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Show summary
We discuss “RULE 7 / Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)”, from Jordan B. Peterson’s best-selling book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. In this episode, we examine self-sacrifice, the dangers of expediency and a hypothesis about why evil exists.
Show notes
2:00 – Viewing the Biblical stories through a psychological lens
2:47 – Understanding sacrifice in a new way
3:18 – What does “expedient” mean?
6:37 – What happens when your sacrifice is rejected?
9:10 – Sharing with your future self
10:40 – “…the world is revealed to you through the template of your values.”
12:28 – Is it OK to bring a child into a world full of danger and suffering?
18:59 – Why does evil exist?
22:09 – Is lying actually expedient?
25:03 – Little lies are the seeds of totalitarian regimes
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GenYChron Ep. 0018 – Birthdays, Pareto distributions and spirit molecules
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Join us this week as we talk about empirical evidence for birthday-dependent personalities, the eerie predominance of naturally occurring inequality within our universe and a psychedelic substance that our bodies produce, known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
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GenYChron Ep. 0011 – The Millennial marriage taboo and Generation Squeeze
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This week we focus on the benefits of marriage, the ever-changing perspective of marriage in Western society and the unfortunate victim mentality of Millennials. We’ve collected a tonne of facts that will make you second-guess your preconceptions about marriage. We also share our opinions about why we should actually be excited about Generation Y’s prospects.
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GenYChron Ep. 0012 – The Impossible Burger, dangers of soy and food evolution
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On this week’s episode we sink our teeth into a trending food topic: the meatless burger that bleeds, AKA “The Impossible Burger”. We also review research about the relatively unknown dangers of eating unfermented soy. To finish, we discuss how the ever-increasing global demand for meat may eventually force us to invent a substitute for meat that is equally nutritious and delicious.
