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Gravity, Anyone?
- I love and trust the universe, reality, and God, totally and
completely, do I not? Is there any control in that statement? What do I control? What do I imagine that I control? The control
I have is a story which says that I am in control. We think that in this age of science that we are logical beings, and that
things make sense. But look at the universe. Does it make any sense whatsoever? Look at the billions of galaxies of stars,
without beginning or end, spinning and shining, with nothing holding them up. But wait, we have a story about that. It is
gravity! Gravity holds the universe up. Ah, gravity. What is gravity? It is a word in our story, that is all. I looked up
gravity on the internet and found over two million listings about it. Even the most erudite definitions and explanations tell
me essentially nothing.
- At its most simplistic level, gravity is just the attraction
of one mass to another. Now what possible attraction could one huge rock (planet) have for another? Go out in the yard and
pick up two rocks and see what attraction they have for one another. The earth and the moon are assumed to be just two large
rocks. What makes them float and spin in space? Gravity? You have got to be kidding! How rational is that? On one internet
site there were all of these mathematical formulas explaining the weights and distances of these rocks and their attraction
for one another. It is hysterical. It is comical.
- This computer I am typing on sends signals to a million other
computers instantaneously through open space and tells me in .06 seconds that there are 2,290,000 articles on gravity available
in this universe of knowledge. But not one of these articles can tell me what gravity is. Yet I love and trust gravity each
second of my existence, do I not? I may have a fear of flying, but I am flying through space at 186,000 miles per second as
I sit here I my chair, am I not? The speed of racing cars may be frightening to some of us, but they are nothing compared
to the speed of just lying in my bed at night. What are you afraid of? What are you trying to control?
- I found a list of over 500 hundred phobias (symptoms) online,
listed below:
- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
- Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
- Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
- Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
- Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
- Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious
substances.
- Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
- Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
- Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
- Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public
places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
- Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
- Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
- Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
- Algophobia- Fear of pain.
- Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
- Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
- Altophobia- Fear of heights.
- Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
- Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
- Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
- Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
- Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
- Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
- Ancraophobia or Anemophobia- Fear of wind.
- Androphobia- Fear of men.
- Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.
- Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
- Anglophobia- Fear of England, English culture, etc.
- Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
- Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
- Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
- Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
- Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
- Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
- Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof
of the mouth.
- Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
- Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
- Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
- Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
- Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Astrophobia- Fear of stars and celestial space.
- Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
- Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)
- Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
- Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
- Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
- Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
- Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
- Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
- Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic
creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
- Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
- Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
- Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
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- Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
- Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
- Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
- Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
- Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
- Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking
or falling.
- Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
- Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
- Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
- Batrachophobia- Fear of frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
- Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
- Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
- Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
- Bogyphobia- Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
- Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
- Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
- Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
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- Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
- Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty.
- Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
- Cancerophobia- Fear of cancer.
- Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
- Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
- Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
- Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
- Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
- Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
- Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
- Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
- Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder.
- Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
- Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.
- Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
- Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
- Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
- Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
- Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
- Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
- Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
- Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
- Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
- Chronophobia- Fear of time.
- Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
- Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food.
- Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
- Cleithrophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
- Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
- Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
- Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
- Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
- Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
- Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
- Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
- Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
- Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
- Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
- Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
- Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
- Counterphobia- Preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
- Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
- Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
- Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
- Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
- Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
- Cymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
- Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Cypridophobia, - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
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- Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
- Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
- Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
- Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
- Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
- Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
- Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
- Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
- Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
- Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear
of skin disease.
- Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
- Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
- Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
- Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
- Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
- Diplophobia- Fear of double vision.
- Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
- Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone.
- Domatophobia or Oikophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.
- Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
- Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
- Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
- Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
- Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
- Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
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- Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
- Ecophobia- Fear of home.
- Eicophobia or Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings.
- Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
- Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
- Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
- Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
- Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
- Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
- Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
- Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable
sin or of criticism.
- Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
- Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
- Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
- Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
- Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
- Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
- Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
- Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's
fear of operating.
- Ergophobia- Fear of work.
- Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
- Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
- Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
- Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights.
2) Blushing. 3) Red.
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- Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
- Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia,
Gatophobia)
- Francophobia- Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia,
Galiophobia)
- Frigophobia- Fear of cold, cold things.
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- Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
- Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
- Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
- Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
- Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
- Genophobia- Fear of sex.
- Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
- Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing
bridges.
- Germanophobia- Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
- Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
- Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
- Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
- Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
- Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
- Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
- Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
- Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
- Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
- Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
- Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
- Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
- Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
- Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific
terminology.
- Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
- Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
- Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official
doctrine or of radical deviation.
- Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
- Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
- Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
- Hippophobia- Fear of horses.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
- Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
- Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
- Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
- Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
- Hominophobia- Fear of men.
- Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality
or of becoming homosexual.
- Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
- Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
- Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.
- Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
- Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
- Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
- Hylephobia- Fear of materialism OR the fear of epilepsy.
- Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
- Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
- Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
- Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
- Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
- Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
- Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
- Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking
down.
- Iophobia- Fear of poison.
- Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
- Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
- Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
- Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having
an erect penis.
- Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
- Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
- Kainolophobia- Fear of novelty.
- Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
- Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
- Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
- Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
- Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
- Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion.
- Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
- Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
- Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
- Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
- Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
- Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
- Kymophobia- Fear of waves.
- Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
- Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
- Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
- Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
- Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
- Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
- Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
- Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
- Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
- Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
- Linonophobia- Fear of string.
- Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
- Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
- Logophobia- Fear of words.
- Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
- Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
- Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
- Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
- Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
- Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
- Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
- Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
- Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
- Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
- Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
- Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
- Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
- Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
- Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
- Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease.
- Menophobia- Fear of menstruation.
- Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up.
- Metallophobia- Fear of metal.
- Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
- Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
- Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol.
- Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
- Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
- Microphobia- Fear of small things.
- Misophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs.
- Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
- Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
- Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
- Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
- Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
- Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
- Musophobia or Murophobia- Fear of mice.
- Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
- Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
- Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
- Mysophobia- Fear of germs or contamination or dirt.
- Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
- Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
- Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
- Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
- Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
- Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
- Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
- Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
- Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
- Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
- Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
- Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
- Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
- Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
- Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
- Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
- Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
- Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night
- Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.
- Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
- Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
- Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
- Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
- Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
- Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
- Oenophobia- Fear of wines.
- Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.
- Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
- Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
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