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Jacob: Wrestling with God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What to Do About the Class of All Possible Monsters

In Hinduism you make offerings to the goddess Kelly who's this devouring goddess and then she turns into her benevolent counterpart. Sacrifice is actually one way that you can tame the monsters if you think about the monster as the set of all negative future potentialities. If you make the proper sacrifices those monsters stay at bay but then there's heroism as an alternative too which means the gods are not your only enemy.

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