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156. The Perfect Mode of Being | Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Limit of Story Telling

In the ancient world, you had this idea of god's that went down into the underworld to visit. But that's actually not the story of christ,. If you understand the full tradition of the christian story, we think that christ died, went into hades and then destroyed death... And he pulls everybody out of death, and then that's it. Like, what other story are you going to tell after that story? You're stuck, in some sense, constantly having to choose between miracles. It's a figment of the human imagination, fine, but it's the limit figment in multiple ways.

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