Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "How to Protect Yourself from Toxic Beliefs & Tech | Eckhart Tolle | SPIRITUALITY | Rubin Report" video.

@allaboutmusicmovies9606 Why not? He may have some interesting points to consider. Why do people want to dismiss things from one sentence? You don't even know the person.
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@allaboutmusicmovies9606 Now you're making a weird extremist remarks. Trump let it spread? Did Trump rule the world? In fact, the disease started in Italy and was the spreading there BEFORE it did in the Us. Also, I don't live in the US. I'm Canadian. That's another assumption that you're making. She said one thing about the guy and from that you're assigning the appellation "extremist" to him/her. Another assumption. Why is the concern that the fear may have greater implications, over time, than the virus. It has to be a serious consideration. And where did I say that YOU were afraid to live? I was talking about a thought that I've had. You're the one that extrapolated that thought to include yourself. Also, I didn't say that I was afraid. In fact, I said the exact opposite. I said that I REFUSE to be afraid or to let fear rule my life and I know people that are allowing that to happen to them. My neighbour spends most of the day watching the news. I sit outside under a tree, reading and enjoying the day and he's continuously going on about the newest outbreak and how these guy did this and those guys did that and no wonder they're all sick. I smile and nod and go back to my book. You have an amazing capacity to write your own narrative and then asserting that as the truth, on exceptionally little information.
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@allaboutmusicmovies9606 This person may not be an extremist. Too many people are riveted in fear and he may be having this conversation with multiple people at different times. The commenter, being a friend, may be present during those conversations. I've said this many times to different people. "I'm more afraid of "not living" because of a fear of the virus than I am of dying from the virus" I don't think that I'm an extremist. I just believe that a life of fear isn't much of a life. A life paralysis induced by fear can only lead to regrets. I want to keep regrets to a minimum. What you can't tell from his comment is what else the guy is saying and maybe this is only the meat of the conversation. He could be running a lot deeper than that.
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@allaboutmusicmovies9606 I never ONCE wrote a narrative. I said that this person could have made a good point and he MAY have, that's not a narrative, just a possibility, said this because it was a concern. He may have been screaming at people about it or he MAY have said something along the lines of "I've said this lots of time but I think...." I DON'T KNOW.....but apparently you know enough about this person to call him and extremist. I'm saying that you don't have enough information to do that. Also, you've assumed that this person is American. It doesn't state where this person is from. You just assumed it for no real reason. Another narrative that you've wrote for yourself. Then I said that I don't like to live in fear and then, somehow and incomprehensibly, you asked me if I was afraid and then made an assumption that I was American. Now 2 of us are American...or even possibly 3 of us and you did this without knowing any of us. The commenter was responding to an original point about the psychological effects being worse than the disease. She says that she has a friend that says the same thing and this friend has said it multiple times. Then you come up with how afraid Americans are and how Sweden didn't have those crazy lockdowns, which kind of validates what she was talking about. That this fear CAN be psychologically worse than the disease like it is in the US. I didn't say that, YOU did. It seems as if you agree with him but I don't know. However, your statement does suggest that. Then you go on about Trump letting it spread. So I asked a rhetorical question. Does Trump rule the world......meaning does he have that much influence that the entire world is gripped with Covid and it's all his fault? The disease was spreading in Italy before it started to spread in the US...like I've mentioned and I'm sure that Trump wasn't responsible for that. Also, you're the one that brought up Sweden and Europe and there's been some severe lockdowns in Europe and some awful riots in protest in England, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. So the US isn't the only place that's living in fear. As a matter of fact, we are here in Canada, too. Now the economy is hurting. I know people that have lost their businesses. The US is in even worse shape. Another area of our lives where the fear of Covid might have consequences that may make things worse than the disease. The point made is not exactly without merit. I've not wrote any narrative about anyone else. I've laid out possibilities by using myself as an example. A possibility is NOT a narrative. It's laying out an idea. Yet, that prompted you to suggest that I must be an extremist as well. Nice leap of logic there. I'm not the one that started calling people names. That's all I can say about the subject.
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@staninjapan07 Okay....I get what you're saying. It started outside of China, as a major outbreak, in Italy. That's to make it more concise. It was a problem in Italy before it was a problem in the US. It has been postulated that the eastern outbreak, in the US, came from Europe, probably Italy, and not directly from China. The first 2 cases in Italy were 2 tourists from Wuhan and it spread from there.
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