JBP’s “mission to toughen up men”

https://www.thespec.com/living-story/8607114-jordan-peterson-is-on-a-crusade-to-toughen-up-young-men-it-s-landed-him-on-our-cultural-divide/

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Steven Rodriguez on the book of Esther

https://inallthings.org/colbert-chaplin-and-the-cross/

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John Vervaeke and Jonathan Pageau

  • 47: “we do not have places where we can go for wisdom/ascent (anagoge)” Verkaeke
  • 52: “3rd Generation of Cognitive Science is trying to reconnect the world in which we don’t belong. How do we fit back into this world view.” Verkaeke
  • 59. What is Verkaeke’s telos? “enhanced meaning in life”
  • 1:02 Verkaeke “Doing taoism is about getting a perspective it’s not like having beliefs…”
  • 1:04 “Getting back to an enacted sacredness is the solution to the meaning crisis” Verkaeke
  • 1:07:30 “Whenever we’re categorizing we’re doing relevance similarity” Verkaeke
  • 1:09 “The world and the mind are mutually coupled together so they are mutually self-disclosing. Mutual self-disclosure is love, it’s the meeting of heaven and earth. ” Verkaeke
  • 1:11 “Relevance realization is deeply interested in relevance realization.”
  • 1:11:45 “When we make meaning making meaningful to us and we cultivate it that’s what I mean be sacredness” Verkaeke
  •  1:14 “this here-now-ness isn’t the same kind of knowing or believing as people knowing stuff or having certain skills”
  • 1:15 Jonathan, Irenaus against the gnostics it is the union of heaven and earth
  • 1:16 “knowing by loving…” Verkaeke
  • 1:17 Vervaeke goes full Peterson “that’s just false!” Takes a bit swipe at the Matt Dillahunty types

 

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Humanist Manifesto 3

https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/

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Quantum Eraser Experiment

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Rob Reid After On Don Hoffman

http://podplayer.net/#/?id=49797474

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Matt Dillahunty Secular Morality

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Once sex is a commodity market forces then govern. Masculinist #21

The person who has best revealed the hellscape that is the modern relationship marketplaces is French novelist Michel Houellebecq. In his bleak 1994 debut novel Whatever, he notes that “sexuality is a system of social hierarchy.” And in the book’s central and most famous passage his protagonist observes:

I mused to myself, that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’. In an economic system where unfair dismissal is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their place. In a sexual system where adultery is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their bed mate. In a totally liberal economic system certain people accumulate considerable fortunes; others stagnate in unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude. Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society.
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Divorce and Facebook

https://theoutline.com/post/4539/how-to-announce-your-divorce-on-social-media

I often ponder Sauron’s ring in Tolkien’s LOTR. In some ways Facebook and other social media are like that ring. You would imagine that a being as powerful as Sauron before which even the mighty of Middle Earth feared to stand against felt the need to pour himself into a thing as simple and symbolic as a ring. Consider the ways rings signify in our world and Middle Earth. What’s interesting about that ring was how invisibility was a mere side-effect. If compared with the glove of Thanos in the recent Infinity Wars it seem feeble yet its power was in identity.
 
We might ponder the horcrux in the Harry Potter universe.
 
We are playing with things we don’t or perhaps can’t understand.
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CRCNA COD LGBTQ Style Guide

https://www.thebanner.org/news/2018/05/council-of-delegates-debates-suggested-style-guide-lgbtq-additions#

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