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I'm here to monthly check on the answers and problems. here to ask you questions that help you better understand yourself and better..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0057" ], "kind": "question", "summary": "A student asks whether Asha can differ by individual, using Hitler believing he was pursuing truth or justice as a difficult example.", "speaker_attribution": "student/audience member; the final words of the question spill into the start of seg-0058 in ASR", "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3282.69, "end": 3318.38, "time_label": "54:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "ashes different for for different individuals um so I was thinking about an example is um so Hitler as a racist he he he not only saw but he also making some like a lot a lot a lot of people to hate Jews and let's assum..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0061" ], "kind": "answer", "summary": "Jiang answers that Asha requires letting go of hatred and judgment, even around Holocaust evil; 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And today I introduce to you the most influential person who has ever lived, and his name is Zoroastrian. And Zoroastrian will..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 84.34, "end": 161.37, "time_label": "1:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So we're in constant dialogue with the universe. Now, this is hard to understand, so we've used metaphors or stories to explain this system. All right? So let's go over how we've explained the system using metapho..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 161.37, "end": 243.32, "time_label": "2:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And as a result, both God and we are in the process of becoming, okay? We are becoming into perfection. We are becoming into eternity and infinity. And so we are co -creators with God. Okay? 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It literally..." } ] }, { "term": "Asha as becoming", "usages": [ "Asha is not a fixed doctrine but a changing, personal, never-ending movement toward virtue." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0053" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "segment_id": "seg-0052", "start": 3013.9, "end": 3083.79, "time_label": "50:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "of comfort of ease of pleasure and as a result they can't know anything true knowledge is can only be found in the everyday in the mundane with ordinary people that's where God is okay universities are constructed to be..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3083.79, "end": 3151.56, "time_label": "51:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "work towards it there's no there's no end point to Asha all right and Asha is going to be different for everyone but if everyone's moving towards Asha and the world becomes a more virtuous a better place and a more just..." } ] }, { "term": "Categorical Imperative", "usages": [ "Kant's highest moral law, used by Jiang as a bridge for explaining Asha through universality, free will, and humans as ends." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0012" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 573.38, "end": 646.26, "time_label": "9:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "They're good at horse riding, they're good at archery, and they're good at telling the truth. The Persians find it abhorrent, hateful, to lie. So they're always telling the truth. Okay? But that's a very simplistic unde..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 646.5, "end": 715.83, "time_label": "10:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And what I will show you is that it's very similar to the concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the most important, is the law of universality. And what this idea states i..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 715.83, "end": 781.25, "time_label": "11:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Or, do unto others as others would do unto you. But actually, no, it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that, imagine that you are God yourself. Okay? And everything you do will be reflected throughout the u..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 781.25, "end": 843.45, "time_label": "13:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Now last is the idea of humans as the end. Now you have heard, maybe heard the phrase, the means to an end, right? So maybe I'm a king and I need to build a better world. So I need to start wars, conquer the world..." } ] }, { "term": "Class about questions", "usages": [ "Jiang's teaching model: ask hard human questions rather than memorize stable answers." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3151.56, "end": 3203.88, "time_label": "52:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "correcting the error in fact i probably made a lot of small errors um in my uh talk last class and i obviously made make a lot of mistakes every class okay so i apologize for that but the thing about this class is reall..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3203.88, "end": 3260.6, "time_label": "53:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "about Zoroastrianism and i made a lot of mistakes so for example i said that Christianity was the first monotheistic religion last um semester and now i recognize that's wrong it's actually Zoroastrianism okay so i'm co..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3260.82, "end": 3282.69, "time_label": "54:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I mean I don't want to give you a whole lesson on these subjects that go upside down. I'm here to monthly check on the answers and problems. here to ask you questions that help you better understand yourself and better..." } ] }, { "term": "Daevas", "usages": [ "Rendered in ASR as Davahs; demons or false powers associated with choosing violence and the lie." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1553.318, "end": 1609.46, "time_label": "25:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works. And that's what Zoroastrianism. Okay? And when these twin spirits came together in the beg..." } ] }, { "term": "Drush", "usages": [ "The lie, the force opposed to Asha inside the human being." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 498.78, "end": 573.2, "time_label": "8:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "is that he reimagines the system and creates a new hierarchy where Ahuraamastra is the top god. Okay? And you can call him the monad as well. And for Azorathustra, Ahuraamastra is the lord of wisdom. Okay? It literally..." } ] }, { "term": "Drush as birthplace of Asha", "usages": [ "Jiang's theodicy that humans are born into the lie so they may discover truth through struggle." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0039", "segment_id": "seg-0039", "start": 2298.45, "end": 2358.91, "time_label": "38:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, here's what's happening, Zoroastria. Yeah. Let's say that's your story. Let's go step by step. the sweet milk of her udder, and nothing evil grow in thee any longer, unless it be the evil that grow out of the confli..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2359.92, "end": 2422.3, "time_label": "39:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "From our struggles, we will discover what truly God is. And that's a gift that God has given us. To live in a time of evil so that we ourselves may create good for humanity. That's the central message of this. Without v..." } ] }, { "term": "Ego and fear", "usages": [ "The two obstacles Jiang names as preventing movement toward Asha." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0060" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3385.21, "end": 3444.08, "time_label": "56:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "they must burn in hell because all the evil date even They've done in this world but if we want to appreciate Asha if we really want To discover the truth okay we need to let go this hatred we need to let go of this jud..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 3444.08, "end": 3498.69, "time_label": "57:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "and i get shut out all the time on youtube and i know that okay but if i want to achieve asha i need to take this risk okay because at the end of the day what matters is my own individual pursuit of the truth what other..." } ] }, { "term": "Gathas", "usages": [ "The poetic material attributed to Zarathustra that Jiang uses to explain Asha, twin spirits, and good thoughts/words/actions." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1439.29, "end": 1495.79, "time_label": "23:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? What is the truth? Being virtuous. Because you yourself are virtue. Okay? So he wrote in a language called Avastin. And it's a beautiful language. And if you are a Zoroastrian priest, you can memorize all this. Ok..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1495.79, "end": 1553.318, "time_label": "24:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? But the problem, of course, is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay? That's why people don't do this. Not because they don't know the truth. It's because they fear the truth. All right. S..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1553.318, "end": 1609.46, "time_label": "25:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works. And that's what Zoroastrianism. Okay? And when these twin spirits came together in the beg..." } ] }, { "term": "God as creativity", "usages": [ "Nietzsche-inflected definition Jiang offers for how to think about God while moving toward Asha." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0063" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0063", "segment_id": "seg-0063", "start": 3571, "end": 3630.11, "time_label": "59:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "change um okay so like i i'm not a zoroastrian priest and i don't insult the religion okay because what they will tell you is that um at the end of the day asha is virtue and god is virtue okay so so when you do asha yo..." } ] }, { "term": "Good thoughts, good words, good actions", "usages": [ "Jiang's formulation of unified Zoroastrian virtue across mind, speech, and deed." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1495.79, "end": 1553.318, "time_label": "24:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? But the problem, of course, is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay? That's why people don't do this. Not because they don't know the truth. It's because they fear the truth. All right. S..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1553.318, "end": 1609.46, "time_label": "25:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works. And that's what Zoroastrianism. Okay? And when these twin spirits came together in the beg..." } ] }, { "term": "Hell as heart-created", "usages": [ "Jiang's Q&A claim that hell is not a final external place but a condition humans create in their hearts." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0061" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0061", "segment_id": "seg-0061", "start": 3498.69, "end": 3547.96, "time_label": "58:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "rejecting everything that you know in the past so you can rebuild yourself once you make that once you make that decision asha will come to you naturally okay but first and foremost what you need to do is let go of thes..." } ] }, { "term": "Humans as the end", "usages": [ "The rule that no person may be sacrificed as a means to another political or moral goal." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0012" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 781.25, "end": 843.45, "time_label": "13:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Now last is the idea of humans as the end. Now you have heard, maybe heard the phrase, the means to an end, right? So maybe I'm a king and I need to build a better world. So I need to start wars, conquer the world..." } ] }, { "term": "Monad", "usages": [ "The One or God whose consciousness is reflected in human beings and to whom consciousness returns." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0004" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0.34, "end": 83.68, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, we've done the Greeks, and we've done the Israelites, and today we discuss the Persians. And today I introduce to you the most influential person who has ever lived, and his name is Zoroastrian. And Zoroastrian will..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 84.34, "end": 161.37, "time_label": "1:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So we're in constant dialogue with the universe. Now, this is hard to understand, so we've used metaphors or stories to explain this system. All right? So let's go over how we've explained the system using metapho..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 161.37, "end": 243.32, "time_label": "2:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And as a result, both God and we are in the process of becoming, okay? We are becoming into perfection. We are becoming into eternity and infinity. And so we are co -creators with God. Okay? Now, there are certain chara..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0004", "segment_id": "seg-0004", "start": 243.38, "end": 305.98, "time_label": "4:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Candle. This is a candle. And we are all mirrors surrounding this candle. And we are all, the candle is reflected in us. Okay? So the monad is in us, and we are all part of the monad together. So what happens is w..." } ] }, { "term": "Organized religion", "usages": [ "Institutionalized religion that differentiates labels and serves priestly control rather than direct divine connection." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1920.2, "end": 1980.65, "time_label": "32:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I don't exist. I'm not an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless. A trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved. Have s..." } ] }, { "term": "Poor prophet", "usages": [ "Jiang's category for divinely inspired poetic figures who speak a shared truth across cultures and eras." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1808.3, "end": 1868.1, "time_label": "30:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right. So this sounds a bit complicated, a bit abstract. And honestly, he was speaking to people at that time. Okay? So what does he really, really mean? And how can we understand what he's really saying? Well, the..." } ] }, { "term": "Prison for drunks", "usages": [ "Rumi's image, read by Jiang as the material world where souls are blind to their true origin." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 2030.28, "end": 2069.54, "time_label": "33:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I don't remember. I can't remember. I don't know where I came from. But I know that I must have come from somewhere. Okay? This jokingness began in some other realm. Some other tavern. When I get back around to that pla..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2069.54, "end": 2131.85, "time_label": "34:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return to the Monad, to our master, then we'll see the truth for ourselves. Okay? So here's another poo..." } ] }, { "term": "Process of becoming", "usages": [ "The no-endpoint movement toward Asha across reincarnation, struggle, and duty to others." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0067" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "segment_id": "seg-0066", "start": 3684.7, "end": 3739.8, "time_label": "1:01:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "yeah so again there's no end point okay there's no destination here okay it's becoming okay it's a possible constant process of becoming and it's not possible to seek asha in one lifetime right that's why we are reincar..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0067", "segment_id": "seg-0067", "start": 3739.8, "end": 3795.78, "time_label": "1:02:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "process of becoming right does that make sense okay so look i mean i know people want simple answers i know that oh there'll be there'll be a final judgment we're gonna go to heaven and we'll live every happy happily ev..." } ] }, { "term": "Rumi", "usages": [ "The 13th-century Persian poet Jiang treats as a later reincarnation-like carrier of Zarathustra's truth." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1808.3, "end": 1868.1, "time_label": "30:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "All right. So this sounds a bit complicated, a bit abstract. And honestly, he was speaking to people at that time. Okay? So what does he really, really mean? And how can we understand what he's really saying? Well, the..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1871.82, "end": 1920.02, "time_label": "31:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I see so deeply with myself. I so see deeply with myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly. Why would I want to bother my eyes again? Now that I see the world through his eyes. His eyes. Okay? Through t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1920.2, "end": 1980.65, "time_label": "32:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I don't exist. I'm not an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless. A trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved. Have s..." } ] }, { "term": "Self-destruction", "usages": [ "The practice of negating inherited knowledge and comfort so a new understanding can be built." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0046" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0044", "segment_id": "seg-0044", "start": 2597.34, "end": 2657.78, "time_label": "43:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "He's a devil, man. Okay. Because he's denying you your free will. He's denying you your capacity to love, to seek Asha yourself. Okay. But one day will the solitude weary thee. One day will thy pride yield and thy coura..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2658.18, "end": 2711.81, "time_label": "44:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "What's really important is to act. Okay. To seek self -destruction. So another way of saying this is always assume that whatever you know, no matter how true or untruthful, it's probably wrong and to go and negate yours..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0046", "segment_id": "seg-0046", "start": 2712.49, "end": 2765.16, "time_label": "45:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I'm going to get, I'm going to negate everything I've learned and believe everything I've learned is deceitful so that I can rebuild my own knowledge. And through that process, will you actually achieve enlightenment? O..." } ] }, { "term": "Spirit of gravity", "usages": [ "Nietzsche/Jiang image for solemn religious seriousness that denies dance, love, and life." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0043" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2486.25, "end": 2530.649, "time_label": "41:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But it doesn't affect to be so delicate. We are all of us fine sumter asses and she asses. Okay? What we have in common with a rosebud which trembles because a drop of dew has formed upon it. It is true that we love lif..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0043", "segment_id": "seg-0043", "start": 2530.649, "end": 2596.96, "time_label": "42:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "He was a spirit of gravity. For him, all things fail. Okay. So what Nietzsche hates is organized religion. Because organized religion, it is very serious, very somber. It basically wants to enslave us, right? 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Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return to the Monad, to our master, then we'll see the truth for ourselves. Okay? So here's another poo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2131.85, "end": 2195.76, "time_label": "35:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "you actually read what Nietzsche writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zoroastria himself promoted during his time. Of course, Nietzsche is promoting it in a more modern contemporary lens. Okay?..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2196.14, "end": 2241.14, "time_label": "36:36", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Though great star, what would thy happiness be if thou hadst not those for whom thou shyest? 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