Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. Unbelievable. This is basically a Bible study, and it's like the second-most popular thing the Daily Wire+ has ever done?
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  2. "Trying to get all that modeled right [weather circulations, ocean circulations] modeled right, let alone making credible predictions into the future, we're not there. I mean, not even close to being there." This would seem to contradict your headline, "The Models are OK".
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  3. "Some people are making an awful lot of money off of this war" Eh, not so much. The profit margins on ammunition are pretty low, all things considered. And if you want to sell exquisite weapon systems, your best customers aren't people whose countries are half-wrecked; they have no money. Even if you can force a peace on your terms, reparations famously backfire. Your best customers are prosperous people in thriving countries who have looming threats on their doorstep. I'm confident that defense contractors could make even more money if we made peace in the Ukraine, even at the expense of several DonBas provinces, and stuffed the rest of the countries bordering Russia with enough defensive armaments to make the Kursk salient look like a nursery school playground. There is no slippery slope when the next step is vastly more dangerous and difficult than the last. Then, we simply let the Russian demographic crisis age their fighting men into oblivion. Or, we let Putin look as clever as Bismarck, by making peace with us (and even something of an alliance), and turning his armies East to make sure the Chinese are too busy with a land war on their doorstep, to attempt to take over Taiwan. =)
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  4. So, companies that are better will get lower ESG scores, and will therefore be undervalued? Awesome, where do I find this ESG list so I can buy contrary to it?
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  5. "Why didn't we know this?" Because Christian doctrines about s*x were dismissed as "outdated dogma". They are in fact an optimized approach to human interactions iterated across centuries of time, and should be taught as such.
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  6. Additional context for the "Gates" reference -- in the country where Jesus was traveling when he said this, there was a well-known landmark: hot springs that came out of a cave, known as these "Gates". The place was a resort, and sometimes in the travel season even a site of royal government. The rich and powerful would gather there, to do business. The modern equivalent is Davos.
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  7. "These cameras do gait recognition" So everyone should learn to skip half the time. =D Or, do the Ministry of Silly Walks routine as a means of social protest. =D
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  8. He said himself, his courage is waning. What we need is the generation to come, who raised themselves up according to his teachings.
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  9. "Having a system -- government, that's what we've got" No. We have all of civil society, which includes not only government, but family, private associations, fraternal groups, churches, companies, clubs, and the rest. Without Civil Society, government devolves into totalitarianism.
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  10. So this professor at a modern university gets applause for a Bible study.... Wow. I mean, just wow.
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  11.  @RomanGolubev_A  Their baseline is not long enough to be useful.
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  12. "If over 75% percent of people in the Netherlands broke a law, the Netherlands had to get rid of the law" Huh, that's an interesting idea. How often, though? If everyone has jaywalked at some point in their lives, do you abolish crosswalks? How about stop signs?
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  13. 2:22:41 -- Very interesting commentary on the variety of crises we're dealing with right now.
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  14. "You can't fix other people" That English teacher seemed to have some luck.
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  15. "Freedom leads to responsibility and work" Freedom is the ability to choose the load that you want to pick up - because you're going to have a better time figuring out what that load is, than the government will.
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  16. "I can't see why he's casting himself as the victim loser" Jordan, don't you think it might be because there's truth to what he's saying, and that a corrupted electoral system in the United States is an absolute catastrophe that needs to be addressed above almost all else? Jordan, did you EVER look at the evidence Giuliani was presenting, or did you just assume that all those other people (judges and such) MUST have looked at it carefully instead of making the same assumptions you did? Because the vast majority of those judges (of not all) threw out those cases on technicalities.
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  17. "Conservatives can't be afraid to say what they're for" Ah, Konstantin, but then you accuse us of "theocracy".
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  18. "People who work hard still can't get ahead" Yes, because ignorant bureaucrats interfere.
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  19. "We will invest in bringing jobs back to downtown" Except no one can afford to live there. Cities may well be a mistake. We can present a better quality of life for more of the population by dispersing good paychecks throughout every zip code in the country.
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  20. "Do you think it'll be easier to get married at 35 than at 23?" For a man? Yes. For a woman? No.
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  21.  @stepheninderlied5091  He's certainly a really great listener, when he's in clinician mode and trying to figure people out. I think his interviews with Brand are hilarious fun. [Commenter 1]: "Brand interrupts him so much" [Commenter 2]: "If anyone can handle it, it's Peterson" [Me]: "If anyone deserves it, it's Peterson." =) The second interview with Brand, Pastor Paul VanderKlay called a "preach-off", which was exactly right and great fun to watch.
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  22. "We don't want to shift the problem of conscious thought to a homunculus of some kind, that doesn't actually explain or solve the problem" I'm comfortable calling it a soul, then calling it a day.
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  23. "Welcome to Jordan Peterson's 'We Who Wrestly with God' tour!" LET'S GET READY TO RUMBUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLE!!!
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  24. "Should I tell my daughter to take hormonal birth control if she's going to be s*xually active as a teenager?" How about you tell her not to be s*xually active as a teenager? It seems like GenZ is coming to this conclusion for itself, but a girl really should hear it from her mom.
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  25. Technically speaking, how can someone involved in Postmodernist claim that someone else is "mischaracterizing" something? Isn't giving some valence to one characterization over another, impossible for them?
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  26.  @midmomom2490  I'd imagine it's made of carbon and nothing else. What I'm asking here, is whether there are more-toxic or less-toxic ways of extracting materials from ore. Iirc, some gold processing involved cyanide, for goodness' sake. Are there ways to tilt mining and processing towards these methods?
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  27. Doesn't the West have its own totalitarian centrally-planned insurgence, with the WEF and its hangers-on?
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  28. "Why do we not perceive people in their fullness?" Why isn't our vision all fovea?
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  29. "Cloud feedback may be negative" Yup, it's called "albedo", and too much of it causes ice ages. Don't let her off the hook about the errors in the models. Errors, fudge factors, assumptions they pull out of their [thin air] -- "With five degrees of freedom I can hide an elephant in those numbers, and with six I can make him wiggle his trunk". Even models that can analyze data from the past with astonishingly good precision, can still be completely lost very, very quickly when it comes to projecting into the future.
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  30. "Schwab needs a crow on his shoulder" So he's the Wotan that Jung warned us about?
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  31. Jordan Peterson and Bishop Barron -- making Christianity and Biblical Studies intellectually legitimate for our generation. These are the "alternative influencers" that will ultimately lead the charge that takes the Left down, or at least takes it down a few notches.
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  32. One would expect that if the last hundred and fifty years were a story of ever-increasing storms of a magnitude that can engulf entire states on the Eastern Seaboard, that those storms would have cut ever-greater swathes of destruction throughout the region. They have not. The forests of New England tell a different story. Larger storms knock down larger trees. Larger trees have larger root balls. Larger root balls have more dirt clinging to them, which excavates larger holes and leaves larger piles as the roots rot away to nothing. These piles ("pillows") and holes ("cradles") even give an indication of whether the storm was a hurricane (cyclonic) or a nor'easter (linear), because trees fall away from the wind. (A tree felled by a nor'easter would not fall to the northeast.) The age of these pillows and cradles is not difficult to reliably determine. The largest pillows and cradles indicate that the most powerful hurricane to hit New England occurred about 400 years ago, long before coal was burned on anything like an industrial scale. If the power of these storms were monotonically increasing from the past to today, it's very likely that that record would have been beaten sometime in the last hundred years. The fact that the record still stands, is evidence that the "stronger storms" worry is overstated.
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  33. "The worst possible game for Jews to play, is one that involves the victim / victimizer narrative" I have some bad news for you then, about how this country teaches the Holocaust, and what the Anti-Defamation League has done since its founding.
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  34. "The political tribes no longer honor one another" Or maybe it's gotten impossible to escape the dishonor. Have you ever read the partisan press from 1800? That hasn't changed much, except in that most people could avoid exposure to those papers simply by not reading them. Media is a lot more invasive now, and "mainstream outlets" have turned much too partisan.
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  35. According to what I've heard from the Google people I know, Damore was fired more for the fact that he went to talk to the Intellectual Dark Web about his story.
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  36.  @julesjacobs1  I'm afraid I don't have proof of that particular negative, just a sense (after paying bit of attention to the subject) that they didn't have a fixed moralistic objective. The ever-ironic moral of Peace, maybe? Bringing good things back to Mongolia? Genghis may have believed that everything under the sky was his, although he was somewhat famous for not pushing his religion (aside from the precept, "Don't ever hurt a Mongol. Seriously, just don't") on the people he conquered. And I'm not sure they were all that unique. The conquests of Tamarlane, the Imperial Japanese, the Imperial Chinese, the conquests of Julius Caesar and other Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Zulus... the farther back you go in time, and the farther from Europe you go, the less justification they seem to have had (or thought they needed). Almost makes you wonder whether a moral justification for everything, even conquest, is something attributable to Christianity, too.
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  37. Of course music has a narrative-- some music more than others. A Beethoven symphony, say, with its statements and transformations, has a far more compelling narrative structure than some incidental music that is designed to be unobtrusive.
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  38. "We get to God and faith, and we start to lose people" They start to lose themselves. Let the dead bury their dead.
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  39. The way you counteract Pareto distributions (and I think I've heard Dr. Peterson talk about this) is to multiply the number or hierarchies. One such grouping is the nuclear family, which is under normal circumstances the only way anyone gets to be the most important person in someone else's life. The father is the most important man in the mother's life, and the mother is the most important woman in the father's life, and the children are agreed-upon to be more important that either, really, because both the father and the mother have an instinct to consider them so when they are the biological kids of that particular father and that particular mother. Other jury-rigged systems are possible, but far more frequently lead to very dark places.
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  40. "When Biden drew down Afghanistan, the endless market for the military-industrial complex's wares dried up" -- Hardly. We've got an enormous amount of deferred maintenance on our existing hardware, that will keep the contracts flowing steadily. To effectively oppose China's rise, we need to increase the Navy's fleet size significantly (as well as develop next-generation capabilities; our hulls and designs tend to be multiple decades old at this point). Simply investing in our shipbuilding capacity is a daunting undertaking, and will probably involve bringing in Japanese expertise. They will likely be very happy to cooperate. Maintaining our edge in air / space / cyber can soak up basically all the money we're willing to commit... and we're likely to get more fascinating spin-off technologies there, as we pursue tech that doesn't have an immediate path to commercialization. The decline in private-sector venture capital and increase in interest rates as Boomers continue to retire, makes defense R&D an increasingly important part of keeping up the technological edge of the country as a whole.
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  41. You, and all other freedom-loving Canadians, need to break Justin Trudeau's will. This shouldn't be hard, he's a weak and cowardly man.
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  42. "We thought that if we brought China into the West, they would become Western. That hasn't happened at all." Yes, the mandarins in the US deep state, envied the mandarins of the Chinese state, and have started to assimilate to their type of governance. Getting rid of the mandarins and championing independent distributed cognition, is going to be the intellectual underpinning of the new Cold War. We have to get our own house in order, first and foremost. It's not quite a restatement of Communism (central planning) and Capitalism (distributed planning), but it rhymes.
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  43. If composers of today are cloistered in an ivory tower, amplifying untenable theories and playing petty power games, and selected for performance on the basis of something other than aesthetics, is their inaccessible music still worthwhile? If composers of past centuries observed the same or similar human condition that we do, and further had their work passed through the filter of successive generations to still be selected to be played today, doesn't that point to the idea that their work is worthwhile?
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  44. Who was worse, Vladimir Putin, or Saddam Hussein?
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  45. Is your underworld now full of chaos? Nah, just a flooded basement. ;)
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  46.  @JayJay-wg5ex  Because choosing not to believe leads to damnation.
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  47.  @Seekthetruth3000  Our brains work at the level where mechanistic theories break down. There is no inconsistency between believing in a material world with laws, and realizing where that model starts to break down.
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  48.  @gary_michael_flanagan_wildlife  She apparently lived to 103. Do a little searching before you start spreading this one around.
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  49. Yeah, she's one of the most privileged human beings ever to walk the Earth.
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  50. With God's Grace, the Law is a gift.
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