weird that jordan peterson thinks trans people asking to be referred to by particular pronouns is some precursor to State Violence but a society wherein women are expected to remain subservient to men is somehow a path to a violence free utopia
His whole philosophy is deeply incoherent and essentially just reactionary misogynistic bullshit painted over with a thin veneer of intellectualism. The ‘postmodernist neo-marxists are taking over academia and warping students minds’ schtick is a good example of this.
Anyone who’s read Marx knows that marxism isn’t post modernist in the least but that doesn’t matter when the people he’s speaking to are clueless alt right fuckheads and the people he’s arguing against are equally clueless identity politics obsessed liberals.
Put him in a room with a proper materialist and he’d be torn apart in 5 minutes. (Terry Eagleton would be my personal pick) but he’s too slippery for that; he expressly chooses people who are either going to weave a web of arcane argument no one outside of academia is really going to parse or journalists who are going to try and trip him up and throw statistics at him because they have no coherent politics of their own and that’s all they know how to do.
So I came up with this great idea for a fake beard using fiber mascara and I realized there were no tutorials out there for this already. So I made one myself. It works really well and is very realistic!!
So, the creation MYTHS (there are two) in Genesis are written from very specific perspectives to answer very, VERY specific theological questions. The first is from the exile and answers a question about when everything is chaos and darkness – note that God intervenes directly. The second is actually about the role of the king as God’s helper – note that the only problem is that God hasn’t made it rain yet and there is no one to till the land, God needs a helper on earth…
Neither of these things are terribly helpful if one has scientific questions. Thankfully God gave us minds and senses; creativity to invent tools and instruments; an inquisitive spirit and the free will necessary to explore and investigate the world around us. We know that the universe is a certain age (give or take a few thousand years, idk) and we know how old the earth is and how long there has been life and how (relatively) recently modern humans came on the scene. And we know how life has evolved and is still evolving and that we share dna not only with our cousins the apes but with bananas and mice and things…
But the Bible doesn’t actually claim to, nor even try to answer these questions. Science answers the how and the Bible answers the who and the why.
Psalm 90:4 notes that a thousand years to us are like the evening watch (3 or 4 hours) to God. So you know seven days could be billions and billions of years…
In the book of Job (highly recommend reading this one with a good progressive commentary) Job asks God, don’t I matter (paraphrasing here, but trust me). God’s answer is to take Job on a cosmic tour and say basically, ‘yes you matter, but you aren’t the only thing that matters. See that ostrich, he’s the stupidest thing I ever made and yet I love him just like I love you.’ Oh, and the bit about the wild ass is my favorite bit…
We aren’t the only things God cares about and we would be stupid and arrogant to suppose that we are, even if we are the only planet with life (so damned unlikely, nearly mathematically impossible that there isn’t more life out there) but even if earth is it, humans aren’t it there are slime molds and platypus and jellyfish and giant squid and even wild asses that matter to God.
Christians have got to start taking science seriously, stop trying to have dominion over every damn thing, and start protecting God’s shit. Because I swear God’s mothering spirit (Hosea 11) is likely to get fed up with us and choose the corvids or octopi to take over the planet.
That may be a bit disjointed and long, but it isn’t a simple question.
Hope I answered it for you, Nonny.
I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
^^^ The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage
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