(September 23, 2018 at 11:31 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 23, 2018 at 11:19 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: I will admit I'm not a fan of the religious flavor that he puts on some of the ideas, mostly because it's just unnecessary.Most of those ideas are pretty decent on their own (at the very least, a cat you find on the street might be feral), but, like Hugo and Jake show, he has the tendency to undermine his own points:
It's not just the religious sheen he puts on his ideas that are unnecessary and alienating, it's throughout the whole book.
Really, they'd be what footballers call "own goals" if not for the fact that what many of us see as bugs, much of his audience appears to see as features.
I'm always suspicious when someone's criticisms of a person come from someone else's criticisms of said person.
Also, no offense, I am not about to watch a 55 minute video in order to maybe interpret exactly what it is that you're getting at. If you have specific points you'd like to discuss, cool. I'm not really interested in hearing some YouTuber's opinion piece on Peterson.
I definitely don't agree with everything Peterson says. A lot of what he says is common sense. At worst he's guilty of being uninteresting.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
