Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

Thank you for honoring freedom of speech, by not deleting my opinion. People are not trying to silence Jordan. We are just appalled at how he uses his license as a psychologist to tout his own personal beliefs. Being terrified of the existence of a god is Jordan's personal belief and should NOT be touted as being "credible" psychology. “I act as if God exists, and I’m terrified he might.” ~ Jordan Peterson If Jordan wants to be a supreme religious cult leader, he should do it on his own time. He should not be using his license as a psychologist to promote his own religious views as being even a semblance of truth. “I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous. He wanted to establish a church, he said, in which he would preach every Sunday.” Author … Bernard Schiff … professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto.
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Encouraging hatred against Left, or Right ... is what divides the people in the country to fight among each other. Discussing individual ideas should be all that is necessary, unless of course ... those at the news stations and those promoting their own podcasts want to create a civil war ...all in the quest to keep their ratings high. When I asked some irate complainers ... "If you were in power ... what rules would you put into governing the country?' ... they didn't respond.
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Intelligence? Religious scribes earned, and still do earn their material living by writing words. Had those books been labeled as tabloids rather than HOLY BOOKS, I suggest that they still would have been best sellers. From the book … CARL SAGAN … THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD … SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK. Sal Ivone, the managing editor of Weekly World News, discussing the stories he publishes, says “For all I know, they could be the product of active imaginations. But because we’re a tabloid, we don’t have to question ourselves out of a story.” Skepticism doesn’t sell newspapers. Writers who have defected from the tabloids describe “creative” session in which writer and editors dream up stories and headlines out of whole cloth, the more outrageous the better.
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I suggest that if the majority of people were left-handed, the right would be perceived as being "sinister." From the book … Cultural Anthropology by Selby Garretson A result from psychology In American culture we feel that things on the right are somehow better, more reliable, and stronger than things on the left. To understand why we feel this way involves going into the languages and traditions of Western culture and asking about the symbolic history of ideas “right” and “left.” The word for “left’ in Latin is sinister, and the word for “right” is dexter. “Left” in our culture’s history has been associated with “evil” or “anomalous” or “dangerous”; while “right” is associated with the law (droit, the word for “law” in French, is derived from Latin dexter and “law” or “right”) In politics, “left” means “change society to new (sinister) forms, while “right” means “keep things as they are,” or “keep going straight ahead.” Even recently, parents used to give their left-handed children problems, and no end of moral misgiving over their “affliction.” They would often make them change to being right-handed, perhaps even doing harm to the psychological well-being of the child. This preference for right-handedness persists, even though it has been estimated that up to 10 percent of the people in America are naturally left-handed. This system of logic by oppositions is by no means confined to our society or culture. It is found all over the world.
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@kalburgy2114 Do you believe that your politics are left of right?
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@kalburgy2114 Thanks for sharing your system of belief. I was raised in a Christian culture, but I never adjusted to it, because I believed that if Jesus had lived, he would have stayed faithful only to Judaism. I left all religion at the age of 70, and for the last 13 years have believed as did the scientist Stephen Hawking, that in one form or another the universe always existed ... no creator involved ... and that suffering of all forms of life ... always was natural.
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@kalburgy2114 I thought you might get a chuckle out of this story. During a political discussion, someone who claimed to be a “Centrist,” wanted me to believe that he was fair, because he was neither left, or right. Yet when I asked him during an election, which side received his vote, he didn’t respond.
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@kalburgy2114 Yes, we are headed in opposite directions concerning our systems of belief, and that is okay. Thanks for sharing.
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Those who are psychologists should not be out in the public sphere, preaching their personalized religion as being truth from a god, or from anywhere else. I listened to the other television preacher Phil McGraw, saying in an interview on television, that he is PROUD to be a Christian. If as a child, you thought you were transgender ... which psychologist would YOU hope your parents would choose as their advisers? Phil McGraw is transgender friendly supportive of their journeys, and Jordan Peterson is the exact opposite. In January Jordan claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that being transgender is a result of a “social contagion” and similar to “satanic ritual abuse,” and suggested that acceptance of the trans community is a sign that “civilization’s collapsing.” You can't trust a psychologist to KNOW what is right or wrong for your personal journey? Just last week I learned of a case where two parents that didn't agree, took their two children to a family session for psychological counseling. After the session, the husband (father of the children) went home and hung himself. I suggest that you do NOT trust psychologists to guide your life, as they are just ordinary people, with ordinary opinions ... who do not even agree with each other's "counsel." Add religion to THAT mix ... and you will have REAL problems.
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Would you rather have lived back in the following era? Having been raised in a Christian culture, I never could understand how those who made the laws, and who believed in Jesus, would be able to believe that Jesus, while preaching at followers how to love and forgive one another, would support the death penalty. From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. In Pennsylvania, where murder had been the only capital crime for over three decades, pressure from the imperial government resulted in 1718 in the introduction of the death penalty for manslaughter, rape, highway robbery, maiming, burglary, arson, witchcraft, and sodomy. Later in the century the colony would add counterfeiting, squatting on Indian land, and prison-break to the list.
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Shame on Jordan ... using his license as a psychologist to play politics. As is Jordan Peterson, Dr. Phil is a clinical psychologist. It’s plain to see the difference in the two mentalities. Host Stephen Colbert … “Do you follow politics?” Dr. Phil … “I do follow politics, and I don’t talk politics, because I don’t think I should use my platform to influence people on things that I don’t know enough about. And I frankly don’t know enough about it, and most of the people that do talk about it, don’t know enough about it to be talking about it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqZ0bUzNwg
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If kids can't express how they feel about what they feel, they will repress those feelings and maybe some day commit suicide. I agree that parents must never allow children to have operations on their bodies, but to teach children that only male and female exists as a god-given order is plain wrong. Let them grow into adults and decide on their own what is best for them. You are not your child. You are simply the parent, who must always be willing to learn new ways of perceiving if you are to give your child the right to think on his or her own.
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Whether you believe you are left or right, for those who don’t approve of the laws that now exist in Canada, I suggest that you study history, when the Protestant Christian politicians, based on their own biblical interpretations, made hanging the laws of the land for over two hundred offenses, such as stealing a turnip, or picking someone’s pocket, or for not respecting the supposed Sabbath, or committing sodomy, etc. From the book … Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada … author … Lorna Poplak. On January 19, 1649, a young girl of fifteen or sixteen was found guilty of theft and hanged in the town of Quebec. This was purported to be the first execution in Canada. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice," Europe and Elsewhere Mark Twain
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@the8u9 What do you think about the following? More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice," Europe and Elsewhere Author ... Mark Twain
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@the8u9 My point is that the bible has been used by law-makers to state that it was a god that wanted the death penalty enforced on humans ... when it was people that used words in the bible as a scapegoat to enforce their own cruelties.
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@the8u9 I suggest that all religious dogma is (simply put) a reflection of one's own ego. It's plain that Jordan is not supportive of those who are transgender, and that Jordan loves to preach from the Christian bible. But I wonder if he agrees with this nasty Protestant modern-era preacher? I hope not. Protestant preacher wants the government to put homosexuals to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSM_kxpObc
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@the8u9 Bullies ... in the name of Jesus. From the book "Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada," by author Lorna Poplak. "Capital punishment, the execution of someone found guilty of a crime, dates back to arrival of the European explorers on our shores. In those days, if you were condemned to death, quite a wide range of methods could be used to punish you. You could be hanged, or face a firing squad, or be burned at the stake. Although Canada remained a collection of separate British colonies until Confederation in 1876, a Royal Proclamation in 1763 replaced the prevailing Canadian legal system with the laws of England. By the end of the 1700s in Britain, however, the litany of crimes regarded as sufficiently horrible to warrant the death penalty had swelled to 220, including nefarious acts as keeping company with gypsies or skulking in the dark with a blackened face. In 1828, Patrick Burgan of Saint John, New Brunswick, aged eighteen or nineteen, received the death penalty for the double offence of stealing a watch and some money from his former employer and clothing from a sailors’ boarding house. Given the power and pre-eminence of religion in Canada at that time, your very life would have been in jeopardy if you were caught scrawling slogans on the side of a church. You could also be hanged for stealing your neighbor’s cow, which was the fate of B. Clement of Montreal. And just in case you thought that the law protected the young as it does today, think again. Children were regarded as miniature adults and treated as such — Clement was only thirteen years old when executed."
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@fastonfeat No, I'm not blaming the bible. The bible is a book. It's the many authors of the bible that were deluded. Even if Jesus had existed as a real man, other than a character in a book meant to start a a new religion, he would have stayed faithful to Judaism, and the words Catholic and Protestant would not exist.
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@fastonfeat I don't believe in the word righteous , so I certainly could not believe that I was "more" righteous than any other person.
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@fastonfeat Once a person starts preaching what is moral, and what is immoral ... that person is in big trouble ... not only with others ... but more important ... with one's own conscience. From the book ... The Final Inequality, by L. J. Ludovici. "Morals at any given moment have always been as good, or as bad, as our imaginations credit them, for the morals (from the Latin, mores: customs) means simply customs, and they keep changing all the time in all the corners of the world."
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Whether left or right ... those who join any group ... believe that their personal choice of politics should rule the world. Those in religion were and are of the same mentality. It's an ego problem. Example as follows ... From the book ... Guide for Living … Pope Pius XII … Selected Addresses and Letters of His Holiness World Government Address to members of the Universal Movement for World Federation, April 6, 1951: Your movement gentlemen, aims at bringing into being an effective political world organization. Nothing is more in line with the traditional doctrine of the Church nor more adapted to her teaching regarding just and unjust war, particularly at the present juncture.
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I listened to that podcast between the Atheist Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson, and I was saddened when Richard Dawkins congratulated Jordan for Jordan's fight in standing up for free speech ... when it was plain to me that that was the very lie that took Jordan to fame. That lie angered people all over the world, that in turn targeted Justin Trudeau, as being a dictator, and other horrible slanderous insults. It was not Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government that had anything to do with Jordan's threat of losing his license as a psychologist. It was the board of psychologists that were trying to keep Jordan in line with what psychologists are allowed to say in order to be able to keep their licenses as psychologists ... and they could see that Jordan had gone rogue and thought that HE above all other psychologists was entitled to break any rule ... to say anything that suited HIM, as HE was just THAT SPECIAL. And we should all be aware by now, that Jordan Peterson makes his BIG BUCKS from Christian Conservatives, and that is WHY Jordan does everything in his power to discredit the Trudeau government. I'm a Canadian, and no matter which party is in office ... it is just not right to blame the leader of a government, for something the leader did NOT do.
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Angry people are never polite. That is not politics. That is simply human nature. The term should not be "political correctness." It should be "polite correctness." The word "political" makes the "government" the focus, and the supposed culprit of all the dissention, whereas the word "polite correctness,” puts the responsibility where it belongs, which is on every individual. I suggest that we should always be asking ourselves ... "Am I being polite, or am I a big part of the problem?" Pressure from other citizens, that in turn, frown on language that bully others, helps to do away (somewhat) with negative word "usage." When President Obama was elected to office, a white man that I thought I knew well, said, in a fit of anger, "And now we have a "N" (full word) in the White House!!!" I made it very plain to him that I didn't approve of his attitude, OR his language. Next time I conversed with him, he said that he was listening to a speech by "The President."
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Jordan didn't discipline his self. He broke the rules he signed up for as a psychologist, and then he blames the board of psychologists for trying to discipline him for not following the rules. I wonder if Jordan would be able to find any humor, or image of his self in the following? Honor It pleased me beyond measure when Yale made me a Master of Arts, because I didn't know anything about art...I rejoiced again when Missouri University made me a Doctor of Laws, because it was all clear profit, I do not knowing anything about laws except how to evade them...And now at Oxford I am to be made a Doctor of Letters--all clear profit, because what I don't know about letters would make me a multi-millionaire if I could turn it into cash. Mark Twain's Autobiography
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@anthonymorris5084 On his own time means to not use his license as a psychologist to preach religion. If he want to start a church and preach, that would be 'on his own time."
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Don't be naïve about the reason Jordan is on all of these social media sites. He's in it for his own glory, as he wants you to believe he knows what is best for everyone. And the big money he pulls in by going on the "road" preaching his sermons ... doesn't hurt either.
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