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Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I do appreciate your response. Sure, as metaphors and origin stories and cultural touchstones, they're worth knowing
by rendall 5y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I do appreciate your response.
Sure, as metaphors and origin stories and cultural touchstones, they're worth knowing more about. But thinking these tales as literal truth is... not helpful to address existential angst. Not to someone like me, anyway. Not one among those stories explicitly says "Yes, the Universe might indeed have no meaning. That observation is valid, rational and sane. Given that, here's how to handle it..." They are all, to the last, have faith, my child, accept this {patent absurdity}, and that will save you from {other patent absurdity}
I'm not really convinced of the Jungian framework, but I do get a kick out of it. It's a hell of a lot of fun.
- alfor 5y agoI think that everything Christian or from Peterson get downvoted in this left leaning place, they are seen as backward or even evil. Theses stories made me realize that we are part of millennia of human understanding evolution. To me there is sometime a deeper meaning at a second level but I have to get past a first reaction of disdain that i got from all things Christian. We are more open to other culture religions as we don’t know their flaws as well. Jung is still opaque to me.
- rendall 5y agoPeterson is a Jungian, which is why I brought it up. Check out Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung himself, for a fun accessible entree. Basically, the theory is that humans are deeply wired to use stories to understand the world, and some stories are even embedded in our subconscious.