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grandness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...other religions based on three criteria. Okay? These three criteria are grandness, completeness, and unity. Okay? Grandness, completeness, and unity. And this is not..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...other religions based on three criteria. Okay? These three criteria are grandness, completeness, and unity. Okay? Grandness, completeness, and unity. And this is not..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire (2024-12-12, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire; The World More Real Than Reality.

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ReligionStoryCompletenessUnityReligious Authority

Key Notes

grandness

Glossary

One condition of religious authority: the cosmology must feel vast and huge.

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Definitions used in this lecture.

definition

Grandness means a vast cosmology; completeness means everything visible must be explained; unity means a beginning and an end that hold the whole system together.

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Timestamped Evidence

Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah

Transcript

"...other religions based on three criteria. Okay? These three criteria are grandness, completeness, and unity. Okay? Grandness, completeness, and unity. And this is not..."

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The World More Real Than Reality

2024-09-05, day precision · Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination

Transcript

"...correct, you have to accomplish three things, okay? The first is grandness, meaning that it is huge, okay? It's vast. And as you can..."

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The World More Real Than Reality

2024-09-05, day precision · Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination

Transcript

"...powerful, for it to be authoritative, you need these three ideas. Grandness, completeness, and unity, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Let's keep..."

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Relevant Lectures And Readings

Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...

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The World More Real Than Reality

2024-09-05, day precision · glossary, claims, semantic-ref

Reading

For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.

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Related Topics

ReligionStoryCompletenessUnityReligious Authority

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