Jordan B. Peterson

There's no up.

There's no hope.

And you rarely find anybody so nihilistic that they really believe that there isn't even in principle hope.

and up beyond the hell they're in.

Now, people do fall into that trap from time to time, and I would say at that point, they're seriously and maybe irreparably suicidal.

I think it's true.

That's Horace's great line, you can drive nature out with a pitchfork, but it's always going to come back in through the back door.

I have a Jewish line of thought on that question that you might find interesting.

So there's an old, and I don't remember where it's derived from, unfortunately, but I know it's derived from Jewish thought.

What does a being that's omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent lack?

And the answer is limitation.

And so that's allied with another thought, which is God and man are in a sense twins.

God has all the advantages of that which is unlimited and infinite, and human beings have all the advantages of that which is finite and limited.

And the union of the finite and the infinite is greater than merely the infinite.

There's something more complete about it.

And it seems to me to reflect something else, which is one thing we know about being is that being is uncomfortable with mere being.

And you can tell that because being is aligned with becoming, right?

The world keeps unfolding.

It has a telos of sorts, even if it's just an entropic telos, which it isn't by all appearances.

But even if it was just that, being itself transforms.