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The animal-soul/divine-soul model can be generalized from Israel to the individual: people struggle between material comfort and the part of them that seeks God or meaning.
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The animal-soul/divine-soul model can be generalized from Israel to the individual: people struggle between material comfort and the part of them that seeks God or meaning.
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Economic rupture will force people away from Gulfstream fantasies and foreign vacations toward introspection, family, community, and meaning.
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Without pain, suffering, loss, or evil, people cannot imagine things and nothing has meaning.
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Moving closer to Asha creates a duty to help other people move closer, so the struggle itself gives meaning and purpose to the universe.
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Anna Karenina, in Jiang's reading, seeks God-like meaning in an affair because modernity has killed God and redirected spiritual hunger into sex and lust.
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For Jiang, modern loss is doubled: people lack purpose, meaning, and spirit, and also believe those things do not matter.
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Jiang says social media creates a fake prison for imagination by making people pursue likes and imagined approval rather than meaningful happiness.
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The appeal of such leaders is that unity-of-will movements offer cosmic meaning and sacrifice, unlike the boring materialist path of school, credentials, work, and death.
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"You mentioned that Israel have two divided parts, and one represents the animal soul, and the other represents the divine soul. Like I can..."
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"Okay. So first of all, it's important to understand that this is how religious people in Israel frame the conflict in Israel, okay? A..."
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"Where we are too materialistic and not spiritual enough. And what we know from history is that if you... If a society... If a..."
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"...family, on asking yourself, what makes me happy? What gives me meaning and purpose in life? And the answer, of course, is each other,..."
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"...Right? If everything was so easy, nothing would ever have any meaning. Okay? So let's just say you want a really good body, and..."
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"...is evil and you choose to be good, that's what gives meaning to your life. That's what gives meaning to the universe. Does that..."
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"...it's a constant it's a constant struggle but that's what gives meaning and purpose to the universe the fact that we're all striving to..."
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"...jealous but it's not true i'm unsatisfied i don't have any meaning in my life and i want this love to give me meaning..."
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"...karina with her fear she's looking for god she's looking for meaning and before when we hallucinated when we talked with the gods we..."
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"only do we live a life of purpose and meaning and spirit we also think these things don't matter okay does that make sense..."
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"...dancing in Hawaii or whatever, even though it gives you no meaning, okay? So, what's happening is, before, we cared about what makes us..."
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"The guy in his, when he was campaigning, he was giving like three speeches a day, right? He would get up in the morning..."
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