yeah, I understand what I was back then." I don't want to lose the sense that my future self and I, right now, will be basically the same person. Life changes, and people do change, but I want to remain myself in the aspects that really matter. It would be very hard to find out I have changed too much, like lost my ability to dream about a better future for example.

[Alric]

My biggest fear is not being able to see the future.

[EVanimations]

My biggest fear is regressing back to the stone ages, living to see it and experience it, and knowing that we could have done better.

[Saradus]

My biggest fear is not being able to see the future.

Same here!