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Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Secret of Knowledge of Good and Evil

As soon as a human being is self conscious and aware of his own nakedness, then he has the capacity for evil. That's human beings. And so even if you get rid of all the outside snakes, you've got an inside snake, and god only knows what it's up to. So that's why the bloody christians associated the snake in the gard of eden with satan. It's unbelievably brilliant. Because they're motivated by absolutely thing but malevolence and the willingness to destroy. Next week we'll talk about cain to abel, which is doing exactly the opposite,. that's motivated byabsolutely thing butmalevolence and willing to destroy. O

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