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Jiang defines human purpose as repairing the world by saving sparks of light, which means recovering divine fragments now trapped inside husk and material desire.
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Material desire
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Jiang says the purpose of Purgatory is to cleanse material wants so the soul can remember its origin and reconnect to the good before entering heaven.
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"breaking the shattering of the vessels channel of vessels all right so what happens is that this is the tree of life which is..."
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"...is the husk. And as a result, we're blinded by our material desires."
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"Okay? And so, this is a fundamental conflict in the universe. How do we go about repairing the world? Well, we go about repairing..."
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"Okay, all right. So the purpose of purgatory is for us to cleanse ourselves of our material wants and desires, okay? To focus on..."
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"...and God is answering him. David has given up all the material desires of this world and fully embraced God. He's humbled himself before..."
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"...not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So, why do we want... So, what do we want?..."
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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