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Because it blinds you. It blinds you to the possibility of love. Okay? It denies you the possibility of love. And it lets you commit the most evil, because you refuse to believe that love exists. Okay? But now, okay, this is the most interesting part, where we are now at the very bottom of hell. We've entered the very center of hell. And so this is the place for the worst people. And so there are four people in the very center of hell. There's this, Satan Lucifer, okay? The man, the angel who betrayed God, and who was condemned to hell. And then he's biting three individuals who betrayed God. He's, he is biting, chewing on Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. That makes sense. The other people don't actually make any sense. They are Cassius and Brutus. 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You can skip this part, this is Latin." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1811.98, "end": 1812.5, "time_label": "30:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1812.84, "end": 1817.16, "time_label": "30:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "But basically, the king of God, sorry, the king of hell is before us." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0034" ], "kind": "reading-quoted-material", "summary": "The student reads Dante and Virgil approaching Lucifer at the bottom of hell, with the guide stopping Dante before the once-handsome creature.", "speaker_attribution": "Student reading from Dante; seg-0034 is empty after boundary repair.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "segment_id": "seg-0033", "start": 1818.04, "end": 1879.19, "time_label": "30:18", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Toward us, and therefore keep your eyes ahead, my master said, to see if you can spy him. 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And it force..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2218.22, "end": 2270.42, "time_label": "36:58", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I saw a solitary patriarch near me, his aspect worthy of such reverence that even son to father owes no more. 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And what Cato is saying is that purgatory is a mountain. They have to climb the mountain to reach heaven. But purgatory is a mountain that is enclosed, okay? So waves, wind cannot touc..." } ] }, { "term": "self-made hell", "usages": [ "A state of imaginative imprisonment created when sin blocks love and self-forgiveness." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0011" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 574.2, "end": 658.04, "time_label": "9:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? The problem is this. Sometimes we cannot love someone else. Okay? Sometimes our soul cannot expand outwards. It's trapped inside of us. Why? The answer is because we've sinned so much. Okay? 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So he doesn't have access to the Iliad and the Odyssey. He doesn't actually know what Homer wrote and said. 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