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You can be American and Christian. It doesn't matter, all right? And that's what the Jewish people say as well. I can be Chinese and Jewish. I can be American and Jewish because being J..." } ] }, { "term": "Christian Zionism", "usages": [ "The belief that Christians must support Jewish return to Israel, which Jiang connects to dispensationalist prophecy and criticizes as instrumentalizing Jews." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 1396.88, "end": 1487.93, "time_label": "23:16", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "the Palestinians and Israelis they're the ones who want Israel and Iran to go to war why why are they actively encouraging conflict between the and and the israelis why are they encouraging a war between iran and israel..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 1487.93, "end": 1578.04, "time_label": "24:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "is the belief that as a christian you must support jews in the return to israel okay so because remember that um um israel as a nation was only found in 1948 and then um basically it um in about 70 b c e the romans burn..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1578.04, "end": 1653.94, "time_label": "26:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "to be in conflict with the Middle East okay so in other words the Middle East okay yeah all of them all of them okay so um so Christian Zionism um I mean you can make the argument that it's a pretty evil idea why becaus..." } ] }, { "term": "Dispensationalist premillennialism", "usages": [ "The belief that biblical prophecy gives a plan involving Israel, the temple, Antichrist, war, and Jesus's return." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 845.82, "end": 917.2, "time_label": "14:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "But then you have another group called dispensationalists. I don't even know how to spell this word, actually. Okay. Anyway, this is dispensationalists. Historic. okay all right so now the pre -millennials are split int..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 1004.95, "end": 1092.48, "time_label": "16:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "or not worthy if we are worthy we'll live on forever if we're not worthy then we'll burn in hell forever okay okay so there are different variations of this prophecy well that's what's a belief okay so in other words th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1148.89, "end": 1226.85, "time_label": "19:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "because again there are two billion people who believe in Christianity and they all believe something different okay does that make sense all right are we clear about the four different ideas any questions okay so okay..." } ] }, { "term": "Dissenters", "usages": [ "English Protestant groups who treated the Bible as supreme authority and came into conflict with the king and establishment." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0009" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 629.662, "end": 705.65, "time_label": "10:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So this started a major conflict. 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Historic. okay all right so now the pre -millennials are split int..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 1004.95, "end": 1092.48, "time_label": "16:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "or not worthy if we are worthy we'll live on forever if we're not worthy then we'll burn in hell forever okay okay so there are different variations of this prophecy well that's what's a belief okay so in other words th..." } ] }, { "term": "Israel lobby", "usages": [ "Named as the third major reason Jiang will use to explain why the United States will invade Iran; the packet sets up its Christian background before defining it directly." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0001" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 1.42, "end": 70.63, "time_label": "0:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay, let's start class. We're continuing the United States -Iran war. As I've said in the previous class, the United States will invade Iran. We don't know when. It might be two years from now. It might be six years fr..." } ] }, { "term": "Money as exchange", "usages": [ "Jiang's normative claim that money is meant to circulate as exchange and transaction rather than accumulate inertly among billionaires." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 2196.32, "end": 2269.39, "time_label": "36:36", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "If you're poor, what happens? You become more poor, okay? So, as a poor person, what do you think? You think that life is hopeless. Life is pointless. There's no future. There's no hope, right? 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Let'..." } ] }, { "term": "Postmillennialism", "usages": [ "The belief that people must establish the thousand-year kingdom first and Jesus returns after it." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0011" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 771.96, "end": 841.15, "time_label": "12:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Does that make sense? All right. So these people in America, these dissenters. Okay? One question that they always ask themselves is, why isn't Jesus back yet? Okay? The second coming. 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This is important because from Augustine onw..." } ] }, { "term": "Prophecy as plan", "usages": [ "Jiang's shorthand contrast for a theology that treats biblical prophecy as something believers can enact to bring Jesus back." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1226.85, "end": 1311.9, "time_label": "20:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "you think this is evil what's a problem with believing that there's a plan in the Bible what would that be anti -christian okay so um this is hard okay but but the idea is that with this plan you're trying to manipulate..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1829.93, "end": 1926.45, "time_label": "30:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "many Christians who believe that Israel and the Jews must be used as a tool to bring Jesus back, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that America was founded as a Christian nation. Therefore, its soul is Chris..." } ] }, { "term": "Real-world inequality", "usages": [ "The closing formulation that the poor lose and the rich win, used as the social condition that makes religious hope attractive." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2678.93, "end": 2685.05, "time_label": "44:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": ". Listen. In the real world, the poor will always lose, the rich will always win. No matter what happens." } ] }, { "term": "Reformation", "usages": [ "A rebellion against Catholic authority that places scriptural interpretation in the hands of believers and proliferates Protestant sects." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 461.965, "end": 543.12, "time_label": "7:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "In fact, it's already happened because the Catholic Church is giving us this thousand years of peace and prosperity. Okay? So he's called a millennialist, which means no, okay? That thousand years is just a metaphor. It..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 543.12, "end": 629.662, "time_label": "9:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And because of the Reformation, you now have thousands, tens of thousands of different religions spawning up. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So you have different religions and you have different descent. So let..." } ] }, { "term": "Religion as hope", "usages": [ "Jiang's model that religion becomes powerful because it supplies hope to people whose material world offers none." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2586.31, "end": 2640.6, "time_label": "43:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Right. Okay? Okay. So that doesn't make sense, okay? All right? So this is the... 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So all this inequality is ma..." } ] }, { "term": "Zionism", "usages": [ "Presented as the belief that Jews are God's chosen people, Israel is the promised land, and Jewish identity is a peoplehood or race requiring return to Israel." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0023" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1653.94, "end": 1735.54, "time_label": "27:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "we have the idea of Zionism okay and Zionism is the belief among certain Jews that two things okay one is that the Jews are the chosen people of God and that Israel is a promised land and therefore Jews must return to I..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1735.54, "end": 1829.93, "time_label": "28:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "religion above their nationality or their race okay do you understand and Zionism is like no being a Jewish person is a race and therefore you must return to Israel okay the problem uh with with all this is that in Isra..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0001" ], "note": "As of 2024-05-08, Jiang states a dated prediction that the United States will eventually invade Iran, while explicitly leaving timing open.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 1.42, "end": 70.63, "time_label": "0:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay, let's start class. 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O..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "note": "As of 2024-05-08, Jiang ties contemporary Israel-Iran conflict to Christian Zionist and dispensationalist expectations rather than only to secular geopolitics.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1311.9, "end": 1396.88, "time_label": "21:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "these groups the dispensation list millenials premillennial are the most organized and they're the most fanatical they really believe that this is true okay we know that throughout history those who achieve their object..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1829.93, "end": 1926.45, "time_label": "30:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "many Christians who believe that Israel and the Jews must be used as a tool to bring Jesus back, okay? 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