Persona 3 and the Meaning of Life

Professor of Religious Studies, researcher on Ancient Christianity, and Jung Expert (and the guy that got me into Jung in the First Place)at Franklin & Marshall College, Dr. Stephen Cooper joins me to talk about how Persona 3 deals with our spiritual crisis of meaning. ar This is a clip of our Persona 3 discussion "Is Persona 3 Jung's Answer to Freud found on Soundcloud, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
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Music Used:
PERSONA 3 FES】 P3 FES「Piano Cover」
Crescendo
Persona 5 - "Aria of the Soul" [Piano Cover] || DS Music
DS Music
♪ Persona 4 Arena: Heartful Cry (Aigis' Theme) RETRO-SYNTH COVER
Willfox Piano
Persona 3 - The Battle for Everyone's Souls #AkashaProject Remix
Luttii - Music composer
♪ PersonaVelvet Room Piano Cover
Willfox Piano

[@james441]

Do you think it’s ok for a Christian to play this game?

[@philosospielvideogamephilo3736]

Yes very much so

[@james441]

@@philosospielvideogamephilo3736 maybe a vid would be nice sometime laying out the pros/cons etc and how Christians should view the games. I feel real uneasy sometimes when say for instance a representation of Archangel Michael is used or a pentagram is used

[@testsubject747]

@@james441 I'd say keep in mind how the themes and philosophies of Persona 3 itself should be somewhat distanced from its use of legacy designs for Personas, in the greater SMT mainline those designs are called Demons and range across various religions from Greek to Hindu to Abrahamic. Every Persona design outside of the original ones made for the game's characters (Orpheus, its evolutions, as well as all other non-protagonist characters' Personas), are all holdovers from SMT.

[@james441]

@@testsubject747 I decided not to play it. Not worth it. It’s straight up demonic