Misspelledusernme
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- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 1 day ago:
I’ve listened to Jordan Peterson a lot in long form conversations. This is my generous interpretation of his views.
Peterson believes that all humans have a hierarchy of values and desires.
Eg _you go to work in order to get money in order to get food in order to live in order to play tennis in order to enjoy yourself… _
At the top of this hierarchy is the thing that you’re ultimately after in life. Jordan defines this thing as “god” and defines the pursuit of it “worship”. Therefore, everyone has a god and everyone worships.
He also believes that the past doesn’t really exist, as much as our societal memory of it. He would say that the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible is “True”, because it is the archetypal brotherly rivalry that we all embody in some sense.
Putting this together. The Bible is “True”. Everyone has a “God” they have a personal relationship with and that they “worship”.
He is essentially defining things such that everyone is a Christian. Then he says that people just don’t understand what Christianity really is.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see the political charge. How do you mean?
- Comment on In almost 100% of scenarios that I can think of, the underdog is always the "good guy" 3 months ago:
By the end of ww2, the nazis were the underdogs.
- Comment on EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit 6 months ago:
They do. But one thing that bugs me about the nutrition labels in the US is that they show “amount per serving”, rather than per 100ml or per 100g, which they have in the EU (at least in Sweden). it makes it a step harder to compare nutrition labels in the US.
I also feel judged when they tell me a bag of chips contains many servings.