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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: belief, beliefs, nihilistic-religious-beliefs

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nihilistic religious belief

Jiang's name for an afterlife-centered belief that makes death more important than life and incentivizes elite extraction for grave wealth.

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nihilistic religious belief

Glossary

Jiang's name for an afterlife-centered belief that makes death more important than life and incentivizes elite extraction for grave wealth.

Timestamped Evidence

The Pyramid That Tried To End History

2024-11-26, day precision · Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project

Transcript

"...This is a huge problem. Okay? This idea of a nihilistic religious belief. What this religious saying is, life doesn't matter. It's death that..."

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The Pyramid That Tried To End History

2024-11-26, day precision · glossary

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.

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