The text says that once the will yields, even a little, it collaborates with force and loses the excuse of pure coercion.
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Excuse
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"it has a better force as these souls did they could have fled back to their holy shelter okay"
"...Okay? It was the worst place in the world to be. Excuse me? Basically, the Dark Ages. Yes?"
"...he would be recognized as the greatest poet in the world. Excuse me? Well, what happens when we read the Inferno, what's happening is..."
"...is a great poet? How do we, how do we know? Excuse me?"
"...suffers has not abetted forces in any way then there's no excuse these souls can claim for will if it"
"...forces to which one yielded mingles with one's will and no excuse can pardon their joint act absolute will does not concur in wrong..."
"Uh, excuse me. Away her own free will. She, she promised her free will to God so that the two are now founded together...."
"Or she can just go take DMT. Excuse me? She can just go take a DMT and. Take what?"
"...they do? They argue. They debate. They question each other. Okay. Excuse me?"
"...there are people who can memorize divine comedy and recite it excuse me right yeah right and and then we also know the human..."
"...have you do something for me is it kind of the excuse is because you want to take control over you is it possible..."
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