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A student and Jiang agree that Caesar's later deification under Augustus means Brutus and Cassius can be read as killers not only of a host but of a godlike figure in the Roman imagination.
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Divinity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Is it not even worse? Is it because the Romans then later said that Julius Caesar is God, so it's betrayal of God maybe..."
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Jiang says the greatest individual revolution is to recognize one's humanity and divinity regardless of what authorities say, which is why Christianity spread so widely in times of anguish.
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A live student answer proposes that Jesus dies and resurrects in order to prove he is truly divine, and Jiang says some denominations in fact teach the crucifixion-resurrection this way.
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Jiang says God is perfect love, generosity, forgiveness, and truth, that humans were created in that image, and that sin consists in freely turning away from that likeness until divine brightness dims.
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Jiang responds that the class is not an academic seminar but a journey of intellectual speculation that requires a leap of faith into the poem's divinity and perfection.
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One student tries a radical alternative by asking what happens if God did not create human beings at all, which Jiang immediately rejects by insisting that would negate God's divinity.
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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.
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"Is it not even worse? Is it because the Romans then later said that Julius Caesar is God, so it's betrayal of God maybe..."
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"...After Augustus Caesar comes to power, he elevates Julius Caesar to divinity, okay? So this is why they're in hell. Because Brutus and Cassius,..."
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"...there is a path of question to recognize the humanity the divinity in yourself regardless of what people in authority tell you right this..."
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"cure himself just because he wants to show that he's not he's really uh the the son of god because some people keep doubt..."
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"yeah and certain certain denominations teach this yes to prove that he is truly divine"
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"Okay, so what she's saying here, this is really important, is you don't understand because you don't love enough. If you become a parent..."
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"going verse 61 nevertheless since there's much attempting to find this point but little understanding I shall tell why that way was the most..."
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"...sin we turn away from god and therefore we lose our divinity and once we pick this path we can only compound our own..."
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"Okay. I don't disagree with what you say. Okay. But like, like I want to emphasize certain points about this class. Okay. First of..."
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"Well, this is a bit of a radical opinion, but what if God just didn't create us? Then he's not God. No. Like what..."
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"So I think with Epstein, it's not racism. It's about bloodlines. So if you are part of that circle of people, like a top..."
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"And they're constantly proving that, how they're descended from like the most powerful people, emperors, right? So if you look at Epstein's emails, one..."
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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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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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