A recurring anti-elite heuristic Greg invokes to judge who really holds power inside a system.
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find out who you're not allowed to criticize
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...know the old phrase find out who you're not allowed to criticize and you'll see who's really in charge. I think depending on where..."
"...mirrors in Paradise where Peter, the first pope, he lambasts, he criticizes the Catholic Church, right? Well, the founder of the current Holy Roman..."
"...rather than criticizing the slaves for not having faith enough to criticize their free will uh yes"
"...bible all these people azaya jeremiah ezekiel they've come down to criticize the the critics to like say you guys are sinning okay if..."
"...you truly appreciate Divine Comedy. Right? So, this is not to criticize you. This doesn't say that this is a lifelong journey. And, again,..."
"...rationalized that at the time, seeing that there's this work that criticizes the Catholic church, but that it's God's will to criticize the Catholic..."
"...comparing faith to a coin. Second, he's using St. Peter to criticize the church that he kind of founded. And third, he, uh, third,..."
"...the franciscan order now what he will do is he will criticize his own order and then the next counter will meet another guy..."
"...Franciscan and the Arcanos, the Dominican, they praise the other and criticize themselves, there might be a new interpretation, which I think might be..."
"...to talk about the Dominican order and then he's going to criticize the Franciscan order okay no sorry no no he's he's going to..."
"...going on here is he is he trying to kind of criticize the the the christian churches"
"...the fact that he doesn't like me, the fact that he criticizes me, doesn't really impact the way I perceive him. Because what I..."
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