The Jordan Peterson Thread

the ones that do are 90% anime characters

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/

Peterson told me it took several weeks for her to get used to the beef-only approach, and that the relief of her medical symptoms overpowers any sense of missing food. If even a tiny amount of anything else finds its way into her mouth, she will be ill, she says. This happened when she tried to eat an organic olive, and again recently when she was at a restaurant that put pepper on her steak.

“I was like, whatever, it’s just pepper,” she told me. Then she had a reaction that lasted three weeks and included joint pain, acne, and anxiety.

Apart from having to exist in a world where the possibility of pepper exposure looms, the only other social downside she notices is that she hates asking people to accommodate her diet. So she will usually eat before she goes to a dinner party, she told me, “but then I’ll go drink and enjoy the party.”

“Drink, as in, water?”

“I can also, strangely enough, tolerate vodka and bourbon.”

He gives the example of having had some apple cider and subsequently being incapacitated for a month by what he believes was an inflammatory response.

“You were done for a month?”

“Oh yeah, it took me out for a month. It was awful ...”

“Apple cider? What was it doing to you?”

“It produced an overwhelming sense of impending doom. I seriously mean overwhelming. There’s no way I could’ve lived like that. But see, Mikhaila knew by then that it would probably only last a month.”

“A month? From fucking cider?”

“I didn’t sleep that month for 25 days. I didn’t sleep at all for 25 days.”

“What? How is that possible?”

“I’ll tell you how it’s possible: You lay in bed frozen in something approximating terror for eight hours. And then you get up.”

The longest recorded stretch of sleeplessness in a human is 11 days, witnessed by a Stanford research team.

This guy is such a legit guy

lol yeah that 25 days thing is a baldfaced lie

“I’ll tell you how it’s possible: You lay in bed frozen in something approximating terror for eight hours. And then you get up.”

“I’ll tell you how it’s possible: You lay in bed frozen in something approximating terror for eight hours. And then you get up.”

Me and when I learned one of my best friends said he was genuinely interested in Jordan Peterson's work.

is it legal in Canada to punch a weak phony in the throat asking for a friend

talk about an angry orchard! oy!

How is scurvy not a thing with his daughter?

Give it time.

one of them is going to switch to straight up dust soon when the meat betrays them

Vancouver/Canada is filled with these types of people with bizarre diets based on pseudoscience, except a lot of them are vegetarian or vegan

It’s not surprising the same culture creates an environment where there are loonies that have wacky meat diets and/or give baseless advice

the most interesting part of the atlantic article to me was the psycjosomatic explanation for the daughter’s real and serious symptoms disappearing—that simplifying your diet can drastically eliminate stress.

they're *lying*. they are not eating only beef. that the atlantic did a remotely credulous article about this just says a lot about the atlantic.

I’d believe meat and greens. I can envision someone doing that. Not solely beef, salt and water though.

And vodka and bourbon of course.

shouts to eating like a robber baron

does joe rogan deliberately invite people who make him sound like an incredulous voice of reason by comparison?

probably, but also he's just not very bright

I listened to one of his podcasts on which he had a reasonable person and a crackpot on together and Rogan angrily, vehemently sided with the crackpot

Joe Rogan has done a good job legitimizing far right crackpot by showing they can hang with him, an affable stoner bro who likes to work out and sometimes, like, get deep and shit

i've known some actually pleasant affable stoner bros and i feel like you're doing them a disservice with your comparison.

I once went through a ridiculous elimination diet regime a bit like what this Peterson woman has done, though nowhere near as insane as hers (I was reduced to plain meat, pears, plain oats and stuff - I still got all my vitamins in other words)

And in hindsight I frankly think I was convinced psychologically that salicylic acid was "bad" for me. That amines were "bad" for me. That if I ate a few traces of tomato or cheese or wtf ever I was suddenly down with a headache or itchy skin IT WAS ALL FUCKING PSYCHOSOMATIC. I wasted a lot of time, money and energy on utter BS.

That's a subject for another thread but boy criticizing other's people diet is never a good look. I can't stand it when people do it to me. It's the kind of shit the Jordan Petersons of this world pulls on other innocent people who would just like to eat whatever they want, I won't play that game.

lotta negativity in this thread, you guys gotta lay off the apple cider, it's basically depression juice

I dont want to critique anyone’s diet but the bizarre and intrue apple cider anecdote is clearly and objectively hilarious

I'm sorry but anyone eating red meat and literally nothing else is lying or heading for an early grave, I dont think thats beyond reproach?

pointing out that the human body can literally not survive on 25 days of no sleep and eating nothing but red meat is not criticizing someone's diet

criticizing people's diets is never cool, unless it's jordan peterson's diet

actually it would be cool if he went 25 days without sleep eating nothing but red meat cuz then he would be dead

Finally heard this dumb dick's voice thanks to Contrapoints' video and holy shit, the Kermit connection is if anything not made fun of *enough*

Not only Kermit but a Canadian Kermit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9sXf6s7aw

you could probably go a long time just eating red meat without dying. it would be miserable. meat and greens i think would probably not be THAT unsustainable, if you rotated your greens and stuck to leaner meats.

That's a subject for another thread but boy criticizing other's people diet is never a good look. I can't stand it when people do it to me. It's the kind of shit the Jordan Petersons of this world pulls on other innocent people who would just like to eat whatever they want, I won't play that game.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just eating meat is totally congruent with his "ideology". pseudo-scientific and masculinist

"soy boy" is not insult of choice for his acolytes for no reason. eating a plant-based diet is effeminate in their world

Soy isnt great for you tbf. Vegetables are—you need to war vegetables to be optimally healthy this is like the only health consensus.

Inuits traditionally do fine eating little to no vegetables, although the range of animal protein they eat is far different from what non-Inuits can access

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/cb/e0/a6/cbe0a656e770720db9dc57ea4e3f5db1.jpg

Inuits traditionally do fine eating little to no vegetables, although the range of animal protein they eat is far different from what non-Inuits can access

― Josefa, Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:59 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

inuits traditionally gather and eat as much plant matter as they possibly can and only don't have a culture of growing plants because their environment doesn't allow for cultivation

How much can they gather in the winter though? I don't know, but I'm guessing it's pretty minimal?

soy is Fine, Actually

Inuits also eating fish, which is not red meat

How much can they gather in the winter though? I don't know, but I'm guessing it's pretty minimal?

― Josefa, Thursday, August 30, 2018 10:20 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some plants can be gathered in winter, including some berries which are found through digging in the snow. inuit also use preservation, drying, and fermentation. storing plants and meat for the winter in seal fat or inside a dried seal etc.

their diet was still hugely meat-based obviously. they ate more of a range of meat than mr peterson though obv - fish, caribou, seals

(sorry for using the past-tense, referring to the traditional diet which has been impacted by modernity, climate change, etc.)

Soy isnt great for you tbf.

Just look at the damage it's done to the short-lived people of Japan.

hey y'all buy my book: We're All Gonna Die Anyway So Don't Get Neurotic About Every Single Thing You Eat

one of the great sins of soy from the "just eat meat" crowd is that it contains phytoestrogens

Drink liquor
Not apple cider
Mostly bourbon