This is getting away from pipe smoking, but if you want to hear one the the greatest and wisest thinkers of our time, watch this. 
Carl Jung and The Importance of Pipe Smoking
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Here I wrote my own version of "maps of meaning" and you can write on too just click on the link below.
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But seriously regardless of recants and what he/they do Plato wrote some great stuff is all I'm saying and Peterson devotees are following a cult of personality much more than any thinker of great merit. Had it not been for his pro noun snowball that started to roll and the U.N. controlled op money and push behind his overly explained common sense ideas no one would know who he is. Was anyone quoting his delusional rants or sighting him at all in any serious psych papers pre-2016? Like any modern artist, there are those who stick out and their contributions live throughout the ages regardless of their morality or how they lived or died the work is either good and remembered or bad and not.
I too prefer theology but this world is ruled by "the prince of the powers of the air " after all, and itching ears are abound listening to any midwit drivel as if it's golden wisdom these days.
I've been going a bit with @Hillcrest come join the fun, no one seems to care about our serious sidestep, could move the discussion to General, let's see what happens.
Yep. There is the investigative, pure science, which I'm all for and then there is scientism--hubristic and corrupted. Amateur atheists are members of this belief based sect.
Life in an entropic universe has only three requirements:
1 --- Consume other living organisms
2 --- Avoid being consumed yourself
and
3 --- Make more of your own kind
That intelligence evolved in one of the combinations of Earth's 100+ element stew after a billion years of fractal intermixing is not surprising.
It is not significant, either.
All the humans who ever lived---including those alive today---would fit inside a cube 6000 feet on a side. A storge container that would barely get a second glance if situated in a major city and flown over at cruising altitude in a commercial airliner.
In contrast, a spaceship travelling at ten million miles an hour would take 330 years to reach the "next star over" from our Sun. And longer than the Universe has existed to cross our own galaxy. Which is just one of 150 billion or so galaxies, which are spaced exponentially farther apart than the stars within them.
In other words, all there is is what we MAKE of Life on this rock. We're never leaving it, and no one is going to come visit.
That being the case, building cool shit is real, and doing cool shit is real. Real physical laws are in play. Bullshit doesn't fly.
On the other hand, the fashion-driven, personality-dominated field of psychology is little more than the modern version of spirit mediums, astrology, and psychic advisors. Nothing ever gets settled. Nothing can ever be settled. Because no physical laws govern it, bullshit does fly. It's scam artist heaven.
The end.
1 --- Consume other living organisms
2 --- Avoid being consumed yourself
and
3 --- Make more of your own kind
That intelligence evolved in one of the combinations of Earth's 100+ element stew after a billion years of fractal intermixing is not surprising.
It is not significant, either.
All the humans who ever lived---including those alive today---would fit inside a cube 6000 feet on a side. A storge container that would barely get a second glance if situated in a major city and flown over at cruising altitude in a commercial airliner.
In contrast, a spaceship travelling at ten million miles an hour would take 330 years to reach the "next star over" from our Sun. And longer than the Universe has existed to cross our own galaxy. Which is just one of 150 billion or so galaxies, which are spaced exponentially farther apart than the stars within them.
In other words, all there is is what we MAKE of Life on this rock. We're never leaving it, and no one is going to come visit.
That being the case, building cool shit is real, and doing cool shit is real. Real physical laws are in play. Bullshit doesn't fly.
On the other hand, the fashion-driven, personality-dominated field of psychology is little more than the modern version of spirit mediums, astrology, and psychic advisors. Nothing ever gets settled. Nothing can ever be settled. Because no physical laws govern it, bullshit does fly. It's scam artist heaven.
The end.
Synchronicity is the first thing I think of in relation to Jung...and I was just very recently reading this piece. Surely it was meant to be posted here.
This one sentence excerpt will give you an idea of what it's discussing:
I maintain that what we witness as matter and energy is a representation of a universal substance that is consciousness.
www.lewrockwell.com
This one sentence excerpt will give you an idea of what it's discussing:
I maintain that what we witness as matter and energy is a representation of a universal substance that is consciousness.
Reality, Consciousness, and the Case for Free Will - LewRockwell
In Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave, a group of prisoners have been chained to the floor of a cave all their lives such that their heads cannot move. All they can see is the wall opposite them, upon which they observe shadows in constant motion. The shadows are of people and objects moving...
www.lewrockwell.com
Well, this is a guy impersonating him, so not in this instance. But it is an eerily accurate impersonation, and incredibly funny.What a long winded, pseudo intellectual load of crap about nothing. Is he serious?
I saw a couple of Peterson's recorded classes from before it all went to his head. He seemed a passionate, caring professor.
But, but...Disclosure...the USS Nimitz!?!
I agree there is a lot of fashion driven pop psych passing for helpful today but I'd surely not throw Jung in that camp. No one who's read his work, knew of his life would either.
Pentagon UFO videos - Wikipedia
Pentagon UFO videos - Wikipedia
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Ah, that.
It definitely is difficult to decide if that business is more likely to have an earthbound explanation that fits the laws of physics, or is a swarm of sentient creatures in vehicles from Eridanus V that had to either fold space somehow or spend a billion years travelling here by mechanical means. And then remain elusive and secretive after their arrival.
Hmmm... Sounds like a toss-up to me. And living in a Star Wars universe sounds SO much more fun!
Once upon a time, emotion-inducing unprovable nonsense was relegated to newsprint in racks next to cash registers at grocery stores.
Today, the Tabloid Mindset has taken over everywhere, at every age level, in every part of the developed world, courtesy of the Internet.
Why? Because it's possible to make $10K a day at a keyboard creating mental junkfood, and where's there's money to be made humans will follow.
All good! No apology necessary. Jung wasn't trying to replace Christianity but there was some banter about its potential to do so, I don't recall by whom. I didn't reference the Peterson vid above, which is a parody, I hear, and a good one, as I thought it was him! I've no beef with the guy, he's making bank talking, some are listening and finding it helpful, most women seem to hate him, IDK, strange times-"the splitting of the world" prophesied by Joachim of Fiore??
All I can say about Jordan Peterson is...
...thank you for picking up most of the Dunhill blends! Can you bring back Aperitif too, please?
...thank you for picking up most of the Dunhill blends! Can you bring back Aperitif too, please?
If we can make it another thousand or so years, I think a lot of this stuff will become more clear. We're relative infants and have only scratched the surface of what's going on throughout this thing we call reality. Plenty to learn!
How is Peterson faring with the Dunhills? A parody or same blend/exact replicas??All I can say about Jordan Peterson is...
...thank you for picking up most of the Dunhill blends! Can you bring back Aperitif too, please?
Yes, and the thing is, there are honest people in both camps, religion and science...but they tend to not want to acknowledge and do something about the corruption in their own arena.
So both remain largely under the control of extremely corrupt people...some of which manipulate both sides.
The latter, fortunately, at least based upon the consensus here. I got into pipe smoking right about the time of the transition, so I never got to have a basis for comparison. My favorite blender is Drew Estate, so I'm used to the disappointment of blends gone by the wayside. Too many blends still in production to lament this too much, blessedly.
Very interesting read, it's amazing how for so many great minds pipe smoking was much deeper than just a habit. Now that I've gotten the hang of it I can totally see why