Professor Jordan Peterson explains the dangerous of drinking alcohol in this powerful new video

sbeefyk2 wrote:

BILL SLOWSKY wrote:

he's a motivational speaker and recoving drug addict

It's always the drug addicts who think there's no such thing as control. For instance, I have a drink about once a month at a restaurant with my meal. News flash, drug addicts, it's possible to be disciplined and in control of your body. Just because drug addicts have psychological issues that make them prone to being an addict chasing some feeling they'll never find in drugs/alcohol, doesn't mean we are all like that.

Anyways, good for him for being in recovery. But it's always laughable when addicts generalize the entire population as the same as them.

It's always laughable when people who know literally nothing about a person can dismiss them based on a video they didn't even watch...

The real question is will you die ignorant or will you at some point become mature enough to realize 99.9% of what Peterson says is correct?

At there very least maybe don't judge people based on 20 second Tik Tok clips ripped from context?

BILL SLOWSKY wrote:

Ballantine wrote:

Who is this guy? What a wimp.

he's a motivational speaker and recovering drug addict

Ok, so it was bad for him. I'm guessing over a million people drink alcohol a day in this country. And, how many are attributed to violence and accidents?

I know many great runners from the 80's that drank a beer or two almost daily at dinner. As every doctor in the world has said "everything in moderation"

Just because this guy couldn't handle it, does not mean the rest of us will have a problem

too cool for school wrote:

I see. The same cool guys that hate Squid Game and Joe Rogan are back to hate Peterson.

Bravo.

I see. The same low self confidence, impressionable and weak critical thinking guys who hate normalcy and non-internetz-smart fluff think edgy, alternative voices are extra valid because they're non-conforming and fulfill a JV man's confirmation bias? Bravo, internet cretin, bravo!

Ryan Deak, Esq. wrote:

too cool for school wrote:

I see. The same cool guys that hate Squid Game and Joe Rogan are back to hate Peterson.

Bravo.

I see. The same low self confidence, impressionable and weak critical thinking guys who hate normalcy and non-internetz-smart fluff think edgy, alternative voices are extra valid because they're non-conforming and fulfill a JV man's confirmation bias? Bravo, internet cretin, bravo!

There aren't many things in the world more baffling than the high self esteem of people like Ryan... lol.

zxvczcxv wrote:

0/10. There is no way that character is a professor.

He was, in fact, a tenured Associate Prof. at Harvard and is currently a professor (I assume a Full Professor) at the University of Toronto.

It’s easy to see why Peterson’s vaguely Jungian analysis of the world appeals to struggling young men, doesn’t change that he’s a total hack. He used to say addiction was ‘all in the head’ and now that he’s gone through it he’s preaching about the dangers? Gtfoh. Not to mention he did an experimental Russian coma treatment to overcome it? Nothing about that? Didn’t even get sober the hard way like most ‘addicts’ do. Dudes always been a grifter.

He may nearly have been fired, but the fact is that he was not and he is currently on faculty at UT. I just get ticked off when idiots like Steve the Addict state these outright lies in order to promote one ideological/political stance versus another. The fact is that Peterson still has his tenured job b/c of the following liberal-backed institutional bedrocks:

-Tenure, which at the university level (different w/ K-12) protects academic freedom; i.e., one's right to publish one's findings and opinions w/out fear of being fired. This is in Peterson's contract and it's the basic reason they could not remove him at UT even though I'm sure the liberals who run the school wish they could have.

-Protections from discrimination on the basis of disability: Again, this is in Peterson's contract. His addiction is construed as a disability. They can't fire him b/c he's literally claimed disability (addiction). The guy is living in Europe right now, far from Toronto, working his stuff out b/c and only b/c he has been allowed to do so by the very liberal policies and the liberal academic administrators that Steve and all the other brain deads on here believe are chasing conservatives out of academia.

-And, as you said, he's attracted attention, big audiences, etc. to UT so even though the liberals who run UT probably hate his guts and think he's a community college-level scholar, they're not going to make any serious attempt to remove him. They are just hoping he stays in Siberia and gets a job over there-- lol.

hackfraud wrote:

It’s easy to see why Peterson’s vaguely Jungian analysis of the world appeals to struggling young men, doesn’t change that he’s a total hack. He used to say addiction was ‘all in the head’ and now that he’s gone through it he’s preaching about the dangers? Gtfoh. Not to mention he did an experimental Russian coma treatment to overcome it? Nothing about that? Didn’t even get sober the hard way like most ‘addicts’ do. Dudes always been a grifter.

Even his intellectual bona fides are just rehashed Jungianism. Idiots think he invented the wheel when literally everything he puts forward was developed by another man (and much more eloquently). He’s another derivative college hack with a persecution complex.

big fan of JP, see his vids on trans, gender pro nouns etc..

This is worth watching, reminds me of a lot of youth today,

https://youtu.be/9RqsoobvFcE

I Win wrote:

zxvczcxv wrote:

0/10. There is no way that character is a professor.

He was, in fact, a tenured Associate Prof. at Harvard and is currently a professor (I assume a Full Professor) at the University of Toronto.

We say this like being a professor means anything...

People like Marc Lamont Hill are "professors"...

I've seen Wal-Mart greeters brighter than Hill... and there's THOUSANDS of these unhinged imbeciles polluting campuses all over the country.

Everyone here who's getting fired up because you don't have an alcohol problem... 1 - you're not the intended audience; 2 - If you've got your sh|t together then why do you feel the need to post on a message about the dangers of alcohol abuse, bragging about how you don't abuse alcohol?

There are people who would be well served by listening to this guy's message... not sure why that triggers some of you who don't need to worry about it?

hackfraud wrote:

It’s easy to see why Peterson’s vaguely Jungian analysis of the world appeals to struggling young men, doesn’t change that he’s a total hack. He used to say addiction was ‘all in the head’ and now that he’s gone through it he’s preaching about the dangers? Gtfoh. Not to mention he did an experimental Russian coma treatment to overcome it? Nothing about that? Didn’t even get sober the hard way like most ‘addicts’ do. Dudes always been a grifter.

LOL his clip talking about alcoholism is at least 5 years old if not more. He talks about alcohol being addictive BEFORE his "addiction" to benzos. Which, in reality, were prescribed by a medical doctor and he had a terrible reaction to it with his SSRIs.

He almost died and tried everything he could (went to clinics all over north america) before going to Russia. Hackfruad is quite the projection.

I don't like everything he says and everything he does. But on the whole, most of what he says is 1) true 2) genuine and 3) coming from a place of humility (He often speaks of his own ignorance)

Yes, this thread is hilarious. I love how people criticize him for re-using "Jungian psychology" as if everybody knows what that is.

roller coaster wrote:

Yes, this thread is hilarious. I love how people criticize him for re-using "Jungian psychology" as if everybody knows what that is.

Right? I bet these same idiots are using other outdated crap like Euclidian Geometry!

Millennials are awful.

NOT STEVE THE ADDICT wrote:

I've been a 3-4 beer/week drinker for like 15 years now. I did recently quit, but it was purely to cut out the extra calories in an attempt to lose those last 10lbs.

What really irks me most is when former addicts/junkies want massive respect for quitting and then they start grandstanding and acting like authorities. Why don't I get props for my self-control? I rarely drank more than 3-4 beers a week, never did drugs, smoked maybe 3 cigarettes in my whole life... fonking weaklings.

Similar to the couch potato who finally starts working out and eating like a normal person. They are so amazing, nobody can appreciate how much sacrifice and effort they made.