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Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Candle?

The candle is a source of illumination, right? It's a source of enlightenment. So it singly simplifies something transcendent. And so why do you both hold on to it? Wel cause you're both supposed to hold on to the light, right? And you're supposed to be subordinate to the light. That's actually the goal of marriage, from a spiritual perspective. The question is: Do you forget about that when you have a child in your life? You might not wish it would stay at bay, but you don't want them to know they are loved by someone who doesn't love them back. Those four sentences contain an antidote to the idea that women taken out of

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