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Abraham: Father of Nations

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Love a Good Idea?

I've been trying to conceptualize what this covenant might might constitute and I think the love part so here's this. There's a battle in the biblical stories all the way through between love and truth in terms of their primacy" "Love is predicated on something like a deep appreciation for being despite its deficiencies and maybe a decision that you're going to bring about things to move towards good"  Dostoevsky used an argument he made against his brother Aliyosha, who was anti-theist by saying it wasn't worth the suffering of one child. The hydrogen bomb would be better than anything we could ever do if humanity brought itself to a halt.

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