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The Symbolic World

233 - Why Humans Sacrifice

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this video I discuss the symbolic meaning of sacrifice in general, why it’s a human universal and how we still engage with ritualistic sacrifice today. There are many different examples of sacrifice, not only killings, but offering and dedication for initiation into a group, as tribute or taxes, remembering the dead, to found a city or a home etc. Finally I talk about how Christianity solves the problem of sacrifice, in particular the problem of mimetic sacrifice of the scapegoat (René Girard). Original video: https://youtu.be/njrlriUbSIc - The Symbolic World website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com - Merch: http://www.thesymbolicworld.store - Language of Creation, by Matthieu Pageau: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Creation-Cosmic-Symbolism-Genesis-ebook/dp/B07D738HD8 Support this podcast: - Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ - Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos - Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau - Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Join the conversation: - Unofficial Facebook discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1989208418065298/ - The Symbolic World Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSymbolicWorld/ Social media links: - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau

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0:00.0

And it's only weird, like I said, for someone who creates a weird little distinct category

0:06.6

called religion, a category that they don't understand, a category that they can just, like,

0:13.1

count off as superstitious and stupid and ridiculous, although it's a human universal, and then

0:18.5

makes them feel safe that they don't have to understand this,

0:21.8

and then it makes them blind to all these other behaviors that human have that are ritualized

0:27.2

and that could be really understood if they took a little bit of time. This is Jonathan Peugeot.

0:47.7

Welcome to the symbolic world.

1:05.1

Two weeks ago now, I'm not even sure time really flies.

1:13.2

Some guy that I never heard of who runs a podcast called Decoding the Gurus, I guess, kind of went after me on Twitter. At first, he was going after Brett Weinstein, but then decided, I guess, to go after me.

1:18.8

And anyways, he has the usual kind of, you know, dismissive new atheist tone. And I was going to

1:25.9

ignore the guy. But then David Fuller from Rebel Wisdom and other people that I respect, you know, said that

1:33.4

this is important that I should pay attention to it.

1:35.8

But really, I'm not going to, I'm not going to answer too much.

1:38.7

But one of the things that this guy attack me on is here's one of the tweets.

1:43.9

He said he's talking to david fuller

1:46.3

and he says here's jonathan pejor saying alex jones's intuition are absolutely correct that abortion

1:50.6

is a human sacrifice for power and that he would not be at all surprised if the elites were engaged

1:56.0

in you in ritual sacrifices and so this was of, his big proof that I am off the rails,

2:04.3

that I'm some kind of guru or some, you know, that I, that I'm not worth the attention.

2:10.4

And so what I thought is, I realize in reading it that, of course, I don't think this guy

2:15.4

could understand what I'm talking about, but I thought it could be a good opportunity to maybe talk about sacrifice

2:21.4

and maybe help people understand as much as I can help you understand

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