Ep. 329 — Can Fear Be a Good Thing?
Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dennis often tells us not to live in fear, but can fear ever be a good thing? In today’s society, a lack of healthy respect for authority has led to a terrifying rise in destructive and disrespectful behavior. According to the wisdom of the Bible, there are two important fears we should embrace. Can you guess what they are?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome to the fireside chat. |
| 0:02.6 | I have no idea what number it is. |
| 0:04.0 | Is it even numberable? |
| 0:05.4 | Do we, are we in order? |
| 0:06.7 | What's a number? |
| 0:07.7 | 329. |
| 0:08.7 | 329. |
| 0:09.7 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:10.7 | Dennis Prager here. |
| 0:11.7 | Snoopies behind me. But I can't pet him, but it doesn't matter, he gets petted plenty. |
| 0:17.0 | Good to be with you. This is my weekly sojourn into thinking about life with you and then taking your questions wherever you are in the world and people do watch from many places. |
| 0:31.0 | So I have a real, what's a good adjective for this? |
| 0:40.0 | Challenging is one possibility, but it's something probably you have not thought about, but it's |
| 0:47.0 | something you have not thought about, but it's big. So when is fear good? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, let me offer you a thought. |
| 1:05.0 | I tend to get my values from an outside source. I work them through, I'm not at all unquestioning, but the Bible, specifically the first five books, which is why I'm |
| 1:27.5 | writing a five volume commentary on the first five books called the Rational Bible are a huge source. |
| 1:37.0 | So I'm going to give you something to think about even if you're an atheist. |
| 1:43.0 | There are two beings that the first five books of the Bible tell us to fear |
| 1:56.2 | Can you any of you guess? |
| 2:02.0 | Fear God? So yes, all right God I had a feeling that one or more of you would guess that |
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