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  Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?

  by cofty in

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  a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.

  it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.

  i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.

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  OneEyedJoe - you summed up my thoughts exactly thanks.

  For somebody who has done so much good work exposing the fraud of postmodernism Jordan sounds exactly like the philosophers he despises whenever he is asked a challenging question.

  Stephen Hicks is infinitely more interesting and informative than Peterson on many of the the same subjects.

  I think neverendingjourney hit on something when he said that Peterson is a father figure for lots of young men in particular.

  He definitely tries to play both sides in the area of spirituality. He must know he is being dishonest.
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  Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.

  it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.

  i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.

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  A JP video came up on my YouTube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to Peterson that he needed his help. It was agonising to watch.

  What was even more disturbing was the comments section. I do not exaggerate when I say that dozens of people were extolling Peterson's wisdom as if Jesus had come again. The parallel to the woman who needed to touch Jesus' garment to be cured came up more than once - and not in an ironic way.

  I have forced myself to endure numerous lectures of his in the past couple of weeks and I have hated every minute. I have never heard a man say nothing but take so long to say it and to do so in such a self-aggrandising way.

  I agree with some of his observations about the culture wars but IMO he is a poseur. Maybe there is something there worth more time and effort but life is too short. I think he is the leader (perhaps by accident) of a personality cult.

  Your thoughts?
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  Would You Ever Go Back To The Witnesses??

  by minimus in

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  every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.

  some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.

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  I could not sit and listen to some ignorant buffoon preaching bullshit with no right of reply.

  All the money in the world could not make me stay in my seat.
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  Movie Review 1917

  by Terry in

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  movie review"1917".

  i so seldom seek to sit inside an actual movie theater anymore.however ...some films are absolutely tailored for it.life of pigravityavatar3 examples of movies which do not translate to your home viewing...at all.good, bad, or indifferent - some films are visual and immersive.. here is a sacred pronouncement:movies are a visual medium.in the hands of an orson welles (i.e.

  citizen kane) they are a radio play+visual storytelling medium._____.

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  It's outstanding
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  Greta

  by road to nowhere in

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  the daily wire.

  facebook glitch reveals father, activist behind greta thunberg's facebook .... i'm not good at getting links right.

  but this is interesting in light of greta supposedly doing things on her own according to dear old dad.

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  Redvip - I said that the solution to climate change is technology. You replied that 'hoping on technology is a product of self centered, lazy and stagnant mind'.

  I have no reason to insult you.

  I agree.

  it's really sad that folks who thrive to have a cleaner planet, are now assigned a term (environmentalism), which has the stink of a religious cult

  We all aspire to a cleaner planet. You don't get to claim the moral high ground. Just because I don't uncritically buy into all the propaganda doesn't mean that I am any less passionate than you about the future of planet earth.

  I said quite explicitly that the environmentalist movement is a cult. It has dogma, prophets, orthodoxy, heresy and apostasy.

  Have you not noticed that the loudest voices conflate green with red?

  Climate activism is all a part of anti-capitalism, anti-patriarchy, feminism and social Marxism. It is no accident. The Green movement is just another utopian ideology. It has its roots in The Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse in particular.

  The last person to acknowledge that they are following a cult is the cult member - we should know.
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  Greta

  by road to nowhere in

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  the daily wire.

  facebook glitch reveals father, activist behind greta thunberg's facebook .... i'm not good at getting links right.

  but this is interesting in light of greta supposedly doing things on her own according to dear old dad.

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  So Redvip insults me because I don't buy into environmentalism with sufficient enthusiasm and Jimmy insults me because I don't dismiss it with the required amount of contempt.

  This is typical of what passes for discussion. Mouths wide open and minds firmly closed.
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  Greta

  by road to nowhere in

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  the daily wire.

  facebook glitch reveals father, activist behind greta thunberg's facebook .... i'm not good at getting links right.

  but this is interesting in light of greta supposedly doing things on her own according to dear old dad.

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  Jimmy - Try reading rather than ranting.
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  Greta

  by road to nowhere in

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  the daily wire.

  facebook glitch reveals father, activist behind greta thunberg's facebook .... i'm not good at getting links right.

  but this is interesting in light of greta supposedly doing things on her own according to dear old dad.

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  She is an autistic twit

  Personal attacks are unhelpful
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  Greta

  by road to nowhere in

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  the daily wire.

  facebook glitch reveals father, activist behind greta thunberg's facebook .... i'm not good at getting links right.

  but this is interesting in light of greta supposedly doing things on her own according to dear old dad.

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  How on earth did you get that from my comment Redvip?

  'Idiotic, self-centred, lazy and stagnant mind'.

  Thank you for illustrating the dilemma. Anybody who doesn't share your hysterical ideology is just beneath your contempt. Environmentalism is a secular cult, Greta is the Messiah and you are a true believer.

  Disclaimer -

  • Climate change is real
  • Human activity is a significant part of the problem
  • We should take sensible steps to care for the environment
  • Personal changes in lifestyle will make not an iota of difference.
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  The rise and rise of Paul Gillies?

  by JWB in

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  the rise and rise of paul gillies?.

  here are a view details about the 57-year-old paul stuart gillies.. .

  2011: appointed as a director of international bible students association (ibsa) on 2 november having resigned as a director of watch tower bible and tract society of britain on the same day.

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  I would not be at all surprised. I heard he had been transferred from London to HQ. No doubt he is being lined up for GB membership.