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Defined by Jiang as connections that clarify reality and reveal what the listener could not previously see.
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metaphor
Defined by Jiang as connections that clarify reality and reveal what the listener could not previously see.
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Glossary
A connection between previously unconnected things; a new thought and tool for thought.
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Metaphors are connections that clarify reality by showing relationships the listener could not see before.
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A surprising metaphor becomes memorable, and because it is remembered it can reorder the way reality is seen.
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Jiang glosses the 'enchanted cord' as a person's connection to the divine, which beautiful diction or metaphor can touch.
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He closes by saying God and Satan can be understood as metaphorical projections of imagination that still help explain the world.
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Jiang argues that metaphorical world-understanding is more useful for human thought than modern literal explanation because it captures forces acting through people.
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Shakespeare's diction makes ordinary words into tools of perception: changing how a word is used can change how the mind imagines reality.
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A metaphor is a connection between things previously unseen; because it makes a new connection, it is a new thought and a tool for thought.
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"Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help..."
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"...or a passion will touch the enchanted cord, okay? Diction or metaphor. Enchanted cord. Enchanted cord is just your connection to the divine, okay?..."
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"All right? But understand that if you just use this concept of heaven and hell, even though it's metaphorical, even though God and Satan..."
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"...this is a metaphorical world in other words they spoke using metaphors they understood the world through metaphors today we live in a literal..."
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"the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who propels me into the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance..."
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"new words are being introduced into England because of revolutions in agriculture, in trade, in communication, in technology, OK? So at this point in..."
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"he finds new ways of using it in his plays that forces us to reimagine the world in a different way, all right? That's..."
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"...thing that is shocking about the Iliad is the use of metaphors. So, what are metaphors? Metaphors are connections between things that were unseen...."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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