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Jiang rejects the idea that Dante's love is reducible to sexual pursuit, even when students treat desire as at least part of his motive.
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Jiang says Dante senses that Virgil's exposition of love is not right before he can fully explain why, and the universe responds by sending corrective dream images.
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Jiang rejects a punitive reading of Lucia's intervention and instead frames it as a loving correction that speeds Dante past the temptation that has been slowing him down.
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Jiang explicitly says his morning claim was wrong and replaces it with the view that angels have perfect free will, meaning perfect obedience to God.
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Jiang says the student has understood the framework backwards because plants and animals do not have souls, even though they arise under God's laws.
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Jiang rejects the idea that harmonizing wills makes a person into God; the aim is likeness or closeness to God, not self-deification.
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He retracts his earlier view that Albanian protests were a Soros-style NGO operation and instead accepts that the protests are organic resistance to a development project destroying conservation land.
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"So it's playing to that idea. It doesn't make sense, guys. Okay. So, so that goes. That conversation, that, that dialogue between Dante and..."
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"It's especially because. After it's right after Virgil delivered his speech about love. And so Dante's almost like inhibiting his worldview to his right...."
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"Yes, exactly. Yes. Thank you. Okay. All right. But, but you see how, like, once you connect the vine, the vine will steer you..."
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"No, but like, why not just go and punch the guy, you know? Curse the guy. Why are you like lifting the guy and..."
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"Yes? I think if you're coming from a mother or like a wife perspective, or girlfriend, because you love this guy so much, and..."
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"It's a nudge, right? And this nudge is gonna force Donny to think, why did this happen? Why did I have this dream, right?..."
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"for all eternity also remember in no limbo is a really nice retirement community it's just like earth a very nice um italy they're..."
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"No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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"Yeah. I understand that. I understand that. Yes. Keep on going. Yes. Well, if you align all contingent wills and create absolute will, you..."
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