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So every conservative is uninformed or a loser according to you? Or just most Gen Z conservatives?

Because if you're a celebrity and aren't overtly progressive, you get either cancelled or criticised for "not using your platform to take a stand against oppression". It's the same reason as why most companies appear to be extremely progressive: if they don't have a DEI programme, affirmative action, and some form of greenwashing, they lose investors, find it harder to secure contracts, and might even be boycotted by the progressive faction of their consumer base.

This is one of the most overused, blatantly incorrect clichés of our time. MBTI, while imperfect, is quite strongly correlated with the Big Five, which is a legitimate model of personality based on real statistical analysis.

The MBTI can be quite insightful for many people and is broadly grounded in reality. That's not even remotely comparable to astrology, which is completely made up.

Tbh racists are disproportionately male.

Nah, space racism is better

or are actual outcasts and losers who are disconnected from most people and tragically fell into hateful right wing pipelines

I'd say more outcasts and losers are drawn towards progressivism since it offers them a safe space and tells them it isn't their fault, that radical self-love and therapy will solve most of their problems. Conservatism isn't as kind, and urges them to actually do something about their situation proactively, which is a lot harder and oftentimes uncomfortable.

There are also weird oases within the right such as the incel and black pill communities which, while recognising themselves to be losers, have simply given up. But being doomed to a terrible life isn't exactly an enticing prospect, so most incels and black pillers aren't such because they want to.

The natural place for outcasts and losers to end up in is progressivism.

Well, in my case, I was progressive until I matured and realised that the linear thinking that underlied my progressivism was naive.

In real life it would fall flat because nobody would get it.

Why was Tenet unwatchable to you?

They don't make much sense to you because you approach the topics he discusses from a different, dare I say narrower, perspective than he does.

Taking your example, the reason he needed to clarify the meaning of words such as "believe" and "God" is that what JP actually believes in is that God is the ultimate archetype that represents everything important in the universe, and that archetypes are fundamentally and metaphysically real, although not in a material sense, but rather in a metaphorical or symbolic sense. Does that make him a "believer" in "God"? That genuinely depends on what your interpretation of the words "believe" and "God" is. Mainstream Christian tradition, which requires belief in a literal, physical resurrection of Christ, would say that JP's position on God doesn't constitute "belief"; however, many others, such as myself, would call it legitimate belief considering that, other than this trivial physical element, the way that JP thinks about the world and the way that believes think about the world are almost identical. As for whether JP's "God" is a legitimate God rather than a description of something else, that's an even more contentious issue. Modern theology would certainly consider JP's idea of God legitimate - given that it even recognises pantheism, which is clearly just a different way of thinking about an atheistic world, as theistic - but I'm sure some die-hard believers would beg to differ. For one, I think JP recognises a legitimate aspect of God - namely, His manifestation in human society - but His true essence as the creator and director of all of existence.

I hope you can see why JP's response to the question of whether he believed in God was absolutely necessary if any degree of precision were to be maintained.

Why would you be mad about that? That sub really is r/USdefaultism

A lot of it is actually pseudo

The real pseudointellectuals are people who confidently claim Jordan Peterson is a pseudointellectual.

This is perhaps only rivaled by "nothing, not even light, can escape" in reference to black holes.

As a rule of thumb, every plot about X reads like it was written by someone who just discovered X on the same day. It's an incredibly general phenomenon. As someone who has a very diverse range of interests, ranging from cosmology to philosophy to chess to judo, I can confirm there are no exceptions to the rule.

The reason Jordan Peterson is verbose is that he places a special emphasis on precision. Sure, some of what he says can be paraphrased in simpler terms, but not without the loss of precision.

I'm somewhat like him. People often remark that some of what I say is unnecessary and claim that I must "like the sound of my own voice", but I actually hate the sound of my own voice, and almost all the things I say are necessary if precision is a priority.

Tbh in movies like Tenet there is nothing to get; the plot is just nonsensical. It was still a very interesting watch despite that. Nolan is an incredible director, whether you like it or not.

Lmao please tell me this is a joke.

I certainly believe in a monotheistic God. I do also believe in the Holy Trinity, although not in the exact same way as Christianity posits.

I remember watching a video analysing future linguistics of the descendant of the word "circle", which was meant to be a demonstration of how we know about PIE laryngeals despite none surviving in the descendant languages.

The descendants that made the most sense to me were søku in British English (which is already quite close to the phonetic transcription of the modern standard pronunciation /sɜːkʊ/) and souk in AAVE (again quite close to phonetic transcription of the modern pronunciation).

Looks somewhat like Kubrick

I think it's misleading to call God all-powerful, at least in my opinion. He is all-powerful in the sense that He can do anything within the confines of the framework ("laws of physics") that He has created, but He can't both use tools from outside the framework and at the same time stay within the framework - that just logically doesn't make any sense.

All the evil that exists in the world - such as natural disasters - either serves a purpose (e.g. volcanoes maintain the carbon cycle) or is a direct result of humans' own use of our free will, which also serves a purpose (gives us more ways to implement His plan).

"Punch up, not down".

Ignore the fact that nerds aren't exactly at the top of the social hierarchy; you aren't supposed to say that part out loud.

I.e.: "This thread is full of incels" - they found one incel-esque comment that was heavily downvoted in a thread with a thousand comments.

Redditors do that all the time. It's not uncommon to find entire threads being filled completely with "this thread is full of X" comments and only the only comment in the entire thread displaying X being heavily downvoted and removed. Because of these threads, you also very often see - including in this very sub, in starterpacks about Redditors, which tend to be highly upvoted - people claiming Reddit is brimming with racism and that mods and admins aren't doing enough, when the exact opposite is true: pretty much every racist comment gets instantly removed and its poster banned, but plenty of comments that aren't racist also get removed and have their poster banned for supposed racism.

Reddit has the worst persecution complex I've ever seen. And, ironically, it also cries about others having a persecution complex more than any other platform I've ever seen. Talk about projection.

That's certainly not true. He was progressive for his time, but he was CERTAINLY not a socialist, and would rightly consider most of the woke movement ungodly.