The Lazarus example is allowed into the discussion as evidence that even foreknown resurrection does not cancel the legitimacy of sympathetic grief.
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Grief
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Key Notes
Jiang treats crying as a basic human reaction that cannot simply be switched off by detached knowledge, which is why sympathetic grief remains real.
The quoted Odyssey passages present Odysseus as an unwilling lover by night and a grieving, homeward-looking man by day.
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"Yeah, it also kind of makes me think about Lazarus' death when Jesus went and cried at his funeral. It's like, oh, if you..."
"Yes, because it's a human reaction, right? Yeah. It's something you can control. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yes. Let's keep on going."
"The queenly nymph sought out the great Odysseus, the commands of Zeus still ringing in her ears, and found him there on the headland,..."
"In the night true, he'd sleep with her in the arching cave. He had no choice, unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing. But..."
"...there would be no equity and joy for doing good and grief for evil okay so"
"...saintly that when domitian persecuted them my own laments accompanied their grief and while i could as long as i had live i helped..."
"...sin was gone, before you found the hour of the good grief that suckers us and wets us once again to God, how have..."
"...on his armor. I mean, that's, that's to forget even the grief that he expresses over, over his death. She is showing her consciousness..."
"...life. It's filled its vice out of that knowledge grows, the grief that has pierced them. That other, who seems so robust and sings..."
"...now until I have returned. And she, as one in whom grief presses urgently, And Lord, if you do not return, and he, the..."
"...see clearly the way they paid their penalty, the force of grief pressed tears out of my eyes. These souls, it seemed, were cloaked..."
"you upon whose cheeks I see such tears distilled by grief and let me know what punishment it is that glitters so. And one..."
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