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The contrast condition that makes goodness meaningful; without evil, choosing good would not matter.
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The contrast condition that makes goodness meaningful; without evil, choosing good would not matter.
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Glossary
In the Monad model, denial of the spiritual system and movement away from truth, knowledge, and love.
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Treachery is devastating because it blinds the person to the possibility of love and thereby permits the most evil acts.
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True love, in Jiang's answer, cannot use a beloved person's memory as an excuse for hatred, violence, or evil.
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The central conflict of the Odyssey is whether someone who has done great evil can go home by repairing the soul and worldview enough to live for family.
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In a conscious universe, evil punishes itself: because the universe knows what a person has done, the memory burns as regret, despair, guilt, and shame.
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A core moral truth in Jiang's account is that if someone does evil onto others, evil will come onto that person.
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Without pain, suffering, loss, or evil, people cannot imagine things and nothing has meaning.
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He says the course teaches that evil must triumph so good may rise, total darkness is needed for light, and hope must end so humans can become hope themselves.
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Jesus becomes special because Rome is an unusually evil false world where the good are enslaved and the wicked seem to win.
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"...the possibility of love. And it lets you commit the most evil, because you refuse to believe that love exists. Okay? But now, okay,..."
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"...you truly love someone, love means that you cannot do something evil. Love is pure good."
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"If you do something evil, it means you actually don't want to love that person. Okay? Does that make sense to you? If you..."
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"...conflict, the central conflict in the Odyssey. Having done so much evil, how can you go home? How can you repair yourself? How can..."
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"...are the universe itself so when you make when you do evil okay and he knows he and his heart knows he's the one..."
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"...of this truth is this moral truth where if you do evil onto others, evil will come onto you."
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"...that enables Achilles to go fight the Trojans. So he's done evil onto Patroclus. And because he's done that, evil will now come onto..."
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"...if you can't suffer, if you can't lose, if there's no evil, you can't imagine things. Okay? Does that make sense? Right? If everything..."
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"...pain is what allows you to focus your mind. Okay? Well, evil, there can be no good. If everyone's good, then like, what's the..."
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"The first is that evil must triumph. So that good may rise. There must be total darkness for the light to shine. And all..."
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"He's special because the Roman Empire was particularly evil, okay? So before the Roman Empire, remember the problem of the Iliad, okay? Remember the..."
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"...you've done good in your life, but at the same time, evil triumphs? Okay? And the message that Jesus came is to help people..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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 Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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