We discuss chapter 6: Set Your House In Perfect Order Before You Criticize The World from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Logan, Austin, and Pat converse about anxiety, pain, vengeance, justice, anger, violence, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cain and Abel, and a great perspective from the Old Testament.

Pat shares a tragic personal story, Austin emphasizes the importance of preparedness, and Logan attempts to understand a Leo Tolstoy quote.

We discuss chapter 5: Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Pat, Austin, and Logan contemplate parenting, childhood, discipline, punishment, prison, criminal justice, responsible sex, revolution, and peace. 

Pat argues that childhood can inform our understanding of parenting (even if we are not currently parents), Logan harps on the importance of the little things, and Austin mentions the birds and the bees and belonging. 

Steve Sparks joins Logan for a conversation about Christianity, addiction, recovery, self-induced suffering, sobriety, deliverance, and the power of God intervening in dismal circumstances. Steve wonderfully embodies servant leadership with 18 years of assisting people struggling through difficult crises. He shares wisdom from his experiences working at homeless shelters, pastoring a church, and his current role of working in a lab.  

We conclude our discussion on chapter 4: Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. There were many references to the Old Testament, New Testament and Christianity in this chapter so Pat, Austin, and Logan speak to this subject matter exclusively in this episode. The conversation includes differences between the way God is portrayed in the Old Testament vs the New Testament, ideas about God incarnate, Nietzsche's thoughts on the Old Testament and the New Testament, thoughts on how to best view the past, checking your aim and adjusting your goals accordingly, Nihilism, a definition for faith, and forgiveness. 

Pat emphasizes how asking good questions will lead to pursuing truth, Logan plays devil's advocate, and Austin shares a goal he started in 2020.   

We discuss chapter 4: Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Austin, Pat and Logan try to have a meaningful conversation about people at the bottom of hierarchies, measuring wellbeing across multiple domains, the perception of self, our internal critical voice, how agreeable people need to speak their minds, Cain and Abel, confronting our own resentment, values and purpose, healthcare and insurance, gaming systems, success and failure, incentiving people to do good, how our aim determines our sight, giving our best, and voluntarily taking on burdens in our daily life.

Logan defines the word "passion" after rambling about economics, Pat constructs an argument for freedom then details his understanding of the healthcare field, and Austin sheds light where others might turn a "blind eye."

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We discuss chapter 3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Austin, Logan and Pat reminisce on their high school experiences today while also conversing about nostalgia, Kairos moments, Nihilism, growing apart from friends, sacrificing the present for the future, our responsibility to help our neighbors and friends, and we end with exploring a critique for this chapter while wrestling with the ideas it contains. This Book Club conversation also contains a lot of personal stories from our lives that we hope you find meaningful.

Pat quotes Ecclesiastes while warning about expediency, Logan accepts the limits of his own optimism, and Austin offers a compassionate perspective on relationships.

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James E. Sedlacek generously discusses his newly released book, The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline Corpus, which details the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect tense. He writes about how this tense encompasses events and states of being in Greek. James informs us on the different perspectives and interpretations on the Greek Perfect tense as well as the "Perfect Storm" debate which lead to much discussion within the Greek Linguistics field regarding this subject matter. He then explains the 3 cardinal works on the Perfect tense and explores what the Perfect tense means.

Later, James and I talk about linguistic translation through history, New Testament verbs and their interpretations, how language changes over time, scribal updates to texts, Constantine promoting Christianity to the state religion in Rome, the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Timothy chapter 2, gender hierarchy within the Church, and the woman at the well in the gospel of John. We end the episode with James sharing some of his favorite books on his impressive bookshelf.

Please consider checking out and support James by following his work on his website and by purchasing his book (links below):

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We discuss chapter 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Pat joins Austin and Logan for the Book Club today and our conversation includes pets, Adam and Eve, self-care, pain, the power of stories, volunteering in churches, journeying into the unknown, Abraham and Isaac, Taoism, more chaos and order conversations, the Garden of Eden, and serpents. It's a long list and an even longer episode!   

Austin makes a great point about leveraging our suffering in order to love better, Pat eats dinner on the podcast then rearranges the title of the chapter to create a meta-reality, and Logan grapples with the propensity to sin and wonders if we are all afraid to "walk with God."

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Thank you for tuning into our Shooting The Breeze segment. We discuss the other 2 segments of the show that debuted earlier this week. Austin reminisces the hike he took with his wife on the PCT, Pat voices his thoughts on sleep + dreams + de ja vu, we then talk about wrestling with our high school friends, and we try to remember how many holes we collectively made in walls while wrestling. Stay tuned until the end to hear huge news from Austin!   

Thank you for tuning in to our Book Club. Today we discuss chapter 1: Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back from 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. Our conversation includes lobsters, hierarchies, order and chaos, anxiety, bullying and, last but not least, physical posture. Austin and I try to grapple with the content in this first as best we can.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions as to books we should read or topics we should discuss by contacting us at [email protected]