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Within the Monad system, evil is distance from the Monad: denying truth, love, knowledge, or the spiritual world and embracing the material shadow world.
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Jiang says the powerful maintain power by developing a religion and systems that justify material-world control, even if those systems invert the Monad as evil and deny truth.
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Jiang says the powerful maintain power by developing a religion and systems that justify material-world control, even if those systems invert the Monad as evil and deny truth.
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Dutch still life celebrates the material world and the here-and-now, in contrast to Catholic celebration of the afterlife.
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"So I was just thinking about the model, and I think it's interesting... The Monad. Yeah, this model that we have on the board...."
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"...of this model is Earth. So the more you embrace the material world, the more you deny the spiritual world, that's what's evil in..."
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"Just like what Amber mentions, that this world is anti -love, but what is the purpose of not letting us get closer to the..."
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"That's a good question, right? Why are they doing this? Because the people in power wanna stay in power, right? Because what they're doing,..."
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"So they gain benefits, such as power, by disobeying the Monad, and letting others disobey the Monad, because they can't keep their power."
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"...us from the Monad by making us more focused on the material world. Okay, does that make sense? But the reality is that they..."
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"...Dutch painting. Dutch, still life, it is a, it captures the material world as it is. It's a celebration of the material world, because..."
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"...and we have bodies. So our bodies are part of this material world, but our consciousness comes from the divine. Okay? Does that make..."
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"...he's seeing the concept of religion and applying it to a material world, right? He recognizes that we have these spiritual, religious needs, and..."
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"...to teach us that the world is a corpse. Right? The material world doesn't matter. What matters is the divine spark in you. Because..."
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"...that it is the consciousness the mind that creates the the material world the body right that makes sense and what did you say..."
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"...doesn't talk about the spirit world. He only talks about the material world. Okay? For Aristotle, what makes the world move is cause and..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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