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This is truly a route to moving away from prescriptions for anxiety

If you've ever been visited by the spirit of existential dread, congratulations-you’re in a pretty blessed position. It means your basic needs are met to the point where you get to sit around wondering about your place in the universe. Think about it, when you’re fighting for survival, the last thing on your mind is the meaning of it all.

This is so great

This is very helpful. Having an aim that directs oneself in life is essential.

Yes, sleepers awake.

He talks about noble aim. My experience is that people who keep noble aim are taken advantage of by people having less than noble aim. IMO, to navigate existential crisis really boils down to how long you can keep going and put with all nonsense without. quitting or without hurting yourself.

This video shows us the credibility of the Bible. A book written over the span of thousands of years with authors referencing each other without any idea of who they are, just casually cross referencing each other. God is truly glorious

Mr. Peterson has had such a powerfully positive impact on my life. I am truly grateful for him.

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Funny how this man has impacted my life in just 2years

"Socially isolated you're insane and then you're dead." I was isolated away from home for 5 straight months during the pandemic, only face-to-face interaction was with grocery store clerks for the 30 seconds it took to check out. I remember meeting with a friend shortly afterward and realizing how robotic and cold I was, and it was like that for months after. T hankfully, I reunited with family and friends who helped thaw me out of my own head. I can't imagine the state of people who had to continue on like that without some support -- from Covid or any other illness or living situation. A while back I learned that when people go blind, the neurons dedicated to sight slowly phase out (or are maybe repurposed, can't recall specifics). But so much of our brain is dedicated to helping us survive through community, changing others and changing ourselves to stay together. Although taken for granted, socialization is a massive computational task demanding repeated holistic analysis of our environment and ourselves. Its execution isn't a singular process but an orchestra of every sensation and emotion and belief available to us. To leave so much of our mind unemployed in its natural purpose is death by atrophy.

Look up the definition of noble. Aristocratic people, for the most part are high in dark triad traits. Its a contradiction, a paradox, a window into existential dread. This is a realm of psychopathy, and all we are doing is grooming our own pychosis. The more a man speaks, the more insane he reveals himself to be. We are all dreaming different parts of the same dream on differently percieved timelines.

Dr Peterson's gift is to be able to articulate what we only feel deep inside.

I may not know how long our lives may last but as long as we can still feel love and fight that’s enough for me to know we’re still here

Teddy! 🥰🥰🥰

The day after I turned 40 I had the worst existential crises that lasted for a week, I was a wreck, I think sometimes we need to go through that, it forms and shapes us

Existential crisis: Screwing things up and having to live with the consequences, turning your life and yourself into something else other than what it should've been.

I dont believe in the simulation theory because, think about it, we invented zombies, they are a fantasy idea WE created. Simulations, similarly, are also created by us, so believing we are in a simulation is like thinking zombies are real :v

Spoiler alert on the Hamlet example...

The game of life Mission objectives: - Start something. Conditions: - At 99,9% stop, so you can't finish it and feel the emptiness of knowing that everything ended. ... wait, that's like a neverending sentence, that's a prison! it's like drink something and still remain thirsty forever!!!! ... Updated objectives - Start something. - Finish it! - Move on to another objective. Optional objectives: - Look behind to enjoy the past objectives already completed. Don't be afraid, you don't have to get nostalgic while doing it. Why? You always can enjoy the present because you always have something to do that makes you go forward and, at the same time, you can just look behind to enjoy the growing snowball of gratifying achivements made earlier. Isn't that great? 😄 By the way, every time you achieve something you desired, you are getting what your past self only could dream about! 😊

I managed to kick the EC in the balls, then I realized I got way more done when I was having the crisis... I want it back, feels like shit but I'll take it.

actually what Jordan Peterson said is to have purpose that you live and die for

It is very important to distinguish when you have to focus between the lines, days; and when to look from the specific paradigm or process or value that is the matter in order for a coherent and successful understanding of it. It's not always enough to focus on the end lesson and nuances in between but also why you are operating there and what you are leading into. You get deeper understanding of the cause and you get the gist of ideas, new perspectives and effective solutions which is even beyond that paradigm where you originally started. Things can be abstract at some point or for someone and the same things can be living manifestation in its whole. Everything fundamentally depends upon how healthy you are and your fundamental health depends upon how is everything on you, with you, for you. This is a piece of lecture that helped me save from collapsing from suffering back when pain self-caused for nothing but definately by some things which I did or didn't supposed to do.

I've been going through this the last six weeks... It started with sleeping at most 5 hours a day, at worst three days in a row of 1 hour a day. I'm on benzo's now (lorazepam) 1mg every other day, though today I started with once every two days. I'm a total neurotic mess, but have also got closure on many weighty topics, since I have nothing to lose anymore. Strangely I know this is for the better, a new beginning perhaps, but it's tough. In a sense life is suffering.

So I need an aim...

The unknown is a terrifying abstraction. Focus on the known, the simple beauty in your life and you'll be fine. Or watch porn. Porn works.

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Modern sage

Too uncertain to live, too cowardly to die. I’m just stuck I suppose

I’ve seen a few comments on here about fear of the after life and eternity. The Bible says that in God’s presence their is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16:11) What I think is terrifying to people is the thought of endless consciousness, that we would despair of life itself in a way that we couldn’t possibly grasp in our current state. But the teaching of the psalmist is that the joy of knowing God is utterly inexhaustible. Think of a really great time you’ve had with your best friend. Think about the pleasure it brought you to be together, doing whatever it was you did and how it made you feel alive- how it still makes you feel alive when you think of it now in your mind. It’s those experiences that make life enjoyable and meaningful - and it’s the fear of losing those types of joys/experiences to the erosion of time that scares us. We are easily bored, and we can’t have an infinite amount of pleasures from any friend or lover on this earth because we are all finite beings. But God is not finite. We can never tire of him because his excellence can never be totally searched out. It’s like experiencing a day that just keeps getting better and better the longer it goes on - and it goes on forever. The Biblical answer is that we would approach God in humility, asking him to cleanse us from our sinfulness, so that we can be reconciled to him. Jesus said that when we do this, it’s like we finding a treasure in a field, and in our sheer joy, we sell everything else we own in order to purchase that field. (Matthew 13:44)

For those who don't understand this, He said that to conquer existintial crisis is to keep busy for what you're aim and enjoying your journey

progress to what you are aiming at.

I feel like an unexpected slap to the face would do it.

I agree.

Wow reading this in early 2021. I keep trying to tell people these idendity politics from the left are going to radicalize more people and trigger a backlash, ultimately minorities stand to lose the most by playing this game, and no end in sight to this lunacy, Biden is not sworn in yet and already talking about goverment loans based on ethnicity and picked an overtly racist black power peddler to head the DOJ .

And South Central was white in the 1950s

this really talked me down from the literal edge.. i'm not über conservative; but i really enjoy his lectures.

only english people are white

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Something to think about is you’re not alone with these thoughts. Simply talking to friends or family more will improve your mental health.

You have to realize that you have a purpose. There’s no rule book for life. That child like wonder made us so happy while we were young. Once we get older we constrain ourselves into a box. Life doesn’t have to be that way. Go out and do what makes you happy.

10:30 "Socially isolated you're insane and then you're dead. No one can tolerate being alone for any lenght of time. We can't maintain our own sanity without continual feedback from other people" Listening to this now in 2020 amid this pandemic it certainly has a different flavor to when I first saw this video. These are hard times and Peterson is the right person to come back to.

I had an existential crisis when I was about 12-14 years old. It was the most terrifying feeling I've ever had. Now I'm kinda having it again, these questions. Why does everything has to have an end? What happens after the last star of the universe dies? What does it mean to not exist? My mind often finds ways of defending itself with affirmations or ideas like what's important to me or maybe having an afterlife, but these thoughts come back and I did not manage to find peace with me one day not existing anymore.

I started reading the 12 steps by aa and its not just a book for addicts. I saw Gabor MAte and Russel Brand talk about it and got curious. I think it would help so many people that are stuck in negative thinking and anxiety and depression. Give it a try guys, I am reading this version: A Trip Through the 12 Steps: With a Doctor and Therapist

Like a psychologist who struggles with Nietzsche, he was not a post modern arse.

Bit wrong, it's okay to have the nihilistic moment, the carthesis of creating your own authentic meaning, heals your soul. You go into it, to never doubt again. Nothing to do with right or wrong, just meaning, mortality, responsibility, and freedom.

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Existential dread is what arises when we cannot die nobly. It all stems from a lack of purpose. There is no set in stone purpose for your life. You have to take the time and find whats important to you. What makes you scared? What makes you angry? Who do you see suffering? Go try to fix that. When we don't know what we're doing internally, we won't understand what we're doing externally either. You don't need to have an "ego death" on drugs, you just need to become selfless through putting others before yourself in this short time on Earth. Love is truly the most important thing in this gamut of suffering.

I've noticed physical pain brings you back to reality. Search for pain.

Take fistfuls of benzos. There, saved you 11 minutes.