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Story of Sarah and Isaac

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Narrative of Paradise in the Fall

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Usefulness of Delay

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What Must Be Sacrificed

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Introduction

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Story of Cain and Abel Adam and Eve's Sons

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Developmental Progression from Animal to Human

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The Successful and the Unsuccessful

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The Sacrifice of the Mother

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Abraham Built an Altar

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The Discovery of Vulnerability and the Emergence of Moral Knowledge

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The Columbine Massacre

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You Know You Have that Little Voice in the Back of Your Head That Says Don't Do It and You Override It and You Know It's Arrogance That Makes You Override It It's Always Arrogance You Know It Always Warns You To Always Arrogance Yeah I Can Get Away with It It's like no You Can't I Don't Think You Ever Get Away with Anything So and Maybe Your Experience Has Taught You Different but My Suspicions Are It Hasn't

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And the People Who Are Most Wise that I'Ve Read Who Commented on that Say the Same Thing Over and over Which Is the Key to the Prevention of the Horrors of Auschwitz and the Gulag in the Future Is the Reconstruction of the Individual Soul at Level of each Individual and that's a Terrible Message because It Puts the Burden on You but It's an Amazing Message because It Also Means that You Could Be the Source of the Process That Stops that Catastrophe and Malevolence from Ever Emerging Again and You Know It's Hard for Me To Imagine that You Have Anything That Could Possibly Be Better To Do with the Time That You Have Left

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You Know I'M Not the Cancer on the Planet that Certain People Tend To Think that We Are and so the Goal Is To Be One of the People like that and There Isn't Anything Better That Can Possibly Be Done and the Alternative Is Something like Hell and So Noah Rides Out the Storm and that's What Everyone Wants because You Want To Ride Out the Storm You Don't Want To Be Happy because that'Ll Just Happen if It Does or if It Doesn't but You Definitely Want To Constitute Yourself so that You Can Ride Out the Storm

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And the Great Demands Placed on Abraham It's Not as if this Just Comes to Him as a Gift He Has To Be Willing To Sacrifice Whatever Is Necessary in Order To Maintain that Contract and so that Seems to Me To Be Realistic There's no Reason To Assume that Life Isn't So Difficult that It Actually Demands the Best from You that It's Actually Structured in that Manner and that if the You Are Willing To Reveal the Best in You in Response to the Vicissitudes of Life That You Might Actually Prevail and You Might Actually Set Things Straight around You

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And Your Ignorance That's Humility in some Sense the Willingness To Be a Fool in a Nude in the Land of Strangers That's It the Willingness To Be a Fool in the Land of Strangers and that's an Act of Courage because You Also Reveal Your Vulnerability to the World by Stumbling Around but As Long as You'Re Stumbling Forward Then You'Re Going To Move Forward Now How Do You Do that More Concretely Are You Aim at an Ideal Right and You Aim at an Ideal That's beyond You Now Maybe You Don't Aim To Begin with It an Idea that Ideal that's So beyond You that You'Re Crushed

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And the Idea Essentially Was that the Cause Could Not Exist without the Proper Combination of Justice and Mercy You Should Get What's Coming to You but People Are Fallible and They Make Mistakes and So It's Reasonable To Apply that to Yourself You Know There's an Idea That's Being Developed by Psychologists over the Last Few Decades that People Are Basically Narcissistic and that They Generally Feel that They'Re Better at Most Things than Other People I Don't Buy that I Don't Think the Experimental Evidence for that Is Very Strong and I Certainly Haven't Seen that for Example in My Clinical Practice Where I'Ve Seen that People Are Generally Far Harder on Themselves than They Are on Other People

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You'Re Very Likely To Give the Pet the Entire Course of Medication To Go to the Pharmacy To Get the Prescription Filled To Give the Pet the Medication To Follow It through but if You Are the Person Who Has the Problem Yeah You all Laughed if You Know the Story It's like a 30 You Won't Even Go Fill the Prescription and of the Remaining 2 / 3 of You half of Them Won't Take It to Completion and You Think Well Why Are People like that and I Think It's because They Know Themselves They Have Contempt for Themselves because of Their Flaws and Then They Come To Despise Themselves

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And You Think Well Why Are People like that and I Think It's because They Know Themselves They Have Contempt for Themselves because of Their Flaws and Then They Come To Despise Themselves and I Think that's a Big Mistake That's Locke That's Too Much Justice and Not Enough Mercy and You Know Jung Wrote about the Biblical Injunction That You Should Treat Your Neighbor as if He Were Yourself Essentially but He Talked about that as an Equation Which Was Quite Interesting So because It's Often Read as Something like You Should Be Nice to People Which Is Not What It Means At All because First Nice Is a Very Low-End Virtue

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We Could Say that You Would Extend to Someone Else That You Cared for that's the Thing Is that You Have To Come To Treat Yourself as if You'Re Someone That You Care for and I Mean that Technically You Know You Detach Yourself from Yourself and You Think Okay Well if I Was Going To Construct a Mode of Being that Was Optimal for this Person That I Happen To Be What Would that Look like and that's Sort Of Independent of whether or Not You Think You Deserve It It's like Maybe You Deserve It Maybe You Don't Innocent until Proven Guilty that's a Pretty Good Policy

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You Know You Detach Yourself from Yourself and You Think Okay Well if I Was Going To Construct a Mode of Being that Was Optimal for this Person That I Happen To Be What Would that Look like and that's Sort Of Independent of whether or Not You Think You Deserve It It's like Maybe You Deserve It Maybe You Don't Innocent until Proven Guilty that's a Pretty Good Policy but You Should Come To Lay Out a Mode of Being for Yourself That Gives You some Credit You Know When that Will Also Help You in Your Dealings with Other People but It's Often Very Difficult for People To Do that to Themselves

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He Is Not Permitted To Call into Question the View that the Fundamental Trajectory of Historical Development Is Progress and that the Good Lies in the Future and Nowhere Else You Know I Thought a Lot about Nihilism Let's Say and and Its Justification and I Think that a Very Powerful Justification for Nihilism Can Be Found in the Mirror Observation that Life Is Rife with Tragedy and Malevolence of Which There Is no Doubt but Then I Got Suspicious of that Rationale for Nihilism over the Years because a Counter Position to It Emerged and this Is Something Nietzsche of Course Concentrated On As Well That Had More To Do with Resentment

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But Then I Got Suspicious of that Rationale for Nihilism over the Years because a Counter Position to It Emerged and this Is Something Nietzsche of Course Concentrated On As Well That Had More To Do with Resentment It's like You Can Imagine Negation of the Heroic Ideal from Despair from the Despair of Save Produced by Tragedy and by Exposure to Malevolence but It's Also It's Completely and Delightfully Irresponsible To Negate Heroic Ideal because It Means that You Don't Have any Responsibilities and It Seems to Me that if You'Re Nihilistic and Prone To Criticize the Heroic Foundation of Let's Say Western Culture that One of the First Questions That You Could Ask Yourself Is What Makes You So Sure that You'Re Appropriately Cynical Suspicious and Critical and Not Just Running Away As Fast as You Possibly Can from every Bit of Responsibility

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Lecture: Biblical Series XII: The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
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2017Aug 19
Watch Exodus available exclusively on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3UgQLe6 In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar's banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac. To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain? There are few eternal questions more profound and difficult. In this lecture, I read an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, now available for pre-order at Amazon.ca (http://amzn.to/2wkb7MY) and Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/2x1hfXF). I am currently making arrangements to continue this series with a monthly lecture. That will start in September at a date and time yet to be announced. Producer Credit and thanks to the following $200/month Patreon supporters. Without such support, this series would not have happened: Adam Clarke, Alexander Meckhai’el Beraeros, Andy Baker, Arden C. Armstrong, Badr Amari, BC, Ben Baker, Benjamin Cracknell, Brandon Yates, Chad Grills, Chris Martakis, Christopher Ballew, Craig Morrison, Daljeet Singh, Damian Fink, Dan Gaylinn, Daren Connel, David Johnson, David Tien, Donald Mitchell, Eleftheria Libertatem, Enrico Lejaru, George Diaz, GeorgeB, Holly Lindquist, Ian Trick, James Bradley, James N. Daniel, III, Jan Schanek, Jason R. Ferenc, Jesse Michalak, Joe Cairns, Joel Kurth, John Woolley, Johnny Vinje, Julie Byrne, Keith Jones, Kevin Fallon, Kevin Patrick McSurdy, Kevin Van Eekeren, Kristina Ripka, Louise Parberry, Matt Karamazov, Matt Sattler, Mayor Berkowitz , Michael Thiele, Nathan Claus, Nick Swenson , Patricia Newman, Robb Kelley, Robin Otto, Ryan Kane, Sabish Balan, Salman Alsabah, Scott Carter, Sean C., Sean Magin, Sebastian Thaci, Shiqi Hu, Soheil Daftarian, Srdan Pavlovic, Starting Ideas, Too Analytical, Trey McLemore, William Wilkinson, Yazz Troche, Zachary Vader -- SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL -- Direct Support: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/donate Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/jordanbp... -- BOOKS -- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-... Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m... -- LINKS -- Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com/ 12 Rules for Life Tour: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events/ Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog/ Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/ Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/ Twitter:   / jordanbpeterson   Instagram:   / jordan.b.peterson   Facebook:   / drjordanpeterson   -- PRODUCTS -- Personality Course: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/perso... Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com/ Understand Myself personality test: https://understandmyself.com/ Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/jordanbp...

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