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If by phobia you mean "illogical fear," as Webster defines it, then I'd have to say I don't really have any. Sometimes when I'm driving across a bridge I worry about an earthquake hitting and my car plunging into the water below, but it's not really a deep-seeded, pervasive concern of mine.
However, if you mean what's my biggest fear in general then my answer would have to be death. I am deathly afraid of dying. I wasn't really bothered by my own mortality until college, when I really began to honestly examine my belief in an afterlife. I ultimately came to the conclusion that once you die, that's it. No gates, no coming back as a horse, nothing. While it would be easy and comforting to ascribe to the concept of a soul, viz. a part of us that lives on after our bodies stop working, I can't force myself to believe in something unsupported by evidence or reason simply for the sake of peace of mind.
Some people think it's depressing to think this way, but I don't. For me, the fact that life is finite makes it special and acts as an imperative for me to make the most of the time I have. So I do my best to make every day count.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
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Bradley Tangonan’s Bio
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