Should You Love Your Enemies? 

“Compassionate inclusion” and “Lack of differentiation” He puts things into words so well

JP when he's not holding back his vocabulary:

Yeah, so I am going to watch this 29 more times to attempt to absorb what just happened.

"Discrimination" actually just means making a distinction between different things, literally just recognizing differences, even though it's used colloquially to mean "unfair exclusion of a protected demographic"

JP makes me want to study harder and maybe read the dictionary every day

Love your enemies means you pray for them. It doesn't mean you have to put up with nonsense or accept their abuse. People always get confused with these sort of things. This is why verses always need to be compared with other verses.

There's alot of wisdom at that table.

When i see and hear Jordan speak, i can feel new newron connections being created.

I’ve felt like an outsider my whole life. Family, school, work. I’ll never want bad things to happen to anyone, but I won’t go out of my way to make someone, an enemy in this case, feel better. When they won’t do the same for me.

He could also have said you need rocks and sand to build a mountain, try building it with one or the other and it would collapse. Therefor the rock isn't better then the sand but equally purposeful in it's own capacity but still different enough to have their own identity.

Grace is what allows you to love your enemies

Just wanted to drop a note on how MUCH I am ENJOYING your books! Your thoroughness and multi-layered, thoughtful explanations are a breath of fresh air. Especially, when you acknowledge a different point of view. Few people like to give air to oppositional perspectives. Much respect, sir!

How to turn an enemy into a friend or at least stopping your enemy from attacking you with incurring additional shame: don't bite the hand that feeds you. Proverbs 25:21-22 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; 22 For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, And the Lord will reward you.

Love this guy man

"hmmm" is the only thing from JP I understood 100%.

I like seeing JBP like this, he recognizes he is around people that can understand him easily enough, so he isnt teaching here, hes talking with these guys, no wonder he has so much energy here. This looks like him being happy

hit the nail on the head Professor. differentiation is a reality of nature.. unity of purpose cannot come by equalizing everything, that would be a very grey world. it is so difficult to explain it to people because they automatically jump to the conclusion that you dislike or hate them

I thought I was just regular dumb, now I know I'm a really dumb.

🤯 You are able to articulate even the most difficult topics into concise and clear lessons we all need to learn. Tolerate does not equate to assimilate.

Using My dictionary again 😅😂❤

I just can’t stop admiring the table. Who is the artist!

I had to listen to this one about 4 times to really understand what he meant.

Destroy your enemies at all costs. Turning the other cheek, just gives them somewhere else to hurt you

Forgot which writer I blogged about resonating with their idea of love being the conscious understanding of one's well-being as an extension of your own, love includes discipline and sometimes extrication

Yep yep, sounds right

I have a different understanding of what it means to love your enemy. To me it means that you have to come to terms with the fact that you need your enemy. Your enemies give your life purpose. If you faced no opposition in life it would be empty and meaningless. Just imagine it, if you had no one to contend with, nothing to overcome. In fact life itself has evolved out of conflict. The inherent competition for existence is what drives evolution. Without enemies we wouldn't be who we are

His vocabulary is amazing.

Hating your enemies is way worst for yourself then loving them, you dont love other for their sake, you lovr them for your sake .... living in hate is horible, i dont wish that for anyone

I love my enemies by leaving them alone and pray that GOD will knock them In the head do they wake up and change their evil ways. It takes real evil to make someone my enemy.

Protection for all 🙏💜

We are to love our neighbors and our enemies as ourselves. We are to forgive those that hate and harm us. Matthew 5:43-44. It’s counterproductive to be hateful and resentful. True Christians must forgive and above all love others. We pray for our enemies and people we disagree with, we don’t hate them. We’re not supposed to hurt each other period. Thank you Jordan. ✝️❤️🌻 Jesus Christ ate with society’s outcasts and showed love, compassion and friendship because he knew they needed him the most. The homeless people I’ve met are so humble, kind, grateful, honest and open. Even though I give them goody bags and hugs, it doesn’t compare to how they touch my heart. Anyway, loving and helping others is one of the greatest experiences in life. It truly is better to give than to receive.

Jordan Petterson Is absolutely fantastic!

i wish i knew english that well, and knew an even more complex language to express my perception of reality and to enhance it

Love is not annihilating yourself. Love is first having self-respect, so that you can have that towards others and that is a choice.

There’s a Certain pain to being an outsider….very true ….people who say they enjoy being outsiders in general are usually full of crap in my opinion . I’m an ADHDer but I hate being seen as an outsider due to my minor lacking of social skills in some instances .

Mf is so profound that he had me searching up the dictionary💀

My enemy today is the laundry. And alllllll my energy is going towards destroying it (washing, drying, folding, putting away) without the usual accompaniment of grumbles about being nudists.

We should love them…but still need to protect ourselves and children from them if they cannot respect healthy boundaries

It takes zero energy to love your enemy if you are aware how god loves you.

I love Dr Oeterson. He makes the world a better place❤

Full video of this discussion pls

To love someone is to do to them what is best for their ultimate, spiritual good, not to tolerate what hurts them

Teach your enemy not to be evil. Making sure first you're not evil either. When they refuse, jail them.

We have no Idea… That a “Unity of Purpose” is a precondition even for an Act of Visual Perception.” ~ • ~ When we are unified in our purpose, we are able to see Situations more Clearly ~ Along with possible remedies needed for maximum benefit. 🕊🍃

I suspect things have been lost in translation down the millenia with translation of "love". No one, not even God can love their enemy, but you can respect them and respect their own worth. The difference is thay love in the modern sense means you will sacrifice everything for thst person. If someone breaks in to your house and is about to rape your daughter, do you allow him because you are supposed sacrifice everything in your love? No you stop him at all costs to protect the one you do love, your daughter. However, you still see the rapist's worth as a human being and you will only use enough force to stop the attack and restrain the individual. That is what we have lost as we allow Progressiviam to drag us into a suicide cult.

I do not know what they are saying.

I understood even though it was exhausting .

so many words i didn't understand in that sentence

Love thy enemy doesn't mean love their sins that their committing or affirm it. It means feed them if their hungry or give them an drink of water if they ask for it. Compassionate inclusion is okay if it doesn't include affirmation of sins.

I would love to join this table

I am german and i like to say that I speak english fluently, but sometimes i have a hard time following jordan peterson even when i know what each of his words mean.

Great message in the concentric circles the people closest to center feel belonging as those circles get wider and broader one loses a sense of inclusion that we long for Mt Sinai people stood as a mass gathering of a mixed multitude for as far as they could see a sea of people and they could see the differences of their own uniqueness but also the oneness of their humanness in their mission toward something’s different And extraordinary new

What if you cannot stay away from particular immediate family members (who are also enemies) due to your own children wanting to see them? For example they invite you and the enemies to special occasions often.

Doesn’t mean u have to let them run over u either!

To be blunt, it IS discrimination. Discrimination is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. The ability to tell the food, from the plate, and the plate from the table, and your hand from the fork, that is discrimination. When you let people forget, or subvert, the meanings of words, it always leads to problems. Always.

Love your enemies is hyperbole. It doesn't literally mean love them like your children, it means to seek understanding. It means to have empathy and to try to see where they are coming from. You don't have to agree of course, but you should understand why someone thinks a certain way, especially if you ever want to stop being enemies

I cant or it find it hard once I hate someone it’s for life :(

Peterson is the only man who can use 17 words to say, "It's a wonderful day," and think he's smart for doing so.

What has your enemy done to you? Your enemy is not my enemy. Don't tell me how I should deal with my enemy. If my enemy has done something nefarious to you, how will you decide to deal with them?

I hate my enemies .! I was kind and considerate to my last enemy but I think he might have been psychopath. I got very hurt and lots of damage done to my life. Now I just hate the bustards.

My enemies are always those close to me.

Jordan is looking fabulous

Love your enemies if for no other reason, they will reveal your flaws and shortcomings to you.

Loving your enemy is the same as loving your neighbor. The 6th to 9th commandmends are a product of this love You don't have to be in a relationship with you enemies like your relationship with your children. but you must not kill, steal, break wedlock, or bear false witness against your enemies, and if you find your enemy in distress or in need, then you must help them as best you can and be kind with them. also, you must forgive them for what they do to you so that God will forgive you for your sins.

A true hero will even save his enemies.

I tend to agree with him until he uses his terminology which takes me time to grasp.

"Citizen of the world" is indistinguishable from "global serf" when you get down to the nitty gritty of what a 1-world government (empire) actually is.

What I've learned, risking to sound like Flanders, the only enemy is the Devil and not the people

LIFE GRANDMASTER!❤🎉

Hell No

Takes no energy to love your enemies if you fully love yourself

Peterson is soooooo awesome and spot on. A nuclear Intellectual.

Just treat everyone like you would treat yourself

"Ye must be born again."

I am glad he formulated that. Eastern European or Balkan style of nationalism is shown as discrimination and racism by some Westerners. They try so hard to fight against this "exclusion", that they get tired of compensation, and become actully racist, and treat outsiders as inferior to human beings. (Not saying everywhere, but I experienced something like this among Nordic people)

I am a former police officer, baptized Catholic and Jesuit educated. I am a pagan and practice witchcraft. In addition to owning a Bible, I also own a copy of the Quran. My time at my Jesuit high school was similar to that of a military school. The school motto there is “ad majorem del gloriam”, a Latin phrase that means “for the greater glory of God”. We were being trained to be “men for others”: The Jesuits that taught us are known as “God’s Marines”. This was part of my impetus for wanting to serve something greater than myself in law enforcement. I believe God has many faces. God wants me to be curious about how others conceptualize God. Despite my pagan beliefs and practices, there are teachings from Christ that I believe are imperative and valuable. In my mind, one of God’s faces was that of Christ. I believe in things like honor, code, duty, fortitude, strength, dignity, justice, and mercy. It is said that in truth, one will find God. There is truth in the redemptive power of love, hence my belief that Matthew 5:43-44 is a reflection of truth: “But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use, and curse you”. God was foreshadowing exactly what Christ was going to do. One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s greatest sermons was titled, “love your enemies”. If one is a Christian, one must recognize that Christ is King. Christ was not playing when He issued the aforementioned command. It is by far probably the most difficult command to practice and adhere to….I have certainly struggled with this myself and I consistently offer prayers for people that have hurt me, wronged me, betrayed me intimately, hurt me, abused me, etc. Hate is a powerful force that will distort and twist someone. The value of Matthew 5:43-44 is someone must have the courage to break the chain of hate or violence between people and ultimately between nations. People have hated me and I have hated others…..the message that God has put on my heart is that love is the key. From my time in law enforcement, I have seen what the results are when we can’t or refuse to love one another. It often has tragic, permanent, and deadly consequences. I have swallowed plenty of hate in my life…..it didn’t fix anything, it just made me sicker. From a biological standpoint, hate is just a form of stress fueled by epinephrine and cortisol. This translates to elevated blood pressure. The number one killer of people in the world is heart disease. Being flooded constantly with these hormones will damage your heart and blood vessels. It will even age you faster. This is a biological fact. It is easy to love your friends and family, the real test of love is can I love someone that absolutely despises me? My heart just tells me that I have to use discernment to be able to translate and see the “code” God has hidden within creation. There are hints here and there. When I start to drift off towards hate and resentment towards another, I remind myself that the other person is a child of God and God loves them. God is always watching. Blessed be..

No.

It is still nowadays very difficult to imagine reproducing the tolerance we reached in the 90's in this regard thanks to the belief in multiculturalism since tensions everywhere so as wars tend to reduce our tolerance drastically, but the only way out is in

Omg I am a Prager too. I knew Dennis Prager would be getting more and more popular for years now…

I had a serious argument with a very senior manager at work and he couldn't fire me but he fired my two up manager who stood up for me. I put a Gypsy curse on the guy ( he was a real .....) and six months later he got hit by a car and died. I thought the curse worked and felt a little guilty until I realised it was his own aggression and stupidity. But be prepared for guilt and repercussions if you don't forgive your enemies... and watch your own stupidity and aggression, it might kill you..

That is not possible

I understood like 1 word

Parents teach children the government helps. It's unite because both take thier path. Johnson it's a large hill.

Hum ... Yeah I agree hum .... this photosynthesis contradicts the paracetamol!

JP using the big speak on this one.

My enemies need to be eradicated and destroyed.

Another good reason is you'd have to consider a generation or two of kids who have been raised not to discriminate against others. We've been taught to treat each other equally, and through no small effort have been told that is inclusive of just about every characteristic a person could have, even to the point of tolerating your enemies. One mistake explored thoroughly with both batman and superman is that their continued efforts not to kill is paramount to their continued need. By that I mean if batman killed the joker most of his plotlines wouldn't have happened. Not to say someone else couldn't then show up to fill that roll, however because the enemy not only lives but has many chances to encounter batman, the joker learns enough about batman to find out how to hurt him. And that's the crux of the question. If your enemy is just going to stave his time, why give him the time to learn how to hurt you? I agree that having one society (being a citizen of earth rather than America) is actually a very good thing for many reasons. For one global trade is proving again and again that if we don't deal with each other none of our countries can survive for long. As well that's a lot of people who together could figure out a lot of things. But if you make yourself a threat you should be responded to appropriately.

Think about the different parts of your body : how do they love each other, do they discriminate ?

Actually Superman is Canadian. The inventors of the Superman Comic were Canadian.

Had to refer to my dictionary for some words here. . But definitely learning new words and honing my comprehension ability as well 🙂😁. JP 👐🏻 phew.

Have faith

Is JP saying loving our enemies isn't worth the effort?

These lives matter!

Get rid of (you)...then (you) can,t have enemy,s...

In my own experience Its the other way around, not loving your enemy is exhausting, not to love someone requires putting the walls up, separation, sth vr sth else/ energy required to fight, take position and guard it os immence, segregate (concentration camps as an example), but to love requires no effort,to love is to set free, to love thy enemy is to see to the underlying unity of life, beyond bounds of flesh, belives, and deeply conditioned reasposes, its not an activity, its your own inner nature, which is of love, thus its without effort, thus not loving is going against natural outflow of inner nature. Im not talking about fooling one wns psyche to love what is an 'unlovable' act (unloveable by human standards - undesirable to the benefit of human happiness, which in general is confused with pleasure, being physical, mental or emotional), its about being present and bare/ undressed from judgments, poaitionalities, enough to stay unmoved in the face of 'thy enemy' naked to the experience of factuality of situation, of the moment and being the moment, without any reserves. Jesus is great symbol of that, absolute surrender to what is, thus surrendering personal stances to see moment as Spirit sees it, thus. No enemies, no enemies at all, thus error is recognized as judgment of ourselves as such. To see other as unholy is to see one self as such, who ever that might be whatever that might be. To see other as whole, holly is to see onesef as such, thus seeing all 'things' as such, and in that space there are no enemies, just isness, suchness. Thus to see any enemies is a burden already. '' What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?'' When a baby misbehave, we know with our loving compassionate heart that, its a new life, new human being, being human, and our patience is so great, cos we understand, we know what they are going through, in our eyes no wrong is done, there is that radiant loving-kindness in our hearts and minds and each ruffness is softened, each acke is soothed, so much so, that edgy anger cannot survive in the 'fluid vibrance of softness of love, and so I read that some research suggest that babies will die without nurturing, without tenderness, so why on earth we would asume and live as if harshnes presented towards' enemy' would heal(solve) things, it just cannot be, that adding wood to a fire would extinguishe it, yet witout being enough present we cannot see it, and we cannot know it it seems. 'My love is for you is unconditional, your participation is not required' (its easy to love someone when he is easy to love, but that partitioned love is not what love really is.

there is no enemy

Really interesting that comments are listed at 0 for this short.

Brilliant mind

Mate bros been reading his thesaurus. I have to crack open a dictionary to understand what he means 😂😂

Pretty words, but it could be more succinct