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Betrayal of chosen friends or guests is worse than betrayal of family because chosen bonds depend on free will and trust.
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Friendship
He says students also play multiple games: doing well in school, friendship/popularity, and pleasing parents; in his ranking, pleasing parents comes first, friendship second, and actual learning last.
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He says students also play multiple games: doing well in school, friendship/popularity, and pleasing parents; in his ranking, pleasing parents comes first, friendship second, and actual learning last.
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The roast-goose story tests whether beneficiaries love a rich man or only exploit his generosity.
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Yahweh is presented as a poet-god who creates through speech, edits creation by judgment, and creates Adam and Eve because he is lonely.
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The biblical covenant sequence moves from conditional covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Moses to the unconditional Davidic covenant, where Yahweh promises the house of David eternal rule.
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Jiang claims the Davidic covenant marks the end of biblical history because Yahweh's search for friendship ends in David.
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Jiang argues that Talese's mother handled demanding wealthy clients by becoming their friend, which required listening rather than talking.
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"there are um four different types of treachery and each is worse than the other the first type of treachery betrayal is when you..."
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"...time, students play other games as well. So for example, a friendship game, right? Where you're trying to have as many friends as possible...."
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"And the game that you care the least about, that matters the least is actually doing well in school. Learning, learning in school. Okay?..."
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"There was a certain rich Jew who loved all men powerfully and received guests graciously, not begrudging them food or drink."
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"So this guy is rich, the richest Jew in the world, and he's generous. And so we should all worship him, right? We should..."
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"Those he treated said to him that they greatly loved him mutually. What does he do? He takes a fat roast goose and having..."
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"Okay, so he's very rich. He's very generous to people. And then he's asking himself, Are they really my friends? Or are they being..."
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"He went to his neighbor who was also wealthy, but they had never had close relations. He asked him what his advice might be...."
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"that Jew replied that it was to test those who really loved him that he did it, and that I wanted to see if..."
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"Because guess what, guys? God is the poet -god. Yahweh is the poet -god. So this is a radical conception of divinity in the..."
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"He wants friendship. So, in other words, the Bible is fundamentally a story of friendship, of two poets who are alone in the world..."
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"...rule Israel. Okay? It's an unconditional covenant that shows his everlasting friendship with David. In other words, the Davidic covenant marks the end of..."
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