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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

Fireside Chat Ep. 213 — Fear Is a Serious Problem

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

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Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a follow-up to Ep. 211 — Don’t Raise Fearful Children, in which Dennis answers why some people are gripped with fear and others are not. In this episode, Dennis addresses these questions: How do we become less fearful? What is the difference between a courageous person and a non-courageous person? And how is fear used for evil? Donate today to help keep PragerU podcasts and videos free! PragerU.com/donate

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0:00.0

Hi everybody Dennis Prigger here with Otto. What's Otto doing?

0:04.8

Licking the air.

0:06.3

He's licking the air.

0:12.2

That's exactly what he's doing.

0:14.2

Hey Otto.

0:16.7

It's a very funny dog. There's no question about it. Bulldogs are a crack up. Everybody who owns one.

0:23.9

Are you allowed to say that by the way? Owns a dog?

0:26.8

I think no, no, according to the animal rights organizations, you cannot say you are your pets owner.

0:32.8

You are your pets human companion.

0:38.8

Just wanted you to know that. So

0:41.9

he doesn't care by the way. He's very happily owned. So hi everybody. These are spontaneous.

0:48.0

I mean, it's all of them. I take your questions after I open up with a few comments. I want to be very brief on the opening comments.

0:57.5

Because two episodes ago, not episode two. Yeah, episode two episodes ago, two 11. I spoke about fear.

1:08.5

I have another thought about fear. I just wanted to share and it actually arose since then.

1:19.5

It's not a thought I didn't mention then. It's a thought I hadn't thought of then. It hit me because I've been thinking about fear so much.

1:29.5

That fear is arguably the strongest emotion humans have.

1:35.0

I used to think it was either love or hate. And now I believe fear.

1:45.0

Fear in most people is the dominant emotion. And I see that happening.

1:54.5

There are people I know really wonderful people who have stayed indoors for more than a year. And that of course was induced entirely by fear.

2:08.5

It's so powerful. It is also a terrible source of hatred. People hate what they fear. I'm not talking about inanimate objects like a virus.

2:23.5

Well, it might be animate, but you know what I mean. But if there is a group, for example, there is real hatred of the non-vaccinated in the Western world and in the United States specifically.

2:38.5

I mean hatred. I mean even a desire to see that they die. There are people who write comments on the internet that the non-vaccinated should not be treated in hospitals.

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