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2023-10-02 23:43:55 Write Your Destiny You can have what you want and need, assuming you are taking care of yourself and are starting out with the proper attitude toward yourself, which is that you are worthy of care and respect, and there is something to you that is valuable. You need to give yourself that amount of credit — like you would with anyone who you might be willing to attempt to care for and love.  You can have what you want but you have to specify it, so the next question is, what would you like from your friends three to five years down the road? Then, what would you like your friendship network to look like? How would you like your career to shape itself? How are you going to take care of your family? And what about children and a longterm mate — a wife or a husband? What are you going to do with your time outside of work that is useful and engaging and meaningful and productive? How are you going to take care of yourself mentally and physically? And how are you going to withstand temptation so that it does not take you down in the particular way that temptation might take you down?  Write a few sentences, not to be obsessive about it, but to sketch it out, like a bad first draft. Then write for 15 minutes: It is three to five years down the road, and you have what you need and want to make your life what it needs to be so that you can be a good person in the face of the suffering of life. What does it look like?  Open / Comment

2023-09-19 22:42:36 Follow your own dreams
Or play your part
In someone else's
Nightmare

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2023-09-19 00:03:45 Pursue The Ideal And Be A Beacon To The World

Why do people not look up and move ahead? The answer is, you start formulating an ideal, you formulate a judge, and it is pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal. That is what happens to Cain versus Abel, for example. It is really easy to destroy the ideal instead of trying to pursue it because then you get rid of the judge. But it is way better. Lower the damn judge if it is too much. If your current ambition is crushing you, then maybe you are playing the tyrant to yourself and you should tamp 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 do not have to leap from point one to point 50 in one leap. You can do it incrementally.

I really like this idea. I think it is a profound idea—the process of recapitulating yourself continually. It is a Phoenix-like process. You are shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you are valuing. The idea is that as you do, 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 is the right way of thinking about it—maybe first to your friends and then to your family. Open / Comment

2023-09-12 22:16:07 Why The Political Should Not Carry The Spiritual

It is psychologically dangerous to confuse political explanations and ideologies with religious and spiritual ideologies and movements. You do not want the political to carry the weight of the spiritual, I do not think. I think it is dangerous. I also believe that ideologies essentially function as crippled religions. So they have the motive force of religious belief and the attractiveness of religious belief, which I think is actually a necessity for human beings because we are religious by nature, but they do not have the symbolic complexity that a religion has — a well-established religion with its mystical elements and its dogmatic elements.

The problem with ideologies, as far as I am concerned, is that they are not useful as practical, problem-solving guides. Most of the problems that beset us are very, very complex. They need to be decomposed in a sophisticated way into their constituent elements until they are differentiated enough so that partial solutions for some of the problem can arise as a consequence of practical endeavors. That requires the willingness to do that kind of detailed thinking, and it requires the development of specialized expertise. Ideology can blind you to your own stupidity, and that is actually dangerous. Open / Comment

2023-09-11 17:00:40 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-trudeau-and-the-equity-tyrants-must-be-stopped Open / Comment

2023-09-08 19:17:58 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/selection-of-judges-in-jordan-peterson-case-raises-troubling-issues#comments-area Open / Comment

2023-09-06 20:08:10 Prideful Eve
Clasps everyone to her welcoming breast
Even the snake

Prideful Adam
Hearkens to Eve

Archetypes

Always happen
happened in the past
are happening now
And will happen forever

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/august-web-only/gender-politics-men-right-leaning-mars-women-lefty-venus.html Open / Comment

2023-09-06 17:15:14 https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/im-being-professionally-canceled-for-my-moral-stance-on-trans-butchery/ Open / Comment

2023-09-05 21:49:09 I'm afraid
I'm
Incorrigible

But go ahead
And do your worst
We'll make it public

And let the chips fall
Where they may

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-jordan-peterson-doesnt-need-to-be-cured-of-expressing-opinions/wcm/e09bf64a-eb5d-4424-ae46-5d32f784fb0c/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3IVdCV1AZ132iRg4Lf_8_-bzcpLAKAEv3Gagp0qhLcHi4feOdu4LMsUiE Open / Comment

2023-09-01 19:26:26 Canada is trampling on my God-given right to free speech - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/jordan-peterson-podcast-canada-decline-twitter-free-speech/ Open / Comment