Jordan peterson the passion of christ movie

#Jordan peterson the passion of christ movie series#

ItвЂ™s not a top-down story, itвЂ™s a bottom-up story. ItвЂ™s like it has emerged out of the depths. It has a story and that story has been cobbled together. Now, one of the things that is strange about the Bible, given that itвЂ™s a collection of books, is that it actually has a narrative structure. ItвЂ™s designed by processes we donвЂ™t really understand because we donвЂ™t know anything about how books are written over thousands of years or what forces cause them to be compiled in a certain way or what narative direction they tend to take.

#Jordan peterson the passion of christ movie series#

Now, IвЂ™m going to walk you through the series of stories that make up this library of books known as the Bible because it presents a theory of redemption that in a sense is emergent, itвЂ™s a consequence of this insanely complicated, cross-generational meditation on the nature of being. And the fact that all of you ask that question that human beings have asked that question as far back as we can understand is indicative of something profound about human nature вЂ“ its lack of completion. And youвЂ™ll notice that you ask that question because of course youвЂre here, but you might not notice how strange it is that all of you ask that question. Now, one of your axiomatic assumptions, for example, is that life involves a search for meaning and thatвЂ™s associated with the idea of redemption. ItвЂ™s a predicate, or an axiom, or an assumption and the study of those axiomatic assumptions is what religion is about. A religious presupposition is one that you may not even notice that you make. What I learned is that the belief systems people use to frame their perceptions have a structure and that structure is religious. You have to frame your perceptions with beliefs. I realized years ago that people saw the world through the lenses of belief and more recently itвЂ™s been demonstrated that thatвЂ™s actually inevitable because youвЂ™re a limited, cognitive processor. The consequence of this meditation or one of the consequences of this meditation has been the production of a series of books that people know as the Bible. Perhaps, ever since we became self conscious, which is another thing that distinguishes us from animals and another thing that drives our search for meaning. Human beings, and I am going to talk mostly about human beings in the West because thatвЂ™s the literature I am most familiar with, human beings in the West have been meditating on the nature of human being for thousands of years. The idea that we have a need for redemption is a more profound idea. But our forefathers had a more profound sense of the problematic state of human existence and they used more profound words. In the modern age we talk about positive psychology and we talk about happiness, which is a much weaker word. When that has been discussed historically itвЂ™s been associated with the term redemption.

So, thereвЂ™s something about the very nature of human being that makes us feel as if something needs to be set right.

But you also might ask yourself вЂњwell, why is it that you have to be here for your search for meaning? Why is that something that drive human beings?вЂќ It isnвЂ™t something that is characteristic of animals they donвЂ™t seem to question their existence. So people are possessed by a question and itвЂ™s part of our nature to be possessed by this question and so you can think about this as a an archetypal question if you like and the question is вЂњwhat are we doing here?вЂќ And you can ask yourself that in relationship to this conference, you are here to search for meaning and to understand what that might mean.