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Yes, nothing screams "professionally vulnerable" like academic tenure. lol
And nothing says "risking it all" like hauling in 70K a month on You Tube.
Yes, nothing screams "professionally vulnerable" like academic tenure. lol
And nothing says "risking it all" like hauling in 70K a month on You Tube.
I think there are plenty of contexts in which the answers "yes" or "no" can completely suffice.
I think JP needs to decide if he wants to identify as a theist or an agnostic and then stand on that decision regardless of who he is addressing on issues of faith and religion.
I did not actually watch the interview, but I read several reviews of his discussion with Sam Harris that indicated to me JP was just conveniently equivocating whenever necessary.
You should take the time to watch the second podcast between Jordan and Sam to get a more nuanced approach to his thinking. It is a very complicated subject that cannot be answered directly into yes or no.
I have another question for you if you do not mind. Do you like to interact with people who are conscientious or more orderly that can categorically explain things with conviction?
That's surprising, there's a cohort of WRers who follow this guy like he's a prophet and he had two big threads decdicated to him. Oh well, I guess not everyone wastes as much time here as I.I legit only heard of this guy last week when I searched about Patreon and he is one of the guys that make the most money out of it.
Its a word salad with ingredients from Peterson's lectures, I don't even think he knows what it means.With respect, I don't understand the question.
But there is a word for that - "agnostic".
That's surprising, there's a cohort of WRers who follow this guy like he's a prophet and he had two big threads decdicated to him. Oh well, I guess not everyone wastes as much time here as I.
Its a word salad with ingredients from Peterson's lectures, I don't even think he knows what it means.
Do you have an affinity with people who are industrious or orderly?
If one says they are a christian, then refuses to state if they believe Jesus rose from the dead, while not even stating what would convince them of it being true or false, that is a copout, a dodge.
I'm not sure - relative political spectrums aren't really my forte.Where would you place Peterson on the political spectrum in Canada?
It really isn't. Questions like that point to a child-like understanding of Christianity. Or more likely an attempt (usually by teenage atheists) to impose a litmus test on Christians.
These are not new questions. Faith vs. belief. Literalism vs. interpretation, etc. People have wrestled with these issues for centuries.
Peterson's views on religion (Christianity in particular) are very thoughtful and nuanced. And he's clearly laid them out in dozens of videos (hundreds of hours?) all available on YouTube for free. You aren't going to successfully play "gotcha" with him on this topic.
You cant get a gotcha when someone simply rationalizes away the questions you ask, and wont qualify their standard of proof, either subjectively or objectively.
Religious faith is not a 5th grade chemistry experiment. Standard of proof? Really?
If the hundreds of hours he's devoted to this topic and posted to YouTube aren't enough, maybe you should take this up with Peterson yourself. He does question and answer sessions all the time and his email address is public. Although, to be honest, I'm not really sure what your issue is and I doubt you'd be satisfied with whatever answer you got anyway, as it most likely wouldn't give you your "gotcha!" moment.
This may not be true in your case, but reading through the thread, those focusing on the resurrection of Jesus question are clearly desperately grasping for "gotcha!". If your worst criticism of a public intellectual is "He is ambiguous about whether he believes Jesus literally rose from the dead", that says a lot.
Yes, nothing screams "professionally vulnerable" like academic tenure. lol
And nothing says "risking it all" like hauling in 70K a month on You Tube.
Exactly as I stated in the post you quoted, JP trades on this false notion from the paranoid alt-rightists that he is intellectually brave. You are just proving that observation true.
It really depends on the individual. I have had close friends who would fit those descriptions. But I have also had close friends who would almost fit the opposite of those descriptions.
There are two answers to two basic questions I would like to hear from JP:
1. Are you a Christian?
2. (If yes) How do you define the term "Christian"?
If he has already answered these questions and you can link me to those responses, I will give them a look/listen.
It's not hard to believe at all. It's just that you and the other haters have obviously never sat down and watched one his videos all the way through because you're prejudiced against him for his opinion on pronouns. He's not a right-winger, he's a classic liberal, you guys don't know anything about him or about anything he says. All you can come up with are personal attacks since you're unaware of any of his arguments or material, and can't address them.
He would define it multiple factoral like a scientist but is agnostic with some issues as he himself is investigating the religion as well as the others.
He's a classic British liberal.Where would you place Peterson on the political spectrum in Canada?