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150. Greenlights (and Darkness) | Matthew McConaughey
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is There an Ideal Calling to You?
When you experience yourself as ashamed by your own behaviours, what that means is that there's an ideal inside you trying to manifest itself. And the question then becomes, well, what is that better thing that you're comparing yourself to? And it's an ideal. That's the function of religious thinking. You know, in revelation, in the book of revelation, christ comes back as a judge,. Even though he's a figure of mercy, let's say, he comes back as aJudge. So if you posit the highest ideal, then you put yourself in a position where you're judged. and that's when your conscience tortures you. It's your higher form of being that you
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