Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1.  @TheBigJord  ". . . frat parties where strippers, spiked drinks, and alcohol poisoning are not rarities" -- which certainly were very rare in 1982, in absolute terms and by comparison with now. Though conduct that gross is still relatively unusual, thank god. Yeah, she did know the ambience at Yale back then. She is smart. She was there. Look, you have a problem. Blocked.
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  2.  @crabtrap  I have only seen such correction occur in France, never in the United States. Not ONE time.
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  3.  @tamedshrew235  People who have studied actual acts of heroism report that the person acts automatically. They literally do not think, they do -- at least that's their inner perception. It does not matter whether they are Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu, Jewish, or agnostic. When people do have time to reflect and act heroically, that is remarkable. Like Vasili Arkhipov, who literally saved the world.
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  4.  @tamedshrew235  My main point was that this is not how heroic acts are undertaken. Actually, the best journalistic description of heroism that I've read were by Chris Hedges, who is an ordained minister. EDIT: I mention that as an interesting coincidence, but also to make the point that a divinity school graduate analyzed this differently, after having spent decades as a war correspondent.
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  5. I used to dislike Peterson. After his recent bout with drug reactions and habituation, etc., I feel for him more than I did. This audience reaction for the most part reflects the fact that people do not read, and that they greatly reward self-serving discourses. The fact that they do more and more is a bad sign, not a sign of healthy self-criticism or resilience. That a Peterson can make millions on this spiel is a bad sign. I think that Peterson himself realizes it, and even worries about it at times. He is one odd dude. Some combination of Jung and Nietzsche gets recycled every few decades in right-leaning Western societies, and Peterson caught the wave and really rode it this time. He also has had a lifelong obsession with Russia, another tell. Westerners get obsessed with various "mysterious, enigmatic" non-Western peoples on a regular basis, with Russia being a favorite of those who cannot relate as much to people of color. (So, Tibetan Buddhism won't work.) It's all so predictable. He did do one good video, on creativity, at a major Canadian art museum. It wasn't political, and he was so much more honest and spontaneous in that one. It's the only one of his I've ever seen that I like.
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  6.  @diegom6085  I think you're right.
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  7. Amusing to listen to people talking about "capitalism" who either do not know what capital is, or deliberately lie about what it is.
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  8. You are a sweetheart!!
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  9.  @erickrajniak8424  Sounds like an excellent start. This has become a new cult.
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  10. @erickrajniak8424  When vaccine mandates first were imposed, those who resisted really felt sure there was no hope. Well, more people were reinstated with back pay than I would ever have thought. Even the EEOC cautioned employers not to dismiss all religious objections. One woman who was pregnant and felt, from a spiritual standpoint, that she had a sacred duty to do everything to protect her baby, and took all steps to register her sincere religious objection to the vaccine, was fired, and then she sued, and won. :)
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  11. @RadiusG60  A good education was a leftist value. Under Mitterrand, French kids could start Ancient Greek in 5th grade, and complete two years of college-level Mathematics in high school. The Soviets gave medals for achievement in Mathematics and Physics, not just music or sports. Le Monde printed notices of births, deaths, marriages, and doctoral thesis defense, and the student who wrote the best philosophy essay for the baccalaureate was interviewed on all the major media outlets. Mélenchon wants to bring back more Latin and Greek. By comparison, DEI, LGBTQ, and all this stuff look like strategies to make a quick buck, divide everyone, and turn them away from what matters.
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  12.  @robzombie5928  How interesting that my post about actual socialists in Europe and details on how they give kids a classical education is . . . You guessed it. Every time.
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  13. Reality. Thanks, now I can exhale.
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  14.  @jim6038  You are talking about Title IX abuses at universities, which I agree are horrendous. The tide on that has turned as the result of many lawsuits, that were very expensive for the first victims of the abuses. Look up the criminal statute in your state concerning rape and sexual assault and see what it describes. It is obvious that a woman committing the same acts specified in the statute against another person, regardless of sex, would be held criminally liable. (The differences in anatomy are not significant as a matter of law, given that nonconsensual digital sexual penetration or sexual penetration using some object are illegal.) If a woman gets drunk to do that, I would consider enhancing the penalty, as they do in some other countries.
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  15. I have been too compassionate in life, so I'm going to say this from that perspective. Please carefully consider dropping this "friend." I know that's harsh, but please. Think about it, and listen to that inner voice. If you remain friends with her, chances are you will regret it. And if you do come to regret it, drop her then.
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  16. So why did she go to therapy?? And he had to go to Russia to detox. Okay. Tootles.
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  17. @ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511  These are not just "women;" these are my close friends who didn't want to discuss it, and who told me at a time when they knew they would be blamed for it --- LONG before any hashtags, or even an Internet.
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  18.  @wandadelange1322  Didn't work for the Nazis, did it, unless you consider the rat line good.
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  19.  @Danne1886  Not at all. Supporters of the BDS boycott of Israel, wise or not, were fired and blackballed outright. No one is trying to make Jungian psychoanalysis illegal or defining it as racist, and no one prevents Peterson from teaching or continuing his clinical practice. He's making more money in other pursuits. Maybe you should heed your own counsel? I've read Nadine Strossen on why we should reject hate speech laws. Have you?
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  20.  @Danne1886  You suggested that I care much less about scrutinizing the truth of claims that fundamental rights are being violated when people who (appear to) have very different politics from Peterson's are asserting that their rights are being violated. I just automatically believe them, no questions asked. What made you think so? Did you start with yourself? Throwing in trendy German words adds nothing to the argument. If you want to go off on a tangent about "the Zeitgeist," we can talk about all the states that passed anti-BDS laws. BTW, I'm not even sure BDS is wise, and tend to think not. I know it should not be illegal.
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  21.  @Danne1886  You're the one who jumped to a wrong conclusion about me, and then swore. Perfect. Thanks for making my point.
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  22.  @Danne1886  Nah, you just can't reason or express yourself without the most vapid cliches (trigger, clutch pearls, cudgel, whataboutism, LOL). I prefer the f word. It has a nobler history. You think I should admit I'm wrong about something? You don't even know what I said. Of course you don't have any idea how many people have been fired over BDS.
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  23.  @Danne1886  " The next time you see a lefty making claims of systemic oppression, I hope you keep the same energy . . . " --- if you already forget you wrote that, eat more fish and greens and get more exercise.
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  24.  @Danne1886  I did not. I claimed he chose to leave his position as tenured professor and his clinical practice.
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  25.  @Danne1886  Fish and greens. No joke.
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  26.  @Danne1886  I have no information about the Canadian government either way. But nothing from any Five Eyes government would ever, EVER surprise me, especially after COVID.
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  27.  @Danne1886  That was in the context of his university tenure! And his free speech rights in general. That was the issue. Cambridge was disgraceful, and I said so, because it was. That's what we were talking about. No wonder I didn't recall this failure on my part to "admit" what you're blathering about. You have some evidence that he suffered an unwarranted probe into his taxes for purposes of harassment? Why not tell us? (As for audits, who hasn't had one?) Tell me, does he also get pulled over for speeding because pronouns?
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  28.  @Danne1886  I just searched for this "frivolous tax investigation" you speak of, in press generally highly favorable to him, as well as MSM. No sign of it. Clue us in.
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  29.  @Danne1886  IOW, just your opinion. It's also when he started to make money online. Or, it could have been random. A tax audit, standing alone, is not a violation of rights. It's not the government "doing something" to you. I couldn't even find it reported!
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  30.  @Danne1886  Of course, I couldn't find evidence that he was audited in the first place.
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  31. You know who was healthy? The kids who could pay their entire year of in-state tuition and fees and books with a summer job. And could take that degree to any city and afford an apartment without having a trust fund. Needless to say, they had little or no debt. They had agency all right. Anyone barely out of high school who says they have "agency" now might be conforming to the new rhetorical standard -- or they might be deluded.
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  32. No doctor will tell you that is safe. They don't want anyone to try it unsupervised.
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  33.  @metalted6128  Mansplaining was when a man explained to a woman that she was unaware of the latest research on some topic or other, not knowing and not wanting to hear that that very woman wrote the research paper he was quoting to her. That happened to Rebecca Solnit. Her friend kept trying to tell the guy, "Rebecca wrote it." It took a long time to register. It's like when a man starts telling a woman mathematician about some simple algebra, not knowing she teaches real analysis at Stanford. :)
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  34.  @Richard_Potato  Maybe because she returned to school later in life and got her doctorate at Oxford? That could be it.
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  35.  @Richard_Potato  Actually, no, that is not correct. The IQ measure, which you seem to assume is a measure of "intelligence," is actually highly correlated, and regarded as highly predictive, of formal educational attainment in the present system of secondary and higher education. What can happen and what usually happens are two different things. A person of normal intelligence may or may not have a high IQ, and may or may not attain a doctorate at Oxford. Whether we can nevertheless consider attaining a doctorate at Oxford, especially later in life out of pure intellectual desire, as a marker of a high IQ is beside the point you've made. It need not be such a marker -- no necessity there, as Bertrand Russell used to say. On the other hand, it almost always is. Yeah. This took only a couple of minutes. Glad I could help.
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  36.  @Richard_Potato  Did you actually think you got me or something? LOL
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  37.  @Richard_Potato  I'm sorry you did not understand my post, or what performance on an IQ test (or any other aptitude test) means, or pretty much anything else I said. I will not take the obvious jab at what that might mean about your "intelligence." That would be cheap, and of course incorrect. You are obviously flustered. IQ tests do not measure "intelligence;" there is no test that can, for lots of reasons. IQ tests correlate very strongly with educational attainment in the present system, as it is commonly found in the West. You really don't know what either you or I are arguing. That's kind of . . . funny. (You bring up drink. Is there a reason it came to mind?) BTW, didn't you know that there have been some Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences who had a rather ordinary performance on IQ tests, documented? Even Roger Penrose was not considered gifted in math because he really took his time and did problems slowly when he was young. Already as a child, he understood that the right answer was more important than the fast answer. He already knew math was different from other things he was being taught. (You do know that IQ tests are timed, correct? Speed strongly influences score. See the preceding paragraph and make a conjecture as to why there are true geniuses in this world who did not perform well on IQ tests.) And Russell is famous for making the distinction between necessary truths and contingent ones, and deepening our understanding of their ground, later using various pithy formulations when making the point in his talks. In any case, a person's performance -- in writing books, in completing a doctorate at Oxford -- is evidence of their intelligence. There is no need for some test to "prove" what is already known with greater certainty by other, more reliable, means. These aptitude tests usually take a few hours, and only rarely may be administered over a number of days. What someone actually does with their life, over years and years, trumps whatever those tests might turn up.
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  38.  @Richard_Potato  Yeah, that's what people thought when it was believed we were born with all the neurons we would ever have. That was found to be false nearly two generations ago. Tell me, do you also think clinical depression is due to a "chemical imbalace" that SSRIs "fix?" Oh, and is it "genetic," too?
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  39.  @Richard_Potato  As long as you have no influence over people, I suppose it doesn't matter what you think. You couldn't be a doctor and are highly unlikely to be a lawyer, that's evident; I cringe to think you might be an educator. That field attracts every stripe.
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  40.  @Richard_Potato  I was referring to your express definition and characteristization of intelligence, which is wrong. It is so wrong that I'm not interested in reviewing what was said so far, a good while ago, formulating a lengthy response, and taking any more time with it. In short, you believe a wholly discredited view of the human brain, its nature, and how it functions. If you don't know about all that, you surely do not understand what intelligence is. You are debating about words, not the things they describe.
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  41.  @Richard_Potato  Well, this is old. I've moved on. Try reading Norman Doidge's books, which give a popular account of contemporary findings concerning neuronal networks and what has come to be known as neuroplasticity -- although even he strikes me as somewhat overstating the case (in that the most remarkable people give us an idea of what may be possible, but certainly not what is typical, at our present state of knowledge), but it is the case in favor of what I'm saying. Interestingly enough, he taught at Toronto and is good friends with Jordan Peterson. So you're safe reading him. ;)
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  42. It's the most affluent who they are focusing on. None of this describes the majority who have to work. They are worrying about their own. That's normal.
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  43. She's making bank for her own. That's the sum total of what's up with her. IOW, the usual.
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  44.  @davejones9469  Do you realize how much you sound like Hillary Clinton with your massive projection? (How did that b---- get to have the influence she did, to the point where people imitate her all the time? Still a mystery to me.)
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  45. Clearly recorded long ago.
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  46. Was this ever reported in the press? This is remarkable. Everyone should have an exit plan (emigration).
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  47. Hanson supports war more than Hillary does, if that's possible. I grant you, it may not be. In any event, don't be so easily led.
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  48.  @jackabel4499  Hanson supports war more than Hillary does, if that's possible. (I grant you, it may not be.) In any event, don't be so easily led. I agree with the post that said read more. Not that I have any hope in seeing that.
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  49. Plus this is much bigger than money.
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  50. It's worse than that: at 40, the typical woman is at her sexual peak. So sad she doesn't know, and perhaps better.
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