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Virgil's claim that he is merely unlucky in limbo is incorrect; Jiang says Virgil chooses to be there and has paths toward salvation that he refuses.
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Choice
Free will is the number one principle of the universe; people choose school, lies, and acceptance of things as they are.
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A slave is someone who wants to be a slave and chooses slavery; enslavement depends on the person's choice to lie to themselves.
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Free will is the number one principle of the universe; people choose school, lies, and acceptance of things as they are.
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Jiang says the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was easier and more attractive than farming, but farming offered the benefit of religion, which is why people ultimately chose it.
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"The kindly master said, Do you not ask who are these spirits whom you see before you? I'd have you know before you go..."
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"So I want you to remember this passage because Virgil is saying, there's nothing wrong with me. Unfortunately, I was just unlucky. Okay? This..."
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"...slave, who chooses to be a slave. Why? Because it's all choice, it's all free will, right? I cannot make you do this. I..."
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"Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so..."
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"...States would start a war with Iran. Because it has no choice in the matter. If it were not to invade Iran, it would..."
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"...export hubs. So the world, in the short term, has no choice but to look to America for its energy needs. And what did..."
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"...he killed the leadership of Iran, then they would have no choice but to surrender. And his proof of concept was, of course, on..."
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"...Mexico, you can take over Greenland, okay? The Russians have no choice but to respond because if the Americans are controlling the strategic choke..."
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"...to happen. Because according to Russian grand strategy, you have no choice but to say, the Iranians. Because you're trying to promote this view..."
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"According to the grand strategy of Russia, the Russians have no choice but to get involved. Because what will happen is that if you..."
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"Japan has no choice but to fight. Because, again, if China and Taiwan were to unify peacefully, Japan would be cut off from the..."
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"...and force it out of the conflict. Those are our two choices. You have probably the least willing American military in the history of..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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