Conscious speech includes imagining what is happening inside the listener's mind and heart and imagining the effect one's words have on that listener.
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Conscious speech includes imagining what is happening inside the listener's mind and heart and imagining the effect one's words have on that listener.
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Key Notes
He accepts the student's distinction that the scientific method is useful for convincing others and spreading an inspired idea after it has arrived.
Jiang defines 'the West' here as the connected world stretching from Europe to India, trading ideas, people, and gods, distinct from a comparatively isolated China.
Maintaining health, happiness, and safety requires communicating with the other world and keeping it happy.
Religion allows humans to communicate and be together in society; without religion humans could not think, communicate, imagine, or be fully human.
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"There's also a part of me that steps back and analyzes what I say. Okay? It has to make sense to me, it has..."
"Okay, so. I agree with what you're saying, but personally, I think scientific method is more like how people, how these inspirational ideas are..."
"Oh, yes. Good point, exactly. That's exactly correct, okay? So I use scientific method in order to convince other people that I'm correct. You're..."
"...stretching from Europe all the way to India, was in constant communication from, was in constant communication with each other, trading ideas, people, and..."
"So it's almost the same religion, okay? Maybe the details are different, but the idea is the same. The idea is that we are..."
"Okay? So art is basically religion. There's no difference. Second thing is that they're trying to show to themselves how reality works. Okay? They're..."
"Without religion we could not be human. We could not think. We could not communicate. We could not imagine. Does it make sense guys?..."
"...therefore seek and open a wider range of military -to -military communications with the People's Liberation Army, with a focus on supporting strategic stability..."
"...system, it's the same thing, right? Centralization of the means of communication, right? A party. Well, this is just the capitalist class, an oligarchy...."
"...that we do is we communicate a lot with our child. Communication. We believe in democracy in our family. If we're going to make..."
"...instant they ceased to be authors, artists, or philosophers, and their communications arose from anything but the intellectual quality which had originally interested him...."
"...whom he was not familiar. No minister of state has such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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