Category Archives: Quotations

Bonhoeffer on Visionary Community Dreamers from Life Together

“God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others, and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning Lecture 1

This is the beginning of the course. Here is the text from the YouTube description. In this lecture, I discuss the context within which the theory I am delineating through this course emerge: that of the cold war. What is … Continue reading

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Jonathan Sacks on Cultural Climate Change

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/rabbi-sacks-cultural-climate-change/ http://rabbisacks.org/cultural-climate-change-rabbi-sacks-chautauqua-institution/ Will Durant quote “Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson Psychological roots of Prejudice

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Jordan Peterson on Temperament, Borders and openness

“The political game boils down to how open borders should be vs how closed they should be.” Cambridge Analytics used the Big 5 model to help Trump get elected.

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CS Lewis on how the questions of the Protestant Reformation should have been handled

http://blog.ayjay.org/the-most-incisive-commentary-on-todays-disputes-about-whether-muslims-and-christians-worship-the-same-god/ 

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2 year olds living off the corpse of the God

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Jordan Peterson on why the Car embodies far more than simply being a device for getting from point A to point B

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Jordan Peterson looks for one orienting thing

So Peterson, to the best that I can tell is looking to get out of the Darwinian box. This isn’t to say he doesn’t like or believe in Darwin but the problem with a thoroughgoing Darwinianism combined with a reductionistic … Continue reading

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How Religious Fundamentalists and Atheists agree but are both likely wrong

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