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Jiang treats the answer as partly correct, says there is really no fixed center because God is everywhere, and keeps asking for further possibilities.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "everywhere so there's really no center god we are the center yes okay any other possibilities based on what we've learned what we've discussed..."
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Jiang restates the paradox as a clash between a spiritual realm with God at the center and a human sensible realm where we seem to occupy the center and God looks far away.
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A student proposes that Earth became the middle of everything because God loves humans most and therefore privileges the world they inhabit.
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A student proposes that God should be understood as the most comprehensive scheme, so that greater comprehensiveness means greater nearness to God.
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The Zhu Yuanzhang Keju story shows that the emperor did not want fairness; he wanted a system preventing localities from rebelling against the center.
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The Keju's real purpose is not fairness or transparency but preventing localities from rebelling against the center.
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"everywhere so there's really no center god we are the center yes okay any other possibilities based on what we've learned what we've discussed..."
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"...paradox where in this realm in a spiritual realm god is center of the universe but in our realm it's almost the opposite right..."
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"uh the logic here is that god created the entire universe but god likes humans the best and therefore he likes the world that..."
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"...um uh reconciling this um you know this distance versus uh center uh paradox is uh to view god not as a singularity or..."
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"and everyone's excited okay so everyone comes and takes the examination when the results come out what happens is that the the test takers..."
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"his report he presents to the emperor okay and he says to the emperor your majesty I personally have done this investigation and and..."
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"...a system in which the localities will not rebel against the center okay and that's what the Kezhu is all right so that is..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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