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Rome's image of perfected order that lasts forever, where obedience produces an end of history.
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eternity
Rome's image of perfected order that lasts forever, where obedience produces an end of history.
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Prophets are defined as people who bring the truth of the universe into the world and construct it in language that allows others to access that truth eternally.
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Truth is a tool and is eternal; past, present, and future collide and converge on truth.
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Pre-capitalistic civilizations, Jiang argues, often pursued religious, communal, and moral goods rather than money; the pyramid should be read as a project of community, peace, and eternity.
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Jiang opposes Homer's infinity to Virgil's eternity: Homer imagines world-creation through action and emotion, while Rome imagines a perfected order where history has stopped.
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Jiang says Romans were anti-creative and took the idea of eternity from Egypt, which he plans to address in the next class.
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"Right? If you're a good person, you have a certain look to your face. Okay? If you're clever, you have a certain look. Okay?..."
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"That's what truth is. Truth is a tool. It's eternal. Past, present, and future collide together. They converge on truth. All right. Any more..."
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"taught the scientific method, which is basically you collect information, then you synthesize it, then you write your thesis, okay? It's a step -by..."
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"...a pyramid as a way to build community and peace and eternity on Earth, okay? So in other words, what's interesting is even though..."
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"...piety. What Virgil is trying to create is the idea of eternity. Right? Eternity. Something that lasts forever. What Homer is trying to create..."
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"...the question then is where do they get the idea of eternity from? Can you guess? Egypt. Okay? Next class I will show you..."
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"...trap yourself in hell, and you are there for all of eternity. Okay? And what's really important to understand is that space and time..."
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"...the archbishop they're stuck in a frozen lake to represent all eternity to represent um immutability the incapacity to change and this is happening..."
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"...so much that you burn with self -hatred for all of eternity. You are now the most imprisoned in hell because of your self..."
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"...this pledge, this memory, this bond is what carries them for eternity. So that even though they are a great distance from each other,..."
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"...I will make my home here with you for all of eternity, okay? All right, and so what we now see is finally, the..."
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"...at my life in its entirety. I can now, for all eternity, consider what is important, what is purposeful, what gives us meaning and..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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