Glossary
A political story sponsored to justify a ruler's questionable path to power as necessary, divinely willed, and non-ambitious.
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Apology
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes? Because she probably has a huge ego and she feels like she's superior. She should be treated as equal to the other person...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes? Because she probably has a huge ego and she feels like she's superior. She should be treated as equal to the other person...."
Key Notes
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Students suggest a meritocratic saboteur may refuse apology because ego and self-justification let her reinterpret her deed rather than confess it.
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A student suggests the guilty person may refuse apology because not apologizing helps her feel better and avoid confronting the deed.
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Another student says the person sees herself as wronged by the world and therefore feels no duty to apologize.
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Jiang says a meritocratic person treats apology as entering another person's debt rather than as repairing a wrong.
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Within Jiang's analogy, mere apology does not by itself restore the wronged person's full mental and emotional trust, so redemption cannot be reduced to verbal forgiveness.
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Acts is very pro-Paul and should be read as a story by people trying to clean up Paul's image.
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He defines an apology as the writing kings sponsor after violent or nefarious accessions to explain that their rule was divinely willed, necessary, and not ambitious.
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Jiang says the cave story in which David spares Saul cannot be true historically; its function is to show David was loyal, loving, and not ambitious.
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"Yes? Because she probably has a huge ego and she feels like she's superior. She should be treated as equal to the other person...."
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"Okay. Yes. Yes, go ahead. I mean, if she apologized, then the other girl would know that she would have got into Princeton in..."
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"Like she knows what she has done. It's not, it's evil. It's not good. And it kind of like, she's saying like, oh, I..."
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"Yeah. But if she doesn't apologize, it probably makes her feel better. Or like, I don't know. Well, go ahead."
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"I think she feels she's wrong in the first place. So why does she have to apologize? She was wronged by the world."
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"...owe him or her a favor, right? Rather than seeing an apology as rectifying a wrong, I see it as forcing myself to go..."
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"Yeah. Well, actually this is a very sensitive cause, uh, uh, I think the loving affair is kind of a third wheel, right? So..."
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"Okay. That's okay. Okay. So your wife cheats on you and she apologizes and you're like, fine, I forgive you. Are you willing to..."
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"We're going to have prosperity unlike anyone could ever imagine. Well, the problem with this kind of gleeful rhetoric about blowing the hell out..."
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"And Paul might still be alive at this time. What we also know is this Acts of the Apostles is very pro -Paul. So..."
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"Remember, the Bible started out as an apology for King David. So this is extremely sympathetic towards Paul. And again, what we're showing you..."
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"...create legitimacy for David. Okay? This is what we call an apology."
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