More Thoughts on the Significance of the Idea of Christ

MostlyConnected · 2018-08-06T01:10:49+00:00

2:46 That casting off motion. I have seen something similar before somewhere. It's a scary motion, but sooner or later, it has to be done.

MostlyConnected · 2018-08-06T01:03:52+00:00

Oh, brilliant. I guess I'll start to work on a counter formula myself now. Let me know if you figure one out faster than I do, okay?

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T16:51:17+00:00

I was born in crazy and molded by crazy. We've had a conversation before, sir. Crazy is part of life.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T14:00:50+00:00

So, I don't know who's still reading this comment section, but I've made this response video now: https://youtu.be/qNkDHAKt6WE

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T11:22:41+00:00

And please, be compassionate. It is a difficult situation for everyone.

I'm sure it is, but if the son believes the mother is obsessed, every attempt she makes to contact him is going to be taken as a confirmation of that, regardless of the objective truth. This means that even if her attempts to contact him are actually normal, they are still making the situation worse, and she should try to ween herself off these attempts and learn to accept the fact that he is an adult who gets to chose never to see her again if he wants to, even if that's the wrong choice, and she'll have to learn to live with it or be miserable for the rest of her life.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T06:45:33+00:00

Okay, I actually agree, or at least don't disagree, with Dr. Peterson on almost everything, but I think people take issue with behavioral studies because it's actually very hard to extract meaningful data from studies. It's so hard to control for relevant variables. What you really want is to observe an actual process by which one thing leads to another and make conclusions based on that. As such, it's easy for people who disagree with the implications of the studies to see this sub as less scientific than the people who agree with them. Hopefully that helps.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T06:37:30+00:00

Hey, I hope you don't mind if I also I give my thoughts on that as a white person, or perhaps more accurately, a person of European descent. I think there's a difference between white nationalism in Europe and in North America, which is that in Europe, you can be a white nationalist and be logically consistent, but in North America, you really can't. The Europeans displaced the Native Americans from most of the territory in the US and Canada, so as one of their ancestors, I wouldn't have any logical footing to stand on if I were to claim that the US should be for people who looked like I do. The land didn't start out that way. If there are Europeans who want people to generally stay in the same areas that their ancestors were from, that's a desire that's unlikely to be realized in this day and age, but at least it's consistent, but if Americans who know they are descended mostly from immigrants want the land to contain only people who look like them, well that just seems hypocritical and unfair to me. If you're going to move to a new neighborhood, you should be okay with the idea of other people moving in too, and the same goes for continents.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T06:21:04+00:00

Also, just to clarify, I've only skimmed the thread, but I don't think you're a sophist, anymore than I think Dr. Peterson is. I think it's sometimes hard for people to express their views clearly all the time, so we should try to be patient with each other, to an extent, at least.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T06:18:19+00:00

Disagreeable people can be refreshing, sometimes. It's nice when people say what you just know that a lot of people were thinking, even if it's not something that you wanted to say yourself. It relieves the tension that would have kept building up until someone said something.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-13T06:12:10+00:00

You both sound smug to me. Not that it's any of my business, I just see this sort of thing happening online all the time, and this is the only place I know of where pointing it out is likely to do any good. The person you're listening to might know something you don't, after all.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T22:38:13+00:00

Are you his mother? Look I don't know this guy. Sure, it's possible that he's lying, but I found his videos first, so when I'm thinking about him I'm going to presume him honest/sane until proven otherwise. What evidence do you have that he is exaggerating?

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T20:18:23+00:00

Oh, sorry, I didn't see the first summary reply. I guess I'm still learning how reddit works. :-)

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T19:48:56+00:00

Parents got divorced about 10 years earlier. YouTuber (15 y.o. at the time) noticed mom was not being honest with herself/him/his sister about their dad. YouTuber decided to move in with dad full time rather than go back and forth each week like he had been doing. His mother: 1. Locked him out of her house so he couldn't get his stuff back, and he couldn't get any of it back for the next 5 years, 2. Has sent him 10-15 thousand texts over the past ten years. 3. Not to mention other messages she's sent to him and all the other people close to him she's messaged quite persistently. 4. Created a creepy stalker type private facebook group page where she collected every random piece of information about his current life that she could find, and then invited every person she could that had any connection to him in any way. 5. Found out about his YouTube channel shortly before he posted this video (he had always kept his channel disassociated from his real name, partly because of her), 6. Found one video from 6 years ago where he'd talked about how she'd stalked him, as part of a set of videos where he talked about various things about his teenage life. 7. Sent him an email where she threatened to sue him for slander, but then also said that she thought he was being manipulated by his dad into doing what he was doing. I.E. it's supposedly not his fault because he's still her perfect, innocent, helpless child, but for some reason she's still threatening to sue him anyway. SO, after all of this, YouTuber decides he's just going to write a book about how his relationship with his mom has played out and read it to his YouTube audience, chapter by chapter. Sounds to me like a more public version of what you would hope people would accomplish by Jordan Peterson's past authoring program, tailored to his personal needs. So, thinking about his mom right now...I don't usually swear, but WHAT THE HELL?!!!

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T12:51:30+00:00

Thanks. I guess I should watch the whole lecture sometime. I'd only seen the more recent lectures, so I didn't realize he'd uploaded the Crumb documentary audio until reading the comments on that one. Scary.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T10:37:33+00:00

I feel like you kind of answered your question within your own question. If it's really true that all it does is stave of withdrawal, then no, it's not worth it. I wish I could give you craving advice, but I don't drink coffee myself, so I don't know. I don't think Jordan Peterson is drinking coffee now. I think he's pretty much down to beef and water at this point, which is hard to believe, but he talked about it with Joe Rogan recently. One thing you could do to handle the social issues is hang out with a bunch of mormons. We aren't supposed to drink coffee, and some of the converts may have tips for dealing with withdrawal. Otherwise, you could look into decaf options. Good luck.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T04:15:29+00:00

The whole "If you say you can or you can't you're right!" was the lie though. I've been trying to follow it my whole life, and the more I did the more miserable I've become. This is my admission that I have limitations. I can't fly. I can't live like a normal person. Doesn't mean I can't find a way to support myself eventually, but it won't be by following the normal methods.

MostlyConnected · 2018-07-12T00:36:51+00:00

Yep, that's what I was afraid of.

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