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Jiang's theory is that souls arrive in this life with a purpose chosen before birth, and those whose purpose is learning or transcendence are often given hard circumstances so adversity can become a means of ascent.
He says the people who survive the greatest adversity are often the truly blessed ones because their hardship reflects both a noble purpose and the chance to transcend circumstance.
"...because you know what your purpose is, each time you encounter adversity, that enables you to ascend higher, okay?"
"...great are those who have survived the good times. The greatest adversity. Because, first of all, they came with a very specific purpose, which..."
"...stand together and make changes necessary in order to overcome this adversity. And historically, it's always been Japan, okay? Japan in the 12th, 13th..."
"...that traumatized me. But as you point out, you know, this adversity made me who I am today. And I'm very thankful for that..."
"...war? Of trauma? Of tragedy? And how can we overcome this adversity? So the Odyssey, it's about three individuals and a family, and they're..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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