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127. Biblical Series: A Wrestling with God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Obelisk With the Cross Is the Centre of Suffering

The idea is that if you're a member of the group defined by this obelisk, then what you do is accept your position at the centre of suffering voluntarily. And so that's one hell of an idea, really is. Man, that is a killer idea, because it's actually a signal. It's a clear signal of psychological health,. One of the things you do with people paralyzed by fear is break their fears down into relatively manageable bits. Then you have them voluntarily confront whatever it is that produces that overwhelming negative emotion and that makes them stronger. You know, no matter how deep you dig into these architipal ideas, you'll never get to the bottom....

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