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Reality and the Sacred

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Absolute Attributes of God

In an old jewish idea, and the idea is that man and god are, in a sense, twins. The classic attributes of god, these are the attributes of the absolute, are omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence. What is a being that's characterized by the absolute attributes of god lack? And answer to that is limitation. With limitation, there's suffering. Without suffering, then there's no being. If you're here at university, rather than at trade school, your job is to figure out how to be a human being. That's a much more important job than any specific, time limited, concrete, pragmatic plant. You have an unlimit possibility

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