Friday 29th of March 2024

enjoy life.....

THE BIG THINK IS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LOGOS (REASON AND “ORDER”) AND THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSAL THINGY WHICH IS RUNNING OUT OF “ORDER”.

WE, AS HUMANS ON A SMALL PLANET GOT LUCKY, IF WE CALL LIFE A LUCKY ORDERLY HAPPENING IN A STABLE EXISTENTIAL FLOW OF THE “HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE” WE SCIENTIFICALLY CALL ENTROPY. OUR TIME IS LIMITED AND HAS NO UNIVERSALITY. 

 

NONETHELESS, WE HAVE MADE A GOAL OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND EXPLAIN THIS “EXISTENCE OF OURS”. MANY PHILOSOPHERS ARE STILL TOYING WITH THE CONCEPT OF GREATER ORDER (GOD — AND AT THE BEGINNING THERE IS THE “WORD”) WHILE THE TRUE SCIENTISTS UNDERSTAND THE ACCIDENTAL LUCKY NATURE OF RELATIVE COMPLEXITY AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME (OVER 4 BILLION YEARS) THAT CREATED THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE, WITHOUT ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN DUPLICATION OF MOLECULE. AS BUNFIGHT BETWEEN THESE MOLECULES BECAME MORE AND MORE INTENSE, SOME USEFUL ASSOCIATIONS, METHODS OF DEFENCES AND OF ATTACK GREW IN COMPLEXITY. SCIENCES WORK TIRELESSLY (HOPEFULLY) IN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THESE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS.

 

 

THE RALSTON COLLEGE IS A PSEUDO-RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION THAT IS CONCENTRATING ON THE LOGOS — REASON AND ORDER. IT HAS BEEN OFTEN VISITED BY GODLY HUMANS WHO HAD ABANDONED SCIENCES. 

 

It is rather ironic that, in an editorial honouring the physicist Freeman Dyson, you should refer to another scientist, Gregor Mendel, as having “left science for God”, as if science and religion were incompatible (Thinkers make progress by getting things wrong as well as getting them right, Journal, 9 March).

Your obituary of Dyson (4 March) said “the young Dyson was already convinced of some moral purpose to the universe and remained a non-denominational Christian all his life”. It also said that he had little patience with physicists who argued that the world was the consequence of blind chance, quoting his words: “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe must in some sense have known we were coming”.
Brendan O’Brien
London

 

NOTE: GUS SAYS THAT SCIENCES AND RELIGIONS ARE INCOMPATIBLE....

Ralston College is an institution of higher education that offers in-person degree programs as well as online programs. It began its first in-person offering, an MA in the Humanities, in autumn of 2022 with the authority to grant degrees. Its first semester included Greek language learning in Greece. Its curriculum focuses on the liberal arts, and it has declared a commitment to freedom of speech, enshrined in its motto "sermo liber vita ipsa" ("Free Speech is Life Itself”).

YES WE AGREE, BUT THIS IS A BIT GLIB… FREE SPEECH IS OFTEN THE SOURCE OF DISINFORMATION, AND DELIBERATE DECEITFUL MANIPULATION VIA PROPAGANDA PRESENTED AS FREEDOM. SO WHAT IS DISINFORMATION? WE SHALL SEE… BACK TO THE COLLEGE:

Its first short course, run in conjunction with the FutureLearn platform, is on Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and led by critic Anthony Daniels. Other programs it offers include its symposia.

 

HOPEFULLY AND BRAGGING RIGHTS ASIDE, WE’RE EXPERTS ON GOOD OLD SAMUEL JOHNSON ON THIS SITE: UNFORTUNATELY, ON THIS SUBJECT, CYNICISM BECOMES OUR TRADE WHEN WE SHOULD STICK TO SATIRE.

 

In May 2022, Ralston College appointed Jordan B. Peterson as its Chancellor.[9][10] Among the members of its board of visitors are Vernon SmithHeather Mac DonaldHarry LewisRuth WisseRoger Kimball, and Jordan Peterson

Also, Freeman Dyson, Sir Roger Scruton, and Harold Bloom were listed as visitors before their deaths.[11]

 

SO OUR PHILOSOPHICAL AIM IS MOSTLY FIGHTING DISORDER…. WE DO A DETOUR VIA DR SEAN CARROLL WHO EXPLAINS OUR SITUATION IN THE INEVITABLE ENTROPY.

 

Heat death of the universe……..

 

 

FIGHTING ENTROPY AT THE COLLEGE: 

"For the world to be intelligible it must consist of patterned regularities. That may have been the great discovery of the Greeks: that there are patterned regularities that are superordinate to immediate perceptions." DR JORDAN PETERSON.

Ralston College presents the inaugural lecture of its Chancellor, Dr Jordan B. Peterson, delivered at one of the most iconic sites of the ancient world, the Library of Celsus in Ephesus. This ancient city was the birthplace of Heraclitus, the philosopher who first articulated the idea of the Logos (Λόγος), and the final resting place of St John, who uses that same Greek word to name the Divine Word. In his lecture, Dr Peterson argues that the intelligibility of the world depends on patterned regularities that are superordinate to our immediate perception; this underlying order — which, from the Greeks onward, we have called the Logos — is both the horizon that enables human perception and the basis for the possibilities that we realize in the world. Such an account of our intrinsic, rational, and self-determining capacity constitutes a challenge to the assumptions of many prevailing schools of thought — such as behaviorism, rigid empiricism, and postmodernism — and lays the burden of personal ethics, and the formation of a good society, squarely on the shoulders of the individual.

https://www.ralston.ac/podcasts/jordan-peterson-logos-ephesus

 

HERE'S THE TOPO:

Library of Celsus
Heraclitus
Logos (λόγος)
John the Apostle
The Gospel of John, Chapter 1
Carl Jung
John Milton
Book of Genesis

 

0:57 – Lecture begins
4:18 – The world of what matters versus the world of matter
10:08 – Patterned regularities are superordinate to immediate perception
13:30 – Our perception shows us what is, but also what could be
16:30 – We are not automated machines; we are rather an embodiment of the Logos
22:10 – We prioritize perceptions, thus see the world through a system of values
31:30 – We cannot see the world except through an ethic
36:50 – We act out the world through what we describe as a narrative
47:25 – Social cohesion is dependent on perceptual prioritization
50:00 – Consequences for the future

 

THE COLLEGE OFFERS:

Education and conversation free from censorship, cynicism, and corruption matter. Ralston College is a place for them to happen, for human flourishing and building anew.

DONATE HERE

 

ONE COULD BECOME A CYNIC ABOUT SUCH A COLLEGE OF FREE EXPRESSION PASSING THE COLLECTION PLATE… BUT IT IS DONE LIKE THE COLLEGE WEBSITE, WITH ELEGANCE AND STYLISTIC RESTRAINT.

AS AN OLD SATIRIST, I MUST SAY THAT LISTENING TO DR JORDAN PETERSON, ONE IS PAINFULLY TAKEN ON A (NOT SURPRISINGLY) LOW QUALITY TWISTED JOURNEY OF INFANTILE PHILOSOPHY TRYING TO GO BEYOND UNDERSTANDING ITSELF INTO THE SPHERE OF REASON COMING FROM “ABOVE” (ABSOLUTISM?)…

IT IS COMPREHENSIVE AND ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE SOLVED SHOULD WE THINK FOR FIVE MINUTES. FUNDAMENTAL REALITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR DR PETERSON… THOUGH MY FEELING IS THAT HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE’S FUNDAMENTALLY SAYING….

OF COURSE THE COLLEGE AVOIDS THE MENTION OF GOD OR THE DEVIL BECAUSE THE SUPERIORITY OF THE COLLEGE THOUGHTS IS ABOVE THIS OTHER INFANTILE CONCEPT.

NONETHELESS THE ATTEMPT TO BE “PURE” IN A REASONABLE WORLD IS ANATHEMA TO THE REALITY OF THE EVOLUTION OF NATURE, IN WHICH DECEIT SOON BECAME A WAY TO SURVIVE. HYPOCRISY IS THUS MENTIONED BY PETERSON AS IF A BLIGHT ON REASON. IT IS, BUT NOT AS SUCH DEFINED.

WE, HUMANS, AT THE TOP OF THE TREE OF LIFE, MADE NATURAL DECEIT INTO A STYLISTIC ART FORM. WE DECEIVE OURSELVES, EACH OTHER AND OUR SELF, WITH IDEAS — ABSTRACT CONCEPTS THAT ARE NOT REALITY BUT THAT ENLIGHTEN US FOR FIVE MINUTES, BEFORE WE NEED TO SATISFY NATURAL URGES AND FIND WAYS TO REDUCE PAIN…

WE HAVE EXPLORED THIS IN MANY PLACES HERE ON YD….

AND THIS IS OUR HUMAN THINKING STRENGTH: CREATING A SURFACE, A COMPLEX PLATFORM OF UNDERSTANDINGS, OF LEGALITIES, OF REASONED SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, OF BELIEFS AND ENTERTAINING DISTRACTIONS THAT DO NOT STOP PAIN AND HUNGER, UNLESS WE PAY ATTENTION TO NATURE.

SOME PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY HAPPY, SOME ARE SEARCHING FOR THIS “ELUSIVE HAPPINESS", SOME ARE MISERABLE, SOME ARE ALWAYS ANGRY, SOME ARE SEEKING EXPLANATIONS OR PROOFS BEFORE MAKING A DECISION.

YET BELOW THIS SURFACE, THERE ARE NATURAL PROCESSES, INCLUDING THE PARASYMPATHETIC NEURAL NETWORK WHICH BALANCES OUR “HAPPINESS VERSUS OUR HUNGER” SO TO SPEAK…

Your parasympathetic nervous system is a network of nerves that relaxes your body after periods of stress or danger. It also helps run life-sustaining processes, like digestion, during times when you feel safe and relaxed.

 

MANAGING THESE MOODS VIA THIS SEMI-AUTOMATIC SYSTEM, WHICH CAN LEAD TO AGGRESSIVENESS AND SUBMISSIVENESS, (A BIG SUBJECT ALREADY PUBLISHED ON THIS SITE) DEMANDS VARIOUS "LOGOS" LEVELS THAT ARE NO MORE THAN RELATIVE DECEIT OF ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE MOMENT.

CONCLUSION: “ENJOY LIFE”…..(SEE HAPPINESS)

 

SEE ALSO:

"The Age of Deceit"

 

GUS LEONISKY

RABID ATHEIST, KITCHEN PHILOSOPHER AND CARTOONIST SINCE 1951…

bibi and jordan.....

“I can’t do it.”

Jordan Peterson responding to someone who asked if he had read Solzhenitsyn’s history of the Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together.

Many of you have seen the picture of Jordan Peterson shaking hands with Binyamin Netanyahu over dinner in Jerusalem with Ben Shapiro beaming in the background. Many of you know that E. Michael Jones has extensive contacts in the intelligence community in the United States. What many of you might not know is that he also has contacts in both the Mossad and Shin Beth, whose agents have turned against Netanyahu after he turned fellow Israelis into Pfizer lab rats. 

My name is “Moishe,” and I am a disgruntled Shin Beth agent who converted to Catholicism after reading E. Michael Jones’s magnum opus The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. Rather than make my conversion public, I decided to become a mole who could provide the public with transcripts of important conversations like the one which took place between Shapiro, Peterson and Netanyahu in late 2022. I am here to testify to the truth of this transcript, which we now reproduce for the first time in full below. To those who doubt its authenticity, all I can say is that it is every bit as true as holocaust narratives like Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night or Mischa de Fonesca’s incredible story of traveling 900 miles across Europe in a pack of wolves to rescue her parents from Auschwitz. For those who doubt, no explanation is possible. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. 

The transcript begins here:

Ben: Bibi, I’d like to introduce you to my good friend Jordan Peterson. He’s the worlds smartest goy.

Bibi: Oy, what’s that? The world’s tallest midget?

Ben: Ha Ha. Always the comedian. No offense, Jordan. You should hear what he had to say about Donald Trump.

Jordan: What’s the Canadian word for goy?

Ben: Another comedian. Ha Ha. Anyway, Bibi, I just hired Jordan to work for the Daily Wire because we’ve got a serious problem that only the world’s smartest goy can solve. It’s called Logos.

Bibi: What do you mean?

Ben: Logos is the Latin word for reason, speech, whatever.

Jordan: Actually, it’s a Greek word.

Ben: Whatever. It’s become a problem which can no longer be ignored, ever since this shmuck E. Michael Jones confronted me at a right to life banquet and announced that abortion is a fundamental Jewish value.

Bibi: What’s wrong with saying that? It’s true.

Jordan: What’s the Canadian word for shmuck?

Ben: (to Peterson)I don’t know. I don’t speak Canadian. (Then turning to Netanyahu) Of course, it’s true but it’s not something a Jew wants to say at a prolife banquet in South Bend, Indiana. Shanda fa da goyim. And don’t ask me to translate that into Canadian, Jordan. Anyway, he wrote this book called Logos Rising, which is incredibly anti-Semitic, and in it he says that Jews rejected Logos when they killed Christ.

Bibi: No, actually, he said that in The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit.

Ben: How do you know that?

Bibi: I read the book. It’s a great book. I recommend it. Every Yid should read The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit.

Ben: (holding his ears) I can’t believe you just said that, especially in front of our new friend Jordan. Shanda fa da goyim.

Bibi: Yes, Jones and I grew up together in Philadelphia. We’re the same age. He attended LaSalle High School in the 1960s while I was at Cheltenham High School about two miles away.

Ben: You knew him then?

Bibi: Of course not. He was a nobody then. He’s still a nobody. He’s a. . .

Jordan: . . .Shmuck?

Ben: Ha, Ha. Didn’t I tell you he was smart, Bibi.

Bibi: I was more interested in Cardinal Dougherty High School. It was a lot closer. It was the biggest Catholic high school in the world at the time. It had 5.000 students in its heyday, and it was co-ed, which meant 2,500 shiksas, all wearing those sexy maroon Catholic school uniforms.”

(Bibi drifts off into a reverie.)

Ben: So, as I was saying, this shmuck Jones. . .

Bibi: Have you ever shtupped a shiksa, Ben?

Ben: Bibi, stop! Pay attention. Shanda fa da goyim. This shmuck Jones has written a book called Logos Rising, and it’s causing us a lot of problems.

Bibi: Logos Shmogos. I used to watch these shiksas shaking their tits on Bandstand. They drove every Jew boy at Cheltenham wild with desire, but we could never get to first base with them, and do you know why?

Ben: (hesitating, but interested) No, why?

Bibi: Because none of the Yids at Cheltenham high school knew how to dance. Dancing on Bandstand was a dago thing. You had to be from South Philadelphia to get on the show.

Jordan: What’s the Canadian word for dago?

Ben: (turning to Peterson) It’s wop. But that’s not important. (turning back to Netanyahu) The important word is Logos. It’s a Latin word which means reason, and Jones wrote a book about it called Logos Rising which is unbelievably anti-Semitic, and we’ve. . .

Bibi: (ignoring Shapiro and continuing) So, you know what I did? I sat in front of that TV and watched Bandstand every day until I learned how to dance. It took forever, but it was worth it. First, I learned how to do the Bristol Stomp.

(At this point Bibi jumps up and starts singing, “Kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol when they do the Bristol stomp,” thumping on the floor until the wine glasses on the table start rattling. Ben grabs one glass; Jordan grabs another. Bibi finally collapses into his chair, trying to catch his breath, wiping the sweat from his forehead.)

Bibi: Then I learned how to do the Boogaloo,”

(Bibi jumps up again.)

Ben: Stop!

Bibi: And then I finally made it onto Bandstand and there was the shiksa of my dreams standing in front of me, and so I started to do the Twist, and do you know what happened?

Ben: (curious in spite of himself) No, what?

Bibi: She laughed at me because nobody did the Twist anymore.

Ben: That’s too bad.

Bibi: So, I gave up on shtupping shiksas and decided to screw the goyim instead.

Ben: Now we’re talking. This is where Jordan comes in. I got him this gig with Ralston College.

Bibi: What’s that?

Ben: Some goy operation no one ever heard of, but, hey, they like the color of Jew money, so Jordan’s now chancellor there. Not only that, we’re going to fly him to Ephesus, put him in front of the library of Celsis and let him give a heavy duty speech on our definition of Logos, which is . . . Tell him, Jordan.

Jordan: The idea of Logos was that the divine element of the human was courageous exploratory communicator. That’s the Logos idea.[1]

Bibi: What the fuck does that mean?

Ben: Bibi! (turning to Peterson) Explain what you just said Jordan.

Jordan: One element of the idea of the logos is that there is an element to the world that’s superordinate to the apparent order that’s more fundamentally real and that you can discover that order in contact with the world. And that’s the microcosmic world in some sense rather than the psychological world.[2]

Bibi: I still don’t get it.

Ben: Tell Bibi about Elvis Presley’s guitar, Jordan.

Jordan, It is not something that is made up of guitar atoms and guitar molecules.[3]

Bibi: I thought you said this goy was smart.

Ben: He is. He’s the world’s smartest goy.

Bibi: He doesn’t know shit from shinola. He doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the wall. I shtupped shiksas from Cardinal Dougherty who sounded like Socrates compared to the crap that comes out of this goy’s mouth.

Ben: It doesn’t matter. It’s better than “clean up your room.”

Bibi: Ben, I know you’re the world’s second smartest Jew . . .

Ben: Second smartest?

Bibi: Yes, behind Yuval Noah Harari.

Ben: That faggot? You’re comparing me to that faggot Harari?!

Bibi: Calm down. I’m trying to talk some sense into your head, Yiddel. If you put this putz Peterson in front of a camera and ask him to talk about Logos, you are going to destroy his reputation as the world’s smartest goy, and then what good is he to you? As soon as he opens his mouth, it’s going to be clear that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and that he never got beyond telling incels to clean up their rooms.

Jordan: (overhearing their conversation) Clean up your room!

Bibi: (turning to Shapiro) What did I tell you? Jordan Peterson is a dumb shmuck who is going to end up being an embarrassment to the Jews who are promoting him, and that includes you and the Daily Wire, Yiddel.

Ben: Look, Bibi. I’ve been listening to Jordan more closely now that he’s writing for us, and nothing he says makes a lot of sense. But that doesn’t matter. In fact, that may be the point that you’re missing. Ever since we hired him at the Daily Wire, he’s been on board with the anti-Semitism thing. He just compared anyone who criticized Israel to rats coming out of a sewer.

Bibi: That’s precisely my point, Ben. He’s coming across as just another goy who is willing to lick Jewish boots to promote his career as a failing psychologist. Nothing he says makes any sense. Any shiksa from Cardinal Dougherty high school could see through him in a New York minute.

Ben: But that’s precisely my point, Bibi. You’ve got a whole generation of twenty- and thirty-year-olds who have spent their adult lives jerking off while watching porn in their mother’s basement. He’s had a lock on that audience ever since he told them to clean up their rooms. And now that those losers are starting to hear about Logos and starting to understand that there may be something important out there that they need to know, we need Jordan to take control of what he’s now calling the Logos narrative, in the same way that I took control of the prolife narrative until 140 Jewish organizations announced that abortion was a fundamental Jewish value, and those shmucks ruined my prolife gig.

Bibi: That goy can’t take control of anything. By the way, have you ever seen Jordan Peterson’s room?

Ben: (taken aback by the question) Actually, no, I haven’t.

Bibi: It’s a total schlamassel, full of clutter, just like his mind. Take it from me. I have sources. Do you want the Mossad photos? No, of course, not. That’s what I need to keep him in line. If this goy ever goes Kanye on us, we release the Mossad photos of his room, full of moldy oranges, empty cereal boxes, crumpled beer cans, and dog-eared copies of the collected works of C. G. Jung. Believe me, Yiddel, his room is a total mess, just like his mind.

Ben: Now it’s you who are missing the point. What better way to get those incels back into the basement jerking off again, than have them listen to Jordan’s incoherent rubbish. They will become totally disillusioned. They will struggle with lines like “If nothing’s placed in the highest place, then there’s nothing in the highest place,”[4] and when they can’t make sense of it, they will become discouraged and conclude that the Logos is another myth like Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy, and. . . .

Bibi: . . .the Holocaust.

Ben: Bibi! (holding his ears) Shanda fa da goyim! (Shapiro looks nervously at Jordan Peterson to see if he overheard what Netanyahu just said.) But again, you’re missing the point. No one can make sense out of anything that Jordan says about the Logos. Once the incels who idolize Peterson realize this, they’ll all go back to jerking off instead of thinking.

Bibi: (embracing Shapiro) You’re a genius, Yiddel! Now let me tell you about this other shiksa . . .

 

 

 

At this point, the transcript breaks off. Peterson gave his speech on Logos at the library of Ephesus in late December 2022 under the auspices of Ralston College, where he is now chancellor. What follows is Jones’s response to that speech, which is now circulating among the network of Logos supporters in the Mossad and Shin Beth:

Jordan Peterson begins his lecture by making a category mistake when he claims that the two sources of western civilization are “the Greek stream” and the “Judeo-Christian stream.” To begin with, the term “Judeo-Christian” has no philosophical significance. It was political term popularized in the 1950s when Jews like Will Herberg, the author of Protestant, Catholic, Jew, tried to elbow their way into the mainstream of public life in America. Conservatives like William F. Buckley, who was always beholden to his Jewish fundraiser, appointed Herberg religion editor at National Review as way of appealing to Jewish readers and gaining access to their money.

What Peterson should have said is that Christianity united Greek philosophical thought with the Hebrew historical narrative of salvation history in the Gospel of St. John, which probably got written at Ephesus when John was living there with the Blessed Mother. Instead of pondering the metaphysical prologue of that Gospel or explicating the enigmatic statements of Heraclitus who was the first Greek philosopher to proposed Logos as the ultimate reality of the universe, Peterson comes up with his own definition of “the idea of Logos, which was that the divine element of the human was courageous exploratory communicator. That’s the Logos idea.”

Peterson turns another category mistake into a false dichotomy when he describes “science” as “the intrinsic logos of reality” as opposed to “the human being’s logos which interacts with that and produces intelligible order.”[5]

After announcing that his talk on Logos is going to take place in front of the library at Ephesus, where “Heraclitus first articulated the idea of logos as the basis of reality” and where “the apostle John lived and died,” Peterson rushes into yet another category mistake when he tells us that “the dual concept of the logos” arose from “the Greek and Christian side” when he should have said that the Christian understanding of Logos arose from St. John’s appropriation of Greek and Hebrew sources. Peterson then tells us that Logos describes “the intrinsic order of the universe” but renders that true statement meaningless by dissolving it into a number of pointless questions like “what do you mean by intrinsic, what do you mean by order, [and] what do you mean by cosmos.” Peterson undermines the truth of virtually every comprehensible sentence he utters by subjectivizing it, telling us that “the macrocosm,” which is “the external world which extends above us” is really “indeterminate because it depends on how you define reality.”

So, after giving himself the assignment of explaining Logos, which is what Heraclitus would have called the fundamental reality of the cosmos, and what St. John did call God, Peterson turns his audience into total skeptics by subjectivizing what both Heraclitus and St. John objectified. The smattering of philosophy which Peterson knows is resolutely post-Cartesian. John Maynard Keynes once said that every politician’s thought was determined by a defunct economist. Peterson goes on to prove the same thing with his philosophy. Like Locke, whom he never cites, Peterson believes that the mind apprehends ideas without understanding that both Heraclitus and St. John believed that the mind could and did apprehend being. Descartes’ division of the cosmos into the res cogitans and the res extensa led to the materialism of Spinoza and the idealism of Fichte and Hegel, but neither error has anything to do with either Heraclitus or St. John. Unfortunately, Peterson doesn’t know this, which leads him to ramble from one category mistake to another as he heads off into the cluttered room that is his mind and closing the blinds, never to emerge into the sunlight of rationality.

Having botched the fact that Logos unites the res cogitans and the res extensa in a way that Descartes did not understand, Peterson abandons any attempt to explicate the cosmos and switches to “the reality of pain,” which is “undeniable, and . . . not amenable to rational argumentation,” at least as Peterson construes it. That doesn’t matter because “there’s an ethical dimension” to pain, and “if you accept the reality of pain, there seems to come with a necessity to eliminate pain,” and “this then becomes the source of the moral impulse. . . especially in the case of infants.”[6]

Having flubbed his attempt to define the goal of pure reason as the truth and its first principle as the principle of non-contradiction, Peterson lurches into an attempt to articulate pain as the basis for practical reason. If he knew what he was talking about, Peterson would have said that the purpose of practical reason or morality is to achieve the good, and that its first principle is that good is to be achieved and evil avoided. But once again, it becomes clear that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. To disguise that fact from the unfortunate undergraduates from Ralston College, who have travelled all the way to Turkey to listen to his lecture, Peterson then launches into a discussion of epistemology via the “neuro-chemical system” known as the brain, explaining that “If all of your vision was as intense as the vision of your fulvia, you’d need to have a brain like an alien.”[7] This means ultimately that “the hierarchy which is the heavenly cosmos . . . is also a psychological reality,”[8] which brings us back to Heraclitus and St. John, who understood Logos as neither.

At this point, Peterson takes off his philosophical thinking cap and becomes a Scripture scholar, telling us that:

In the opening chapters of Genesis, which is where the Logos is highlighted above all else, you have this sense that whatever God is uses whatever the Logos is to extract habitable order from potential.

As a point of reference, the author of Genesis, who was completely innocent of any understanding of Greek philosophy in general and the word Logos in particular, tells us that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” St. John took this profound Hebrew insight and rendered it compatible with Greek thought when he said at the beginning of his gospel, “en arche een ho logos.” In the beginning there was logos. In other words, there was never a time when there wasn’t logos. Peterson misses this reality completely when he says that “God is uses whatever the Logos is to extract habitable order from potential,” a statement so stupid in so many was that it requires effort to unpack. God doesn’t use the Logos. God is the Logos. He didn’t “extract habitable order from potential,” he created heaven and earth. One of the many things that Jordan Peterson does not know is that creation is not change. Change is the movement from one state to another. Change is the movement from potentiality to actuality which occurs when an acorn becomes an oak. Change cannot explain creation because creation goes from nothing to something, a feat which only God can achieve. Greeks like Aristotle could explain change, but neither he nor Plato had any idea that the world was created. They thought the world was eternal, which to them meant that it was god, which meant that they were pantheists malgre lui, which meant that philosophy remained stalled until the Church fathers explained the Trinity. Genesis changed all that, and when St. John baptized Logos with the water of Genesis, he created the cutting edge of Logos in human history. Christianity gave us the beauty of Renaissance painting in Italy as well as the beginning of science derived from the secondary causality which Aquinas’s mentor Albertus Magnus discovered in nature.

Peterson understands nothing of this. Instead, he brings up the word “chaos,” which is the antithesis of what St. John said, when he wrote “In the beginning there was logos.” This means there was never chaos as the Greeks understood that term. God did not bring order out of chaos. God created heaven and earth out of nothing, if by making that statement we understand that there was never nothing and that Logos is eternal because Logos is God and only God can be a creator. Creatio non est cambio. Rather than figure any of this out, Peterson tells the befuddled undergraduates at Ralston College that in the beginning there was “Chaos,” which “is a weird intermingling in the linguistic sense of chaotic possibility of the world per se with confusion and psychological disorientation. And so it’s an amalgam. . . . God imposes a benevolent order upon that chaotic possibility, extracts from the chaotic possibility the habitable order that is good.”[9] God did no such thing. Peterson is confusing Genesis with Hesiod’s theogony.

At the end of his lecture, Peterson returns to the only area where he feels confident and competent when he tells us that “Generally your bedroom is so familiar that you don’t need to perceive it.” Suddenly we’re back in the cluttered bedroom that is the best metaphor for Jordan Peterson’s mind. As he snuggles into that rumpled, trash strewn bed, Peterson tells us that “what you perceive when you wake up in the morning is the horizon of possibility,” which may hide some truth behind its vagueness. More importantly, this leads Peterson to extrapolate from the messy bed which is the metaphor for his mind to the mind of God, when he tells the incels that “What you perceive is something akin to the chaos God perceived as the word at the beginning of time.”

At this point, Peterson once again confuses Genesis with Hesiod’s theogony, but this time he moves from stupidity to blasphemy. St. Thomas said that the nominalists of his day were guilty of blasphemy because they denied any knowable order to the mind of God. Isn’t Peterson doing something similar? Isn’t he telling us that in the beginning there was chaos, and that chaos preceded logos? Isn’t he really telling us here that logos is chaos, deliberately ignoring the fact that St. John told us that Logos is God? Isn’t he telling us that chaos is part of God’s nature? The key word in my accusation is “deliberately.” Nothing Jordan Peterson says ever rises to the level of deliberation. This becomes apparent as we watch him desperately scanning his cell phone during his talk as if it were some deus ex machina that is going to deliver him from the fact that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Jordan Peterson traveled all the way to Turkey to desecrate the birthplace of Logos in human history, not intentionally—he’s not educated enough to do that—but en passant as collateral damage arising from the deep-seated intellectual narcissism that has been the hallmark of his career. Like the Jews who have promoted his career, Jordan Peterson overplayed his hand when he moved from the admonition to clean up your room to explicating the metaphysical prologue to the Gospel of St. John. Like blind synagoga, who adorns the façade of the Strasbourg Cathedral, Peterson failed to see that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool by saying “I can’t do it,” than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

 

 

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Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said on Tuesday that may lose his license unless he submits to mandatory “social-media communication retraining” by the College of Psychologists of Ontario, his home province’s licensing authority.

“I face public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, disciplinary hearing and potential loss of my clinical licensing for agreeing with [Conservative MP] Pierre Poilievre and criticizing our standing [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau,” Peterson said on Twitter.

According to Peterson, “about a dozen people from all over the world” submitted complaints to the CPO, alleging his views and comments “harmed people.” None of them were actual clients of his, but lied about it so their complaints would be accepted, he added.

 

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