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God and the Hierarchy of Authority

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Absolute Unknown

We have this notion about how the world is structured that's deeply embedded in our psyche. And so we act out our encounter with the unknown world, and we act that out in the same way as a description of what god does at the beginning of time to extract habitable order out of chaos. So you actit out first, and then the second thing is you watch people who act it out, and you start to make nations of that. That's stories, right? And maybe you admire them. Then after a long time, you collect a bunch of those stories, and then you can say what that is, you can articulate it as a padden.

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