As the oldest of 4 girls, I had to take up the call to become head of the family when my stepfather died. There was no time to think, but imediate action to take. There wasn't a thought in my mind to do anything less. Daddy never got son thought he needed to carry his name, but he got as close as he could get with adopting me, and I will hold his name with honor until I die. The role of firstborn may be challenging, but it has as much good purpose as any other role.

As a first born, I was the pioneer and set the standard for my two younger brothers. It has taught me to be a leader and team builder. Striving for excellence was always my goal. Of course, I didn't get preferential treatment as my parents thought that we should be treated equally. This taught me humility and compassion. Life has a way of rounding off the sharp edges and I can say that I would never have it any other way as I hold myself to a higher standard. It's not a burden but a mantle to wear with authority.

The first born especially as a man will always have that protector/provider mentality. Suits you well for your journey through life as a man.

When you are born first there is no one to show you what to do, so you have to try something, anything. If you have younger siblings they watch and see whether what you do works out. Usually they can improve on it substantially or come up with something better. It’s the same in business - the innovations that follow a first innovation are usually better. Having said that, someone’s got to a take the risk and clear the way and it is the first born.

Jordan is on point with these ppl lately. What excellent conversations he's been having. I think he's just doing stuff with ppl he likes right now. He seems to have chemistry with them.

What a gift these two guys are.

I have found great meaning in aiming to fulfill my role as firstborn that life has given me.

Jordan's room looks so darn clean. He always dresses like a respectable gentleman.

"It's better to be the second born because it's easier" that is exactly what a second born would say. As a first born of four I will say: "The bigger the challenge, the greater the glory." Being the first born has taught me the value of fairness and responsibility, it has taught me to rejoice in my siblings' greater fortune and to lead by example and sharing what I learned from my mistakes so they don't have to make them. I also think that in actuality it is usually the first born to be the one to carry the traditions more strongly with them, because their parents were their only frame of reference. I never wanted it easier, resilience is, ironically, the gift a hard life gives you.

I’m the oldest of four. The youngest and I have the most in common because we both suffered similarly. It’s not a question that I’m miles above my other siblings when it comes to intelligence but they’re much happier and better adjusted than me. The 2nd and 3rd born are more successful. I’m 37, 2nd is 35, 3rd is 30 and youngest is 27. I’m the only one who doesn’t live at home with mom. I left when I was 18. I’m the only one with children.

I'm not sure who I could share this with, but: I inadvertently took my older brother's blessings. Let me explain. I had had an older brother, first born, who unfortunately died at 4 months, about 2 years before I was born. About 6 years after I had been born, my sister came along. And now there's two of us. And so although I'm not the first born, I've had to take up the responsibility of being the oldest (first born) after my sister came into the picture. It kind of reminds me of what happened to Esau and Jacob (like how its been mentioned in this clip), but in this case I'm like both characters.

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work Thanks.

Amazing how these old stories are on point, through to modern times, we’re so ignorant to think we’re any different or better than the people who lived thousands of years ago.

Jordan's early comment about competition within cooperation always seemed apparent to me with consideration to hunting a mammoth together. You want to be better than others, or vye for position within the hierarchies that this guy lives so much, but you want them to do well toward your shared goal. You want your rival/kin to do well enough that you can kill the mammoth together, but if you're a greater asset to the hunt than you and your household (or cave) get dibs on a whole mammoth hock for the rest of the winter. Competition within cooperation makes human beings so great, on the individual and collective level, being that we are atop the food chain. The only threat to us is our own competitiveness and egocentricity, but we should have some faith in humankind to possibly solve even itself. We've obviously been cooperative enough to live so well beyond survival, in such comfort that hot food arrives at our door.

I love this topic. The pattern in history is interesting. It's always the younger inheriting the promise. The older or firstborn is passed over or rejected. In Jacobs case, God told Rebekah, "the older will serve the younger" before they were born. Paul references this in Romans as prophetic to the rejection of Israel and acceptance of the Gentile nation who would make Israel jealous.

Being the second born myself I was shocked as a little girl and as an adolescent . I met unexplained hatred, back and front stabbing by the first born, a mother without sane reasoning , and a tyrant, violent father. Who wants to be born in such a worldly curse!!! That's not family. That's hell on earth. Trust me if you were in my country, born in my shoes, I don't guarantee you any settlement by that inner cycle. Eternally so.

“If you live in a corrupt world, it’s better to be the second born” Yes I’m afraid as a first born he’s quite right. My younger brother gets to live the more traditionally rewarded lifestyle; study well, good grades, university and off to the races. He’s living his best life but I can’t help but feel like he misses the bullseye since I intentionally unintentionally messed him up when I was younger. “Take care of your little brother” I was told, but who takes care of me? Who stole all the attention? I don’t secretly wish for his downfall or anything it’s just that I know there are justifications for life when you feel like you can’t have something you need. Part of you turns off and you perpetuate a world where that part of the human spirit is actively smothered. I on the other hand inherited all my parents stress, a super tight chest so bad (I was kicking the womb to make room and made it easier for the next guy to come through but nobody gives you credit for that sort of thing) I wake up 8 times a night, have a medical condition that affects my life such that I can’t actively participate in the corrupt world (much to my great chagrin and I’m still trying) without feeling like I’m either selling my soul or going to be abandoned again. But I’m not envious of those like my parents and brother who’re successful, because I know what their success is predicated on and how they treat themselves. Not how I’d wanna be successful (I have my own definition of that as well) and treat myself.

Great topic! An extension of this discussion is needed.

When discussing Esau and Jacob, remember while Jacob was in effect "exiled," Esau sold his birthright and did not receive his father's blessing. Esau did not inherit what was due him. Instead Isaac said to him, "You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother." But the biblical pattern IS that the younger will be served by the older. Paul talks extensively about this in terms of Isaac and Ishmael; the "first and last Adam;" and the "old and new man." All of these picture the conflict between the flesh and the Spirit with the solution of dying to both law and sin and living to God instead.

But I am very confused now because in Genesis 19:31 Lot fled with his 2 daughters and both daughters said they need to sleep with their father to preserved their seed as Sodom was destroyed and on verse 32 it said that the firstborn went in and lay with her father, meaning she had sex with him then on verse 34 it said that the firstborn told the younger sister that basically it was her turn to lay with her father to preserved their seed. So if the bible in this text refers to firstborn literally as the one who was born first as the older person, then why is it that Jesus when he is called firstborn it means something different according to different Christians? Could the Jehovah Witness be correct and that Jesus was created and was the firstborn of Jehovah? Can someone please explain this? Thank you!

Cain, the scientist. Abel, the priest. Very well explained.

His inheritance was not stolen he gave it up for stew

Very interesting conversation :)

God showed Adam and Eve he required a blood sacrifice when he killed the animal to cover their nakedness after they fell. Cain decided he wanted to worship God his way even though he knew God required blood sacrifice. The point of the story is good intentions will not get you right with God, He requires us to worship him as he commands not according to our thinking.

Is it good if the first born develops an attitude of patience, or does that not matter since the problems surrounding them are immediate?

I had no idea english wasn’t his native language until he asked about “arbiter” being the right word.

When Nietzsche said No one sympathise's with the author in his joyous science it didn't make sense to me When Nietzsche's said people who get educated have the tendency to spoil education in general it didn't make sense for me When Nietzsche criticised the holy spirit out of many religions I thought it was Hate not love and it didn't make sense to me But when people who read Nietzsche works and start encouraging theologians' ideals and later religious ideals followed by totalitarian ideals.. It makes the teacher sick To be an Immoralists and atheist but also show reverence to the valuations to God and higher ideals is what is needed. Not the Subjective only but the objective as well..

The real meaning of Esau and Jacob. Isaac, the blind father, is your consciousness; your awareness of being. Esau, the hairy son, is your present objectified world - the rough or sensibly felt; the present moment; the present environment; your present conception of yourself; in short, the world you know by reason of your objective senses. Jacob, the smooth-skinned lad, the second son, is your desire or subjective state, an idea not yet embodied, a subjective state which is perceived and sensed but not objectively known or seen; a point in time and space removed from the present. In short, Jacob is your defined objective. The smooth-skinned Jacob - or subjective state seeking embodiment or the right of birth - when properly felt or blessed by his father (when consciously felt and fixed as real), becomes objectified; and in so doing he supplants the rough, hairy Esau, or the former objectified state. Two things cannot occupy a given place at one and the same time, and so as the invisible is made visible, the former visible state vanishes. Your consciousness is the cause of your world. The conscious state in which you abide determines the kind of world in which you live. Your present concept of yourself is now objectified as your environment, and this state is symbolized as Esau, the hairy, of sensibly felt; the first son. That which you would like to be or possess is symbolized as your second son, Jacob, the smooth-skinned lad who is not yet seen but is subjectively senses and felt, and will, if properly touched, supplant his brother Esau, or your present world. Always bear in mind the fact that Isaac, the father of these two sons, or states, is blind. He does not see his smooth-skinned son Jacob; he only feels him. And through the sense of feeling he actually believes Jacob, the subjective, to be Esau, the real, the objectified. - Neville Goddard. I love both these guys, but their interpretation of the story is speculation.

Awesome

its an advantage forsure

This dude’s like, “the funny thing about the serpent, is like; how does a serpent talk?” The deep thinker can’t fathom how some thing had an ability that it lost; while simultaneously claiming that evolution is a process of losing and morphing abilities. Furthermore; he claims to be a biblical scholar while supposedly overlooking the fact that it’s a seraph not a serpent in the garden. It’s not like Nagini was in the garden; it was probably Quetzalcoatl. Ergo, his premise, logic, and conclusion are all wrong; and not kinda wrong, but absolutely wrong.

The Esau and Jacob story cited in this video is the written by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis?

Day 50 of Very highly recommend that you read Berserk

The difference is clothing is big.

There's another way of taking The cane and Abel story Where cane is the 1st one And responsible for the land Ables Piety And religious dogma Disconnect Him And as the eldest Kane has to put that down And didn't know how Besides through silencing able

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Is he French? I feel like I detect just the tiniest hint of a Frank accent or am I delusional? If he is, his annunciation is impeccable. None of the usual hiccups you would expect.

Being the firstborn is like being a crash test dummy

PLEASE HELP ME DIE.

This man do not know theses Bible stories she speaking of Kmt.

Atlast an Alan from Hangover with a bigger brain than beard 😆😆

This is Paegau? Wtf

No such thing as zero sum duh

He lost me when he started talking about the bible like it's not a human manufactured story. It is a work of fiction & that is understandable!

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This is what I heard - bla bla bla bla bla. A lot of nothing. Something is very wrong about psychologizing and philosophizing the scriptures as a primary pursuit. That’s what the Pageau’s constantly do. This is a Greek mindset and not the same faith as the biblical Fathers - Abraham Isaac, and Jacob / or the Messiah / apostles.

Love Jordan, but shut up and let other people talk

Who the 1st born? They don't even like going burden. 🐦

you know nothing about religion. you know nothing about geopolitics. you know nothing about philosophy. you know nothing about . stop grifting. get therapy.

I had Irish twins 11 month and 4 days apart I'm going to tell them their twins and on their 21st tell them I was only joking 🤣😂🤣