Shootings
There have been over 1600 mass shootings since Sandy Hook. What the heck is going on???!!! Are crazy people (mostly young men and women) getting guns from who knows where and going on a rampage? Why???
shareAccording to Jordan Peterson people who go on shooting rampages are possessed by the spirit of Cain (as in the Biblical Cain and Abel). Cain was angry and resentful because God favoured Abel, approved of his sacrifices and he prospered. But God did not look favourably on Cain or his sacrifices and he did not prosper. When Cain complained to God about it God said to Cain something like "It is not for you to question me or the way I have made the world. Look to your own devices." This enraged Cain and was the last thing he wanted to hear. So he went and killed Abel to get his revenge on God, on being, on life, the universe and everything.
Trust Jordan Peterson to have a completely pointless theory.
sharePeterson's theory is far from pointless. Your opinion on the other hand is pointless because unlike Peterson you don't actually make any points.
Peterson is the latest version of right-wing hype in the right-wing media pretending they have a moral side to them. If you actually read anything he wrote it is silly mush. It is only an extension of the moral majority for those with double-digit IQs instead of single-digits.
sharePeterson is a conservative that's for sure although he espouses some liberal views as well. I have listened to his '12 Rules for Life' and watched many hours of his Youtube videos and I can tell you what he has to say is anything but "silly mush". Either you are unfamiliar with his work or you don't (or don't want to) understand it.
Having said that what worries me about the Peterson as the Messiah to a generation of lost young men is that I fear he may be holding out false hope to them. He is telling them to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, take up their cross and drag it up the hill. It is a big ask.
According to Jordan Peterson people who go on shooting rampages are possessed by the spirit of Cain
JP has never met nor has he ever seen or spoken to any of the shooters and most are dead, so how would he know what possessed them to kill? I'll bet these nut jobs don't even know who Cain is, Jordan Peterson is saying that everyone who go on shooting rampages are the same, when in reality they are as different as snow flakes and have a different reason for doing what they do,
According to Sambow (me) people who go on shooting rampages are possessed by whatever drugs they're on at the time,
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Who is Jordan Peterson and why would his opinion on this be relevant?
You have to ask Quasimodo, he's the maker of this post and quoting Jordan Peterson, I have no idea who JP is and don't care to know.
Who is Jordan Peterson and why would his opinion on this be relevant?
From Wikipedia:
Jordan Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and public intellectual, who is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.
From me:
Peterson has recently published a best seller called '12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos' and is currently doing a series of lectures to sell out crowds. He has hundreds of hours of videos on Youtube.
As for why his opinion would be relevant he has made a particular study of totalitarian regimes and so is very familiar with the psychology of mass murder. You can be sure he is not just pulling his opinions out of his backside...
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You're welcome. Peterson isn't literally saying they are possessed by Cain, it is a metaphor. He is saying that they have the same psychological mind set that Cain had when he killed Abel. Peterson also isn't saying that Cain and Abel were real people.
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"DNA testing has shown that all humans descended from one woman and one man."
I don't understand how that could work. It's the chicken and egg conundrum.
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I am interested! Do you recall the title of the NG article, or any words it contained so I could search it out?
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It's not only the chicken and egg conundrum, but also incest. maybe it's true, maybe that's why there are so many people in the world that are nuts.
shareThere was a good bit on the Bill Maher show about a year about this ... basically the theory was men acting out globally because they can't get laid. The thing is that in this world we have allowed a system where successful men can extort women with food, security, comfort, status, and they rest of men just do without. It is the hierarchical, class based pyramidal society ... maybe came about when the pyramids did. The scarcity of women. So, women are forced to become slaves to rich men, and poor men get the leftovers if they are willing to play along and become slaves.
Look at some of these guys who shoot it out ... INCEL, the buy who said he was mad at women because he could not find a girlfriend, etc. Society is so unequal that it is totally biased so as to make life unbearable for a lot of people, and some of them snap, they go "mad" .... ever wonder why they call it that?
Jordan is one of those guys who will say whatever makes him popular or infamous. He'd suck a mile of dicks for an hour of fame.
shareYou know all you do when you use that sort of language is to announce to those who read it that you can't be taken seriously.
It's alright, I don't take this forum seriously. Do you?
shareI do take mass shootings seriously, don't you...?
I see that you have at least one thing in common with Jordan, dodging the tough questions. Funny thing is, I like the guy but he does like drama.
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