‘Advancements in science are pushing many to question a strict materialist view of human consciousness—including the man who has the highest IQ’, writes Scott Ventureyra
Category Archives: Atheism
Resist or Submit?
Video with Joseph Boot.
He Who Wrestles With God in Public: Jordan Peterson Versus Himself
Article by Scott Ventureyra
“Peterson, who has notoriously stood aloof from formal religion, found out that mere psycho-spirituality couldn’t stand up to committed opposition to God.”
Sovereignty is inevitable
Says Joseph Boot in this video. Meaning: We all have deities, even atheists. Involves some criticism of Jordan Peterson.
The Myth That Made the Modern World
How the Second World War Became the New Religion of the West, writes Chad Crowley from the ‘Riding the Tiger’ Substack.
Extract:
Within this creed, the Second World War is remembered not as a geopolitical conflict, but as a holy war. According to the myth, the war was fought to liberate the world from tyranny, racism, and barbarism. It was a righteous crusade to stop a madman bent on planetary conquest, racial extermination, and totalitarian rule. In this telling, the Allies become selfless guardians of peace and justice, defenders of the weak, liberators of the oppressed, and champions of universal dignity.
What is left untold, what is buried or ignored, is the record of Soviet mass murder, the incineration of entire cities by firebombing, and the systematic rape of millions of women by victorious armies. These details are either omitted or minimized because the moral arc must remain unbroken, and the myth demands that the victors be pure, untarnished, beyond reproach. The enemy, in contrast, must be absolute—not merely defeated, but demonized, rendered metaphysically evil, so that the cause against him may be remembered as absolutely good.
How many Christians actually wait until marriage…
A young German Christian (Catholic) woman discusses the topic (in English) here.
The latest science concurs with Genesis
Says astronomer Hugh Ross here. (44 minutes)
Woodstock for the Adventurous and Responsible
Jordan Peterson interviews Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.
Stuff about “narratives” starts at about 40 minutes in.
Content:
(0:35) Intro (3:36) Bret and Heather at Peterson Academy (6:19) The social media approach to learning: iterative feedback (12:01) Combating the evolution of corruption (17:37) The benefits of recorded lectures, future goals for in-person conventions (20:27) Cost of entry, managing bad actors, and the hierarchy of curation (26:04) Why Hillsdale College has a 1% dropout rate in the first year (30:36) The difference between censorship and refereeing, leveraging evolution to continuously self-improve (32:58) Elon Musk: adapting solutions faster than those who seek to game the system (34:45) The orthodoxy of the past and predicting the future (36:21) Rescue the Republic – “We’re hoping this will be an event the way Woodstock was a music festival” (40:02) The propositional must be surrounded by the imagistic, the opportunity for discovery (42:14) Propositional intelligence — and what actually makes you wise (45:57) The edge traversed by comedians, the advent of the laugh track (53:03) The radical distortion of music, “music used to be a living entity” (57:35) Putting forth the pillars of our civilization, the exhausted middle (1:00:14) A secular thinker on the spiritual battle we are all engaged in (1:04:11) The necessity of narrative, translating for the secular (1:09:49) The title toward the demonic, using AI to map the pattern of the Logos (1:11:16) Prayer, revelation, and the spirit of the question (1:14:25) Brick-in-the-wall science, hypothesis generation (1:17:59) The relation between openness and divergent associations, hierarchies of mutational repair (1:20:49) A new convergence on a shared perspective, the need of God to answer prayers (1:22:50) Richard Dawkins, winning with your own audience rather than making substantive progress (1:27:41) What the ancients knew about the delusion of being, metaphorical models in science (1:34:40) Dawkins’ one error in “The Selfish Gene”
Leftism is a Nihilistic Religion of Death and Destruction
Link to articles by Murray Rothbard on this subject.
“Good People Must Not Be Silenced!”: Jordan Peterson’s Call to Leaders at ARC Forum
26-minute video.
Peterson bases his talk on the story of Jonah. He essentially says: “If you think the cost of speaking up when you know you should speak up is too high, and you remain silent, just wait till you see, and feel, the cost of not speaking up when you could have.”