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Introduction to the Idea of God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Why You Should Act Like a Good Person and Why Not Lire?

We're much more activated by having an aim and moving towards it than we are by attainment. The nobler the aim, that's one way of thinking about it, the better your life. Without a noble aim, how can you withstand any of that? You can't. Once you become desperate, things go from bad to worse very rapidly when you become desperate. And if you don't have a noble aim then you have nothing but but shallow, trivial pleasures, and they don't sustain you. I think pain argues for itself as the fundamental reality because no one disputes it. It just stands forth as what is absolutely necessary in our existence. But i'm not sure why people would want

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