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Episode 1

"Jordan and his round table explore the themes of freedom against tyranny, God’s allowance of evil, and faith as an adventure within the first three chapters of Exodus. They seek to answer the question of whether one should take the easy path even if it is wrong or do what is right despite it being hard." Dailywire

The first part is an introduction to the Panelist.

The Panelists

Jordan_Peterson's Episode 1| of their study of Exodus with Jordan Peterson at Daily Wires' symposium on Exodus.

Jordan Peterson's Exodus Panel

• Douglas Hedley is Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics and Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Jonathan Pageau is an artist, public speaker and writer.
• Stephen James Blackwood is a Canadian-American scholar, cultural commentator, and social entrepreneur.
• Dr James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion from St. John's College, Cambridge.
• Dennis Prager an author and practicing Jew with knowledge of Hebrew and the Torah with PragerU.
• Gregg Hurwitz is an American novelist, scriptwriter, and producer.
• Ian Oswald Guinness is an English author and social critic now based in Fairfax County, Virginia; he has lived in the United States since 1984.
• Larry Paul Arnn is an American educator and writer, president of Hillsdale College.
• Ben Shapiro in Episode 12

3 min

Douglas Hedley in his introduction speaks of the foundation of our culture... and that we are facing a cultural crises.

The phrase "Know thyself" is an Ancient Greek aphorism that means "know thy measure".

According to the Greek writer Pausanias, it was the first of three Delphic maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

Douglas Hedley equates knowing yourself with knowing the Bible which helped form our cultural heritage.

Knowing thy self includes knowing thy culture.

All cultures are not equal because they do not produce an equal in outcome and a bad culture can be the enemy of the people because it degenerates the members of society by encouraging corrupt or anti social behavior.

Those other two maxims of wisdom that follow the statement at Delphi to "know thyself" are "nothing to excess" and "certainty brings ruin".

The wisdom of "nothing to excess" seems reasonable but how does "certainty brings ruin"?

Certainty brings ruin

According to Martin Kramer of the Washington Institute, "When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal."

He also tells us, the phrase to "know thy enemy" isn't in the Koran but it comes from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu.

The full quote is: "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."

But what if the enemy and you are the same.

Pogo the 'possum reminded us, “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US.”

So are we the enemy of a truth?

Is there something mankind does not want to see that we must be willing to face of we are "... willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Social welfare schemes of men which should be hot topic in every study of Exodus or the Bible since that is a major theme a conflict within the text but it was decidedly absent in this panel's discussion.

The tables of the dainties of rulers from Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, and the free bread of Caesar that should have been for the welfare of the people were a snare and a trap because they were the covetous practices which Peter said makes us merchandise and had made us possessions on the bondage of Egypt.

The welfare of the world are the entitlements of "certainty which brings ruin".

What was the welfare scheme of Moses, Abraham and Jacob?

Solomon and the corvee

When Ian Oswald Guinness brings up revolutions since he was born in China and lived there during the beginning of its revolution. He had met Isaiah Berlin who had also lived in Russia during its revolution. They will eventually address the revolutions like that of the American and French revolutions that were born out of different cultures.

How common was slavery and what type of slavery?

Egypt feared the Israelites who were in bondage in Egypt since the days of Joseph and increased their burdens and thought to demasculate their society by reducing males. During this episode which mentions the midwives who "feared God more than Pharaoh" and Jonathan Pageau will see this reduction of male children as a sort of feminization of the Israelite community.

Egyptian politics that sought to make Israelites to cast out their children was certainly void of the wisdom of "nothing to excess".

If they truly wanted to weaken or to reduce Israel who were thriving more than Egyptians they should have increased the benefits of their welfare system tun through the temples of Egypt which we address through out this review.

21 minutes into this episode Ian Oswald Guinness will point out that Solomon was becoming a second Pharaoh with his corvee while Israel was meant to be free and never return to the bondage of Egypt. Israel had been told to write that in their constitution by Moses in Deuteronomy 17.

A corvee system is a system where a portion of your labor belongs to the State. Historically people have agreed to this to receive the protection of the State.

"Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection."

Tyranny of choice

Dennis says there was tyranny from Pharaoh but we need to be free from the tyranny of ourselves.

Is it all just a choice of the tyranny you choose or is there a transcendence?

Hierarchies

11 minutes

Jordan Peterson describes God or god as what ever is at the hierarchy of your own mind. He sees that what you hold as most valuable to you become you God.

13 minutes begins to read the text of Exodus 1

Exodus 1:8 "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."

15 minutes

Jordan Peterson sees that Israelites were made slaves by the new Pharaoh but the truth was they had been in a corvee system of bondage since when they first entered Egypt. What was happening was that the terms through crafts of state became more oppressive.

How common was slavery and what type of slavery?

The bondage of Egypt was a system of Corvee that started out with owing twenty-percent of your labor to the government but became more oppressive with less benefits which became more and more grievous.

Egypt wanted to reduce Israel who were thriving more than Egyptians. If they really wanted to destroy Israel they should have given them more benefits.

At 20:45 Ian Oswald Guinnes mentions this corvee under Solomon which is why God divided Israel. All systems of Corvee are a return to the bondage of Egypt and almost always move people away from liberty through covetous practices which leads to the degeneration the Masses and usher in the rise of foolish tyrants.

21 min.

Dennis points out that every day between Passover 50 days before Pentecost there should be a reminding blessing against external tyranny and internal tyranny to yourself (lusts, etc.).

But there is the tyranny of neighbor over neighbor which much of the Ten Commandments does address. Certainly we should not murder, steal, or bear false witness but the one that appears invisible in the mind of modern man is "Thou shall not covet..."

They speak of the ideologies that everything is tyranny you just pick your own tyranny which of course is the ideologies of the Derrida types and their propaganda of deconstructionism and blindness.

Ian Oswald Guinnes points out that all power corrupts.

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" is an observation Lord Acton made in a letter to Bishop Creighton on April 5, 1887.

If that is true then how is Paul justified in his statement with in Roman 13?

The truth is Moses was setting up a government with the division of power was not merely in three branches of government but in fact was recognizing that we were endowed by our creator with the power of Choice and that power needed to remain with in each family. Any centralization of power, i.e. power of choice, into the hands of a few would lead man back into bondage.

All three branches of government must remain with what Jordan Peterson will call "the sovereign individual" in Episode 2

Fear God

24 min Exodus 1:15 mentions killing the male children. That is a pattern of evil repeated through the stories of history. What if you could just destroy the male children without killing them?

The midwives does not kill because of fear of God more than the Pharaoh.

Psalms 111:10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.

But Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 9:10 "The fear(יִרְאַ֣ת yir’aṯ) of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding."

35: min Dr. Ian Oswald Guinnes brings up "civil disobedience" which suggest there must be a higher morality from a law prior to the civil law.

50:min continues to read.

Moses is put in and ark upon the water. They see Moses in associated with water which Jordan points out many times but the Pharaoh with stone.

Dennis suggest that water is the undoing of Moses when he strikes the rock to bring fourth water.

Water flows and not fixed like stone.

Moses was judged for taking credit for what God did.

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Status of Moses

Exodus 2 they cover Moses adopted mother is called the "daughter of God" and the Mother of Moses.

The ramifications of that status is never fully addressed.

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unedited Notes

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Know thyself" is an Ancient Greek aphorism that means "know thy measure". According to the Greek writer Pausanias, it was the first of three Delphic maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The two maxims that follow "know thyself" were "nothing to excess" and "certainty brings ruin". "Know thy self" Delphi

Sun Tzu

As it happens, the phrase "know thy enemy" isn't in our Holy Quran, but it comes from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu. The full quote goes like this: "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.

What if the enemy is us?

Walt Kelly's phrase, “We have met the enemy and he is us” derives from braggadocio during the War of 1812 in which commodore Oliver Hazard Perry reported, “We have met the enemy and they are ours” to William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie.May 19,

Pogo the 'possum's quote in the poster Kelly designed to help promote environmental awareness and publicize the first annual observance of Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970: “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US.”A

George Orwell

Quote by George Orwell: “Man is the only real enemy we have."

Ian Oswald Guinness remarks about the foundation of different forms a revolution may take comparing the Russian, Chinese, and even the French revolutions with that of the American revolution.

Like Douglas Hedley he too is concerned we do not know the principle of Exodus and it's connection to the foundation of the American path to freedom.

Dr James Orr and Dennis Prager both believe there is a value to society to learn from an examination of Exodus.

Stephen James Blackwood is a Canadian-American scholar hopes they can breath some life back into these stories that help mold our approach to life.

Jonathan Pageau as an artist approaches the symbolism that was intended to bring virtuous order out of chaos.

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21 min

Ian Oswald Guinness points out that Solomon was becoming a second Pharaoh with his corvee while Israel was to be the opposite. Dennis says there was tyranny from Pharaoh but we need to be free from the tyranny of ourselves. Is it all just a choice of the tyranny you choose or is there a trancedence

existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.

"the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the modern world"

To government by one individual (in an autocracy) to government by a minority (in an oligarchy, tyranny of the minority) to government by a majority (in a democracy, tyranny of the majority)

55 "Water and Moses"

By 107 they are bringing up the idea of violence over through of tyranny as an error.