Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "The Birth of Civilisation - The First Farmers (20000 BC to 8800 BC)" video.

  1.  @harambe1580  I was thinking that you were probably quite young. I remember having those feelings, at that age, myself. I'm 68 and, although the Covid thing wasn't around when I was your age, there was still that tendency to feel a little helpless about life. I don't blame you for not wanting to work behind a desk. I went to college and studied office systems and when I graduated, I realised that I hated it. I got into construction and machine maintenance and I was quite happy with that as a career. The only advice I can give you is to remain patient. Things work out, in the end, if you follow your instincts, do what feels right and work hard at it. As for women, there's nothing I can say that will help you there. I love them but they're crazy. LOL. I'm in Canada and I like it here. Fortunately, I never lived in the city. I'd love to visit Portugal, some day. People say that it's a beautiful country. Maybe after this Covid thing is over. Anyway, good luck to you.
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  2.  @harambe1580  If humans are a product of evolution, then we've evolved just as nature would do it. To this point, as far as survival goes, we're the most successful species on the planet, right now. Since evolution is all about finding strategies to survive, so far we've done quite well and it would seem that we're exactly as we should be. Doom and gloom predictions are just scenarios, not written in stone, but possibilities of the future. We just don't know where this evolutionary path will lead us. I'm glad to see that you're not so embittered that you'd dig in deeper and are willing to listen to other ideas. With an attitude like that you could still find contentment in your life. It's a good place to work from. Good luck to you.
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  3. The people that lived in the Middle East or the Fertile Crescent, were the forerunners of the Semitic people......not westerners or Europeans so you're "western propaganda" trope doesn't really apply. Also, he's talking about the end of the Ice Age. The Indus Valley civilisations were there around 3300 BC, long after the Ice Age and the start of farming. Gobleki Tepe was built around 10,000 BC. You're talking about 2 different eras.
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  4. Apparently, they've found evidence that might push that date back to 300,000 years. I think that the 30 thousand figure was a mistake and that he has added a correction at the beginning of the video.
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  5.  @harambe1580  So you want to eradicate a certain type of humanity. Good on you, Adolf. He wanted to get rid of a specific demographic, as well, thinking that they were a blight on the world. You've decided that there's another blight and fortunately for you, you're not a part of that blight. Funny how the eradicators never feel that they could be part of the problem. It's always the other.
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  6.  @harambe1580  You used the word "eradicate" so I assumed that you meant what you said. Also, I'm not going to spend my life wishing things were a certain way. I'm going to deal with my life as it is, not as I want it to be. Also, you don't have to live in a big concrete building, with hundreds of people, if you don't want to. I live in a small town and I go visit the family farm all the time. I pitch a tent at the back of the farm and spend a week or so, at a time, outdoors and enjoying myself. It's great but that's only because I have the safety net of our modern technology. Life in nature is extremely hard and if you spend any time in nature, you'll realise that. Life is cheap, in the wild, and the problems are a lot worse than taxes and money or rent. Happiness in life doesn't come from the outside. It comes from you, from how you view the world and your existence in it. Instead of complaining about the things that you have no control over, appreciate the good things in life. Your family, friends, a warm sunny day, art, music, a good book, tell a joke, smile at your neighbour, be optimistic about life. Quit whining about stuff that can't change.
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  7. @Rational thought What does the India of today have to do with what existed in the region, which in now India, of 5000 years ago? Completely different time, different people and different circumstance.
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