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Charlemagne's cathedral-building was not just architecture; it was a technology of awe and unity that tried to bring heaven onto earth.
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Charlemagne's cathedral-building was not just architecture; it was a technology of awe and unity that tried to bring heaven onto earth.
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The pyramid creates external awe: an enemy who sees it as God on earth would be deterred from attacking Egypt.
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Because the pyramid had to appear as God on earth, Jiang argues its builders would preserve mystery by destroying models or records so later people saw it as a divine gift rather than a reproducible technique.
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Jiang models early religious thought as arising from experiences that overwhelm ordinary explanation: childbirth, stars, healing, nature, and death.
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"...the pyramids. They are meant to give people a sense of awe and unity. The cathedral was meant to bring heaven onto earth. One..."
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"It is designed in a way that when the priest speaks, his voice is projected all around the cathedral, and the walls bounce the..."
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"...okay? That's the first reason, unity. Second is the idea of awe. So let's just say you're a powerful army, and you're an enemy,..."
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"...a sense of divinity and inspiration, right? They're trying to create awe and fear and inspiration, so they would not want for people to..."
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"...and we would be surprised by, marvel at, basically be in awe of? Okay. We're in this world. What are things that make us..."
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"this life come out of nothing right okay and if you don't if you have a psychology you can't explain what happened so that's..."
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"worlds out there does it make sense all right what else amazes you about the world to me okay recovery from disease okay so..."
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"...ever in human history. You know that they practice shock and awe, decapitation. So how do you respond to that? You respond to that..."
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"...not to eat from the tree of knowledge? Why but to awe? Why but to keep ye low and ignorant? His worshiper. He knows..."
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"...Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy the..."
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"...to be a slow burn as opposed to the shock and awe that we saw in the initial first month. But even so, I..."
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"...So in round one, remember, the Americans focused on shock and awe, basically trying to decapitate the regime through strategic strikes. And they did..."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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