Tag: psychology
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Religious musings
These are not only things that are, they are things that must be. 1. People crave moral legitimacy and moral justification. 2. Sacrifice is continual. 3. You can’t get rid of the need for sacrifice, it just goes somewhere else. We are piñoned between past and future, caught at their intersection. We must be released…
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A dream of hell, or life, or death
I dreamt I was falling through an infinite red void. Darkness, directionless, expanding forever in all dimensions. Silent and gusty. Twisting, in one forever moment. Falling, pulled forever backward into an infinite regress into myself. It was a place of infinite space, where all the world was mine and I was the only thing in…
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Control vs license
Since authoritarianism tracks with disgust sensitivity, anything that is viewed as a disease will essentially predict authoritarianism. The degree to which something is viewed as a contagion (not only the degree to which it literally is a contagion) will determine the balance between authoritarianism and libertarianism. It all comes down to a matrix of control…
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On making other happy and meaning
I find that trying to make yourself happy is often far more difficult and less effective than trying to make someone else happy. Somehow, when you focus on yourself, it just doesn’t have the same effect. It’s very hard to do things for yourself and have them be very meaningful. For one thing, there is…
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The value and problems with psychological theism
I think the value of Jordan Peterson’s theological outlook is that it let’s you appreciate the Bible from a perspective outside Christianity. His position is essentially is that it is right and good and useful to live as if the Bible were true. That it is metaphorically true, or true in some transcendent sense, some…
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The difference between teasing and malicious intent.
Teasing is certainly something I’ve dealt with my my life. I was teased mercilessly in elementary and middle school, as well as kicked around physically quite a bit. So if anyone is likely to see teasing as something negative, it’s me. But it never bothered me very much, except in the way a persistent fly…
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Politeness
Politeness is the fundamental making-room-ness for the existence, the thoughts, feelings, actions, and idiosyncrasies, of others. Can you give up too much territory? Yes. Sometimes you need to defend your space and resist the encroachment of others. But politeness is what prevents everything from becoming a fight. It’s a ritual that allows space within proximity,…
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Peterson vs Weinstein
What language best represents human experience? Scientific and materialistic language, the language of quantity? Or is it narrative and personification that beat capture our reality? https://youtu.be/O55mvoZbz4Y The later part of this episode is one of the greatest summaries of the culture War problem and how to conceptualize it I’ve ever heard. It’s solid gold and…
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A comment in Do Progressives Care About Jews?
https://youtu.be/F_tk9z3OpcQ Can we coin the term Jewish Fragility? It sounds like his main complaint is simply that identity politics is inconsistent. And his second complaint is that one of the areas it isinconsistent is regarding Jews, his own personal domain where he’s invested. If it’s going to exist, then, it should at least include Jews,…
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The end of medicine
You can’t have a well developed conception of pathology without a well developed concept of an ideal. When doctors at last lose the prejudice for any certain ideal of health, they will no longer be able to diagnose nor cure disease, and will be sent home.
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