Jordan Peterson did a show in San Jose (12 Rules for Life book tour) that I saw and enjoyed with friends. | I was expecting a self-help book tour thing: take personal responsibility and stuff like that. But it was actually him talking about what inspired him to write his books, which went all over the map. He's an academic, and started a bit scattered, but as it went on, he started bringing things together and having a coalesced message and it was quite an interesting and fun talk. |
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12 Rules for Life book tour, Jordan Peterson did a show in San Jose (2019.01.22 @ City National Civc), where I'd also seen Styx a few years ago. I saw it with friends and enjoyed it.
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Jordan was intro'd by Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report. Dave Rubin started with testing us on some basic current events, and laughing at themselves that they decided to open up here (San Jose), because they wanted to help out some refugees: sane conservatives/libertarians stuck in a hostile land. The audience lapped that up. He kind of teased the audience about the 60/40 male-to-female ratio, and since we were in the Bay Area, some of the guys were going to have to double up. Just a little icebreaking.
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This tied into a story about a rat study: where a researcher was testing rats and whether they like "play". And the answer was obviously yes. And you could tell because they made the rats work (push a little button repeatedly, before they could get in to play). And once they knew that, they would work quite a bit to get to play with the other rat. (And that play was wrestling).
But then they also started pairing up a bigger rat with a littler rat -- so that one could always win, if it wanted. And they had strong ingrained rules. The little rat had to invite the other to play, by bouncing like a little dog. And then they wrestled. The bigger rat could win -- but if they let them play repeatedly -- the bigger rat knew that he had to let the little rat win, about 30% of the time, or the little rat would get bored (or feel cheated) and not play any more. And this was about sense of fairness that are ingrained. We don't like bullies.
It also wove in a story about babies, and how they know anger early. (Little terrorists). Many people mistake babies crying for fear or other things, but if you look closely, many are red faced and not looking away: they're often just pissed off and raging at a world that won't give them what they want. And you see it in 2 year olds, before they've moderated and learned social skills. They just take, or go in rages if someone takes something they want (or won't give them something they want).
Which sort of wandered back into the point that if men were toxic, then single mom families would result in boys and girls growing up to be more successful than dual parent families. And we see the opposite (statistically). Men help teach values, and teach kids what not to do -- which is why kids from dual parent families often outperform ones from single parent families.
There was a lot in-between, with studies, references, anecdotes, and some jokes. But it was like watching a really interesting philosophy lecture that touched on all sorts of things.
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Understanding
Either you know, or you don't. If you think you know, you don't know.
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Introduction
If you are going to die, have your spouse die, or know anyone whose spouse will die, then this book is for you.
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Guide to Widowing
After 32 years with the "love of my life", I joined the Widow's Club, then learned everything I could, and summarize it in this book.
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Laptop
Hunter Biden had a laptop with all sort of obvious crimes on it. The media suppressed it, and lied about it.
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Biden Immigration Crisis
When Joe took office, we had 15K illegal crossings per month, he peaked over 260K per month due to his policies.
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Never works
If Democrats ideas are so good, why do they never work? Ever.
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Tucker-Putin Interview
The left was outraged that Tucker Carlson did journalism and Interviewed Vladamir Putin, during the Russo-Ukranian war.
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Taylor Swift
I'm not a Swifty, but I really don't care (love/hate her).
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Music Genres
The left's version of American Music is that blacks gave it to white America. That would imply blacks are racists.
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Biden on Guns
Joe Biden is a gun and gun control gaffe machine, knowing the wrong and dumbest thing to say in any situation.
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Get on your knees
Jacqueline Novak's off-Broadway, one-woman show about giving head (blowjobs) was made into a Netflix special.
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E. Jean Carroll Rape
An Elle advice columnist wrote a book claiming President Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman's lingerie dressing room.
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Michael Brown
08/09/2013 Michael Brown (18) is shot for being a stoned violent thug that robbed a liquor store and assaulted the cop trying to arrest him. Violent riots result.
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Censorship
When you can't win the battle of ideas, you need to silence the opposition.
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Fake Rape
A leftist trope is that no Democrat female would lie about rape, but Republican ones can be ignored. Facts say otherwise.
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Rape Culture
The left invented fictions like 1 in 5 women are raped in college, so they can play White Knights.
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Cyber Stalking Mom
Mom created 369 Instagram accounts to harass her ex-business partner and competitors.
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UVA Rape on Campus
💩 Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" that was later completely debunked, and they lost a lawsuit over.
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Duke Lacrosse
💩Three men at Duke were falsely accused of rape, while the media led Lynch-mob called for their heads. All false.
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Global Cooling Scare
The dishonest, partisan and uninformed downplay the Global Cooling craze of the 1970's, because it makes them look bad.
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Ring in 2024
2023 was the best of times, and the worst of times. (The latter stands out more). Let 2024 be a fresh start.
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Grace of God
This guy would get up every morning, and fart hellaciously and loudly/proudly to the annoyance of his wife...
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May roadtrip
A quick day trip to San Antonio, turns into a few life lessons about Tesla, and what can go wrong?
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Grief
02/18 my wife had a 2023_Heart_Attack, and passed away on 03/22/23; the hardest day of my life. Except for the ones after it.
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Day 38
Technical Difficulties, the Memorial, and closure.
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Day 35
I did the Brave Widow podcast, cleaning up and prepping for the weekend/memorial. And am going to do a video.
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Week 6
Week 6... ending Stasis? The memorial and turning the page?
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Day 36
Last minute prep, people coming into town.
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Day 34
Member of the Widows Club: worst club ever. How do you help? Understand the wound is physical and not just in their head.
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Day 33
I had one job... writing a summary of Melissa's life for the Memorial. That took all day. It'll never be done.
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Day 32
My future is on hold, while I hold on to the future from my past.
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Day 31
Still chewing on the pile of work that going from a partnership to s aole proprietor brings.
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Day 30
Dating a Widow. (According to YouTube, and various websites).
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Day 29
Change is constant: embrace the change, because fighting it changes nothing.
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Day 28
Book worming, pain or suffering, and cortisol tricks? Grief has a physical and psychological component.
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