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He glosses the people in annihilation as those who chose to sleep through life or do nothing with it, which makes annihilation a moral refusal rather than a random punishment.
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Existence
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A student tests Jiang's idea by asking whether faith exists only when the mind determines itself to believe something into existence.
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"so after oh so after their choice they are forever um yeah because like like they just chose to"
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"do nothing in life they just told to um sleep food life right how's that different from like animals or plants oh so does..."
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"does that choice is instant like like um yeah they don't exist it's your choice not to exist"
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"is kind of thing you have to determine your mind to believe it so it will exist or if you don't believe it and..."
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"...and like donald would be like what's the point of this existence right what are you guys trying to accomplish with this sort of..."
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"...I remember last time we were talking about how the angels' existence are really not that admirable. Like, you don't want to be an..."
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"...bite can bring the heart to turn to God. The world's existence and mine. The death that he sustained that I might live and..."
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"...seem to like discuss the matter of material and spiritual um existence so to me i think it seems to say that um our..."
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"...like everyone else, okay? So what is the point of my existence? Why am I writing Divine Comedy? Is there any hope for humanity?..."
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"...of Almighty God there or just the God which is our existence in individually you know okay so in the Divine"
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"...is something outside of us, and therefore God is a concrete existence somewhere outside of us."
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"Okay, so anyone else? What's the point of our existence?"
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