Dr. Jordan Peterson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's what I mean by that.
It isn't something that you say.
It isn't something that's associated with logical consistency.
It's not declarative.
It's not propositional.
It's not a figment of your imagination.
It's the presupposition of your attention and your action.
And you're either fragmented, in which case you worship multiple gods, or there's some unity at the bottom of it that makes you an unstoppable force.
How would you define belief?
How much do you know about me?
I didn't lie to save my career.
I didn't lie to save my clinical practice.
I don't think lying would save them.
Yeah, and if you're steeped in sin, you're likely to live in circumstances like that.
I would have done everything I bloody well could, so I wouldn't be in that situation to begin with.
It's a hypothetical, and it's not answerable.
You can't answer hypotheticals?