Rene Girard Interviews 2.wmv

Rev. Dr. Steven E. Berry interviews theoretical anthropologist Rene Girard.

[@fabiogaucho77]

If his videos had more than a few hundred views, humanity would be much wiser

[@zwatwashdc]

This video could be re-titled to something like Girard on the Eucharist. These are important insights but will only be stumbled on by accident.

[@androidpitanga9846]

Some thinkers just leave you with a sense of "wow"

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

we have compassion for Jesus on the cross.

[@yosefbushurskii]

Wise grandpa

[@androidpitanga9846]

Wise owl, perhaps? In the best, fantastic sense of the expression

[@chinchillaer]

This seems like a part from a long form conversation. Is the rest of the interview available somewhere?

[@plekkchand]

Is the formulation of the Golden Rule really not a negative? I wonder about the interviewer's confident correction, and his use of the word "Actually"...

[@rfly05]

plekkchand The Negative is known as the Silver Rule.

[@Mario94177]

What does he mean exactly by "you want to be the victim"?

[@rfly05]

Mario Shtjefni He is the Mimetic Double and you want what he has which is why things escalated to violence. He means that you both wanted the same thing; you wanted to be (like) the victim.

[@OxenHandler]

Sacrificial objects are not scapegoats. The scapegoat in the old testament story of the two he-goats literally escapes into the wilderness with the sins of the jews and the non-scapegoat, the innocent one, is sacrificed. Girard appears to deliberately ambiguate the scapegoat with the sacrificial victim.

[@unclejj13er75]

Leviticus 16:15. He shall then slaughter the people's goat of sin offering , bring its blood behind the curtain, and do with its blood as he has done with the blood of the bull; 16:16. Thus he shall purge the Shrine of the uncleanness and transgression of the Israelites, whatever their sins.

[@OxenHandler]

@@unclejj13er75 The people's goat of sin offering is sacrificed while the scapeoat has escaped with the sins of the jews. They get away with their sins for another year.

[@61757]

Nightmarish backgrpund noise