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2023-03-31 20:23:32 All part of the war on cars: The cycling habit most hated by drivers https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cycling-habit-that-drivers-hate-the-most/ Open / Comment

2023-03-30 22:06:30 Deep And Abiding Meaning In Life
The truth of the matter is, you cannot do anything without at least a micro plan. You might say, “I am nothing but an aggregate of micro plans” — although no one ever says that, but you get the point — and that is a pretty confused person. They just move from one short-term, unconscious attention orientation to another. The problem with that is, there is no coherence to their actions. The actions then contradict — or they are so multiplicitous that the person is anxious — and because there is no long-term goal or vision, they do not have any hope because hope is experienced in relationship to a superordinate goal.
You might hope that you make a peanut butter sandwich properly, and fair enough; that is important in that tiny frame of time and space, but because it is so short-term, it is not the sort of thing that can give deep and abiding meaning to your life.
You need that deep and abiding meaning to orient you so you are not terrified by the multiplicity of possibilities, and you need meaning to aim toward something that is high enough so that you feel hope and enthusiasm as you observe yourself moving toward the goal. Open / Comment

2023-03-30 03:58:41 My wife Tammy’s latest podcast -

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2023-03-29 22:02:57

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2023-03-27 17:27:02 Rome is so beautiful and cool but also so badly disfigured by idiot taggers. It's a despicable, destructive and barbaric practice. Open / Comment

2023-03-24 21:50:12 I just released a new book in German: A Conservative Manifesto: https://www.amazon.de/Konservatives-Manifest-Jordan-B-Peterson/dp/3038482420/ Open / Comment

2023-03-23 22:36:28 Act With Courageous Trust
Kierkegaard talks about the idea of being a knight of faith, and he is classed with the Christian existentialists as a consequence of the practicalities of his view. He basically puts forward a proposition that I think is akin to the proposition that undergirds marriage, which is: You cannot find out whether creation is good or evil without being all in on your bet, just like you cannot be married without saying, “I am shackling myself to you and I am not going to run away no matter what, so we better get to know each other and get along because this is how it is going to be.”

Without that, you cannot be deeply committed enough to the marriage to make it work. So it seems to me on the forefront of faith, you have to act in the world with courageous trust — not naïve trust, but courageous trust — in the potential goodness of being in order to actually discover whether or not that faith is justified. And that is partly why it is faith; you have to put the cart before the horse. You cannot wait around. Open / Comment

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2023-03-14 17:35:48 Bjørn Lomborg & Russell Brand DEBATE Climate Change

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