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Jacob: Wrestling with God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Transcendental Experiences Are Not Subjective Experiences

If you have to demonstrate the existence of God objectively then subjective experiences of the transcendent are irrelevant right but and that's a perfectly reasonable standpoint if your initial presupposition is the only thing that has actual existence. I also think that it's difficult for me to deny the existence of these patterns of thinking that seem to exist cross-culturally like the representation of the dragon for example especially given that I can see an evolutionary rationale for the emergence of these representations so and then there's also the indisputable fact that religious experiences are accessible to people through a number of different avenues now.

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