Comments by "Luke Thompson" (@WhiteStoneName) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Close for me as well. I love how Lex really pushed back on him at various times. Jordan speaks with so much passion that he can easily be misunderstood.
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  2. Hey, Christian.
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  3.  @christiantgolden  would love to. Things have been well. The embodied life has been pretty full lately. But good.
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  4. 1:49:50 It's not focus, Lex. Focus is a matter of the will. What JBP is describing as that "dead quiet" is *attention*. Simone Weil (and Iris Murdoch) spoke of attention as the "just and loving gaze". It's akin to admiration and respect and is involuntary. It's deeper than the mere intellect and the will. It's a space--related to hospitality. 1:50:54 Yep. Jordan just called it attention. I'm not sure if he's explicitly familiar with "the just and loving gaze", but he intuits it for sure. And he adds "worship" and "communion" right after...yes.
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  5. 35:00 “you’re gonna get the highest numbers you’ve ever done, maybe by a factor of ten.” lex laughs
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  6. 23:56 “memory is the purveyor of reason.” Samuel Johnson
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  7.  @marcher8023  In that they both expose a mystical Christianity. The difference is that this is normative in the East, and sporadic in the West. imo. There are many great mystics in the West, but the dogmatics of the West are not by nature mystic. This has always been the East's beef with scholasticism.
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  8. 48:30 re: knowing truth & Spinoza. These are liminal moments. Error manifesting truth to us. Transcending our maps/interpretations of what is. Man, I’m gonna be at Thunder Bay with Vervaeke in a couple weeks and I hope that I get to talk to him about a narrative vs reality or narrative vs nomological. This is something that I’ve been trying to talk to Paul Vanderklay for years.
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  9. 2:18:56 re: America refashioning the entire World in its image. This is what Alexander Dugin is taking about in his critique of the cultural monolith (which is part of globalist capitalism) which is Liberalism. His whole series of noomakhia is essential to understanding the War in Ukraine, imo. It’s anti-diversity really. Very Doublespeak/Orwellian.
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  10. Sam Harris should really watch Jordan Peterson talk with Stephen Fry about the potential differences btw empiricism and rationalism. He (and ultimately even Fry) are both rationalists, in the end. The true choice is between mysticism and rationalism.
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  11.  @117Industries  good reply. Lots of great substance there. I don’t have the energy to respond in kind. But I’d love to talk to someone like you in a more long form way. You seemed like a very well-informed and reasonable person. Appreciate the comment.
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  12. Death is the door to becoming truly human. Jesus Christ was the first truly human being, finished--the end of Creation.
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  13. I would posit that there is no meaning of life. There is only meaning in life. ie meaning is necessarily personal.
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  14. Maybe you could say that love is the meaning of life. But love is transrational, or as Vervaeke says transjective. Irreducible A simultaneous reciprocity of transcendence and imminence Iconic Lived
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  15. Often those trained by academia don’t know how to dialogue well. They’re too used to just giving their opinions with a mic up front.
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  16. 2:37:20 “a mob-based (violent) energy” Can this happen with scientism as well as religion or nationalism? Is tribalism universal? Why or why not?
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  17. 2:35:00 ie they’re not as smart as you. You’re perspective on religion is hubristic. You think that religious people are either ignorant, stupid, or plebeians. If the primary way to know things truly is iq, you want to sit atop the mountain, metaphorically, and pronounce Truth. I don’t think that IQ and objectivist fact-seeing is the primary way that we apprehend reality. You also said that earlier when you were talking about evolution and Donald Hoffman. Listen to yourself more. And I don’t mean that snarkily.
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  18.  @DMWayne-ke7fl  Strong words. Funniest? Perhaps. I'm a big fan of DW, and have a bit of a love/hate relationship with his work. Much bigger fan of ND Wilson, tbh. I would prefer Wilson spoke with some other theologians outside his particular camp or get outside of polemics against Progressivist evangelicalism. More intramural Christian dialogue.
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  19.  @marcher8023  that’s fine. Everybody sees what they see (or doesn’t). Polemics are for colonizers. God bless.
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  20. 2:33:45 which thoughts of Jesus do you accept and which do you reject? And how do you decide? Then think back to earlier in this conversation when you said that you don’t know where your thoughts come from.
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  21. 100 Agee with Lex about pushing back on Rogan interviewing Trump.
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  22. 2:33:45 which thoughts of Jesus do you accept and which do you reject? And how do you decide? Then think back to earlier in this conversation when you said that you don’t know where your thoughts come from.
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  23. 13:30 -13:40 regarding that “it could be a neutral monism at the bottom.” Sure. Maybe. Whatever is fundamental must make sense of two things: unity and multiplicity. And the dynamism and relationship between the two cannot be clearly divisive or static. If I may be so bold...trinitarian theology covers this paradoxical conundrum better than anything that I’ve come across.
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