Symbolism is the Patterning of Reality #shorts

[NickRascon]

Jonathan you're the only person that I've seen that could actually stump Peterson and the things that he says. You're very intelligent individual and there's plenty of young men like me that need to hear these lectures. My son has been going through so much for the past two-and-a-half years and me and the mom have split and it's just been so hard on us spiritually but mostly for my son and me. We didn't ask for a nuclear family to get destroyed but it's starting to get destroyed...

[kevinh]

My assumption on what leads to this kind of thinking is the modern understanding of authorship and plagiarism that is hammered on so much in learning institutions. A post-grad will see all these people telling the same story and think "oh, they are all stealing this one story and laundering it around" instead of recognizing that every is recounting the same exact event, just related to how it impacted their people at the time.

[hellomate]

I bet you that the flood was literal and symbolic.

I had this idea that the story of Adam and Eve is actually reaching waaaay into prehistory, and that a lot of these Biblical Patriarchs are referring to tribes, based on their long lifespans and the way that oral traditions get passed down.

I have this idea too that symbolism is not just the patterning of reality, but that our brains are symbolic, so what symbolism does is select what people actually remember.

I.e. if an event has a strong symbolic weight, i.e. water in terms of washing away or cleansing, then when a flood literally happens and does something like that, its weight is remembered.

And, before you think this is some anti-metaphysical stance, it's actually quite the opposite.

We are conscious, consciousness makes no physical sense and is the thing that makes meaning possible. We understand our souls to come from God. Heaven as a symbol is more than just physical air or the sky.

I'm starting to suspect that The Bible is actually prehistoric, and the things that remain constant across time are the things that carry a lot of symbolic weight and don't have contradictions to typical lives that people live, as well as elevate people's understanding of their own life.

So... it's possible that the Biblical flood story is not just 7000 years old, but is possibly more like 15 or 20, 000 years old or older, a story that can just stick.

The nature of the life and resurrection of Jesus, and his life and what He revealed to us to me actually ties all of this together in a beautiful elegant way, but goes farther beyond by going past physical reality that we know and undergoing the miracle of the resurrection, reflecting so much of this universal Truth across time.

The Bible fits our scientific history, rather than denies, it, basically. It just needs to be understood as a condensation of symbolic meaning across centuries. The Bible reveals our nature, ultimately is what I am saying by being this condensation across time.