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I for one subscribe to the notion that I am fine with spiders snakes and the like as long as they are somewhere else. I am a bit arachnophobic and snake phobic (don't know the term sweatdrop ) but it isn't like I feel they need to be wiped off the face of the planet. they are living things and should be free to live their lives as a part of nature but if they cross into my house there are going to be problems...
As for the issue of natural disasters, It wouldn't surprise me if that is inherent in all human cultures. one of the basic fears is the fear of being killed, hence deadly natural forces would be something that would scare lots of people. However from that fear there is usually a respect that emerges, I'd think this would also be true for most of the neopagan faiths. Although they are frightening and deadly to deal with we may respect the power of nature in these dramatic displays.
I hope that helps sweatdrop

I'd think that having a healthy fear of the forces of nature is good for a person. If you had no fear of the overwhelming power of such elements, then what would be the point of reverencing them and invoking their names them in rituals?

0_o I had no idea that people could be afraid of moths... Birds I'd heard of, but never moths. How is it that the flying is what gets you? I love the fluttering and simple beauty of this ungainly thing managing to fly. Then again, I envy anything with wings.

I can't think of anything I really fear, except maybe mortality. It isn't that I fear dying; quite the opposite, I welcome it as nothing more than a transition into a different state of existence. What I fear is getting old and dying before I can see what's coming next. I want to see the next big achievement of mankind (I missed landing on the moon, but I so wanted to see a moon base or moon colony, but nothing so far): I want to see Mars colonized, I want to see and know there are aliens out there, I want to be able to travel the stars like I live in a Sci-Fi movie, I want to see the accomplishments of mankind. But I also fear living to see mankind destroy itself and its mother.

So I guess my fear of nature is nature itself, in a weird, twisted way.

Well, yeah, a healthy fear might be a good thing, but having a phobia of something is a little different. I could never revere a tornado. Maybe, in a pleading, pitiful way, I could respect them, but it wouldn't be pretty. D:

Huh. I've had things do that, but they've never really bothered me afterward. I stumbled across a Black Widow while I was photographing and nearly had a heart attack, but then settled down and started taking pictures of her. It was kinda like therapy.

Then again, I also don't sit and study the grille of Dodge Rams up-close. They've freaked me out ever since my near-death encounter with one. Every time I spot one my heart goes to my throat and I get a minor panic attack. So I guess I can understand. But it nearly killed me; moths are so tiny and beautiful. Yet the Navajo people have a great dislike of moths as well... Wonder where that comes from...

mosquitoes drive me crazy and they are the only bugs I will kill if they make me crazy, but I often ask the spirit of mosquitoes to be a peace with this if possible and that if I was a mosquito myself would not be surprised if I ended up dead by a human hand myself.

As for other bugs I try to save them if possible and I am not afraid of them.
snakes either...

I'm scared to death of tornadoes and any other natural disaster (yet I burn incense in my room sweatdrop ) and I have a few fears of certain creatures like spiders, but I sometimes try not to be too scared because they're not, at least in this country, that likely to harm me. Since I hate it when my dad kills spiders and feel guilty letting my cat eat them, I got a spider catcher for christmas xd and it works! Nice and humane way of getting them back outside!