Talk:Doctrine 13/@comment-3069206-20100918013200

To be fair, this isn't just an objection to ghoulies, ghosties and long-leggedy thingies that go bump in the night.

A fear of hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural alarms is part of a reasonable fear.

I think that Epicurus is urging a stoical (and, though he's not a stoic, he's not that far removed) approach to these natural disasters.

Not just to a fear of magical, ghostly, or godly, upsets.

Of course, in his time, these upsets were often attributed to gods. Poseidon was often seen as the cause of earthquakes or tidal waves. So it is fair to class these fears as superstitious - at least for that time.