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Darkness

In answer to the student, Jiang says God and Satan cannot interfere because of free will, and God's nonintervention means God trusts humans to stand up in darkness.

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Interpretive model in the 2024-08-29 lecture

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Jiang interprets the tower's darkness ritual as magic that collapsed the distance between space and the village and thereby proved the religious leader's access to God.

Timestamped Evidence

Farming Won Because It Carried Religion

2024-08-29, day precision · Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture

Transcript

"...for religious reasons, right? Because when you cover your village in darkness, you feel as though you are in connection with the sky. Does..."

Farming Won Because It Carried Religion

2024-08-29, day precision · Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture

Transcript

"Does that make sense? Right? Because otherwise, how do you know your religion is correct? Only by performing magic can you show that this..."

The War Runs on End-Times Scripts

2026-03-12, day precision · Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence

Transcript

"...world, there's truth and a lie, okay? The light and the darkness. And it is our responsibility as humans to live for the light,..."

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The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception

2025-10-15, day precision · claims

Reading

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.

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