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=====Evil is a Process, Not a State=====<br />
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People presume that evil is a state rather than a process and the<br />
state might be aggression or cruelty or jealousy or you know we can list a whole bunch of motivational states that people tend to value negatively. So I say, well, you know, people produce social conflict because they’re aggressive and therefore if we can socialize boys in particular to not be aggressive, then the capacity for war will vanish which I think is like truly an idiotic theory. But that’s what happens when you confuse the process of evil with…… when you make an idol of evil, fundamentally. You say, “well it can be identified as this set of phenomena”, which basically turns it into an idol. Well it’s just as bad as, it’s just as significant a philosophical error as doing the same thing to good in the reserve, saying, well “peace is good” or “happiness is good” or “contentment is good” because those are all context dependent evaluations. Sometimes happiness is very bad so to speak like if you’re experiencing it well torturing someone else for example, which is certainly a possibility. Conceptualization of good is the capacity to admit to the existence of anomaly when it manifests itself and then to act accordingly, then evil is the precise opposite of that. Which is not aggression or hostility or jealousy or anything that people normally sort of label evil. But the process of refusing to admit that something has changed. You can say, “Well that leads to aggression in situations where it might not be desirable , it leads the hostility” and that’s fine but it’s still a process not a state.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ebutr9oyaeU Good vs Evil]</ref><br />
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===== Why Would God Allow Evil to Exist in the World? =====<br />
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There’s an old theological question: "why would God allow evil to exist in the world?" I think it’s like that. Something like, "well, you can, but you shouldn’t. But if you couldn’t, then there would be no free will. You’d have no agency. You’d have no choice. So the possibility of evil has to exist. That doesn’t mean you have to actualize it." One of the things I thought through—and I wrote a lot about this in 12 Rules, maybe even more in Maps of Meaning, my first book: "what amount of the evil of Being can be laid at the feet of God?" My conclusion to that was, "maybe none of it." Earthquakes, cancer, disease—all of that is built into the structure of reality, and there’s no doubt that that’s terrible. But malevolence? To me, that looks like something that people choose, and that we could not choose. We could actually choose not to do that.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
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===== Just How Much Trouble Are You Trying To Cause? =====<br />
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It’s a question worth asking. Just exactly what are your motives? Maybe they’re purer than mine were and it’s certainly possible. I don’t think that I’m naturally a particularly good person. I think I have to work at it very very hard. And I don’t necessarily think that everyone is like that, but some people are worse than that and everyone is like that to some degree. So it’s worth thinking about, just how much trouble are you trying to cause? And the other thing you might think about is, that if you’re not doing something important with your life, by your own definition, because that’s the game that we’re playing, you get to define the terms, at least initially, maybe you’re prone to cause trouble just because you don’t have anything better to do. Because at least trouble is more interesting than boring. That’s something you learn if you read Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky knew that extraordinarily well. And so if you’re not doing something, if you’re not pushing yourself to the limits of your capacity than you have plenty of leftover… what would you say? Willpower, energy and resources to devote to causing interesting trouble. Also I would say, this is also an archetypal scenario. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. That’s something to meditate on. And it’s not self-destructive because what it is, is an attempt to. It’s like the diagnosis of an illness. It’s like if that does happen to be the case for you, or to some degree, maybe it’s only 10% of you or something, or maybe it’s 90%, well, then, coming to terms with that is excellent because then maybe you can stop doing it. And what would be the downside to that? You’d have to give up your resentment, obviously, and your hatred and all of that. And that’s really annoying because those emotions are very… they’re easy to engage in and they’re engaging. And they have this feeling of self righteousness with them that goes along with them. But you’re not doing this in order to put yourself down. You’re doing this in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. And to leave everything that you don’t have to be, behind.<ref>[https://youtu.be/2iO-YW7hTQc LET YOUR FEARS AND INSECURITIES BURN OFF LIKE DEADWOOD - Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
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The evil doesn’t lie elsewhere, it lies in you, because you are not all you could be.<br />
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<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Redemption&diff=687Redemption2020-05-27T04:54:37Z<p>Amit: </p>
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===== The Redemption of Each Individual is the Proper Route Forward =====<br />
The proper route forward for the redemption of the individual and for mankind as a whole is as a consequence of the redemption of each individual.<br />
And I truly believe that that occurs as a consequence of /adherence to the truth and courage in the face of being/, that’s rule one. To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to take on the onslaught and to enter the contentious ring and to do more than your best. Because your best isn’t enough, because your best isn’t as good as you could be. You have to push yourself past that, and that’s, as far as I can tell, where you find what you need in life. You find the meaning that sustains you in life, and you find the patterns of action that redeem the world, both at the same time. I mean life is a very difficult business, it’s fatal and it’s full of suffering and it’s full of betrayal and malevolence. There is nothing about it that’s trivial, it’s all profound. And in order to find your way through all of that, that capacity for hellish experience let’s say, you need to develop a relationship with something that’s profound, and you can! You have that capacity, and what can be more profound than the truth? And what would you rather have on your side? And you might say, ‘well, that’s obvious’, and of course, everyone should do that, and then you need to know why you don’t. And the answer is sort of encapsulated in this amusing ‘question’: “Thank you for enlightening my soul, the burns are still healing”…<br />
Well, there’s no shortage of deadwood to burn of. And there’s no shortage of pain when the deadwood burns off, and that’s what makes people afraid of the truth. Maybe that’s why Moses encountered God in a burning bush. There is something about that idea that seems to me to be the case. And so, what’s the decision that you make? You decide to believe, that’s a risk, an existential risk. It’s an act of faith, you believe that the truth can set you free.<br />
You believe that people have an intrinsic divinity about their soul. You decide that you’re going to live in that manner. And that you’re going to let everything about yourself that isn’t worthy of that goal die.<br />
And that might be almost everything that you are. And that’s a terrible thing to contemplate.<br />
The only thing that is worse I would say is the alternative, because the alternative are these sorts of hell’s that we manage to produce around us. And that we produced with particular expertise during the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.<br />
And it would be a good thing if we decided collectively and individually not to go back there again.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/6gFjB9FTN58 The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== The Pathway to Redemption is Through Recognition of Error =====<br />
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It’s a classical fall of man story, it’s the story of Exodus. It’s the part of the reason that people aren’t enlightened. If you are going to go up, every up is predicated by a down of equivalent magnitude. If you are going to improve, then you are going to discover that you are wrong about something first. To be wrong about something means you are going to fragment and it’s going to be painful to recognize the fact of that error, to recognize the consequences of that error across your life to have to reformulate yourself so that that error is no longer acting out as a part of your personality in your life. It is an unbelievable descent. Joseph Campbell says follow your bliss, that’s certainly not something that Jung said. Jung said that you search out what you are most terrified of, what you are most disgusted by, and the place you least want to go, where you have to bow the lowest, that’s the place where salvation might be found. (That’s true and that’s terrifying!)The pathway to redemption is through recognition of error, not through bliss. And this is psychotherapeutic truism: If you are going to confront a monster, and you most certainly are, then you do it at a time and place of your choosing, because otherwise it waits until you are at your weakest and most vulnerable and then it attacks. We don’t have the wisdom of the kind of pessimism that enables us to view life that way. You think, well if we are careful and quiet, the monster will avoid us completely and everyone knows that’s a lie.<br />
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yijwlGeOlOM&feature=youtu.be Jordan Peterson - The Pathway to Redemption - YouTube]</ref><br />
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You need to be exposed to things you fear and hate , because that’s where salvation lies.<br />
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&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Aim/Goal&diff=686Aim/Goal2020-05-27T04:50:06Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
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===== Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
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To aim at the highest good.<br />
If you configure your life so that what you are genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good, than the things that you need to survive and to thrive on a day to day basis will deliver themselves to you. That’s a hypothesis and it’s not some simple hypothesis. Because what it basically says is, if you dare to do the most difficult thing that you can conceptualize your life will work out better than if you do anything else. Well, how you’re going to find out if that’s true? Well, it’s a Kierkagaardian leap of faith. There’s no way you’re going to find out whether that’s true unless you do it. So, no one can tell you either, because just because it works for someone else, I mean that’s interesting and all that, but it’s no proof that it will work for you. You have to be all-in in this game and so the idea is: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.” ( Matthew 6:33 ) That’s actually a fairly important caution when you’re talking about not having to pay attention to what you’re going to eat or what you’re going to wear. It’s like, what it’s essentially saying is those problems are trivial in comparison and the probability is that if you manifest yourself properly in the world that those things will come your way is extraordinarily high. And I believe that’s exactly right. I mean, I’ve watched people operate in the world and I would say there is no more effective way of operating in the world than to conceptualize the highest good that you can and than strive to attain it. There is no more practical pathway to the kind of success that you could have if you actually knew what success was. And so, that’s what this sermon is attempting to posit. It’s like in the story of Pinocchio, you know what happens in the beginning of the story of Pinocchio is that Geppetto wishes on a star, and so what Geppetto does is align himself with the metaphorical manifestation of the highest good he can conceptualize. And he makes a commitment let’s say; he aims at the star and for him the star is the possibility that he can take his creation, a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by unseen forces, and have it transformed into something that’s economist and real. Well, that’s a hell of an ambition. And we’re wise enough to put that in a children’s movie but too foolish to understand what it means. It’s just an interesting juxtaposition that we can both know it and not know it at the same time. You can go to the movie, you can watch it and it makes sense. But that doesn’t mean that you can go home and think, well, I know what that meant. People are complicated right? We exist at different levels and all the levels don’t communicate with one another. But the movie is a hypothesis and the hypothesis is, there’s no better pathway to self realization and the ennoblement of being than to posit the highest good that you can conceive of and commit yourself to it. And then you might also ask yourself, do you really have anything better to do? And when you don’t, well why would you do anything else? Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what that meant too. Because it’s another one of those lines that can easily be read as pro grasshopper and anti ant. The ant works and the grasshopper fiddles. The ant has a pretty good time in the winter and the grasshopper dies. It says that if you orient yourself properly and then pay attention to what you do every day, that works. And I actually think that that’s in accordance with what we’ve come to understand about human perception. Because what happens is that the world shifts itself around your aim. You’re a creature that has an aim. You have to have an aim in order to do something, you’re an aiming creature. You look at a point and you move towards it. It’s built right into you and so you have an aim. Let’s say your aim is the highest possible aim, that sets up the world around you. It organizes all of your perceptions. It organizes what you see and what you don’t see. It organizes your emotions and your motivations. So you organize yourself around that aim. And then what happens is, the day manifests itself as a set of challenges and problems. And if you solve them properly, then you stay on the pathway towards that aim. And you can concentrate on that day, and so that way you can have your cake and eat it too. Because you can point into the distance, the far distance. And you can live in the day. And that makes all the moments of the day supercharged with meaning. <ref>[https://youtu.be/6gFjB9FTN58 The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Lower The Damn Judge If It’s Too Much =====<br />
You can pick an ideal that fulfills the role of ideal for you. You can say, “well, if things could be set up for me, the way I need them to be, and if I could be who I needed to be, what would that look like?” And you can figure that out for yourself. And then instantly you have a judge. And I also think that’s part of the reason people don’t do it, right? Why don’t people look up and move ahead? And the answer is, you start formulating an ideal. You formulate a judge. It’s pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal. That’s what happened to Cain versus Abel, for example. Then it’s really easy to destroy the ideal instead of try to pursue it because then you get rid of the judge. But it’s way better… lower the damn judge if it’s too much. If the current ambition is crushing you, then maybe you’re playing the tyrant to yourself and you should tap down your ambitions. Not get rid of them by any stretch of the imagination. But at least put them more reasonably within your grasp. You don’t have to leap from point 1 to point 50 in one leap, right? You can do it incrementally. But I really like this idea. I think it’s a profound idea that the process of recapitulating yourself continually is also the process of… it’s a phoenix like process right? You’re shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you’re valuing. And then I would say the idea here is that as you do that, you shape yourself ever more precisely into something that can withstand the tragedy of life. And that can act as a beacon to the world. That’s the right way of thinking about it. Maybe first to your friends and then to your family. It’s like it’s a hell of a fine ambition. And there is no reason that it can’t happen.<br />
Everyone of you knows people who are really bloody useful in a crisis and people that you admire, right? Those are all… you can think of all those people that you admire as partial incarnations of the archetypal Messiah. That’s exactly right. And the more that that manifest itself in any given person, then the more generally useful and admirable that person is in a multitude of situations. And we don’t know the limit to that but people can be unbelievably good for things. It´s really something to behold.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/2iO-YW7hTQc LET YOUR FEARS AND INSECURITIES BURN OFF LIKE DEADWOOD - Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Develop a Noble Vision =====<br />
“Don’t overestimate yourself now, but *don’t underestimate who you could be. start now, develop a noble vision of who you could be, develop discipline, familiarize yourself with the great works, learn to read,write, speak, to think you will be deadly.”<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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You see what you aim at. What you aim at is what manifests for you in the world.<br />
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The higher the goal, the greater the kick. But don’t set the goal so high that you are always failing.<br />
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Specify your goal and a transformation process which will get you there. If you persist with very small improvements, you will eventually win.<br />
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You must have direction, because direction causes positive emotion. You must have a goal, a direction, value structures<br />
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&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Aim/Goal&diff=685Aim/Goal2020-05-27T04:11:33Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
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To aim at the highest good.<br />
If you configure your life so that what you are genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good, than the things that you need to survive and to thrive on a day to day basis will deliver themselves to you. That’s a hypothesis and it’s not some simple hypothesis. Because what it basically says is, if you dare to do the most difficult thing that you can conceptualize your life will work out better than if you do anything else. Well, how you’re going to find out if that’s true? Well, it’s a Kierkagaardian leap of faith. There’s no way you’re going to find out whether that’s true unless you do it. So, no one can tell you either, because just because it works for someone else, I mean that’s interesting and all that, but it’s no proof that it will work for you. You have to be all-in in this game and so the idea is: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.” ( Matthew 6:33 ) That’s actually a fairly important caution when you’re talking about not having to pay attention to what you’re going to eat or what you’re going to wear. It’s like, what it’s essentially saying is those problems are trivial in comparison and the probability is that if you manifest yourself properly in the world that those things will come your way is extraordinarily high. And I believe that’s exactly right. I mean, I’ve watched people operate in the world and I would say there is no more effective way of operating in the world than to conceptualize the highest good that you can and than strive to attain it. There is no more practical pathway to the kind of success that you could have if you actually knew what success was. And so, that’s what this sermon is attempting to posit. It’s like in the story of Pinocchio, you know what happens in the beginning of the story of Pinocchio is that Geppetto wishes on a star, and so what Geppetto does is align himself with the metaphorical manifestation of the highest good he can conceptualize. And he makes a commitment let’s say; he aims at the star and for him the star is the possibility that he can take his creation, a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by unseen forces, and have it transformed into something that’s economist and real. Well, that’s a hell of an ambition. And we’re wise enough to put that in a children’s movie but too foolish to understand what it means. It’s just an interesting juxtaposition that we can both know it and not know it at the same time. You can go to the movie, you can watch it and it makes sense. But that doesn’t mean that you can go home and think, well, I know what that meant. People are complicated right? We exist at different levels and all the levels don’t communicate with one another. But the movie is a hypothesis and the hypothesis is, there’s no better pathway to self realization and the ennoblement of being than to posit the highest good that you can conceive of and commit yourself to it. And then you might also ask yourself, do you really have anything better to do? And when you don’t, well why would you do anything else? Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what that meant too. Because it’s another one of those lines that can easily be read as pro grasshopper and anti ant. The ant works and the grasshopper fiddles. The ant has a pretty good time in the winter and the grasshopper dies. It says that if you orient yourself properly and then pay attention to what you do every day, that works. And I actually think that that’s in accordance with what we’ve come to understand about human perception. Because what happens is that the world shifts itself around your aim. You’re a creature that has an aim. You have to have an aim in order to do something, you’re an aiming creature. You look at a point and you move towards it. It’s built right into you and so you have an aim. Let’s say your aim is the highest possible aim, that sets up the world around you. It organizes all of your perceptions. It organizes what you see and what you don’t see. It organizes your emotions and your motivations. So you organize yourself around that aim. And then what happens is, the day manifests itself as a set of challenges and problems. And if you solve them properly, then you stay on the pathway towards that aim. And you can concentrate on that day, and so that way you can have your cake and eat it too. Because you can point into the distance, the far distance. And you can live in the day. And that makes all the moments of the day supercharged with meaning. <ref>[https://youtu.be/6gFjB9FTN58 The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Lower The Damn Judge If It’s Too Much =====<br />
You can pick an ideal that fulfills the role of ideal for you. You can say, “well, if things could be set up for me, the way I need them to be, and if I could be who I needed to be, what would that look like?” And you can figure that out for yourself. And then instantly you have a judge. And I also think that’s part of the reason people don’t do it, right? Why don’t people look up and move ahead? And the answer is, you start formulating an ideal. You formulate a judge. It’s pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal. That’s what happened to Cain versus Abel, for example. Then it’s really easy to destroy the ideal instead of try to pursue it because then you get rid of the judge. But it’s way better… lower the damn judge if it’s too much. If the current ambition is crushing you, then maybe you’re playing the tyrant to yourself and you should tap down your ambitions. Not get rid of them by any stretch of the imagination. But at least put them more reasonably within your grasp. You don’t have to leap from point 1 to point 50 in one leap, right? You can do it incrementally. But I really like this idea. I think it’s a profound idea that the process of recapitulating yourself continually is also the process of… it’s a phoenix like process right? You’re shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you’re valuing. And then I would say the idea here is that as you do that, you shape yourself ever more precisely into something that can withstand the tragedy of life. And that can act as a beacon to the world. That’s the right way of thinking about it. Maybe first to your friends and then to your family. It’s like it’s a hell of a fine ambition. And there is no reason that it can’t happen.<br />
Everyone of you knows people who are really bloody useful in a crisis and people that you admire, right? Those are all… you can think of all those people that you admire as partial incarnations of the archetypal Messiah. That’s exactly right. And the more that that manifest itself in any given person, then the more generally useful and admirable that person is in a multitude of situations. And we don’t know the limit to that but people can be unbelievably good for things. It´s really something to behold.<br />
<hr><ref>[https://youtu.be/2iO-YW7hTQc LET YOUR FEARS AND INSECURITIES BURN OFF LIKE DEADWOOD - Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Develop a Noble Vision =====<br />
“Don’t overestimate yourself now, but *don’t underestimate who you could be. start now, develop a noble vision of who you could be, develop discipline, familiarize yourself with the great works, learn to read,write, speak, to think you will be deadly.”<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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You see what you aim at. What you aim at is what manifests for you in the world.<br />
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The higher the goal, the greater the kick. But don’t set the goal so high that you are always failing.<br />
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Specify your goal and a transformation process which will get you there. If you persist with very small improvements, you will eventually win.<br />
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You must have direction, because direction causes positive emotion. You must have a goal, a direction, value structures<br />
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&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=684Lies2020-05-27T04:09:02Z<p>Amit: /* Reasons for Not to Lie to Yourself */</p>
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===== Reasons for Not Lying to Yourself =====<br />
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I learned that so much that I was doing was false, and I think I learned this, yeah there was a reason that this came to me so clearly. I was trying to understand why people did terrible things. And I was really concentrating on the terrible terrible things things that people do. And I was interested in Auschwitz for example. And not as a political phenomenon but as a psychological phenomena. I was curious about how you could be an Auschwitz guard. And I wasn’t really curious how you could be one, because, well, you could be one, of course. I was more curious how I could be one, being such a good person as I thought I was. And I also knew that people, many people, did many terrible things during the 20th century and the idea that I was somehow better than them or that I would assume a priori that I was better than them and that I wouldn’t have made the same choices or worse, had I been in the same situation was a very very very dangerous supposition. And in fact a sufficiently dangerous supposition to bring about the very danger that I assumed was worth avoiding. I had this idea, you know, that what had happened especially in Nazi Germany but also in the Soviet Union, shouldn’t happen again. What we needed to do because of what had happened in the 20th century, especially because we also managed to create hydrogen bombs, and that we had become so technological powerful, was that we really needed to understand why it happened. And that perhaps we could go deep enough in that understanding, which I think is what happens when you go deep in that understanding, so that you could stop it. Because if you understand the problem, maybe you can solve it. I came to believe that the problem was as Solzhenitsyn said that the problem is that the line between good and evil runs down every human heart. And I was reading Jung at the same time and he believed that the human soul was a tree whose roots grew all the way to hell and believed also that in the full investigation of the shadow, which was the dark side of the human psyche, it was bottomless essentially. It was like an experience of hell. And that also struck me as true. And that the way to stop those sorts of things from happening was to stop yourself from being the sort of person who would do it. Who would even start to do it, because the other thing you learn, when you learn about atrocities of that sort, ( you could read ‘ordinary men’, which is an unbelievably great study of exactly this sort of phenomena ) for me it was a matter of understanding that if we want this sort of thing to not happen anymore then we have to start to become the sort of people who wouldn’t do it. It seems rather self evident, all things considered, unless you believe we were the pawns of social forces for example, like the Marxists do. And I don’t believe that because we’re also the creator of social forces, and we’re also capable to standing up to social forces. Because, I would say, the individual is more powerful than the social force all things considered, interestingly enough. That the way to stop such things from happening, the way to remember properly is to understand that you could do it. That you could do those terrible things. Because the people who did them were like you. And that the way out of that is to stop being like that. And the way you stop being like that is, well, at least in part, by ceasing to tell yourself lies that you don’t believe in and that you know you shouldn’t act out. And you know, that’s made a huge difference in my life, for better, for worse, I mean it was a very uncanny experience I would say. Because it’s very discombobulating to experience yourself as fragmented enough so that much of what you do and say is actually false. <ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life? =====<br />
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You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
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"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
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“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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===== Reasons for Not to Lie to Yourself =====<br />
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I learned that so much that I was doing was false, and I think I learned this, yeah there was a reason that this came to me so clearly. I was trying to understand why people did terrible things. And I was really concentrating on the terrible terrible things things that people do. And I was interested in Auschwitz for example. And not as a political phenomenon but as a psychological phenomena. I was curious about how you could be an Auschwitz guard. And I wasn’t really curious how you could be one, because, well, you could be one, of course. I was more curious how I could be one, being such a good person as I thought I was. And I also knew that people, many people, did many terrible things during the 20th century and the idea that I was somehow better than them or that I would assume a priori that I was better than them and that I wouldn’t have made the same choices or worse, had I been in the same situation was a very very very dangerous supposition. And in fact a sufficiently dangerous supposition to bring about the very danger that I assumed was worth avoiding. I had this idea, you know, that what had happened especially in Nazi Germany but also in the Soviet Union, shouldn’t happen again. What we needed to do because of what had happened in the 20th century, especially because we also managed to create hydrogen bombs, and that we had become so technological powerful, was that we really needed to understand why it happened. And that perhaps we could go deep enough in that understanding, which I think is what happens when you go deep in that understanding, so that you could stop it. Because if you understand the problem, maybe you can solve it. I came to believe that the problem was as Solzhenitsyn said that the problem is that the line between good and evil runs down every human heart. And I was reading Jung at the same time and he believed that the human soul was a tree whose roots grew all the way to hell and believed also that in the full investigation of the shadow, which was the dark side of the human psyche, it was bottomless essentially. It was like an experience of hell. And that also struck me as true. And that the way to stop those sorts of things from happening was to stop yourself from being the sort of person who would do it. Who would even start to do it, because the other thing you learn, when you learn about atrocities of that sort, ( you could read ‘ordinary men’, which is an unbelievably great study of exactly this sort of phenomena ) for me it was a matter of understanding that if we want this sort of thing to not happen anymore then we have to start to become the sort of people who wouldn’t do it. It seems rather self evident, all things considered, unless you believe we were the pawns of social forces for example, like the Marxists do. And I don’t believe that because we’re also the creator of social forces, and we’re also capable to standing up to social forces. Because, I would say, the individual is more powerful than the social force all things considered, interestingly enough. That the way to stop such things from happening, the way to remember properly is to understand that you could do it. That you could do those terrible things. Because the people who did them were like you. And that the way out of that is to stop being like that. And the way you stop being like that is, well, at least in part, by ceasing to tell yourself lies that you don’t believe in and that you know you shouldn’t act out. And you know, that’s made a huge difference in my life, for better, for worse, I mean it was a very uncanny experience I would say. Because it’s very discombobulating to experience yourself as fragmented enough so that much of what you do and say is actually false. <ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life? =====<br />
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You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
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"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
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“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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You know I learned when I was a kid, little older than a kid, that almost everything that I said was one form of lie or another. And I wasn’t any worse, I would say, that the people I was associating with. Or any better. And the lies were manifold you know. They were attempts to win arguments for the sake of winning the argument, that might be one. Attempts to indicate my intellectual prowess when there were competitions of that sort. Maybe just the sheer pleasure of engaging in an intellectual argument and winning. My inability to distinguish between ideas that I had read and incorporated because I had read, but hadn’t realized that I hadn’t yet earned the right to use all of that. And you know, I had this experience that lasted a long time while I would say it’s really never gone away…<br />
And I think this was the awakening of my conscious essentially. And I didn’t realize this until much later when I was reading Socrates apology. This voice, for lack of a better word, made itself manifest inside of me. And it said, every time I said something that wasn’t true, and that’s usually what it said, ‘that’s not true.’ ‘You don’t believe that.’ Or there was a sensation that was associated with it. I don’t think this is that uncommon you know. I asked my psychology classes for many years in a row if they had an experience, this experience; that they had a voice in their heads, let’s say it’s a metaphor or a feeling that communicated to them, when they were about to do something wrong. And it was universally the case that people agreed with one of those statements or another. And the other thing that I would ask is, well, do you always listen to it? And the answer was definitely no. But that’s also very interesting you know, that you can have this faculty, this conscience, this seems to me very tightly associated with the idea of free will, that you can have this internal voice, this Daemon, the root word for democracy.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson] </ref><br />
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===== Polity Will Function if People Attend to Their Conscience =====<br />
Well, so Socrates’ Daemon told him it was his moral guide! And democracy appears to be predicated on the idea that the polity will function if people attend to their conscience. That’s the overlap of those conceptualizations. And that’s the case you know, and it makes a certain amount of logical sense. I mean if we assume that the political state is something like the emerging consequence of the decisions of all its citizens. We would assume that the wiser the decisions of the citizens, the more upright and functional the state! <ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson] </ref><br />
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===== Your Conscience is Not Fully Informed, It Needs a Lifelong Dialog With You ===== <br />
Well, you know, it’s funny. I think that is well laid out in the story of Pinocchio, in the Disney story, which is a very strange and complicated story, not least because it draws an analogy between a cricket and Christ. ''Cricket, Jesus Christ, and the conscience: they’re all the same thing, which is very, very, very strange''. But the cricket is obviously a higher entity in some sense, because it’s the conscience, so it’s the judge. But the movie’s very interesting, because it presents that as flawed. As Pinocchio stops being a puppet, his conscience stops being a sort of wandering tramp. They both hone themselves, and, at the very end, Pinocchio turns into a real boy, but the conscience turns into something that’s akin to the stars. It’s a gold star. I spent a lot of time thinking about that. It’s like, "what the hell is that? What’s going on there, exactly?" What it is, is that that judge that you’re talking about—and I wrote a little bit about this in 12 Rules. That judge that you have internally, which is, let’s call it, the voice of conscience, suffers from a certain generic quality. It’s judging you in a cliched manner. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but it’s cliched. It’s not fully informed. So what you want to do throughout your life is have a dialog with that, because it needs to learn—just like what it’s judging needs to learn—and maybe, if that dialog… You know, it’s not that much different than having a long-term relationship, like a marriage. You’re continually communicating, with any luck, and you’re modifying each other in the communication. <ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
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===== Truth Destroys Everything That Isn’t Worthy in You =====<br />
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Nietzsche said that you could tell much about a man´s character by how much truth he could tolerate. Which is very interesting. You know there is an idea in the great western tradition that the truth is the way and the path of life. And that no one comes to the Father except trough the truth. And I believe that to be the case because I don´t think that you can manifest who you are without the truth. And so I think it is literally and metaphorically truth that the pathway to who you could be, if you were completely who you were is through the truth. And so the truth does set you free but the problem is that it destroys everything that isn´t worthy in you as it sets you free . And that´s a process of burning . And it’s painful because you cling to what you shouldn’t be. Partly out of pride and partly out of ignorance and partly out of laziness. And so then you encounter something true and you all know this, you all know this perfectly well. Because when was the last time that you learned something important that wasn’t a blow of some sort you know? It’s often you look back at your life and you think ‘oh God I really learned something there, I wouldn’t do that again.’ But it really changed my life.’ I mean sometimes it can really destroy you — an encounter with the truth and you never really recover. But now and then something comes along and straightens you out and a lot of you has to go. A lot of you has to burn away. And you know I suppose in some sense that everything about you that isn’t worthy is to be put into the flames. And that’s another reason to be not so casual to be claiming about what you believe. Because it isn’t something that you undertake without due caution.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson] </ref><br />
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===== What Cures in Therapy is Truth =====<br />
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What cures in therapy is truth. That’s the curative. Now there is exposure to the things you’re afraid of and avoiding as well. But I would say that’s a form of enacted truth. Because if you know there is something you should do, by your own set of rules and your avoiding it then you’re enacting a lie, you know. You’re not telling one but you’re acting one out. It’s the same damn thing. So if I can get you to face what it is that you’re confronting that you know you shouldn’t be avoiding then what’s happening is that we’re both partaking in the process of attempting you to act out your deepest truth. And what happens is, that that improves peoples lives and it improves them radically. And the evidence, the clinical evidence for that is overwhelming. But of all the things that clinicians have established that’s credible, that’s number one, and that’s nested inside that deeper realization that the clinical experience is redemptive let’s say, because it’s designed to address suffering insofar as the people who are engaged in the process are both telling each other the truth. And then you think, well, obviously, because if you have some problems and you come to talk to me about them, well, first of all, just by coming to me to talk about them, you’ve admitted that they exist. Now, and that’s a pretty good start. And second, well, if you tell me about them then we know what they are, and then, if we know what they are, we can maybe start to layout some solutions, and then you can go act out the solutions to see if they work. But if you don’t admit they are there and you won’t tell me what they are, and I don’t, and I’m like posturing and acting egotistically and taking the upper hand and all of that in our discussions, well, how the hell is that going to work? You know, it might be comfortable, moment to moment, while we stay encapsulated in our delusion, but it’s not going to work. So a lot of that seems, to think it through, it seems pretty self-evident.<ref>[https://youtu.be/_ttzBz55e8k Truth will set you free | Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== We Have Access to Only Sufficient Truth =====<br />
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But here’s another way of looking at the Darwinian problem, as far as I can tell. So part of the reason that the Darwinians insist that random mutation is the source of continual— it’s not progress — continual survival is that the underlying environment changes, and it changes unpredictably. By its essential nature, it’s unpredictable.Thus, if it’s unpredictable, only random transformation can keep up with it, a lot of random transformation. Hopefully, the randomness of the environmental change will be matched by the randomness of the genetic change. OK. So what that means in part is that the environment, so to speak, is finally incomprehensible because you can’t predict it. OK. So that means that a limited creature that’s established itself by Darwinian means can’t have access to the truth. They can only have access to sufficient truth. And sufficient truth is the truth that allows you to survive and reproduce. And from a Darwinian perspective, there isn’t any truth past that. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
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So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
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What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Different Forms of Truth =====<br />
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We didn’t understand that truth comes in different forms depending on its application. It’s a tricky thing, there’s the truths that apply when you’re attempting to describe the transformations of the material world, and there’s the truths that apply when you’re trying to determine how it is you should act while you’re alive, and those obviously, those have to come into alignment but they’re not in alignment right now.<ref>[https://youtu.be/kL61yQgdWeM Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson - Kindness VS Power | Under The Skin #46]</ref><br />
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===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
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The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
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"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
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The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
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When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
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Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
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You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
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There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
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You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
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You know I learned when I was a kid, little older than a kid, that almost everything that I said was one form of lie or another. And I wasn’t any worse, I would say, that the people I was associating with. Or any better. And the lies were manifold you know. They were attempts to win arguments for the sake of winning the argument, that might be one. Attempts to indicate my intellectual prowess when there were competitions of that sort. Maybe just the sheer pleasure of engaging in an intellectual argument and winning. My inability to distinguish between ideas that I had read and incorporated because I had read, but hadn’t realized that I hadn’t yet earned the right to use all of that. And you know, I had this experience that lasted a long time while I would say it’s really never gone away…<br />
And I think this was the awakening of my conscious essentially. And I didn’t realize this until much later when I was reading Socrates apology. This voice, for lack of a better word, made itself manifest inside of me. And it said, every time I said something that wasn’t true, and that’s usually what it said, ‘that’s not true.’ ‘You don’t believe that.’ Or there was a sensation that was associated with it. I don’t think this is that uncommon you know. I asked my psychology classes for many years in a row if they had an experience, this experience; that they had a voice in their heads, let’s say it’s a metaphor or a feeling that communicated to them, when they were about to do something wrong. And it was universally the case that people agreed with one of those statements or another. And the other thing that I would ask is, well, do you always listen to it? And the answer was definitely no. But that’s also very interesting you know, that you can have this faculty, this conscience, this seems to me very tightly associated with the idea of free will, that you can have this internal voice, this Daemon, the root word for democracy.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/al5PltVOYAo The Painful Truth | Jordan B Peterson] </ref><br />
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===== Your Conscience is Not Fully Informed, It Needs a Lifelong Dialog With You ===== <br />
Well, you know, it’s funny. I think that is well laid out in the story of Pinocchio, in the Disney story, which is a very strange and complicated story, not least because it draws an analogy between a cricket and Christ. ''Cricket, Jesus Christ, and the conscience: they’re all the same thing, which is very, very, very strange''. But the cricket is obviously a higher entity in some sense, because it’s the conscience, so it’s the judge. But the movie’s very interesting, because it presents that as flawed. As Pinocchio stops being a puppet, his conscience stops being a sort of wandering tramp. They both hone themselves, and, at the very end, Pinocchio turns into a real boy, but the conscience turns into something that’s akin to the stars. It’s a gold star. I spent a lot of time thinking about that. It’s like, "what the hell is that? What’s going on there, exactly?" What it is, is that that judge that you’re talking about—and I wrote a little bit about this in 12 Rules. That judge that you have internally, which is, let’s call it, the voice of conscience, suffers from a certain generic quality. It’s judging you in a cliched manner. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but it’s cliched. It’s not fully informed. So what you want to do throughout your life is have a dialog with that, because it needs to learn—just like what it’s judging needs to learn—and maybe, if that dialog… You know, it’s not that much different than having a long-term relationship, like a marriage. You’re continually communicating, with any luck, and you’re modifying each other in the communication. <ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
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<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=636Truth2020-04-23T16:47:47Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
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==== Applications ====<br />
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===== What Cures in Therapy is Truth =====<br />
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What cures in therapy is truth. That’s the curative. Now there is exposure to the things you’re afraid of and avoiding as well. But I would say that’s a form of enacted truth. Because if you know there is something you should do, by your own set of rules and your avoiding it then you’re enacting a lie, you know. You’re not telling one but you’re acting one out. It’s the same damn thing. So if I can get you to face what it is that you’re confronting that you know you shouldn’t be avoiding then what’s happening is that we’re both partaking in the process of attempting you to act out your deepest truth. And what happens is, that that improves peoples lives and it improves them radically. And the evidence, the clinical evidence for that is overwhelming. But of all the things that clinicians have established that’s credible, that’s number one, and that’s nested inside that deeper realization that the clinical experience is redemptive let’s say, because it’s designed to address suffering insofar as the people who are engaged in the process are both telling each other the truth. And then you think, well, obviously, because if you have some problems and you come to talk to me about them, well, first of all, just by coming to me to talk about them, you’ve admitted that they exist. Now, and that’s a pretty good start. And second, well, if you tell me about them then we know what they are, and then, if we know what they are, we can maybe start to layout some solutions, and then you can go act out the solutions to see if they work. But if you don’t admit they are there and you won’t tell me what they are, and I don’t, and I’m like posturing and acting egotistically and taking the upper hand and all of that in our discussions, well, how the hell is that going to work? You know, it might be comfortable, moment to moment, while we stay encapsulated in our delusion, but it’s not going to work. So a lot of that seems, to think it through, it seems pretty self-evident.<ref>[https://youtu.be/_ttzBz55e8k Truth will set you free | Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
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===== We Have Access to Only Sufficient Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
But here’s another way of looking at the Darwinian problem, as far as I can tell. So part of the reason that the Darwinians insist that random mutation is the source of continual— it’s not progress — continual survival is that the underlying environment changes, and it changes unpredictably. By its essential nature, it’s unpredictable.Thus, if it’s unpredictable, only random transformation can keep up with it, a lot of random transformation. Hopefully, the randomness of the environmental change will be matched by the randomness of the genetic change. OK. So what that means in part is that the environment, so to speak, is finally incomprehensible because you can’t predict it. OK. So that means that a limited creature that’s established itself by Darwinian means can’t have access to the truth. They can only have access to sufficient truth. And sufficient truth is the truth that allows you to survive and reproduce. And from a Darwinian perspective, there isn’t any truth past that. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
<hr><br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Different Forms of Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
We didn’t understand that truth comes in different forms depending on its application. It’s a tricky thing, there’s the truths that apply when you’re attempting to describe the transformations of the material world, and there’s the truths that apply when you’re trying to determine how it is you should act while you’re alive, and those obviously, those have to come into alignment but they’re not in alignment right now.<ref>[https://youtu.be/kL61yQgdWeM Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson - Kindness VS Power | Under The Skin #46]</ref><br />
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===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
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Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
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Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
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When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
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Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
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You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
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==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
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==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=634Truth2020-04-18T07:10:04Z<p>Amit: </p>
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<div>==== Definition ====<br />
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==== Applications ====<br />
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===== We Have Access to Only Sufficient Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
But here’s another way of looking at the Darwinian problem, as far as I can tell. So part of the reason that the Darwinians insist that random mutation is the source of continual— it’s not progress — continual survival is that the underlying environment changes, and it changes unpredictably. By its essential nature, it’s unpredictable.Thus, if it’s unpredictable, only random transformation can keep up with it, a lot of random transformation. Hopefully, the randomness of the environmental change will be matched by the randomness of the genetic change. OK. So what that means in part is that the environment, so to speak, is finally incomprehensible because you can’t predict it. OK. So that means that a limited creature that’s established itself by Darwinian means can’t have access to the truth. They can only have access to sufficient truth. And sufficient truth is the truth that allows you to survive and reproduce. And from a Darwinian perspective, there isn’t any truth past that. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
<hr><br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Different Forms of Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
We didn’t understand that truth comes in different forms depending on its application. It’s a tricky thing, there’s the truths that apply when you’re attempting to describe the transformations of the material world, and there’s the truths that apply when you’re trying to determine how it is you should act while you’re alive, and those obviously, those have to come into alignment but they’re not in alignment right now.<ref>[https://youtu.be/kL61yQgdWeM Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson - Kindness VS Power | Under The Skin #46]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Emotions&diff=633Emotions2020-04-17T22:30:19Z<p>Amit: </p>
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==== Applications ====<br />
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===== A Therapist’s Observation About Emotion =====<br />
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One of the thing I have noticed about being a therapist is that if someone is manifesting a lot of emotion and it is not bothering me, then it is a good hint that there is something wrong, that it’s not real, there is something about it that’s not exactly right because it doesn’t seem to hook into your empathic system the same way.<ref> [https://youtu.be/A07DV3FXyPo 2015 Personality Lecture: Sigmund Freud ]</ref><br />
===== Articulating Emotions in Words Helps in Reducing Their Ill-effects =====<br />
<hr><br />
Everything that makes you emotional – those are things that aren’t dealt with yet. They’re not fully articulated. You don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a fully developed representational system. That’s why it’s still emotional. So it’s like your body and your mind come up with emotional representations first and only as you work through them, which means talk about them essentially, strategically. They don’t even turn into words until you do that. And that’s where I think Freud went wrong. Those things aren’t repressed (although they can be). They’re not repressed. They just never made it all the way up to articulated representation. And lots of things are like that. When you’re in a bad mood, it’s like “I’m in a bad mood!” Well, what does that mean? Well, you don’t know. Why don’t you know? Are you repressing it? No, you’re just too stupid to figure it out. And so then you’ve got to talk to someone. You know, “I’m in a bad mood!” well, you know, “How are you feeling?” and they’ll get all spiteful and tell you how they’re feeling and then to differentiate it and maybe they remember something that happened at work and then you can kind of map out the mood. And that starts to loosen it.<ref>[https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/jordan-peterson-on-carl-rogers/ Jordan Peterson on Carl Rogers]</ref><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=632Truth2020-04-16T20:24:39Z<p>Amit: /* Truth Comes in Different Forms */</p>
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<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
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<br><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
<hr><br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Different Forms of Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
We didn’t understand that truth comes in different forms depending on its application. It’s a tricky thing, there’s the truths that apply when you’re attempting to describe the transformations of the material world, and there’s the truths that apply when you’re trying to determine how it is you should act while you’re alive, and those obviously, those have to come into alignment but they’re not in alignment right now.<ref>[https://youtu.be/kL61yQgdWeM Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson - Kindness VS Power | Under The Skin #46]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Resentment&diff=631Resentment2020-04-16T18:34:00Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
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<div>==== Definition ====<br />
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==== Applications ====<br />
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===== Your Decisions Determine Fate of the World =====<br />
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I believe that people’s decisions tilt the world towards heaven or hell. I think there’s no more accurate way of describing the consequences of each of your decisions than that… You face potential, that’s what you face in the world: potential. It’s not material reality, it’s [[potential]]. And every decision you make, you’re deciding whether you want to make the world better or worse. The ultimate better is heaven and the ultimate worse is hell. We know how to make the world into hell, we’ve done that multiple times. Much of the 20th century was that. I looked at all that, and I thought, “OK, I would rather that the world didn’t degenerate into hell.” And I understand why people want it to degenerate into hell. They’re angry. They’re angry because they suffer, they suffer unfairly, and they suffer because people hurt them. And so they think, this is a bad game, I’m not going to help make it better, I’m angry, I’m going to make it worse even. That’s what the Columbine kids did. Now that’s what all the mass shooters do. They say, “to hell with this! I hate it!”<ref>[https://youtu.be/6T7pUEZfgdI Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If You Are Resentful, Say Something About It =====<br />
If you’re honest, which is painful, you see that a lot of the things that you say aren’t real. You’ll see that a lot of the things that you do make you weak. You’ll see that a lot of the people that you associate with are probably not good for you. And then you have a lot of difficult choices to make. You can stop with the obvious lieing. That’ll clear things up for you a lot. And you can start communicating with people. One of the things I teach my clients is if you’re resentful say something about it. Say something about it. You tell the person ‘Look, what you asked me to do is making me feel resentful.’ Now, if they’re your wife or husband or someone you love, you should listen to them because they might say ‘Well, grow up. Take your dam responsibility and leave me alone.’ And maybe they’re right. Or maybe they’re a bit of a bully and you have to say ‘Quit pushing me around.’ Maybe you have to have an argument with them. An honest argument where you say ‘Look, this is what’s happening to me’ and they say ‘Look, this is what’s happening to me.’ And you battle it out until you reach some sort of settlement and then you don’t have to be resentful anymore. Then you won’t be mean and cruel and vicious. And you have to be honest in order to do that.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“You make your bed and then you lie in it – and everyone knows it – and that’s not to say that you’re not subject to random and chaotic circumstances and the tragedy of life. Just because you can do some things doesn’t mean you can do everything. But you can do some things and if you don’t do them, then things fall apart. And the problem with things falling apart is that you will be happy about it, to the degree that you’re not trying to repair them. Because to the degree that you do not manifest what’s within you, then your life falls apart around you and everything that could make you bitter multiplies, until you’re in a situation where you want the destruction, you want to bring it on. And it’s not surprising. Because life can be so terrible that the question of whether or not it should exist at all can be a real question. But the answer to that is; is life so terrible that it shouldn’t exist? Well the answer is – it depends on how you live it. And if your life is so terrible that you can’t bear it, then it raises the question of whether or not you’re living it properly. And that’s not to say that people don’t suffer under burdens that are too great for them to bear – they certainly do, it doesn’t matter – because if you let that embitter you, if you let that destroy your allegiance to the proper path, all it does is make that worse and everything else – it’s no out.”<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<hr><br />
"Resentful people who want to change the world are not to be trusted." <ref>[[Discussions| How To Academy]]</ref><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
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==== References ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=630Truth2020-04-16T06:15:15Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
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<div>==== Definition ====<br />
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==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
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What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Truth Comes in Different Forms =====<br />
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We didn’t understand that truth comes in different forms depending on its application. It’s a tricky thing, there’s the truths that apply when you’re attempting to describe the transformations of the material world, and there’s the truths that apply when you’re trying to determine how it is you should act while you’re alive, and those obviously, those have to come into alignment but they’re not in alignment right now.<ref>[https://youtu.be/kL61yQgdWeM Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson - Kindness VS Power | Under The Skin #46]</ref><br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
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The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
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"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
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Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
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The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
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Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
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When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
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Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
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You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
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There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
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You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
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* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
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===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
<hr><br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
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Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
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The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
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* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
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===== The Faux Privilege Argument =====<br />
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If you are wondering why certain values can exist in the absence of any value, you have to look no further than to understand that people who are desperate and chaotic will still be angry and destructive. And they can manifest that perfectly with the moral mask that says, well, I’m not really after what you have, because you have a little more than me. I’m speaking on behalf on these people who have even less. It is absolute nonsense.<br />
It is so funny watching Yale students complain about the privileged. They are in the top one tenth of one hundredth of a pro cent of people who lived in the entire history of the planet. Much less just the people that are on the planet now. They are dominating patriarchs in training right. They are baby representatives of the patriarchy. And all they do is complain about that tiny tiny infinitesimal fraction of people who have slightly more than they have now. It is appalling, and their idiot professors pat them on the back, and send them out the world to do that. Instead of teaching them how to live. They damage their mental health. They hurt our society. They are bringing things down and that is what they are aiming at.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness]</ref><br />
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===== The SJW game =====<br />
# Identify an area of human activity<br />
# Note a distribution of success<br />
# Identify winners and losers<br />
# Claim that the losers are losing only because they are oppressed by the winners<br />
# Claim allegiance with the losers<br />
# Feel secure in your comprehensive explanation of the world<br />
# Revel in your moral superiority<br />
# Target your resentment towards your newly discovered enemies<br />
# Repeat. Forever. Everywhere.<br />
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We shouldn’t believe that just because some noisy activist gets up and says something about their membership of a minority, and the victimhood that accrues from that, that they are in any way representative of the group as a whole, or has any right to speak for that group. That would suggest that a single trait informs the entirety of a person’s political and moral outlook, which is absurd. <br />
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People nowadays have nothing to worry about, so we have to create something to worry about. We are exploring creatures.<br />
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Equity programs always end with everyone sitting equally on the rubble, or equally dead (Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot). It is one of the most pernicious of Marxist doctrines, and caused us to almost torch the planet.<br />
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SJWs engage in “mock behavior”, they are “phoneys”. (But they never give up. They can’t)<br />
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Do not apologize to the mob<br />
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If you need to have a safe space, go see a therapist<br />
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When you divide the world into two camps – the Innocent and the Damned, or the Victims and the Oppressed, and you think you’re in the noble of the two camps, then the chance that you are part of the solution rather than part of the problem is zero. [It is identity politics that creates 2 opposing sides out of myriad human beings. That’s its intention, because it negates the notion of the individual]<br />
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Jordan Peterson calls the SJW types "cowardly". He also says that this is a case of "Oedipal cuddling", and the Oedipal mother, who can't let their children grow. (He also mentioned the idea that today's children never play alone, so never learn to solve problems.) The problem is that this hollows out the soul, creating permanent infants.<br />
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Being a permanent child is very comforting.<br />
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Activism related to Gender Pronouns<br />
When they force you to use non-standard gender pronouns, they want to force us to:<br />
# Fall in line with their delusion (which one should never do, because it's cruel). (This is the stance of the Useful Idiots)<br />
# Tacitly accept their politically activist agenda (This is the motive of the True Believers)<br />
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The activism is not intended to promote transgender rights, but to push a political agenda<br />
* Activism comes from the philosophy of intense resentment<br />
* These are an example of extreme PC authoritarianism<br />
* Identity is a set of tools to navigate the world, not just a subjective whi<br />
* What you call somebody is not ‘a mark of respect’. You don’t get to demand one’s respect<br />
* The idea that you can choose your identity from moment to moment and that you have the right to impose that on everyone else is absurd. Most people grow out of that idea when they are 2 years old. <br />
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===== The Post-Modernists are the Logical Conclusion of Nietzschean Dilemma =====<br />
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The post modernists, they’re the logical conclusion of the Nietzschean dilemma: God is dead, the value structure collapsed. The specter arises of all value structures collapsing. That’s the post-modernist dogma: all value structures have collapsed, they’re only there for the purposes of exclusion. They have no intrinsic value. It is a very very powerful argument. That is why it dominates the universities. That and the fact that it allows people to dispense with their moral responsibility, which is something that is never discussed by the post-modernists. But you have to give the devil his due. What is the problem with post modernism? Well, if all the value structures have collapsed then there is nothing to do. Because in order to do something one thing has to be better than another. Because otherwise, why do it? And so people who are ensconced in the postmodern tradition are undermined by their own philosophy. They can deconstruct their own deconstruction. In which case they might as well sit there and do nothing. Which would actually be preferable to what they are doing now. So how do they extract themselves from that dilemma? They do it illogically, but they don’t care. Because the post modernists first of all don’t believe in logic. That’s a reflection of the logos which they’ve dispensed with. Dialogue they don’t believe in because that’s a reflection of the logos which they’ve dispensed with. Logic and dialogue are irrelevant. Well, that does bring up the problem of what to do. Well, their postmodernists finesse that by reverting to the Marxist doctrines from which post modernism emerged.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness]</ref><br />
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===== Antidote to Post-Modernism: Find Out What Is Great About Your Culture =====<br />
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The post modernists managed to be nihilistic and totalitarian at the same time. Which is something not even Nietzsche dreamed about, despite the fact that he had the greatest imagination for pathology that perhaps ever existed. In addition they combined the nihilism and the totalitarianism with the worst aspects of dogmatic religion. Because what they have essentially established is a cult into which children who attend university are now indoctrinated. At great cost I might add. And with very little practical outcome.What is the alternative, given that they have a point. Well, as far as I can tell, the alternative is a proper return to the past and that is precisely to journey into the chaos to look at the worst possible thing and to pull the dead father (culture) up from the chaotic depths, that is how you stop being a puppet. Someone whose strings are being pulled by forces they do not understand behind the scenes. You find out what is great about your culture, that thing that provided us with everything that we see in this room, this amazing warmth that we are experiencing when its 30 bloody below outside. The fact that the electricity works and that the computational resources are working. That we can all sit here peacefully. And that no one is hungry.<ref>[https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness]</ref><br />
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"It’s not as if I personally think that postmodernism and Marxism are commensurate. It’s obvious to me that the much-vaunted “skepticism toward grand narratives” that is part and parcel of the postmodern viewpoint makes any such alliance logically impossible. Postmodernists should be as skeptical toward Marxism as toward any other canonical belief system." <ref>[http://www.jordanpeterson.com/transcripts Jordan Peterson's blog]</ref><br />
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"Postmodernism leaves its practitioners without an ethic. Action in the world (even perception) is impossible without an ethic, so one [ethic] has to be at least allowed in through the back door. The fact that such allowance produces a logical contradiction appears to bother the low-rent postmodernists who dominate the social sciences and humanities not at all. Then again, coherence isn’t one of their strong points (and the demand for such coherence can just be read as another patriarchal imposition typifying oppressive Western thought)."<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8m21kw/i_am_dr_jordan_b_peterson_u_of_t_professor/ JBP Reddit page]</ref><br />
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"What I'm doing ... is speaking to people as if they are autonomous individuals, who are the bedrock of civilisation and sovereignty, and that is absolute anathema to the radical Left. They see that as a fundamental challenge, which it is."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opHWsHr798 Rubin Report]</ref><br />
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===== Value Systems =====<br />
But if there is no sense, then there is no aim, and we drown in chaos, which is a depressing and stressful way to live, devoid of control. In order to have an aim, you must first have an interpretation, values.<br />
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Post-modernists believe that any value structures only exclude, oppress and so on. And there is some obvious but trivial truth in that. But they never see that value structures provide direction. No values means no direction, if going to A is no better than going to B.<br />
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Post-modernism, as formulated by Derrida, posits that there are an infinite number of ways to view any problem. Correct. Then he says that in that case, there can be no right way to view the problem, we cannot make any sense out of it, everyone views the problem in a way which increases their power. Everything, he says, is a power game. Therefore interpretations differ among different power groups (and that is true to some extent). <br />
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It is true that there are multiple interpretations of any event or piece of literature. The (Radical) Left then assumes that there is no Right Way, because everybody interprets the event in terms of power games. But in the real world there are constraints. We must find a useful interpretation, one that creates a set of tools that enables us to live across place and across time. <br />
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There are functional constraints on the number of different ways to view a problem. An interpretation must be functional, it must create a game which helps us to thrive and which encourages others to cooperate with us again and again in the world.<br />
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What is the effect of rejecting value systems as the Post-Modernists do? One ends up drowning in nihilist chaos, demoralized.<br />
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We need to choose interpretations that do not kill us, and do not make other people want to kill us. We must get useful tools from our interpretation.<br />
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===== Negotiation =====<br />
There can be no negotiation between power groups. That is also why PM people hate to debate — even to talk to a member of a different power group is to play their power game. Opponents are not just wrong, but evil. They don’t think that good people can come together and negotiate to find a better way forward.<br />
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Post-Modernism doesn’t believe in debate, because they don’t believe that 2 groups with different viewpoints can negotiate and come to agreement; it’s just another logocentric ploy.<br />
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They don't even want to debate; even debate is playing the opponent's game. They believe that everything is a power game between groups. To talk to another group is to validate their power game, no more. They believe that the logos is a tool of oppression.<br />
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=====Western Culture & Civilisation=====<br />
They completely reject the structure of Western culture (because it’s “phallologocentric”), i.e. patriarchal and self-serving, created by the patriarchy. That is, of course, a tendency not an absolute. In fact, the West is doing pretty damn well. They don’t have a shred of gratitude, and so they are full of resentment, one of the nastiest emotions, along with arrogance and deceit. Only resentful, deceptive charlatans (like Derrida) think that you can have Marxism and compassion at the same time. <br />
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Marxists saw the struggle as the Working Class v Bourgeoisie. Neo-Marxists (PostModernists) see it as Victims v Oppressors. Both of them refuse to think in terms of the individual, everything has to be argued at the group level, which is the basis for identity politics [''That's why they hate people who rise above their supposed group status''].<br />
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It is a zero-sum game. Previously it pretended to be about economics, now it’s just about power.<br />
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=====Logos=====<br />
They think it is part of the patriarchy, designed to maintain and justify it. "Thought is an agent of repression" (Derrida).<br />
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Leftists have no gratitude for the processes that have brought us to where we are now, so they are driven by resentment. They refuse to recognize the individual and the logos (ie logic and dialogue), because they too are part of the patriarchy. [http://collegeinsurrection.com/2015/07/syracuse-prof-thinks-reason-is-a-white-male-construct/"Reason is white"] and part of the dominant culture)<br />
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=====Individualism=====<br />
The (Radical) Left hates the individual, the person who can decide for themselves. So they place them into groups [neuters the individual impulse?]. The number of possible groups is infinite, so it’s an arbitrary decisions as to what groups can be made up for any situation.<br />
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No individuals, so it's all about group identity (race, gender, sexuality, victim v oppressor), so it's all a Hobbesian battle of identity groups. Everyone has to be an exemplar of a group (thus, white privilege etc etc). That enables the setting up of the Victim v Oppressor game. <br />
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=====Hierarchy=====<br />
The SJWs want to flatten dominance hierarchies because they believe all hierarchies are based on power. This is obvious nonsense. There are hierarchies based on competence, intelligence, attractiveness. So, they hate competence, as well, because competence creates hierarchies. And they dislike clear thinking, perhaps they know it doesn't favor them. SJWs always think they are oppressed victims. They mean exactly what they say.<br />
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You know perfectly well that you live in a relationship with your own conscience. And when you violate the moral order that’s part and parcel of your soul, you are ashamed and hide and (get) bitter. And then you get angry. You can’t show your face to other people. You can’t even look at yourself in the mirror. And you know perfectly well that is true. Even though you may not know what to do about it, or how to get out of it. There is a moral order built into human beings. If there wasn’t, there is no way we could even communicate with one another. Because there will be no rules of communication. There will be nothing that we mutually wanted or expected from each other. You know, one of the things I figured out is that we are all appalled when we run into another person who is not yet the redeemer. Every person you’ll ever meet you are dissatisfied with because they are not who they could be. And you’re broadcasting that message at everyone all the time: “you’re not who you could be”, “You are not who you could be”. “You are not who you could be”. “I’m not who I could be.” And we are all facing each other with our emotional displays, pleading with each other to become that which we couldn’t become. And every one knows it, but we won’t do it. And it’s no wonder.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness]</ref><br />
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===== What is the Purpose of Education? =====<br />
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The cornerstone of civilization has been demolished by rational critique. And no wonder, it needed to be criticized. But it needed to be more, deeply understood. Criticism and deep understanding are the same thing, unless the criticism is only destruction. Because if you criticize something what you’re doing is separating the wheat from the chaff, you’re not burning all of it. You are saying not this, not this, but definitely this. Definitely this! And that’s why education should provide you with the opportunity as well; “What should we conserve and what should we dispense with?” We conserve what is essentially true. And now we have to understand it. We have to conserve that the individual has an infinite responsibility to the direction of being.<br />
<ref>[https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness]</ref><br />
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The reason that you come to university to be educated is because there is nothing more powerful than someone who is articulate and you can think and speak and I mean the best sort it’s authority and influence and respectability and competence and so you come to university to craft your highest skill and your highest skill was to be found in articulated speech and if you’re if you’re if you’re a master at formulating your arguments you win everything and better than that In everything everyone allowing you wins too because to transform yourself into something approximating the logos it means you shine a light on the whole world well there’s nothing more exciting to do them that there’s nothing better you can possibly do and to think that you’re coming to university to be you know trained to have a job it’s like great that’s a hell of a lot better than being unemployed and covered with Cheetos dust while you’re snacking away in front of your video game in the basement.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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In this Glossary of Terms used by Jordan B Peterson below, each term is explained further by categorizing it into three sections: <br />
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1. Definition - In this section, the term is defined by using exact quote(s) from Dr. Jordan Peterson (with minor editorial corrections), taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).<br />
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2. Applications - In this section, various applications of the term (in the form of an idea or a theory) are put forward by using exact quotes from Dr. Jordan Peterson (with minor editorial corrections), taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).<br />
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* [[Activism]]<br />
* [[Addiction]]<br />
* [[Aim/Goal]]<br />
* [[Archetype]]<br />
* [[Arrogance]]<br />
* [[Attention]]<br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Clean your room]]<br />
* [[Commitment]]<br />
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy]]<br />
* [[Conscience]]<br />
* [[Conscientiousness]]<br />
* [[Consciousness]]<br />
* [[Culture]]<br />
* [[Deceit]]<br />
* [[Depression]]<br />
* [[Devil]]<br />
* [[Education]]<br />
* [[Emotions]]<br />
* [[Empathy]]<br />
* [[Equilibrated State]]<br />
* [[Ethics]]<br />
* [[Evil]]<br />
* [[Evolution]]<br />
* [[Father Archetype]]<br />
* [[Free Speech]]<br />
* [[Freedom]]<br />
* [[God]]<br />
* [[Good]]<br />
* [[Hero Archetype]]<br />
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy | Hierarchies]]<br />
* [[How to Act (Action)]]<br />
* [[Humility]]<br />
* [[Ideas]]<br />
* [[Ideology]]<br />
* [[Individual]]<br />
* [[Inequality]]<br />
* [[Language]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
* [[Logos]]<br />
* [[Love]]<br />
* [[Malevolence]]<br />
* [[Marriage]]<br />
* [[Meaning]]<br />
* [[Memory]]<br />
* [[Morality]]<br />
* [[Mother Archetype]]<br />
* [[Myth]]<br />
* [[Nature]]<br />
* [[Neo Marxism]]<br />
* [[Nihilism]]<br />
* [[Order & Chaos]]<br />
* [[Orientation]]<br />
* [[Western Civilization|Patriarchy]]<br />
* [[Persona]]<br />
* [[Personality]]<br />
* [[Political Correctness]]<br />
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]<br />
* [[Potential]]<br />
* [[Prayer]]<br />
* [[Psyche]]<br />
* [[Redemption]]<br />
* [[Relationships]]<br />
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* [[Responsibility]]<br />
* [[Right vs Left]]<br />
* [[Rights]]<br />
* [[Rules]]<br />
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* [[Sex & Gender]]<br />
* [[Sin]]<br />
* [[Social Justice]]<br />
* [[Sovereignty of an Individual]]<br />
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* [[Technology]]<br />
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* [[Virtue]]<br />
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* [[Western Canon]]<br />
* [[Western Civilization]]<br />
* [[Wisdom]]<br />
* [[Yahweh]]<br />
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<div>== Glossary of Terms Used by Jordan B Peterson (Based on Various Resources Available Online) ==<br />
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In this Glossary of Terms used by Jordan B Peterson below, each term is explained further by categorizing it into three sections: <br />
<br />
1. Definition - In this section, the term is defined by using exact quote(s) from Dr. Jordan Peterson (with minor editorial corrections), taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).<br />
<br />
2. Applications - In this section, various applications of the term (in the form of an idea or a theory) are put forward by using exact quotes from Dr. Jordan Peterson (with minor editorial corrections), taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).<br />
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3. Interpretations - In this section, JBP Daily forum members have attempted to make interpretations of Jordan’s quotes in simpler language while being careful about not altering Jordan's message in a significant way.<br />
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* [[Activism]]<br />
* [[Addiction]]<br />
* [[Aim/Goal]]<br />
* [[Archetype]]<br />
* [[Arrogance]]<br />
* [[Attention]]<br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Clean your room]]<br />
* [[Commitment]]<br />
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy]]<br />
* [[Conscience]]<br />
* [[Conscientiousness]]<br />
* [[Consciousness]]<br />
* [[Culture]]<br />
* [[Deceit]]<br />
* [[Depression]]<br />
* [[Devil]]<br />
* [[Education]]<br />
* [[Emotions]]<br />
* [[Empathy]]<br />
* [[Equilibrated State]]<br />
* [[Ethics]]<br />
* [[Evil]]<br />
* [[Evolution]]<br />
* [[Father Archetype]]<br />
* [[Free Speech]]<br />
* [[Freedom]]<br />
* [[God]]<br />
* [[Good]]<br />
* [[Hero Archetype]]<br />
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy | Hierarchies]]<br />
* [[How to Act (Action)]]<br />
* [[Humility]]<br />
* [[Ideas]]<br />
* [[Ideology]]<br />
* [[Individual]]<br />
* [[Inequality]]<br />
* [[Language]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
* [[Logos]]<br />
* [[Love]]<br />
* [[Malevolence]]<br />
* [[Marriage]]<br />
* [[Meaning]]<br />
* [[Memory]]<br />
* [[Morality]]<br />
* [[Mother Archetype]]<br />
* [[Myth]]<br />
* [[Nature]]<br />
* [[Neo Marxism]]<br />
* [[Nihilism]]<br />
* [[Order & Chaos]]<br />
* [[Orientation]]<br />
* [[Western Civilization|Patriarchy]]<br />
* [[Persona]]<br />
* [[Personality]]<br />
* [[Political Correctness]]<br />
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]<br />
* [[Potential]]<br />
* [[Prayer]]<br />
* [[Psyche]]<br />
* [[Redemption]]<br />
* [[Relationships]]<br />
* [[Religion & Divinity]]<br />
* [[Resentment]]<br />
* [[Responsibility]]<br />
* [[Right vs Left]]<br />
* [[Rights]]<br />
* [[Rules]]<br />
* [[Sacrifice]]<br />
* [[Schedule]]<br />
* [[Sex & Gender]]<br />
* [[Sin]]<br />
* [[Social Justice]]<br />
* [[Sovereignty of an Individual]]<br />
* [[Stress]]<br />
* [[Suffering]]<br />
* [[Technology]]<br />
* [[Totalitarianism]]<br />
* [[Tragedy]]<br />
* [[Truth]]<br />
* [[Tyranny]]<br />
* [[Uroboros (Ouroboros)]]<br />
* [[Value System]]<br />
* [[Virtue]]<br />
* [[Vision]]<br />
* [[Western Canon]]<br />
* [[Western Civilization]]<br />
* [[Wisdom]]<br />
* [[Yahweh]]<br />
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===== Being is Subjective =====<br />
There is a lot of things about being that we can't attribute simply to material reality. We may eventually be able to do that, but by that time our notion of what constitutes "material" will be much different. We can't deal with subjectivity within the confines of our materialist theories. That's partly because those theories were predicated on the elimination of subjectivity as an a-priori move. The whole point of objective science is to remove subjectivity. Ok so then it gets removed and well you are surprised about it. Well, no you can't be surprised about it, you removed it right at the beginning. Now that works for certain purposes, it works very well, but it has consequences. Some of those consequences as far as I am concerned are serious enough to produce two forms of social and mental illness. And one of those would be the succumbing to the temptations of authoritarianism and the other would be succumbing to the temptations of nihilism. Because there are logical consequences of the definition of subjective is non-real. So then you ask yourself, how do you determine whether or not a theory is true. Then you ask yourself, well what do you mean by true? Well then you are in trouble. Because I think you can take a Newtonian perspective on that or a Darwinian perspective, but you can't do both at the same time. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Basic Message of Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
As far as I can tell, the basic message of the Sermon on the Mount is something like, "assume that Being is good, and that your role is to further that good, and that the most appropriate way to do that is to tell the truth and to concentrate on the day." Something like that. That strikes me as… Well, it strikes me as extraordinarily wise.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
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===== Fundamental Constituent Elements Of Our Own Reality Are Not Material ===== <br />
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I think that you can’t really understand what makes up virtue until you modulate or modify your notion of what constitutes being. This is a hard thing to do.Modern people are fundamentally materialistic. And there’s some utility in that: we’re masters of material transformation. And the fact that we’re materialist in our scientific philosophy has made us extremely powerful, maybe too powerful, for our morality. Extremely powerful from a technological perspective, but it’s blinded us to certain things. And I think one of the things that it’s really blinded us to is the nature of our own being. Because we make the assumption that the fundamental constituent elements of reality are material. We fail to notice that the fundamental constituent elements of our own reality are not material. They’re emotional, they’re motivational, they’re dreams, they’re visions, they’re relationships with other people. They’re conscious: they’re dependent on consciousness. And self-consciousness. And we have absolutely no materialist explanation whatsoever either for consciousness or self-consciousness. And we don’t deal well, from a materialist perspective, with the qualities of being. And everyone knows those qualities exist, I mean for most people there’s nothing more real than their own pain. Pain transcends rational argument in that you can’t argue yourself out of it: it’s just there. And, materialist or not, there are very few people who are willing to allow the claim that their pain is merely an epiphenomena of some more fundamental material process. Pain is fundamental. Consciousness is fundamental. And I think that unless you understand that, you can’t think properly about virtue.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
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===== Being Is Not Possible Without Limitation =====<br />
Suffering’s an integral part of being. Well, why is that? Who knows? It’s a metaphysical question, but I have some ideas about it that have helped me and there are things that I have read. I read for example an old Jewish commentary about the reason for creation. It’s like a zen koan, this idea. You take a being with the classical attributes of God: omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, a totality. And the question is: what does a being with those attributes lack? And the answer is limitation. And then you think, well what’s so important about limitation? If you can be anything or do anything at anytime whatsoever, there’s no being. Everything is one thing. There’s no differentiation between things. So something that’s absolute and total has no being, it has to be parceled out into limited being. And you know this because you all play games, you play video games, you play games with other people, you may play games you don’t even know you’re playing. And when you play those games you put limits on yourself, you play by a set of rules. And the reason you do that is when you limit yourself, arbitrarily in some ways, whole new worlds of possibility emerge. And so there’s a powerful metaphysical idea that being is not possible without limitation. So that’s an interesting idea. So you say well what’s the price you pay for being? The price you pay for being is limitation and the price you for limitation is suffering, so the price you pay for being is suffering.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
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Soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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===== Turning Away from Being Itself =====<br />
"If you make yourself weak and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter. And once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit... If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceipt, and failing to take [[Responsibility |responsibility]], then you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence, and you will torture yourself. And that leads to very bad places."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
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"[''People who commit heinous crimes, such as the school shootings''] think: 'I'd rather be dead and infamous than alive and anonymous'."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opHWsHr798 Rubin Report]</ref><br />
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# You are trapped in the past<br />
# Can you be someone with infinite future possibilities, and choosing one? This is to be conscious, awake. [This is pure quantum]. Consciousness takes a potential and turns it into a reality [collapses the wave function]<br />
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Live in a manner that justifies the fragility of being. You justify being by how you choose to exist. You can live in a way that does not justify being, but I don’t recommend it. <br />
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We have to make some basic decisions:<br />
Love: Being, is worthwhile. "I'm going to act as is Being is worthwhile."<br />
Truth: play the game with a straight bat. "I'm going to act as if truth is the path to enlightenment."<br />
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We must commit to this.<br />
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You should live in a way that justifies the fragility of being. Justify being by how you choose to exist.<br />
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Is life terrible? It depends on how you live!<br />
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==== See Also ====<br />
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* [[How to Act (Action)]]<br />
* [[Love]]<br />
* [[Truth]]<br />
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===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea =====<br />
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So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
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What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
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"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
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Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
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The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
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Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
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When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
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Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
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You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
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There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
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You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
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* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
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===== Truth Serves Life is a Darwinian Idea<br />
<hr><br />
So Nietzsche says truth serves life. In some sense, that is a Darwinian idea. If it is true enough, so that if you act it out or hold it, that increases your chances of survival and reproduction over long spans of time. That's true. OK. We have no idea that if our detailed knowledge about material world is going to be the type of knowledge that allows us to survive and reproduce over a long period of time. It's not being tested from a Darwinian perspective at all. You might say, well, of course the materialist perspective is right, look what we built with it. We built hydrogen bombs, for example. But then you might object to that by saying well yeah! We built hydrogen bombs, but the only reason we could build them or were willing to was because we left things out of the equation. Well what things? Well, things like, is it really a good idea to build a hydrogen bombs? <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
<hr><br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
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“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
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The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
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Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
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The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
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You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Being&diff=585Being2020-04-09T22:36:12Z<p>Amit: /* Basic Message of Sermon On the Mount */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Being is Subjective =====<br />
There is a lot of things about being that we can't attribute simply to material reality. We may eventually be able to do that, but by that time our notion of what constitutes "material" will be much different. We can't deal with subjectivity within the confines of our materialist theories. That's partly because those theories were predicated on the elimination of subjectivity as an a-priori move. The whole point of objective science is to remove subjectivity. Ok so then it gets removed and well you are surprised about it. Well, no you can't be surprised about it, you removed it right at the beginning. Now that works for certain purposes, it works very well, but it has consequences. Some of those consequences as far as I am concerned are serious enough to produce two forms of social and mental illness. And one of those would be the succumbing to the temptations of authoritarianism and the other would be succumbing to the temptations of nihilism. Because there are logical consequences of the definition of subjective is non-real. So then you ask yourself, how do you determine whether or not a theory is true. Then you ask yourself, well what do you mean by true? Well then you are in trouble. Because I think you can take a Newtonian perspective on that or a Darwinian perspective, but you can't do both at the same time. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Basic Message of Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
As far as I can tell, the basic message of the Sermon on the Mount is something like, "assume that Being is good, and that your role is to further that good, and that the most appropriate way to do that is to tell the truth and to concentrate on the day." Something like that. That strikes me as… Well, it strikes me as extraordinarily wise.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Fundamental Constituent Elements Of Our Own Reality Are Not Material ===== <br />
<hr><br />
I think that you can’t really understand what makes up virtue until you modulate or modify your notion of what constitutes being. This is a hard thing to do.Modern people are fundamentally materialistic. And there’s some utility in that: we’re masters of material transformation. And the fact that we’re materialist in our scientific philosophy has made us extremely powerful, maybe too powerful, for our morality. Extremely powerful from a technological perspective, but it’s blinded us to certain things. And I think one of the things that it’s really blinded us to is the nature of our own being. Because we make the assumption that the fundamental constituent elements of reality are material. We fail to notice that the fundamental constituent elements of our own reality are not material. They’re emotional, they’re motivational, they’re dreams, they’re visions, they’re relationships with other people. They’re conscious: they’re dependent on consciousness. And self-consciousness. And we have absolutely no materialist explanation whatsoever either for consciousness or self-consciousness. And we don’t deal well, from a materialist perspective, with the qualities of being. And everyone knows those qualities exist, I mean for most people there’s nothing more real than their own pain. Pain transcends rational argument in that you can’t argue yourself out of it: it’s just there. And, materialist or not, there are very few people who are willing to allow the claim that their pain is merely an epiphenomena of some more fundamental material process. Pain is fundamental. Consciousness is fundamental. And I think that unless you understand that, you can’t think properly about virtue.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Being Is Not Possible Without Limitation =====<br />
Suffering’s an integral part of being. Well, why is that? Who knows? It’s a metaphysical question, but I have some ideas about it that have helped me and there are things that I have read. I read for example an old Jewish commentary about the reason for creation. It’s like a zen koan, this idea. You take a being with the classical attributes of God: omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, a totality. And the question is: what does a being with those attributes lack? And the answer is limitation. And then you think, well what’s so important about limitation? If you can be anything or do anything at anytime whatsoever, there’s no being. Everything is one thing. There’s no differentiation between things. So something that’s absolute and total has no being, it has to be parceled out into limited being. And you know this because you all play games, you play video games, you play games with other people, you may play games you don’t even know you’re playing. And when you play those games you put limits on yourself, you play by a set of rules. And the reason you do that is when you limit yourself, arbitrarily in some ways, whole new worlds of possibility emerge. And so there’s a powerful metaphysical idea that being is not possible without limitation. So that’s an interesting idea. So you say well what’s the price you pay for being? The price you pay for being is limitation and the price you for limitation is suffering, so the price you pay for being is suffering.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
Soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
===== Turning Away from Being Itself =====<br />
"If you make yourself weak and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter. And once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit... If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceipt, and failing to take [[Responsibility |responsibility]], then you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence, and you will torture yourself. And that leads to very bad places."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Two ways of being =====<br />
# You are trapped in the past<br />
# Can you be someone with infinite future possibilities, and choosing one? This is to be conscious, awake. [This is pure quantum]. Consciousness takes a potential and turns it into a reality [collapses the wave function]<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Live in a manner that justifies the fragility of being. You justify being by how you choose to exist. You can live in a way that does not justify being, but I don’t recommend it. <br />
<br />
We have to make some basic decisions:<br />
Love: Being, is worthwhile. "I'm going to act as is Being is worthwhile."<br />
Truth: play the game with a straight bat. "I'm going to act as if truth is the path to enlightenment."<br />
<br />
We must commit to this.<br />
<hr><br />
You should live in a way that justifies the fragility of being. Justify being by how you choose to exist.<br />
<hr><br />
Is life terrible? It depends on how you live!<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* How to Act (Action)<br />
* Love<br />
* Truth<br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Being&diff=584Being2020-04-09T22:35:56Z<p>Amit: /* Being is Subjective */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Being is Subjective =====<br />
There is a lot of things about being that we can't attribute simply to material reality. We may eventually be able to do that, but by that time our notion of what constitutes "material" will be much different. We can't deal with subjectivity within the confines of our materialist theories. That's partly because those theories were predicated on the elimination of subjectivity as an a-priori move. The whole point of objective science is to remove subjectivity. Ok so then it gets removed and well you are surprised about it. Well, no you can't be surprised about it, you removed it right at the beginning. Now that works for certain purposes, it works very well, but it has consequences. Some of those consequences as far as I am concerned are serious enough to produce two forms of social and mental illness. And one of those would be the succumbing to the temptations of authoritarianism and the other would be succumbing to the temptations of nihilism. Because there are logical consequences of the definition of subjective is non-real. So then you ask yourself, how do you determine whether or not a theory is true. Then you ask yourself, well what do you mean by true? Well then you are in trouble. Because I think you can take a Newtonian perspective on that or a Darwinian perspective, but you can't do both at the same time. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Basic Message of Sermon On the Mount =====<br />
As far as I can tell, the basic message of the Sermon on the Mount is something like, "assume that Being is good, and that your role is to further that good, and that the most appropriate way to do that is to tell the truth and to concentrate on the day." Something like that. That strikes me as… Well, it strikes me as extraordinarily wise.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Fundamental Constituent Elements Of Our Own Reality Are Not Material ===== <br />
<hr><br />
I think that you can’t really understand what makes up virtue until you modulate or modify your notion of what constitutes being. This is a hard thing to do.Modern people are fundamentally materialistic. And there’s some utility in that: we’re masters of material transformation. And the fact that we’re materialist in our scientific philosophy has made us extremely powerful, maybe too powerful, for our morality. Extremely powerful from a technological perspective, but it’s blinded us to certain things. And I think one of the things that it’s really blinded us to is the nature of our own being. Because we make the assumption that the fundamental constituent elements of reality are material. We fail to notice that the fundamental constituent elements of our own reality are not material. They’re emotional, they’re motivational, they’re dreams, they’re visions, they’re relationships with other people. They’re conscious: they’re dependent on consciousness. And self-consciousness. And we have absolutely no materialist explanation whatsoever either for consciousness or self-consciousness. And we don’t deal well, from a materialist perspective, with the qualities of being. And everyone knows those qualities exist, I mean for most people there’s nothing more real than their own pain. Pain transcends rational argument in that you can’t argue yourself out of it: it’s just there. And, materialist or not, there are very few people who are willing to allow the claim that their pain is merely an epiphenomena of some more fundamental material process. Pain is fundamental. Consciousness is fundamental. And I think that unless you understand that, you can’t think properly about virtue.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Being Is Not Possible Without Limitation =====<br />
Suffering’s an integral part of being. Well, why is that? Who knows? It’s a metaphysical question, but I have some ideas about it that have helped me and there are things that I have read. I read for example an old Jewish commentary about the reason for creation. It’s like a zen koan, this idea. You take a being with the classical attributes of God: omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, a totality. And the question is: what does a being with those attributes lack? And the answer is limitation. And then you think, well what’s so important about limitation? If you can be anything or do anything at anytime whatsoever, there’s no being. Everything is one thing. There’s no differentiation between things. So something that’s absolute and total has no being, it has to be parceled out into limited being. And you know this because you all play games, you play video games, you play games with other people, you may play games you don’t even know you’re playing. And when you play those games you put limits on yourself, you play by a set of rules. And the reason you do that is when you limit yourself, arbitrarily in some ways, whole new worlds of possibility emerge. And so there’s a powerful metaphysical idea that being is not possible without limitation. So that’s an interesting idea. So you say well what’s the price you pay for being? The price you pay for being is limitation and the price you for limitation is suffering, so the price you pay for being is suffering.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
Soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
===== Turning Away from Being Itself =====<br />
"If you make yourself weak and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter. And once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit... If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceipt, and failing to take [[Responsibility |responsibility]], then you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence, and you will torture yourself. And that leads to very bad places."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Two ways of being =====<br />
# You are trapped in the past<br />
# Can you be someone with infinite future possibilities, and choosing one? This is to be conscious, awake. [This is pure quantum]. Consciousness takes a potential and turns it into a reality [collapses the wave function]<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Live in a manner that justifies the fragility of being. You justify being by how you choose to exist. You can live in a way that does not justify being, but I don’t recommend it. <br />
<br />
We have to make some basic decisions:<br />
Love: Being, is worthwhile. "I'm going to act as is Being is worthwhile."<br />
Truth: play the game with a straight bat. "I'm going to act as if truth is the path to enlightenment."<br />
<br />
We must commit to this.<br />
<hr><br />
You should live in a way that justifies the fragility of being. Justify being by how you choose to exist.<br />
<hr><br />
Is life terrible? It depends on how you live!<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* How to Act (Action)<br />
* Love<br />
* Truth<br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Being&diff=583Being2020-04-09T22:32:34Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Being is Subjective =====<br />
There is a lot of things about being that we can't attribute simply to material reality. We may eventually be able to do that, but by that time our notion of what constitutes "material" will be much different. We can't deal with subjectivity within the confines of our materialist theories. That's partly because those theories were predicated on the elimination of subjectivity as an a-priori move. The whole point of objective science is to remove subjectivity. Ok so then it gets removed and well you are surprised about it. Well, no you can't be surprised about it, you removed it right at the beginning. Now that works for certain purposes, it works very well, but it has consequences. Some of those consequences as far as I am concerned are serious enough to produce two forms of social and mental illness. And one of those would be the succumbing to the temptations of authoritarianism and the other would be succumbing to the temptations of nihilism. Because there are logical consequences of the definition of subjective is non-real. So then you ask yourself, how do you determine whether or not a theory is true. Then you ask yourself, well what do you mean by true? Well then you are in trouble. Because I think you can take a Newtonian perspective on that or a Darwinian perspective, but you can't do both at the same time. <ref> Transliminal 2014 Interview</ref><br />
===== Basic Message of Sermon On the Mount =====<br />
As far as I can tell, the basic message of the Sermon on the Mount is something like, "assume that Being is good, and that your role is to further that good, and that the most appropriate way to do that is to tell the truth and to concentrate on the day." Something like that. That strikes me as… Well, it strikes me as extraordinarily wise.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Fundamental Constituent Elements Of Our Own Reality Are Not Material ===== <br />
<hr><br />
I think that you can’t really understand what makes up virtue until you modulate or modify your notion of what constitutes being. This is a hard thing to do.Modern people are fundamentally materialistic. And there’s some utility in that: we’re masters of material transformation. And the fact that we’re materialist in our scientific philosophy has made us extremely powerful, maybe too powerful, for our morality. Extremely powerful from a technological perspective, but it’s blinded us to certain things. And I think one of the things that it’s really blinded us to is the nature of our own being. Because we make the assumption that the fundamental constituent elements of reality are material. We fail to notice that the fundamental constituent elements of our own reality are not material. They’re emotional, they’re motivational, they’re dreams, they’re visions, they’re relationships with other people. They’re conscious: they’re dependent on consciousness. And self-consciousness. And we have absolutely no materialist explanation whatsoever either for consciousness or self-consciousness. And we don’t deal well, from a materialist perspective, with the qualities of being. And everyone knows those qualities exist, I mean for most people there’s nothing more real than their own pain. Pain transcends rational argument in that you can’t argue yourself out of it: it’s just there. And, materialist or not, there are very few people who are willing to allow the claim that their pain is merely an epiphenomena of some more fundamental material process. Pain is fundamental. Consciousness is fundamental. And I think that unless you understand that, you can’t think properly about virtue.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Being Is Not Possible Without Limitation =====<br />
Suffering’s an integral part of being. Well, why is that? Who knows? It’s a metaphysical question, but I have some ideas about it that have helped me and there are things that I have read. I read for example an old Jewish commentary about the reason for creation. It’s like a zen koan, this idea. You take a being with the classical attributes of God: omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, a totality. And the question is: what does a being with those attributes lack? And the answer is limitation. And then you think, well what’s so important about limitation? If you can be anything or do anything at anytime whatsoever, there’s no being. Everything is one thing. There’s no differentiation between things. So something that’s absolute and total has no being, it has to be parceled out into limited being. And you know this because you all play games, you play video games, you play games with other people, you may play games you don’t even know you’re playing. And when you play those games you put limits on yourself, you play by a set of rules. And the reason you do that is when you limit yourself, arbitrarily in some ways, whole new worlds of possibility emerge. And so there’s a powerful metaphysical idea that being is not possible without limitation. So that’s an interesting idea. So you say well what’s the price you pay for being? The price you pay for being is limitation and the price you for limitation is suffering, so the price you pay for being is suffering.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
Soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
===== Turning Away from Being Itself =====<br />
"If you make yourself weak and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter. And once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit... If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceipt, and failing to take [[Responsibility |responsibility]], then you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence, and you will torture yourself. And that leads to very bad places."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Two ways of being =====<br />
# You are trapped in the past<br />
# Can you be someone with infinite future possibilities, and choosing one? This is to be conscious, awake. [This is pure quantum]. Consciousness takes a potential and turns it into a reality [collapses the wave function]<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Live in a manner that justifies the fragility of being. You justify being by how you choose to exist. You can live in a way that does not justify being, but I don’t recommend it. <br />
<br />
We have to make some basic decisions:<br />
Love: Being, is worthwhile. "I'm going to act as is Being is worthwhile."<br />
Truth: play the game with a straight bat. "I'm going to act as if truth is the path to enlightenment."<br />
<br />
We must commit to this.<br />
<hr><br />
You should live in a way that justifies the fragility of being. Justify being by how you choose to exist.<br />
<hr><br />
Is life terrible? It depends on how you live!<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* How to Act (Action)<br />
* Love<br />
* Truth<br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Being&diff=582Being2020-04-09T22:30:06Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
There is a lot of things about being that we can't attribute simply to material reality. We may eventually be able to do that, but by that time our notion of what constitutes "material" will be much different. We can't deal with subjectivity within the confines of our materialist theories. That's partly because those theories were predicated on the elimination of subjectivity as an a-priori move. The whole point of objective science is to remove subjectivity. Ok so then it gets removed and well you are surprised about it. Well, no you can't be surprised about it, you removed it right at the beginning. Now that works for certain purposes, it works very well, but it has consequences. Some of those consequences as far as I am concerned are serious enough to produce two forms of social and mental illness. And one of those would be the succumbing to the temptations of authoritarianism and the other would be succumbing to the temptations of nihilism. Because there are logical consequences of the definition of subjective is non-real. So then you ask yourself, how do you determine whether or not a theory is true. Then you ask yourself, well what do you mean by true? Well then you are in trouble. Because I think you can take a Newtonian perspective on that or a Darwinian perspective, but you can't do both at the same time. <ref> Transliminal 2014 Interview</ref><br />
===== Basic Message of Sermon On the Mount =====<br />
As far as I can tell, the basic message of the Sermon on the Mount is something like, "assume that Being is good, and that your role is to further that good, and that the most appropriate way to do that is to tell the truth and to concentrate on the day." Something like that. That strikes me as… Well, it strikes me as extraordinarily wise.<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aubrey-marcus/ Truth and Responsibility with Aubrey Marcus Transcript]</ref><br />
<br />
===== Fundamental Constituent Elements Of Our Own Reality Are Not Material ===== <br />
<hr><br />
I think that you can’t really understand what makes up virtue until you modulate or modify your notion of what constitutes being. This is a hard thing to do.Modern people are fundamentally materialistic. And there’s some utility in that: we’re masters of material transformation. And the fact that we’re materialist in our scientific philosophy has made us extremely powerful, maybe too powerful, for our morality. Extremely powerful from a technological perspective, but it’s blinded us to certain things. And I think one of the things that it’s really blinded us to is the nature of our own being. Because we make the assumption that the fundamental constituent elements of reality are material. We fail to notice that the fundamental constituent elements of our own reality are not material. They’re emotional, they’re motivational, they’re dreams, they’re visions, they’re relationships with other people. They’re conscious: they’re dependent on consciousness. And self-consciousness. And we have absolutely no materialist explanation whatsoever either for consciousness or self-consciousness. And we don’t deal well, from a materialist perspective, with the qualities of being. And everyone knows those qualities exist, I mean for most people there’s nothing more real than their own pain. Pain transcends rational argument in that you can’t argue yourself out of it: it’s just there. And, materialist or not, there are very few people who are willing to allow the claim that their pain is merely an epiphenomena of some more fundamental material process. Pain is fundamental. Consciousness is fundamental. And I think that unless you understand that, you can’t think properly about virtue.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Being Is Not Possible Without Limitation =====<br />
Suffering’s an integral part of being. Well, why is that? Who knows? It’s a metaphysical question, but I have some ideas about it that have helped me and there are things that I have read. I read for example an old Jewish commentary about the reason for creation. It’s like a zen koan, this idea. You take a being with the classical attributes of God: omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, a totality. And the question is: what does a being with those attributes lack? And the answer is limitation. And then you think, well what’s so important about limitation? If you can be anything or do anything at anytime whatsoever, there’s no being. Everything is one thing. There’s no differentiation between things. So something that’s absolute and total has no being, it has to be parceled out into limited being. And you know this because you all play games, you play video games, you play games with other people, you may play games you don’t even know you’re playing. And when you play those games you put limits on yourself, you play by a set of rules. And the reason you do that is when you limit yourself, arbitrarily in some ways, whole new worlds of possibility emerge. And so there’s a powerful metaphysical idea that being is not possible without limitation. So that’s an interesting idea. So you say well what’s the price you pay for being? The price you pay for being is limitation and the price you for limitation is suffering, so the price you pay for being is suffering.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
Soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being.<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
===== Turning Away from Being Itself =====<br />
"If you make yourself weak and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter. And once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit... If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceipt, and failing to take [[Responsibility |responsibility]], then you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence, and you will torture yourself. And that leads to very bad places."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Two ways of being =====<br />
# You are trapped in the past<br />
# Can you be someone with infinite future possibilities, and choosing one? This is to be conscious, awake. [This is pure quantum]. Consciousness takes a potential and turns it into a reality [collapses the wave function]<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Live in a manner that justifies the fragility of being. You justify being by how you choose to exist. You can live in a way that does not justify being, but I don’t recommend it. <br />
<br />
We have to make some basic decisions:<br />
Love: Being, is worthwhile. "I'm going to act as is Being is worthwhile."<br />
Truth: play the game with a straight bat. "I'm going to act as if truth is the path to enlightenment."<br />
<br />
We must commit to this.<br />
<hr><br />
You should live in a way that justifies the fragility of being. Justify being by how you choose to exist.<br />
<hr><br />
Is life terrible? It depends on how you live!<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* How to Act (Action)<br />
* Love<br />
* Truth<br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Competence_Hierarchy/Dominance_Hierarchy&diff=581Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy2020-04-09T15:08:53Z<p>Amit: /* Dominance Hierarchy is One of the Categories of Being */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Dominance Hierarchy is One of the Categories of Being =====<br />
Although you can think about dominance hierarchies as social construct, they are also a natural phenomenon. Dominance hierarchy is actually a major part of the environment to which we have adapted. There is the dominance hierarchy that we will say as the social world for the sake of argument, there is natural world and then there is the experiencing subject. Those were the Heidegger's categories of being as well. And in some sense, what religious thinking seems to do is to continually posit those three things as interacting causally at the base of being. And that's not material reality.<br />
<br />
===== In a Functioning Society, Hierarchies Are Based On Competence =====<br />
<hr><br />
you have to value things in order to move forward in life, and you have to value things in order to have something valuable to produce. But if you play out the value in a social landscape, you’re going to produce a hierarchy. The problem with producing a hierarchy is that a small number of people are going to be more successful than the majority, and a very large number of people aren’t going to be successful at all, at that particular thing. It’s inevitable. So you say, “well, we have to put up with that, because we need to pursue things of value.” OK, fine. That’s the right-wing perspective, that the hierarchies are justifiable and necessary. Now, the left-wing perspective is, “yeah, but wait a minute: the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom, and that they tilt towards tyranny across time.” That’s also true, and so you need that dialectic in society, between the right wing, that says, “we need the hierarchies, and they’re useful, and you should be grateful for them, and they structure you and give you form, and they provide value,” and the left, that says, “yeah, but they exclude people, and people stack up at the bottom, and that’s dangerous to the hierarchy itself, and it means that people might not have opportunity,” and you have to say “yes” to that. The situation we’re in, right now, is one where the radical leftists—and this is mostly a problem that, for me, is the universities—say, “yeah, but all hierarchies are just tyrannical power.” It’s like, “oh, no, they’re not. Hierarchies are based on competence, in a functioning society, and mostly our society functions. So you can’t go that far.” Now, that doesn’t mean that hierarchies don’t tilt towards self-interest and tyranny across time, but that’s a bad thing. It’s even a bad thing from the conservative perspective. So there’s room for the left. There’s room for the left, because the poor will always be with us. That’s the reason that there’s room for the left. The dispossessed need a voice, not least because there are talented people among the dispossessed, and if they’re stuck at zero, everyone suffers, because we don’t have access to their talents. It’s a bad use of resources. But on the right it’s, “no—we need the damn value hierarchies, and we need to be grateful for our traditions and our structures. They stop us degenerating into chaos.”<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/russell-brand-2/ Freedom & Tyranny with Russell Brand Transcript]</ref> <br />
<hr><br />
===== The Inevitability of Hierarchies =====<br />
<hr><br />
"People have problems that need to be solved. Life is a sequence of problems that need to be solved. If you don't solve the problems that life puts forward, you suffer and die.<br />
<br />
"You have to set an aim, and the aim is to solve the problems. Then, because we are social creatures, we have to solve the problems by organising collectively, and the way we do that, generally speaking, in relation to an aim, is to produce a hierarchy.<br />
<br />
"And the reason for that, if you have a problem and you want it to be solved and you get a variety of people working on it, you are soon going to realise that some peoople are much better at solving a problem than others. That will inevitably produce a hierarchy."<ref>[[Interviews| Dr Peterson at Ralston College]]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"At the bottom of the most pathological manifestation of the collectivist dictum is an assault on competence itself." <ref>[[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival]]</ref><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<hr><br />
===== Assault on the Concept of Hierarchy =====<br />
"There is an attempt by many radicals to make an association between male competence and a tyrannical patriarchy. That's a very, very bad idea." <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing line with Margaret Hoover]</ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
Dominance hierarchies are at least 350 million years old; they exist in lobsters, crayfish (c. 511m years), and bees. You can watch it in children’s play. They create rules, multiple rules, which eventually to a structure, a pyramid of value, a dominance hierarchy.<br />
<hr><br />
Dominance hierarchies are created by election, not power. Because if you’re the tyrant, the two next people in the hierarchy will gang up and depose you.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Competence_Hierarchy/Dominance_Hierarchy&diff=580Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy2020-04-09T15:07:30Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Dominance Hierarchy is One of the Categories of Being =====<br />
Although you can think about dominance hierarchies as social construct, they are also a natural phenomenon. Dominance hierarchy is actually a major part of the environment to which we have adopted. There is the dominance hierarchy that we will say as the social world for the sake of argument, there is natural world and then there is the experiencing subject. Those were the Heidegger's categories of being as well. And in some sense, what religious thinking seems to do is to continually posit those three things as interacting causally at the base of being. And that's not material reality. <br />
<br />
===== In a Functioning Society, Hierarchies Are Based On Competence =====<br />
<hr><br />
you have to value things in order to move forward in life, and you have to value things in order to have something valuable to produce. But if you play out the value in a social landscape, you’re going to produce a hierarchy. The problem with producing a hierarchy is that a small number of people are going to be more successful than the majority, and a very large number of people aren’t going to be successful at all, at that particular thing. It’s inevitable. So you say, “well, we have to put up with that, because we need to pursue things of value.” OK, fine. That’s the right-wing perspective, that the hierarchies are justifiable and necessary. Now, the left-wing perspective is, “yeah, but wait a minute: the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom, and that they tilt towards tyranny across time.” That’s also true, and so you need that dialectic in society, between the right wing, that says, “we need the hierarchies, and they’re useful, and you should be grateful for them, and they structure you and give you form, and they provide value,” and the left, that says, “yeah, but they exclude people, and people stack up at the bottom, and that’s dangerous to the hierarchy itself, and it means that people might not have opportunity,” and you have to say “yes” to that. The situation we’re in, right now, is one where the radical leftists—and this is mostly a problem that, for me, is the universities—say, “yeah, but all hierarchies are just tyrannical power.” It’s like, “oh, no, they’re not. Hierarchies are based on competence, in a functioning society, and mostly our society functions. So you can’t go that far.” Now, that doesn’t mean that hierarchies don’t tilt towards self-interest and tyranny across time, but that’s a bad thing. It’s even a bad thing from the conservative perspective. So there’s room for the left. There’s room for the left, because the poor will always be with us. That’s the reason that there’s room for the left. The dispossessed need a voice, not least because there are talented people among the dispossessed, and if they’re stuck at zero, everyone suffers, because we don’t have access to their talents. It’s a bad use of resources. But on the right it’s, “no—we need the damn value hierarchies, and we need to be grateful for our traditions and our structures. They stop us degenerating into chaos.”<ref>[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/russell-brand-2/ Freedom & Tyranny with Russell Brand Transcript]</ref> <br />
<hr><br />
===== The Inevitability of Hierarchies =====<br />
<hr><br />
"People have problems that need to be solved. Life is a sequence of problems that need to be solved. If you don't solve the problems that life puts forward, you suffer and die.<br />
<br />
"You have to set an aim, and the aim is to solve the problems. Then, because we are social creatures, we have to solve the problems by organising collectively, and the way we do that, generally speaking, in relation to an aim, is to produce a hierarchy.<br />
<br />
"And the reason for that, if you have a problem and you want it to be solved and you get a variety of people working on it, you are soon going to realise that some peoople are much better at solving a problem than others. That will inevitably produce a hierarchy."<ref>[[Interviews| Dr Peterson at Ralston College]]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"At the bottom of the most pathological manifestation of the collectivist dictum is an assault on competence itself." <ref>[[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival]]</ref><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<hr><br />
===== Assault on the Concept of Hierarchy =====<br />
"There is an attempt by many radicals to make an association between male competence and a tyrannical patriarchy. That's a very, very bad idea." <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing line with Margaret Hoover]</ref><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
Dominance hierarchies are at least 350 million years old; they exist in lobsters, crayfish (c. 511m years), and bees. You can watch it in children’s play. They create rules, multiple rules, which eventually to a structure, a pyramid of value, a dominance hierarchy.<br />
<hr><br />
Dominance hierarchies are created by election, not power. Because if you’re the tyrant, the two next people in the hierarchy will gang up and depose you.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=579Lies2020-04-09T14:34:24Z<p>Amit: /* Are Lies Demolishing Your Life */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life? =====<br />
<hr><br />
You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<hr><br />
“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=578Lies2020-04-09T14:34:14Z<p>Amit: /* Are Lies Demolishing Your Life = */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life =====<br />
<hr><br />
You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<hr><br />
“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=577Lies2020-04-09T14:33:55Z<p>Amit: /* Are Lies Demolishing Your Life = */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life ======<br />
<hr><br />
You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<hr><br />
“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=576Lies2020-04-09T14:33:33Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== Are Lies Demolishing Your Life ======<br />
You read Solzhenitsyn, you think why did the Soviet Union became the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says "Because everyone lied". Isn't that interesting! Well that isn't the hypothesis you hear everyday. So then you think about Freud and you think about well what's the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that's a lie, fundamentally. I mean Freud played around with it to some degree so it's sort of like lying by omission actually than lying be commission. But it doesn't matter. It is still lying. Jung says the same thing. Wouldn't it be interesting if the fundamental root of psychopathology was the lie. The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the lie. What if that's what is demolishing your life? People think especially when they are nihilistic and they become destructive that the universe is an unfair and an arbitrary place and it is basically bent on their random destruction while they suffer. It is something like that. Ya, Right! What do you do under those circumstances? That's the question. Well one potential answer is: Twist the thing so that may be you get what you hypothetically want out of it. The other is: Rely on your perception and your capacity for accurate representation, communicate that and take your chances. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===== Lies Corrupt The Structure That You Use To Interact With Being =====<br />
If you lie to yourself or to other people, then you corrupt the structure that you use to interact with being. You corrupt it. And if you corrupt it, then if you listen to it, it will guide you to the wrong way. Or maybe it’ll be so corrupted you can’t listen to it at all and then you’ll have to listen to somebody else. And that might not be a good thing, especially if you’re already corrupted. Because then you’ll listen to the person who tells you to do what you really want to do but won’t admit it to yourself.<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"If you pay attention to what you say, ... how the words make you feel, you can tell whether the words you are saying something that is based on rock not sand."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover] </ref><br />
<hr><br />
“Don't be thinking that your errors aren’t linked to hell because they are. If you look at what happened in the twentieth century, the brilliant commentators on the twentieth century [[Totalitarianism | totalitarian]] states and all their atrocities said the same thing over and over: it isn’t top down evil leader manipulating innocent masses. That’s not it. It’s the moral failings of every single individual unwilling to say their truth, unwilling to act out what they know to be right, that accumulate and produce the catastrophic state. And so when you are fussing about with your life, when you are not manifesting your potential, when you’re falsifying your speech and your action in the service of short term expedience, you are working to bring about hell on earth, and that’s true.” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
“When you have something to say, Silence is a Lie” <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;</div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=575How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:20:41Z<p>Amit: /* Message from Sermon on the Mount */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Risk in Every Decision =====<br />
"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - <ref>[[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=574Truth2020-04-09T14:18:49Z<p>Amit: /* Importance of Spoken Truth */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=573Truth2020-04-09T14:18:32Z<p>Amit: /* Importance of Spoken Truth */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Truth&diff=572Truth2020-04-09T14:18:18Z<p>Amit: /* Is Your Speech True? */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Is Your Speech True? =====<br />
What does "true" mean? The answer to that would be twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with it. One is you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do. That's the sort of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that they can't actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory and then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. But it's an unsatisfying venture, and often when they do get it, it's not good anyways, and it involves a kind of falsity of speech. The other way is to try to say what you mean, and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can, always, and see what happens. The story that underlies Christianity and it is not only Christianity, it's Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that. The rule is: Live in accordance with the truth and see what happens. <ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Importance of Spoken Truth =====<br />
<hr><br />
The Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That's your salvation. The Truth - The Spoken Truth.<ref>[https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis Dr Jordan B Peterson | *full-length* 2014 interview]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<br />
“The truth that you already hold is not enough. You need to know more than you know.”<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBedrxCvVBU Dr. Jordan Peterson's Full Interview from Hoaxed Movie]<br />
</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together.<br />
People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind.<br />
It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering.<br />
You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pIeces together". <sup>[Citation Needed]</sup><br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The truth, your truth, is the antidote to suffering.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Lying is like a hydra. There are extra outcomes you don't anticipate, and creates more complexities, which means you have to lie again.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The exchange of truth is curative. The Western world is predicated on that idea.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Truth is psycho-physiological hygiene.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
When you tell the truth, the outcome will be the best possible. Ally yourself with the truth.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Not saying what you think, is not being.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You are not speaking the truth unless you are prepared to stand up for it. These online anonymous forums are just a place for people to allow the fetid side of their nature to have free rein.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
The fundamental definition of faith in the nature of being is when you decide that speaking the truth leads to the best possible outcome.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
You can’t speak the truth, perhaps, nobody can, but you can decide not to tell lies and you can learn to do that very quickly. When you lie, you are failing to bear the burden of your existence, and you feel that in your body. And then watch what happens. You have to sacrifice your life to the logos in order to prove its existence.<br />
<hr><br />
There isn’t anything more interesting that you can do (than tell the truth). It removes the stultifying boredom of life.<br />
<hr><br />
You never know what will happen if you say something that is true. It’s a miracle. Miracles happen.<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
* [[Being]]<br />
* [[Lies]]<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=571How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:16:52Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== Risk in Every Decision =====<br />
"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - <ref>[[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=570How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:15:41Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<hr><br />
"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - <ref>[[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]</ref><br />
<br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=569How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:15:04Z<p>Amit: /* Interpretations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=568How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:14:48Z<p>Amit: /* Interpretations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
----<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=567How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:13:44Z<p>Amit: /* We Need to Know Four Things Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning] */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
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==== Applications ====<br />
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===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
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===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
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===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - [[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=566How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:12:55Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
<hr><br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning]</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
----<br />
"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - [[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=How_to_Act_(Action)&diff=565How to Act (Action)2020-04-09T14:12:31Z<p>Amit: /* Applications */</p>
<hr />
<div>==== Definition ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== Applications ====<br />
===== Message from Sermon on the Mount =====<br />
In the sermon on the mount, Christ basically says "Set your sights on allegiance to God, its like whatever the highest value is, we will say, and act in a manner which is concordant with that, so that's your goal, then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future. <ref> Transliminal Video 2014</ref><br />
<hr><br />
===== If The Things That You’re Doing Are Landing You in Hell, Stop! =====<br />
If the things that you’re doing are landing you in hell, stop! Unless you want to be there. And you know if you think, all you have to do is think about your life over the last year. You can be certain that you can call to mind times when you would have rather’d that did not happen. And so the lesson from that is clear: don’t set up those conditions anymore. And by the same token, if you watch yourself you can tell when you’re where you want to be and I could say, well, if you’re where you want to be then that’s really the right place and all you should ever do is practice to be there.<br />
<ref> Necessity of Virtue Transcript [https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/the-necessity-of-virtue-jordan-b-peterson/ from memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com]</ref><br />
<br />
===== We Need to Know Four Things <ref>Quote from First Page Of Maps of Meaning]</ref> ===== <br />
# What there is,<br />
# What to do about what there is,<br />
# That there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and <br />
# What the difference is.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<br />
==== Interpretations ====<br />
----<br />
"There's always risk in every decision. There's risk in doing something, and there's risk in not doing something. Both those decisions are usually catastrophic, in every decision you make in your life." - [[Interviews|Aspen Ideas Festival, 2018]]<br />
<hr><br />
"I act as if God exists.”<br />
<hr><br />
Doing the right thing is always an investment<br />
<hr><br />
The secret of life is "Do that little thing you know you should do". It's an interesting game. <br />
<hr><br />
If you don't manifest what is inside you, then your life falls apart to the extent that everything that can make you bitter, multiplies.<br />
<hr><br />
You can’t boss yourself around, because you have a nature, and your nature rebels.<br />
<hr><br />
Pushing yourself out against the world causes physiological changes to the body.<br />
<hr><br />
Human beings are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight.<br />
<hr><br />
Imitate the admirable.<br />
<hr><br />
Incremental improvement grows like compound interest.<br />
<hr><br />
[We must] struggle with all our soul, on behalf of the good.<br />
<hr><br />
Play the game of the seeker; that is the best game you can play.<br />
<hr><br />
You should play in such a way that other people invite you to come back and play again and again.<br />
<hr><br />
The future is made better by letting go of things in the present<br />
<hr><br />
The things you most need to know are the things that you least want to look at (otherwise you would have seen them before.<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
==== See Also ====<br />
<hr><br />
&nbsp;<br />
==== References ====<br />
<hr></div>Amithttps://wiki.jbpdaily.org/index.php?title=Social_Justice&diff=559Social Justice2020-04-08T08:54:52Z<p>Amit: /* See Also */</p>
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<div>==== Definition ====<br />
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==== Applications ====<br />
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"SJW types are binding together in groups to portray the world as a place where people bind together in groups in order to justify the use of power, and to put forward an ideology that denies the notion that the individual is at the center of the conceptual sphere."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover]</ref><br />
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==== Interpretations ====<br />
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==== See Also ====<br />
* [[Activism]]<br />
* [[Ideology]]<br />
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]<br />
* [[Political Correctness]]<br />
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==== References ====<br />
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