jordan petersons lectures about the bible are great but there is just something about them i cant put my finger on. i think its that he doesnt believe in it, which ultimately reduces his obsession with it into a quest to understand why other people have been obsessed with it.
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there is something about the "lens" of archetypal ideas that just kind of bothers me tbh. "theres two brothers, one kills the other. this is a powerful archetype". couldnt you apply this lens to everything? a sick man, a healthy son, a pregnant wife, everything is an archetype
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"there's a whale in this story, that's a powerful archetypal image". okay, what [isn't] an archetypal image? no matter what it was you could put the same lens into it and read some deeper meaning into it. a rock a square a shirt a tiger a phone a tree literally anything.
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kind of reminds me of when i was deep into illuminati symbolism (which is real btw). someone will say "wow can you believe this company used [x] as their logo? obvious symbol" but then if you think about it, anything they could have used would have fit into this lens
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this is kind of the vibe I get from Peterson's analysis of the bible. if you dropped any random story in there he could hit it with the same style analysis and get a deep meaning for it.
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"jack AND jill. they're together, you see. not alone, because being alone is chaos. they go UP, they ascend TOGETHER, into higher realms of deeper meaning. they go up this "hill" to get what? WATER. you need water for LIFE - so what's it doing on the top of this hill?"
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"well thats life, you see. the answers not just sitting there, you have to CLIMB up the HILL. and you can't do it alone, you need someone else. of course eventually you tumble down the hill, and break your crown, but at least you've ascended, at least you've done something."
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this doesn't make the analysis worthless but it does cast it in an interesting light. its almost like the [style] of analysis is more important than the actual content he is analyzing. i like peterson, this is just something ive been thinking about his style and worldview.
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Slatestarcodex reviewed 12 rules for life and he compares JBP to C.S. Lewis. I'm reminded of this quote everytime I hear JBP ponder the reality of Jesus' resurrection.pic.twitter.com/VAo01jSE7m
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Replying to @TeubenRoald @WesternIdentity
This notion is ultimate slave morality, and why evil transcended. Power corrupts, but hierarchy dictates. Raising the floor cannot occur without a higher focal point; God is too abstract as evident in Jesus et al.
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