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The Necessity of Virtue

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Buddhists Say, Life Is Suffering

Buddhists say life is suffering. That's the first fundamental buddhist dictum. So that what that means is, if you're not suffering, that's a good thing. We're finite t we have a life span that's bounded temporally. You're going to live maybe a hundred years, and that'll pretty much be it. And then there's other forms of extreme limitation that are imposed on you that have very little to do with you. Their facts of being: You're a certain height, you're a certain weight, you’re an attractive person who may suffer from mental illness or predisposition to cancer. The central symbol of christianity is

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