2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: Q & A Parts I & II 

Thank you!

sure thing

What a hero

surprised peter b jordanson didn't do this

Wow, thank you for taking time to do this. :D

this is what I summarized before i encountered your comment " assume ignorance before malice" which i think is comparable enough?

Doesn't matter if it's you only, does it?

Bryan Edds well put.

facts

Succinct and on point Bryan. Sadly, many liberal educators seem to see themselves as a kind of therapist and seem to regard everyone but straight white males as in need of their care.

Right, only 14% of the primary school teachers, who practically raise kids in the Netherlands from ages four to twelve, are male. Combine that with typically less available dads and you've got yourself a pretty big masculinity crisis

Free Thought Sounds like Socratic Method

The more I watch the more I want to cry...

Excuse me Dr. Peterson

Talk about a 4th wall break, that basically shattered my screen and then my *soul*.

"First get the log out of your own eye, so you can see clearly to remove the speck from your neighbors eye." -Jesus

Bretton Ferguson Jesus, the deepest nigga that we ever conceptualized

I didn't fully grasp the meaning behind this one, or the reaction to it. Could you explain?

+Tubik He basically was talking to us, the youtube audience. A lot of us are still living with our parents and need to fix whatevers going on with us/our families and then move out.

Start writing, you're ready.

Rubén R R I felt like I was reading my own thoughts there. I'm going to do the self authoring program as well, and there's the worry and fear of oh will it work, I might mess it up, maybe it won't do anything... I did a personality test, can't remember what its called, but I'm a Logician. And Logicians come up with many ways of how to do something, to try and figure the best way to solve a problem. But a con of Logician is that they can get bogged down in wanting the solution to be absolutely perfect, that sometimes they don't even start on any projects and so they don't get any where. And a solution which is what Peterson said here, is to just start fixing problems in your immediate area. Clean your room. Get the grocerys. Fix that squeaky door. And sort yourself out. Do the program. You're afraid of what you don't know about yourself. You're afraid of coming in contact with your dark shadow. Speak truth, your truth, and it will set you free.

Rubén R R you're no worse than anyone else dude(?), you have just noticed it

... and men are just entranced

Sebi20070 although i am a maths major i never thought of it that way since basically everyone knows what two circles and a triangle are. Also, only peterson fans will get the "gold" joke, lol.

Sorry, ignorant person here. I understood Peterson's joke at first but I don't understand this reference about being offended by a triangle. Thanks for your time.

Wait, what? I thought it was two boobs and pubes. Maybe it's both? Is that why it is offensive as well as funny?

Sebi20070 lol, I thought you meant gold as in the gold that is horded by the dragon. Also, who is spiralofhope? And last but not the least, I think its called the golden ratio, not the golden mean, but I could be wrong, after all its just a name.

I hope bill c-16 passed.

Kinda sub-par shilling you're doing there m8. I could tell you how to make self-deprecating humor but I'm 2 retarded 2 shill for the life of me and I'll get murdered by totalitarians anyway. Point still stands though, unlike that very unfortunate bunny amirite.

we need that guy

derek kras. great comment, so funny.

MOR PHIUS too bad a President of Canada would be a purely symbolic position...

No Congress or Senate would comprehend him. It worrys me that people makes these suggestions. Leave the excuse making and false answers to Politicians. He can reach more people this way.

Trudeau is a fucking joke, and a Marxist (and I'm a bit of a leftist, but NOT a Marxist by any stretch). Peterson would be a MUCH better Prime Minister.

JP's quality of life would decline precipitously if he did that, as would the lives of his allies, friends, and family. He wouldn't have time to think his own thots anymore...you can't recognize yourself as a pol; others own you, the ones who elected you...

Su Sampson your grammar is terrible but you’re right my friend.

Herpius Maximus Wow Jordan actually liked this. I didn't know he was down to earth with shit posting 🤣

Totalitarianism is about being at the top of the food chain right? There's some parallels here.

Does he have sponsors at this point? Perhaps Tip Top Tailors?

seth street amen! I was introduced to him about 8 years ago when somebody gave me a copy his TVO Maps of Meaning series on DVD.

Woah that's way old school. I found him looking up lectures on Nietzsche in December of 2015 and the rest is history.

amen i used to watch his TVO shows

I nearly cried when I found out he was visiting Ottawa and I wasn't there.

Durp Durper They're scared

Andrew Tschuta yeah well, anyone not scared is either the perfect being or soon in for a surprise.

hrvad He does make some jokes/funny points but other times when he's completely serious people will still laugh

I've heard him say that we find comedians funny because they speak the truth and are able to say the things everyone is thinking. People will often laugh when he delivers a powerful truth. He might take something we knew in an abstract way and put it into words. Perhaps there's a sort of parallel here? Would that make him a meta-comedian? I don't know.

Awesome observation!

7hi5 on3 that was perfection

Kaila Lee Gibbons >The colloquial gesture for peace is holding up two fingers >The 'peace sign' makes a 'V' shape >The 'V' shape is the tradition western symbol of the feminine >Peterson's rise to fame came around controversy about the nature of gender >Two digits comprise the 'peace symbol' >Two Millennia separate Peterson and The Big J >Jesus was an agent of peace i̶l̶l̶u̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶ second coming confirmed!

it's kind of a self fulfilling prophesy, in a good way. if you set out to model yourself after jesus and attack the hardest problem you can, well... we are seeing what happens.

i also think that is why he hesitated. you have to very careful speaking too truthfully about that, because it would be so easy to be taken out of context.

That's Canadian Jesus, to you!

How to get motivated when mental masturbation doesn't work? I need Peterson to come to my room and physically make me do the things I need to do and tell me exactly how to do them lmao

It used to be common wisdom. But common sense isn't common anymore w/ marxist libtards.

Tim, the Enchanter Peterson is literally exposing how to reconcile science with religion, or the objective with the subjective. We just need to implement it in our loves. IMO, start with listening and reflecting on his many talks and maybe if you want to spread it faster and absorb it more quickly then talk with your family and friends. Is there a more specific angle you were thinking of?

What I meant by this is not how do we personally solve it. Nietzsche himself gave some good guidelines for this. Become your own god. I meant how do we as a society solve this, is there any way this could be reverted? Are we basically doomed to repeat totalitarian practices over and over again? (Replacing god for the state, or replacing the devil with patriarchy, etc)

You really think the answer might be that we become our own God? I can see how it might make sense but it feels wrong. Can you elaborate?

Yeah, becoming your own god in our minds is extraordinarily dangerous... in some ways that is what the world has been racing to do for 400 years now and it is has brought us nothing but misery. To paraphrase The Incredibles, When everyone is God, nobody is. That kind of thinking will only end in environmental collapse (because we think we can micromanage the planet) or nuclear war (because as the Greeks wrote, when Gods have human emotions, they fight endlessly). We need humility, morality and eco-centrism to avoid destruction. Not hubris, egocentrism, anthropocentrism and a theological ideology of personal supremacy. We need the one true God back. And he sure as hell ain't us.

TheOlzee I agree with the path you are describing. I ESPECIALLY agree that today's world through so much confusion and irrelevance at you that is really makes the search for truth so much harder than it needs to be. This is just a reply that pretty much repeats what you wrote and later today perhaps I can actually put forward an idea past where you left it and return to this concept of being your own God. By way of agreeing with you, I just want to vent to related ideas - but I know you know these so feel free to skip to the next paragraph. One, if people who more systematic thinkers, I could have saved a lot of flailing around in my 20s through some shepherding and orienting earlier in life. Yes, I learned a shit ton and maybe I could be better for it in the end, but on the flip side I could already be so much further along reading, living the most valuable things. It's a toss up. Instead, like you describe, you listen, reflect, write, meditate, grow and become powerful. Two, it just bugs me that this listen, learn, write, meditate, grow process we are talking about is so dis-respect by how atheist fundamentalists look at the quality or thoughts of the people of the past (disclaimer, when I describe how you this is the case, one can figure out which type of atheist I am talking about, its not all, and no this is not a criticism of people not believing in God) Too many "rational people" refers to past thinks as peasants or ignorant, just a basic contemptuous and superior attitude towards our ancestors en masse, the father Peterson wants to rescue per say. I think you get this idea Olzee, but all they had to do was engage in that process, no other distractions to dealing directly with, lets say, the process of meaning. even without formal science, it's no wonder they were able to make such great insights. They had all the time in the world and they spent it talking to other people. There were few individual ways to really enjoy yourself per say. Maybe I wanted to write this to try and figure out a better way to put this, but I will say this they seemed to settle on God as something we were a smaller part of and where reaching towards. I do see this super, most, enlightened person being closer to God (because his won philosophy may or may not be on the cutting efforts of thoughts and practices that would bring one there) and and maybe its just semantics, but I still struggle to see how this allows one to become a God. I think maybe because I have not read the mythology, archetype literature yet? I don't know. ,

you'd be surprised(or not) how 'men' are scared of being a Man or what even a man should be....i try every day and coming to Jordans lectures and words in general have helped so much! men,,loosely put,, are so full of Ego....we are Human Beings and male or female we stand for that with morals ethics responsibility etc is a fair start rather than following the 'men' image put out where most of them are full of flaws hidden by the Ego/Public image(speaking for those who we see)

Ajmo Sutra like asking each other questions? Or her helping him answer audience questions? This is already good. I'm sure his wife is great and it was nice to see her introduce the talk but people are there (and here) to hear what he has to say.

I think them just asking questions one to the other wouldn´t make that much sense... It would be like having a personal conversation in front of the crowd... What I meant was more something like your other suggestion. Like when he said that his wife should answer "What are you/Who are you?" question... Maybe live Q&A would be good for something like that... A more casual approach... Something like that if enough people were interested, ofc....