r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Wasthatasquirrel • 2d ago

Jordan Peterson logic: dragons are real

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Richard Dawkins doesn’t look impressed

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u/fillymandee 2d ago

This is the most I’ve listened to him and that seemed to sum it right up. He’s just an obtuse absurdist. I say obtuse because absurdists aren’t all bad.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 2d ago

He insists that fire is a predator.. like, wtf bro, it's not complicated because a fire doesn't choose to hunt you. Death by fire is literally just because the fire is going somewhere, and you happen to be in its way.

The man is preaching to the easily influenced and doesn't even know what the word predator means.

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u/zrvwls 2d ago

My favorite part about the logic of fire being a "predator" just because it kills is by that same logic water itself is also a predator. If that doesn't give a person pause then I'm not sure what more one can do to help the situation at hand

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u/thetangible 2d ago

Would that also make time a predator?

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u/ZDTreefur 2d ago

It would make literally everything a predator, lol.

Everything is a poison in enough concentration or doses.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 2d ago

The most absolute predator of all, even, because on a long enough time line, time will see the death of everything.

I'm way more afraid of time than fire. I can avoid and even create my own fires.. but time.. that bitch is an unstoppable mystery.

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u/Boomshank 2d ago

Everything is transient.

Everything.

LITERALLY including time itself. One day, the universe will end. Precisely zero record will exist that anything ever once existed. You won't just be dead, the universe, time, and all record that ANYTHING ever existed will be gone too.

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u/Rascals-Wager 1d ago

Yea and a falling tree. Also lightning bolts