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Jordan Peterson: uncertainty

13 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People

“I don’t know enough about the Quranic take to make any intelligent commentary on that.”

— Jordan Peterson

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Jordan Peterson
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13 Feb 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…The Quran has a take on the Exodus story, right? What can we learn from comparing the Quranic take on Exodus and Moses to the take of the Hebrew Bible? I don’t know enough about the Quranic take to make any intelligent commentary on that. That’s one of the places where I’m staggeringly ignorant and hoping to do something about that over the next five or ten years. If you’re thinking about our current situation in terms of some sort of universal myth or archetypical story, what comes to mind from the history of mythology, 2019?…

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