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Will and desire together create the soul: you are what you want and what you move toward.
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Desire
People are not in hell because they did bad things; they are in hell because they desire hell, think it is best for them, and are happy there.
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People are not in hell because they did bad things; they are in hell because they desire hell, think it is best for them, and are happy there.
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Jiang says will and desire together create the soul: a person is what they want and what they move toward.
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Jiang says souls are in hell not simply because they did bad things but because they desire hell and believe it is where they belong.
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Achilles' warning to Patroclus functions like reverse psychology: by forbidding too much glory, he helps produce the glory-seeking action that gets Patroclus killed.
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Anna Karenina, in Jiang's reading, seeks God-like meaning in an affair because modernity has killed God and redirected spiritual hunger into sex and lust.
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The Ring plot is interpreted as desire causing contracts, transgression, treachery, sacrifice, destruction, and possible renewal.
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Destroying desire destroys the world but permits a new beginning, making the Ring a national epic of German will.
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"...that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire. Okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul...."
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"And this is a really important idea if you are trying to understand Dante. Free will is a fundamental truth of the universe. You..."
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"...that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire, okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul,..."
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"They're entering hell because they want to do so. And this is a really important idea if you are turning to Dante. Free will..."
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"Mad men lusting for battle. Now about me, you will only make my glory that much less. Okay? Me, me, me. All Achilles cares..."
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"Okay? So, Gilles tells her best friend, Jane, to talk to John, to try to get him to apologize. All right? And then Jane..."
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"can't keep up he's he's exhausted by the demands of anna karina so this is what she says before she kills herself my love..."
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"happens when we stop believing in the spiritual what happens when we disconnect from the right hemisphere of our brain we clutter our brains..."
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"And Wotan and the gods want to create a palace for themselves called Valhalla. And they hire a giant to build this Valhalla. And..."
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"That's his great idea. So he gives birth to twins, Siglinde and Sigmund. They're separated at birth, they're twins, and then they run into..."
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"...him and get the ring for themselves, okay? The problem of desire, which causes misery. So in the end, what happens is that Sigfrid..."
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"...back to Schopenhauer's idea that the source of the world is desire, okay? When you destroy desire, you destroy the world. But when you..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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