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Bible is the documentation of the emergence of the idea of the divine individual

If you are going to be creative it's because you are tormented by a problem. If you are not in a position to be tormented by a problem, you are not going to put in time and effort to take the risk necessary to be creative

Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals

Well-developed individual is the antidote to the tyranny of society and biology

Get your act together!
Have a vision!
Straighten our your life!
Say what you think!
Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!

Agreeable people overall make less money in the same positions and it's because they don't negotiate on their own behalf very well

Agreeable people don't make as much money and the reason for that is to make money you actually have to be disagreeable. Because you have to go to your boss and say - give me some bloody money or something you don't like will happen to you

On average women are more agreeable than men

Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to maintain it and the Germans are very orderly and that was actually a canonical part of their civilization and part of actually what makes them great and powerful

If you are a group of isolated humans and you meet another group of isolated humans and you trade pathogens there's a real possibility that you and everyone you know are going to be dead in no time flat

Orderliness is associated with sensitivity to disgust

Your political belief is strongly determined by your temperament

Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if magnified beyond its proper limits becomes pathological

There is something extraordinarily dangerous about having people revert to identification with their racial identity. It's really not a good thing

As you retreat from the chaos into your own little prison, you get weaker and weaker and the prison gets smaller and smaller and the chaos gets bigger and bigger. It's really an ugly pathway and you get more and more bitter and resentful and much more afraid of having your prison walls breached. It's a downward spiral

Rational mind falls in love with its own productions or even more that it tries to elevate its productions to the status of God

What does it mean to have a meaningful life?

What does it mean to have a meaningful life exactly? Maybe it means to take responsibility, because your sacrifices have to be worth something. It has to have some meat what you are aiming at. It has to be something that can elevate your worm-like self to the level of tolerability

Why not lie all the time? Well, there is a bunch of reasons but one of them is that you can't trust yourself if you lie and there's going to be times in your life where you have no one to turn to except you and so if you've stuffed yourself full of lies then you're going to be in a crisis one day and you're gonna have to make a decision and you're gonna decide wrong and you're going to be in real trouble because you won't have the clarity of mind necessary to make the proper judgement. Because you filled your imagination and your perception with rubbish

Telling the truth is a good start because then you don't fool yourself about who you are

I would caution any young women not to be deluded into the idea that their career will be of such high quality that it self evidently trumps having a family. You have to have a hell of a career before that's the case

you have to contend with yourself and the adversary that's inside you that seems to oppose your every movement

The proper goal of a Christian roughly speaking is to enact the meta pattern of Christ's life in their own to make it their own story

You are not your own slave. You can't just tell yourself what to do. You have a nature

Bible is actually a story. It's a whole bunch of different books written by a whole bunch of different people edited over thousands of years and then assembled by committee. It's a really strange book but it has a narrative structure and that sort of emerged as a collective decision across these thousands of years