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The Psychology of Redemption

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The New Testament Hypothesis of a Medistate

A life that's predicated on constant death and renewal at every level of being, produces a state of being so deeply meaningful that it justifies suffering. It doesn't eliminate suffering. There's no elimination of suffering. If what you're aiming at is of sufficient profundity, it's worth an awful lot of misery to participate in the process of bringing it about. Life has an unbearable depth of misery. As a consequence, it needs a an absurd positive aim. And the absurd positive aim tis posited in the new testament iis participation in the process that transforms earth into heaven,. The generation of the kingdom of god on earth. That actually means something. You can tell when you

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