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Jiang argues that language limits and knowledge limits let the seminar touch only a small fragment of the Divine Comedy, whose full world exceeds what the class can presently access.
Jiang says he does not yet know enough about Vedic eschatology to comment responsibly, though he expects to study it further and travel to India in the future.
He says he wants to explore more of the world in the future so that he can better understand different communities before speaking with more precision about places like the Balkans.
He says India is geopolitically in a bad position because of its large population, internal chaos, and resource constraints, though he explicitly withholds strong predictions because he does not know India well enough.
"Yeah. Right. The occult just means what's hidden from us. Right. Or what is esoteric. Okay? Yes. But most people refer to it as..."
"is a very simple way, so another way of saying this is I don't know enough about Vedic eschatology to comment on it, okay?..."
"Conflict in the area. You have many different religious groups fighting for control over that area. And a third is the historical animosity built..."
"I watched a lot of science fiction, like Star Trek, okay? I love that. So I love it if we could get to the..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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