July 3rd 2023 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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This week, I address why pursuing a marriage with someone you love is a gift. Then, I talk with Tim Ballard about his work as a special agent to fight against sex trafficking and the child sex trade and with Jim Caviezel, who stars as Ballard in "Sound of Freedom." From the archives, I discuss creating and maintaining a meaningful life. 

Advice

Attempt To Achieve The Best In Life

You enter into marriage as an act of faith. You fall in love with someone, which is a grace — a gift of God in some real sense. You see what it would be like to care for someone. You see what it would be like to have someone care for you and value you. You get a glimpse of that in love and then you have a challenge set before you which is: Can you arrange your life with this person that you’ve fallen in love with so that that state of love permeates the entire relationship and everything you do together all the time? That would make a marriage the perfect date that repeats endlessly. 

Now, obviously, that is an extraordinarily high goal to hit, a high mountain to climb. But you need something to do, and it might as well be that. And in an intimate relationship, when things are going as well as they can go, I think you are hard pressed to find anything better in life. So why not attempt to achieve that? 

In Jordan’s series “On Marriage,” he discusses the fundamentals of relationships, the critical aspects of marriage, and the beauty that comes from this commitment. Most unique in this series are the personal stories Jordan shares of his and Tammy’s marriage in these three episodes. To watch more content with Jordan, join DailyWire+ for exclusive content not available elsewhere.

Fix What Bothers You To Avoid Suffering Where You Can

There is this philosophical idea — it is a contradiction in action, there is actually a technical term for it — when you think and believe something, but you do not act it out, so that means there is a dissociation in you somehow between your abstract representations and what you manifest in action. That is another form of discontinuity that is not doing you any good. The driver is going one way and the car is going the other. You will not even be able to understand yourself if you do that, but even more, you are not putting your principles into practice, so you are dissociated. Your being is dissociated. Once you get your mind and your emotions working together, then the next thing to do is to act that out consistently.

The Fight Against Worldwide Child Slavery & The Sex Trade | Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard | EP 372

This week, I discuss the new film “Sound of Freedom,” with star Jim Caviezel and real-life inspiration Tim Ballard. The film details Ballard’s work as a special agent to fight against sex trafficking and the child sex trade. We speak in-depth about the psychology of pedophilia, the nature of good and evil, and the importance of a steady faith in God.