An answer to Jordan Peterson

Jordan stated on Oct 6 2024

“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden you can bear, and bearing it.”

My reply:

“The way that the human body is made, it functions at optimum in the “Care Deeply, but don’t Carry” mode.” Anything else is based on religion in one form or another.

(You should know this, but I am watching you gradually burying yourself in your neo-Christian dogma.)

Your statement comes directly from the “Jesus says bear my cross” concepts. While this is an ethically commendable statement, it is NOT how we are built.

Regardless of whether a person holds an evolutionist point of view, or a creationist point of view, we can see with modern scanning devices how the human brain reacts based on its thinking about that humans beliefs.

When we add the world of words and concepts on top of our physical makeup, we muddy the water of clarity, with idealistic concepts.

It IS possible to build a healthy worldview where society functions based on Christian ethics and values, without shifting backwards into the superstitious beliefs that they grew out of.

Society requires that there are rules for “How to live together in groups without harming one another”.
Then, there are religious beliefs which tell us that somehow it is not enough to simply be how we were created.

These two grew up together, and so were inextricably tied together, and we began to come out of that superstitious background….. and now, due to our current world dilemma, we are re-tying them back together. This MIGHT get us out of our current predicament, but it won’t be a long term answer.

The only answer is a NEW worldview based on Experiential Reality. Just because the philosophers of the past 3 or 4 hundred years have been heading in the wrong direction, which ended up with Post-Modernism, there are other options. We do not have to do a “Muslim” and erase a thousand years of forward movement.

If you ever get enough time to take a breath, I will be here, happy to discuss this with you. No, I won’t argue it with you, as you have perfected your dialectic methods…. (actually, doesn’t that concern you??)