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A participant says Dante's numbered sequence and rhythm are meant to overwhelm the hearer with the universe's beauty and symmetry.
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"...goes, I think he's really trying to overwhelm us with the numbers, right? Dal uno al secondo, poi dal quarto, terzo, quinto, quarto, sesto,..."
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"...is the Church determines who goes to Purgatory, okay? Right, that's number one. Number two is, for indulgences, the Church can also determine how..."
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"...yeah yeah back there i just want to say two things number one it was russo not voltaire who said that yes that's correct..."
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"...people that own slaves can end up in hell for any number of years so I'm not gonna go into the details but a..."
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"...the only thing you care about exactly, right? The metrics, the number of subscriptions you have, the amount of views you get, right? That's..."
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"So there are a number of principles to beauty, right? There's symmetry, there's the pi principle, right? Yes?"
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"...is uh between fulfilling people's exploitation of your telos as to number two really understanding your telos and achieving your telos okay and so..."
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"...moving away from God. Okay. So, um, it's not the absolute numbers that matter. It's how people choose to live the lives that matter...."
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"...Where's that bitter one? I do not think Maremma has the number of snakes that centaur carried on his haunch until the part that..."
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"Yes? I think that he was God's number two. Yes. So that he didn't have free will, but he was about as close as..."
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"...free will, and we can choose whatever path we want. That's number one, okay? Number two is the functions of the angels in the..."
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"I just think it's in the nature of the number two to eventually try to be number one. Yeah, his nature has to be..."
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