diagnosis
Charon's warning can be read not merely as a declaration of hopelessness but as the belief structure of damned souls: they believe God has abandoned them.
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Belief
The people who maintain power in Plato's cave do not need force; they rule by manipulation because prisoners believe in the shadows and in the rulers' power.
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diagnosis
Damned souls are in hell because they believe there is no God, no heaven, and that they deserve to be there.
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The people who maintain power in Plato's cave do not need force; they rule by manipulation because prisoners believe in the shadows and in the rulers' power.
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The cave escapee is killed not by rulers but by fellow prisoners because people fall in love with the hallucinated world and defend it as real.
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diagnosis
Jiang emphasizes that early Freud believed patients and treated their symptoms as evidence of real experiences rather than fantasies.
model
Jiang extends the model to psychiatry and meditation: chosen belief or mental orientation can heal, while externally imposed treatment often does not.
framing
He says Jesus probably did not teach belief-in-me salvation; the real questions are what he believed, why it spread, and why Rome treated him as dangerous.
argument
Jesus rejects mere name-belief: using his name without doing the Father’s will marks evildoers, not saved Christians.
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"And here advancing towards us in a boat an aged man, his hair was white with years, was shouting, woe to you, corrupted souls...."
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"Well, so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across because Dante is still living. But when Virgil says to him, Hey, let us pass...."
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"You believe there is no God. You believe there is no heaven. You believe you deserve to be here. That's why you're here. Okay...."
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"the soul of humanity for the human consciousness between the US dollar the old world order and artificial intelligence the new world order okay..."
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"just like get rid of them and there's this chain around my neck it's like a it's like a ribbon and he doesn't know..."
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"...that they're evil but really all their power rests on our belief in their power okay they themselves don't have any power except to..."
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"it so that when this man who's seen heaven who's seen the truth who's come back to tell everyone these chains that you have..."
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"Okay. So what he's saying is, first of all, rape is very common and these children are saying the same thing, okay? Keep on..."
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"If you try in an approximately similar way to induce the symptoms of hysteria to make themselves heard as witnesses to the history of..."
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"Okay, so this is, the ideas are simple, okay? These women, when they're being hysterical, when they're being anxious, depressed, it's because they suffered..."
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"Okay? So you can argue that cancer is really a question of loss of faith. What is cancer? Cancer is a splitting of cells,..."
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"But if you yourself want to get better and you go see a psychiatrist, you'll probably get better. Okay? So why this person, why..."
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