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The dead king story distinguishes outsiders as animals from the company as family, bound by love and respect even in death.
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Loyalty
The dead king story distinguishes outsiders as animals from the company as family, bound by love and respect even in death.
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The released robber story is interpreted as a lesson that good animals become loyal when treated well.
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Joab killing Abner without punishment is, for Jiang, evidence that David likely ordered or permitted the killing.
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To win among secret alliances, a person must occupy the intersection of several powerful groups, and multiple personalities prevent any one group from knowing what the person really thinks.
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Viking loyalty means love and willingness to die for companions, not obedience inside a hierarchy.
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Tyr's hand in Fenris's mouth becomes Jiang's model of loyalty: accepting real personal loss to protect companions from danger.
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Persian administrators must remain loyal to the empire rather than becoming corrupt with local satraps, and Zoroastrianism is the system that supports that loyalty.
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The Giza complex can be read as a constellation: lesser pyramids and surrounding tombs organize family, officials, hierarchy, loyalty, morality, and afterlife reward around the Pharaoh.
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"What matters is your fearlessness, okay? Just go do it, man. Seize it, and you'll become wealthy. That's what this world is about, okay?..."
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"He may be dead, but he's still my father. And then the wizard, the mystic says, he is your king, because he understands what..."
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"Once while the sultan was visiting a slave gallery with his vizier, he asked each slave about his crime. All said they were innocent..."
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"Okay, so again, he's teaching his followers how to conquer the world. And so, and one thing that you need to understand is, yes,..."
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"...is why well if you're a king you're most concerned about loyalty right if adam betrayed saul's family this is possibly abner will come..."
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"well okay so this guy needs to be eliminated because he's dangerous okay and it makes sense because remember david betrayed saul so he's..."
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"So what's really important to know is that even though Job disobeyed David and killed Abner, Job was never punished, okay? Okay, which tells..."
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"So guess what? A lot of people form secret alliances, okay? So to win this game, if you want to win this game, you..."
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"...small part of their community. Okay? Second is the idea of loyalty. And this is a very important concept. When you go out on..."
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"Okay? Loyalty. Loyalty means love for each other. It does not mean obedience. Remember, in the Viking world it is very egalitarian. There's very..."
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"...Okay. Even if it costs you your life the idea of loyalty. All right. So in the Norse world there'll be a Ragnarok. And..."
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"...just cuts off bites off the hand. That's the idea of loyalty."
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