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This week's edition looks at how to accept responsibility for the world's suffering. Congressman Mike Johnson and I discuss the current state of conservative America, the understated importance of inherent value, the trumped-up climate crisis, and the all too real crisis facing much of Europe this coming winter. Also, from the archives, Be the useful person at a funeral.
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The World Is Full of Suffering
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In the Christian story, Christ does two things that are messianic.
One is: he takes the suffering of the world onto himself because that is a weird idea. Okay, so what does that mean? Let us think about it psychologically. Well, maybe it means that, well, that is your job — is the world is full of suffering, and you should accept that as your responsibility—past, present, and future.
You are supposed to do something about that as much as you can about it, and maybe you start with your own localized suffering, you know. Put yourself together. But then you expand that outward, and you decide that it's you are not a victim of that even though, you know, your part and parcel of it.
But you are the potential solution to that, and so you accept that as a responsibility. So that is part of taking on load, that's part of bearing a cross. You could look at it that way.
The cross is sort of a symbol of the place of maximal suffering. Okay, so you accept that as a challenge, not as a not as something that you're victimized by.
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"Responsibility. That's what gives life meaning. It's like lift a load then you can tolerate yourself." (Share this on Twitter)
"The system that produces happiness let's say in the founder's sense produces that emotion in relationship to the observation towards a valued goal." (Share this on Twitter)
"You need to be aiming for something. That means you're going to be lesser than people who've already attained along that dimension. So, the question is who you should defeat in the final analysis and, the answer is you should defeat your former self." (Share this on Twitter)
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Preserving What Drives Us Forward | Congressman Mike Johnson | #309
Congressman Mike Johnson and I discuss the current state of conservative America, the understated importance of inherent value, the trumped-up climate crisis, and the all too real crisis facing much of Europe this coming winter.
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Be the Useful Person at a Funeral | Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"It is pretty self-evident that life has got its Rat's Nest of miseries and that is for sure and, maybe you could even make a categorical statement that life is mostly A Rat's Nest of misery. You know you can make a pretty powerful argument for that. Then there is a counter question, which is well what if you tried not to make it any more miserable than it had to be, right? Then what would it be like?."
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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