Making Sense of the Meaning Crisis | John Vervaeke
Planet: Critical
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Are You Trying to Achieve Relevance Realization?
John Rawls: Why do we have these cognitive abilities to malfunction? And does that perhaps hark back to that religious myth, you know, Jesus or the desert. I'm talking about the evolution of our over-conventability and why relevance realization would have been useful. He says there's a theme of thinking of humankind as a bacteria; all living things would be better off as we went extinct and we disappeared. The Greek word in the New Testament is missing the mark. If you shoot where your eyes are telling you to shoot, you'll miss the target.
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