Comments by "The Archivist" (@LostArchivist) on "Jordan B Peterson"
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I believe they should have explored the concept of stranger in the Abrahamic religions more, it is fairly clear stranger does not necessarily mean what they assume it to mean. This is shown actually by the fate of Cain who is preserved by God from retribution and who is said to be the father of citydwellers. Moreof, it is very hard to square the story of the patriarch Joseph with such a definition, as for Exodus itself, the Israelite people themselves are seen as coming under God`s wrath and being unfaithful and this is sadly a theme seen throughout the Old Testament, despite being God`s chosen people, they fail to live up to the calling at times. Also God promises Abraham that his descendant shall be a light to the nations, i.e., God clearly cares for them as well. Far from being a tribe-centered pat on tbe back to the might of the people or the righteousness of the rulers or the culture, it brings both to task at different times.
This is to say nothing of the nuances and complexities that are problematic to this theory from traditiona in other cultures. They are just sort of assuming a universal theme based on case studies. That overlooking of pieces thay do not fit the mold is nothing new in anthropology and it almost always haunts theories from the starting gate. Now if we argue all of this simply goes much farther back than that and we can`t see evidence as these sources are all too late, well we can argue that, but it makes any cultural examples subject to the same countercritique. Fact of the matter is, any culture we see now, even if small and basic in structure are not primeval in the necessary sense. They are not necessarily more reliable sources of humanity`s initial cultural strycrure unless corroborated by a good deal of evidence from early human periods in the relevant areas. What we see on the ground needs to match what we find in the ground. The best we can hope for is to correlate fossil, molecular, archaeological and cultural data.
If our oldest records go back let`s say 50`000 years (pulling from the Pelaides star cluster and accompanying traditions), and our species goes back 300,000 years, well we have cultural data going back only 1/6th of the way. That does not mean it is unreliable, indeed it has shown time and again to be, in various ways, but the quality of the information varies and often just don`t make sense to our modern perspective. Much of the information of the earliest cultures is simply lost to time due to the impermenant nature of their materials and the forces of nature.
Any theory that contradicts the cultural data is suspect as it doesn`t correspond to the very thing it is explaining. But, the important part is appreciating that the people back then were people and their stories will be just as nuanced and complex as our own.
I am saying this because Dr.Wrangham`s explanation imagines a cookie-cutter scenario with a simple mechanism to organize all of human cultural institutions. It seems very unlikely that a single scenario would repeatedly play out that way but more likely that a variety of developments coalescing over time. That is messy and hard to study, but our history is that way often, our ages and eras bleed into one another and the past reemerges in the present and the present paints how we see the past, and predictions of the future influence the present. We are complex creatures with complicated relations, most of all across the ages.
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The whole of rationistic materialism falls apart as we fall apart without meaning and with no Creator there is no explanation for why there is anything at all. Without another layer atop the workd, we are a miserable delusional failure of a species and there is no point in doing science because it is all meaningless and pointless, might as well curl up with some food, get fat and soak up pleasure before the reaper calls you.
And it is scientism, naturalistic materialism that creates this and yet it also means our basis for doubting the existence of the spiritual and a Creator cuts off its own roots and kills itself in thr end.
But, what happens when you give humanity knowledge of the tides of meaning? Materialism is not the great enemy, it is the antechamber to having only ourselves left as our gods if we do not want the Living God. The terrors when we who know we are not divine toy with the controls at the console of our meaning...when we attempt to make even our own gods to our design. I can not bear to consider it. We will then enslave ourselves to sin anew as our god as of old. Then only those who know Him, can hope to avoid the devastation within and amongst us that follows.
Clearly this is not what Dr.Peterson is aiming at, but we would be fools to not consider that there are not those who would use what is being discovered for manipulative ends. Consider the great evil this could potentially lead to to those who rather than accepting the way of things that we are not the highest order would try to manipulate it to their own ends.
God have mercy upon us, and save us from ourselves. Through Our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The Divine Wisdom, the Divine Mercy, and Our Just Judge. Amen.
Lord Jesus, I trust in You. Amen.
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I will say. Be careful your wrath does not erode your humanity to make you alike the very monsterous ways you are rightfully indignant of, they did not start this way anymore than those they originally opposed. Being a hero is not about fighting against vice alone; one must work even harder to continue along the virtuous path. Hatred breeds itself both clonally and via parasitic injection, masking itself by subtle manipulation of emotions. Wrath is a deadly sin for a reason, and its elder brothers sometimes sneak in behind it. Because no one likes naked envy, vanity, or pride, they burn everything and wither life on its branches. But they are good mimics and pretend to be justice, fortitude, truth, and even compassion.
So examine your conscience and be honest and courageous with exposing these in yourself. Then, when you have a firm grasp on your own brokenness, and have found the way to deal with them, the truth of who we are meant to be as human beings, and know what is life; then you will see the Divine Physician is the answer. When you realize we are all in the same leaking boat yet by some miracle have not sunken despite evsn our societies and virtues being infected by these seven parasites, ask yourself: Who is pumping out the poison and preserving us from ourselves?
God bless you, through Our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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