In context it's not even being required to make that sacrifice but proving your willingness to do so
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This is a common thing with the defenders of sophists: "You just don't understand him/her." Well he should be more clear.
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I could claim the same of you. Your distaste for religion blinds you to the actual conversation.
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Me not agreeing with your interpretations or opinions about the proposition doesn't make me blind. Are you even serious?
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I'm saying you are blinding yourself, as you insist on arguing the flowery language as opposed to the actual point in play
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There are concepts behind the metaphors, discuss that as opposed to railing against the religious origins of them
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The problem is the points behind the supposed metaphors aren't clear. It's his responsibility to make them clear.
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This is manufactured complexity. He's fooling you with it. If he had profound propositions to share, he'd just share them, clearly.
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You cannot simply assume two ppl will automatically have the same understanding in dialogue referancing common lore aids communication
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Peterson never offers these as standalone statements without elaborating. This is a bad-faith representation of his views.
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What is the proper representation of the view we should sacrifice our sons to God?
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As was said, that is an intentional misinterpretation. The events are not literal, they simply convey a message
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And they apparently convey it extremely badly.
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Only if you insist of being literal about them. Exchange "son" with anything of import to you and "god" with boss if it male you feel better
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Are you kidding me? This has to be parody. Why would he invoke another agent (your son) if he meant a possession?
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Sacrificing your son for anything is an utterly immoral concept. Your son is a person.
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and that brings me to the point #2. Are these "guiding maxims espoused" by Peterson, or his analysis of the biblical stories?
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I feel like Jordan Peterson communicates on my wavelength, which probably says more about me than about him

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He's great at evoking imagery in his listeners imo, but if you put his propositions on paper and really fact-check them they tend to fail
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This is only based on like 3 videos I've watched though. That and his podcast debate with Harris.
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See my responses to this clip on abortion for instance:https://twitter.com/Intrinsic29/status/885911622639693824 …
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