The text confirms that Dante's bodily shadow becomes news inside Purgatory: messengers are sent back to tell the others that this figure is flesh.
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Flesh
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a handful of people you can return and this man is flesh if as i think they stop to see his shadow that answer..."
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The Elohim passage is interpreted as a theology where flesh and sin give mortals access to knowledge gods cannot obtain.
Jiang characterizes Frankist eschatology as a rejection of spiritual transcendence: at the end of history humans should remain flesh, enjoy material pleasures without limit, and gain immortality inside the world rather than leave it.
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"...a handful of people you can return and this man is flesh if as i think they stop to see his shadow that answer..."
"...a stupid idea why would you become spirit we should be flesh right because God manifested us as flesh in order to enjoy"
"this world so when the world ends then we should be free to enjoy the world as much as we want sexual orgies all..."
"Elohim said... Elohim is the gods, okay? Keep on going. Noah's Adam let us make a man. They wanted to make man higher than..."
"...man should be imbued with both spirit and a bit of flesh. And God says, no, I want man to be all flesh, to..."
"Why not? Try it. See what happens to you. The worst is that you'll be fine, right? Or you go to jail for a..."
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