Fear

**Blurred** · 08-15-2007, 07:02 PM

Fear.

The number one motivator of mankind.

Fear.

It's what keeps you from living your dreams.

Fear.

It controls your every move. It sucks the life out of you, when rationally, it's supposed to protect you.

Our society is controlled by fear. The stock market. Our economy. You.
Struggling to get ahead is the dream of not having to be in the grasp of fear.

You've been reduced to a robot, because of fear.
You'd love to tell your boss "fuck off", but you don't, out of fear.
You fear if you did, your bills would not get paid, your credit would go to shit, and you'd lose everything you've got.
So instead, you compromise who you are. Why? Fear.
Fear has made you who you're not.
A tool of the system, easily manipulated by fear.

I say this.

This Winter, confront fear.
That cliff/booter/invert that has scared you in the past? KILL IT.

Maybe you'll feel what it's like to not be controlled by fear.

It's liberating.
It's called living.
Give it a chance, and may it affect other parts of your life. [/anonymous]

**CommanderBaker** · 08-15-2007, 07:05 PM

Yes sir, amen, u b right

**FrankZappa** · 08-15-2007, 07:11 PM

I'm afraid I'm getting too old for some of this shit.

See, now it's a matter of being wise.

**Chemical Ali' The Wax Master** · 08-15-2007, 07:14 PM

I'm picking up what you are laying down, but I am way too scared of the wife to do anything about it.

**SLAYER** · 08-15-2007, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by Chemical Ali' The Wax Master

I'm picking up what you are laying down, but I am way too scared of the wife to do anything about it.

Some one needs to ask his wife if he can borrow his balls every once and a while

**Chemical Ali' The Wax Master** · 08-15-2007, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by SLAYER

Some one needs to ask his wife if he can borrow his balls every once and a while

she said no

**soylent green** · 08-15-2007, 07:25 PM

You sound like the motivational speaker in the movie Donnie Darko.

Change your screen name to Patrick Swayze.

**TAHOEDOWN** · 08-15-2007, 07:33 PM

"Fear has made you who you're not."
I like that.

**NeigeÉternelle** · 08-15-2007, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by POWHNTR

"Fear has made you who you're not."

Words of wisdom

**Froman** · 08-15-2007, 08:03 PM

wow - well said.

**cj001f** · 08-15-2007, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by POWHNTR

"Fear has made you who you're not."

And made sure you aren't dead.

**dang** · 08-15-2007, 08:14 PM

cool blurred! I have a bunch of "No Fear" stickers on MY truck, just like you!

I love those cheesy teeny-bopper catch phrases!

"I grip it and I rip it"
-Hansel

**Blurred** · 08-15-2007, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by cj001f

And made sure you aren't dead.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Bow to your master.

**Blurred** · 08-15-2007, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by dang

cool blurred! I have a bunch of "No Fear" stickers on MY truck, just like you!

I love those cheesy teeny-bopper catch phrases!

"I grip it and I rip it"
-Hansel

Yeah, I hate cool things exploited in gay spectrums.

I.E skiing by Warren Miller

**valleygirl** · 08-15-2007, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by POWHNTR

"Fear has made you who you're not."
I like that.

Me too. Paging... well, you know who you are.

Life lessons are everywhere, aren't they.

**Snow Dog** · 08-15-2007, 08:24 PM

I'm not afraid; I'm just cautious.

**Ottime** · 08-15-2007, 08:27 PM

Meat is Fear

**telepariah** · 08-15-2007, 08:29 PM

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

--Frank Herbert, Dune--

**Pow Tzu** · 08-15-2007, 09:19 PM

We all come out into life and go back into death
There are certain signs that point to life and certain signs that point to death
And yet people, in their desire to show they are alive
Often cultivate the signs of death

Those who cultivate the signs of life have no fear in them
They don't run from wild animals or cover themselves with armor and shields
They know the horn, the claw, the weapon
Can not pierce what yields and flows like water

They do not cultivate the signs of death, and so death has no place to enter

**FREESKIER_FIVE-0** · 08-15-2007, 09:27 PM

My favorite that pretty much sums all this up for me;

Fuck it, just huck it.

Probably the only thing I learned at NS.

**Jer** · 08-15-2007, 09:46 PM

I dunno. As far as skiing goes, I'm mostly motivated by fun. Big air scares the shit outta me. Speed, however, is a blast.

**mock1** · 08-15-2007, 09:53 PM

Your right, but fear has kept me alive. Is it best to be scared but alive or brave and dead? If you ain't got no fear you ain't fucking human.

**StormRider** · 08-15-2007, 09:56 PM

I don’t know if this is funny, sad, ironic, tragic, or life.

11 years ago fear wasn’t registered.
10 years ago fear of A out-weighed fear of B, and A was chosen.
7 years ago fear weighed heavy on my soul and overcoming it was literally the best decision of my life.
Today fear is heavily present in a big looming decision, but I’ve outsmarted fear in a lot of other choices.

Fear. It keeps life entertaining, that’s for sure.

**splat** · 08-15-2007, 10:09 PM

I had this little twinge a few minutes ago.
I was telling telerob he could take the 195 supersalmons and the best pair of 179 carbons to argentina. Handing off the top two pair of sweetest sets of skis I have, knowing someone else would suck the virginity out of them, I was slightly overcome by a strange emotion.

Could that have been fear?

Shortly thereafter, I was basking in the alpenglow of sending my superbro to bariloche with, what is for him, the ultimate quiver.