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Jacob: Wrestling with God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Class of All Possible Monsters

So what you might do about a particular monster is hide or go out and get rid of it if it was just an actual animal right but that doesn't help because there's all the other potential predators that are still there. So instead what you have to do is figure out how to configure yourself so that you're in the best possible position to fight off the monsters when they come that's your best bet. 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 you make the proper sacrifices those monsters stay at bay. heroism as an alternative too which means the active confrontation of the class of all possible monsters and the

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