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Jiang defines happiness or gladness as one's connection to God and says greater connection produces greater gladness.
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Connection to God
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He argues that helping other people connect to God increases happiness in the world, making spiritual mediation the core human mission.
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Jiang says the Divine Comedy is a selfless act because reading it helps people connect more fully to God.
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Jiang says the concrete thing that moved Jephthah away from God was the desire for worldly power, and that the connection to God is lost when power becomes the object of will.
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"Right. The closer your connection to God, the more glad you are."
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"...question. Okay. So gladness is happiness. Happiness comes from your connection to God. And what's really important, okay, and this ties back to your..."
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"the really hard to win battle and he wanted god to really help him you wanted power yeah you understand"
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"...want power when you want worldly power that's what severes connection to god you've always had it but you lose it when you want..."
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"...platonic view? Like Plato really thought about mathematics and its connection to God. Yes. But he still, but what I don't understand is that..."
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"...So God is all forgiving. Okay. You have a direct connection to God and, if you get executed by the church that's bad but..."
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"...against this right he clearly believes that you have direct connection to god that's where your intuition and imagination come from right all right..."
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"...groups right but the idea is you have a direct connection to god for the bible that's the main idea whereas how the church..."
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"...get it. So like you said that happiness is our connection to God and that to strengthen our connection to God, we have to..."
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"Your connection to God is not measured by your happiness, it's by your faith or your devotion to God."
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"...ideas that Dante believes, okay? That we have a direct connection to God, who is the Monad, the source. And that this material world..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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