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Lecture: Biblical Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers

Jordan B Peterson
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Watch Exodus available exclusively on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3UgQLe6 Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers The account of Cain and Abel is remarkable for its unique combination of brevity and depth. In a few short sentences, it outlines two diametrically opposed modes of being -- both responses to the emergence of self-consciousness and the knowledge of good and evil detailed in story of Adam and Eve. Cain's mode of being -- resentful, arrogant and murderous -- arises because his sacrifices are rejected by God. This means that his attempts to give up something valuable in the present to ensure prosperity in the future are insufficient. He fails, in consequence, to thrive, as he believes he should, and becomes bitter, resentful and murderous. Abel's mode of being is characterized, by contrast, by proper sacrifice -- by the establishment of balance between present action and future benefit. This ensures his personal and soci …...more
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The Delphic Oracle

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Abraham and Isaac

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Do What Is Meaningful Not What Is Expedient

8:00

Intro

8:17

The Invisible Gorilla Experiment

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How To Catch a Monkey

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First Human Being Cain

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You'Ll Find that They Show You Dark Things about You That Will Shock You if You Allow Yourself To Be Conscious of What You'Re Thinking so It's a Good Time When You'Re Having an Argument with Someone Especially Someone That You Love To Just Watch the Pictures That Flash in the Back of Your Mind that's Part of Let's Say Coming into Contact with What Carl Jung Called the Shadow and the Shadow Is the Manifestation of Cain That's a Perfect Way of Thinking about It and One of the Things That Jung Said about the Shadow because Jung Was Not Someone You Mess Around with Lightly He Said the Human Shadow Has Roots That Reach All the Way to Hell

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The Translation for that That's a Critical Line and the Translation Really Matters and So I'Ll Tell You What I Think the Story Is but I'Ve Been Able To Figure Out and I'M Sure I Haven't Got It Completely Right but It's so He Asks the God Says to Them if You Do Well Won't You Be Accepted What Is the Hint There Right It's Something like Well Things Aren't Going So Well for You so the First Thing You Might Think Is You'Re Not Doing Well What Does that Mean You'Re Not Doing Good Does that Not Mean You'Re Not Acting Properly Means It's the Hint

1:26:54

You'Re Not Doing Well but You'Re Not Doing Well because You'Ve Actually Really Spent a Lot of Work Figuring Out How To Not Do Well this Is like Creative Effort on Your Part and if You Read about Truly Malevolent People and You Could Start with the Columbine Killers because They Left some Very Interesting Diaries behind So I Would Recommend Them if You There Plenty of Serial Killers You Could Read about in the People Who'Ve Really Gone Out and Done Dark Things and I'Ve Read More than My Fair Share of that Sort of Thing and Understand It Quite Well

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I'M Going To Read You Something Else Now this Is Foreshadowing Again this Is from the Same Chapter by the Way Do What Is Meaningful Not What Is Expedient Jesus Was Led into the Wilderness According to the Story To Be Tempted by the Devil Matthew 4 : 1 Prior to His Crucifixion this Is the Story of Cain Restated Abstractly Cain Is Far from Happy as We Have Seen He's Working Hard or So He Thinks but God Is Not Pleased Meanwhile Abel Is Dancing Away in the Daisies His Crops Flourish Women Love Him First of all He's a Pretty Good Guy

1:42:14

He Turns to Evil To Obtain What Good Forbade Him and He Does It Voluntarily Self Consciously and with Melas Let Him Who Has Ears Here so that's the First Two Human Beings the Resentful Bitter Failure Taking an Axe to the Admirable Success Then the Lord Said unto Cain Where Is Abel Thy Brother and He Said I Know Not Am I My Brother's Keeper and He Said What Hast Thou Done the Voice of Thy Brother's Blood Crieth unto Me from the Ground Now Art Thou Cursed from the Earth Which Hath Opened Her Mouth To Receive Thy Brother's Blood from Thy

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I Think It Might Be the Greatest Novel Ever Written because I Haven't Read every Novel but in My Experience It's the Greatest Novel and It Is Exactly this It It Says What Happens Psychologically if You Commit the Ultimate Crime It's Amazing It's Absolutely Amazing It's It's It's There's There's no Psychologist like Dostoyevsky We Now Tell Us the Ground It Shall Not Henceforth Yield unto Thee Her Strength a Fugitive and a Vagabond Shalt Thou Be in the Earth and Cain Said unto the Lord My Punishment Is Greater than I Can Bear Now One of the Things That's Interesting about this Is that You Know It I Think the Punishment that God Lays on Cain

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We Now Tell Us the Ground It Shall Not Henceforth Yield unto Thee Her Strength a Fugitive and a Vagabond Shalt Thou Be in the Earth and Cain Said unto the Lord My Punishment Is Greater than I Can Bear Now One of the Things That's Interesting about this Is that You Know It I Think the Punishment that God Lays on Cain Is It's like the Inevitable Consequences of Cain's Action It's Something like that It's like Well He Killed His Brother There's no Going Back from that Man like Good Luck Forgiving Yourself for that Especially if He Was an Ideal Especially if He Was Your Ideal

1:48:47

And It Shall Come To Pass that Everyone That Findeth Me Shall Slay Me and the Lord Said unto Him There for Whosoever Slayeth Cain Vengeance Shall Be Taken on Him Sevenfold and the Lord Said a Mark upon Cain lest any Finding Him Should Kill Him that's an Interesting Thing I Wanted about that for a Long Time because You Might Think Well Why Would God Take Cain under His Wing So To Speak Given What's Already Happened and I Think It Has Something To Do with the Emergence of the Idea that It Was Necessary To Prevent Tit-for-Tat Revenge Slayings It's Something like that You Know and

1:50:26

And Then They Took those Poor People out One of the Tricks That the Guards Used To Play on Them Was To Have the the Newly Arrived Prisoners Hoist like Hundred Pound Sacks of Wet Salt and Carried Them from One Side of the Compound and these Compounds Were Big this Was a City It Wasn't like a Gymnasium It Was like a City There Were Tens of Thousands of People There They'D Have Them Carry the Sack of Wet Salt from One Side of the Compound to the Other and Then Back Right and that Was To Make a Mockery out of the Notion that Work Would Set You Free It's like no no You Work Here but There's Nothing Productive about It

1:54:12

It Was like a City There Were Tens of Thousands of People There They'D Have Them Carry the Sack of Wet Salt from One Side of the Compound to the Other and Then Back Right and that Was To Make a Mockery out of the Notion that Work Would Set You Free It's like no no You Work Here but There's Nothing Productive about It the Whole Point It's Exactly the Opposite of Sacrifice in some Sense It's Oh We'Re Going To Make You Act Out Working but all It Will Do Is Speed Your Demise

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Lecture: Biblical Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
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Watch Exodus available exclusively on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3UgQLe6 Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers The account of Cain and Abel is remarkable for its unique combination of brevity and depth. In a few short sentences, it outlines two diametrically opposed modes of being -- both responses to the emergence of self-consciousness and the knowledge of good and evil detailed in story of Adam and Eve. Cain's mode of being -- resentful, arrogant and murderous -- arises because his sacrifices are rejected by God. This means that his attempts to give up something valuable in the present to ensure prosperity in the future are insufficient. He fails, in consequence, to thrive, as he believes he should, and becomes bitter, resentful and murderous. Abel's mode of being is characterized, by contrast, by proper sacrifice -- by the establishment of balance between present action and future benefit. This ensures his personal and social success, accruing over time. Unfortunately, it also makes him the target of Cain's malevolence. This great short story is relevant personally, on the level of the family, and politically, all with equal force, all simultaneously. 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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