Welcome to season 4 episode 57 of the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.

In our second weekly compilation, we're investigating the various methods and practices that humans use to conceptualize God.

This investigation leads us down the path of exploring meaning and wonder.

What does it mean to live as though God exists?

Why are we awestruck when viewing a beautiful painting?

Why does walking inside a great cathedral render us speechless?

What is the relationship between these experiences and God?

Dad talks about how living as though God exists is some form of evidence that we as a society hold these values in high regard.

I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and have a wonderful week.

It isn't obvious to me that anyone wants to live a meaningless existence.

I don't think you can live a meaningless existence without becoming corrupted

because the pain of existence will corrupt you without a saving meaning.

It also seems to me that you can sell the story that meaning is to be found in responsibility.

When I've tried to sell that story to myself, I seem to buy it.

When I've tried to communicate it with other people, it renders them silent, large crowds of people silent.

That's strange because I'm not sure why that is.

It's perhaps because the connection between responsibility and meaning had never been made for that explicitly somehow.

Because meaning gets contaminated with happiness or something like that,

but it's to be found in responsibility.

Then you could say, well, there isn't any responsibility that's more compelling than trying to aid things

in the manifestation of their divine form.

That should be an adventure that could be sold and I don't know why the church can't do it.

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