Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.
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Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.
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Jiang glosses poetry's divinity claim as the idea that there is God in human beings and God everywhere, and poetry reminds people of that.
Jiang says survival of the fittest is wrong as a human rule because most human history shows compassion, empathy, divinity in creatures, and special care for the weak.
He claims science, especially Big Bang, evolution, and neuroscience, has been used to make people forget divinity and fear death.
The two trees are defined as the tree of knowledge, which gives the mind of God, and the tree of life, which gives life as long as God.
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"...fire. of things, poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man, okay? There's God in us, and poetry reminds us there..."
"...we were compassionate empathy right we believe that every creature has divinity and those who are weakest have the most divinity that's why when..."
"But we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such, we have control over our lives. And that's something that you have..."
"And you only do that for people you really prize. That's kind of strange, right? The people who we think that are most worthless,..."
"every single early religion whether it's a Daoism or Hinduism or the Egyptians or the Native Americans religion all believe this and they all..."
"choose hell you have access to technology right and this technology allows you to conquer and control other people okay but once you control..."
"...like evolution like neuroscience to forget to make people forget the Divinity inside you right so that's what science is for but unfortunately for..."
"Then the eyes of both were opened. Okay? So Satan is telling the truth. You will not die. You will learn. You will become..."
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