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169. An Atheist in the Realm of Myth | Stephen Fry
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Sun Is a Hero
We have to imitate the hero and we see what we have to imitate everywhere. We had to act out sacrifice before we could psychologize it and understand it, he says. The psychology of sacrificing your children or even your rare cattle upon which you may depend is a great inward point. He believes that if we gave up something in the present that we valued the future would improve. But there is no causal relation between sacrificing children on a pyramid in in tuxa quattle and the harvest improving.
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