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This is important for us because it is Augustine's ideology that will drive Eu..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 640.97, "end": 719.33, "time_label": "10:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And in the story, he talks about, about his life, where he grows up with a pagan father and a Christian mother named Monica. And in the beginning, he is a very disobedient young man. 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There's nothing authentic or true about it. So we're going to read a bit of Confessi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 784.79, "end": 840.32, "time_label": "13:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And this starts from the womb, OK? We are born in sin. We are born of sin. I saw something which I had in plenty of much better quality. My desire was not to enjoy it. Not what I sought by stealing, but merely excitemen..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 840.32, "end": 908.57, "time_label": "14:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "a gang of naughty adolescents set off late at night after we had continued our game in the streets. We carried off a huge load of pears, OK? So they stole a huge load of pears from someone. 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"SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "self -complacent when he deserts that changes good in which rather than him in himself he ought to have found dissatisfaction pride okay pride makes us happy it makes us ambitious but it will blind us from God this deci..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "He says Adam is doomed by love for Eve, then connects Augustine to Virgil: love blinds and destroys, while obedience to God or destiny is the only approved love.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang lecture voice with rhetorical classroom prompt.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1936.92, "end": 1998.42, "time_label": "32:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "self -complacent when he deserts that changes good in which rather than him in himself he ought to have found dissatisfaction pride okay pride makes us happy it makes us ambitious but it will blind us from God this deci..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1998.42, "end": 2067.22, "time_label": "33:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "entail companionship in sin okay so Adam was forced to make a decision Eve had already eaten a fruit so either Adam could follow God and disavow Eve or he could follow her in sin he followed her in sin and that's why we..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2067.22, "end": 2150.83, "time_label": "34:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "me ask you a question who else at this love can only lead you to disaster it is a disease you must deny it you must recognize it for the disease that 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Christian women do not kill themselves. If you are a true Christian. You do not, you would never kill yourself. Why? 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