Discussion for The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories - Lecture #10
study group discussion
Discussion as part of our Study Group.
podcast
My notes
JBP’s gmail account locked out.
Very useful resource on Bible: Biblehub.com
Even if you told the truth and followed the right path - that doesn’t mean things will work out but it’s your best bet.
What do I need to give up to reach the next stage ?
Death associated with you learning that you are wrong - so what you learn is in proportion to you willing to make a sacrifice.
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No doing things that you know that you shouldn’t do.
- Calculate the grave cost of doing it.
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Doing things you want to do
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Figure out the cost of not doing something. Cost of not doing it maybe higher than cost of actually doing it.
- Get your fear behind you.
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Unless you are associate with something transcendent - you don’t have the strength
Humanities and the Arts
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Economic utility of beauty.
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Read, think and communicate will make you unstoppable.
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Sagrada Familia - very famous tourist attraction - took 300 years to build.
Road to enlightenment
- You encounter all the things you are scared of first.
Competition b/w Tyranny and Equilibrated System (Jean Piaget).
Why is enlightenment so difficult ?
- Things get much much worse before they get better once you start walking in this direction.
God living the tyrants alone until they have done enough sins ?
How to fortify yourself against the tragedy ?
- To fail and know that it was all your fault.
Importance of living moral life.
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Health of your soul depends more upon living moral life than material goods.
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Prosperity of a society/economy depends upon the trust b/w the individuals.
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Success of ebay - Trust.
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Trust others even when you can get betrayed.
- Because when you offer a hand - you are inviting the best part of that other person forward.
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What can you achieve if you put yourself into something with all you got ?
Encountering problems ?
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They ask for the best out of it - nobility of the enterprise.
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Happiness chasing is not the right thing to do.
Your own consciousness eating up at you - at least don’t be source of your own misery.
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Everything you do - try to get it right.
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What happens when you make a mistake ?
How to deal with paranoid people ?
- You never lie to them.
What is Love ?
- To try to move things towards good.
Why did he cut off the lady’s question at 1:58:15 ?
Addiction
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Slot machine nature of addiction.
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Replace it with something better.
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Figure out what long term adventure addiction is inhibiting.
Books
Jeffrey A. Gray - Neuropsychology of Anxiety
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes