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The class agrees with Jiang that pagan life is saturated by fear, because one is never sure whether one has acted rightly before the gods.
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Pagan world
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Exactly, right? Would you be comfortable in this world? Why not? Why would you be comfortable in this world of paganism, yes? Well, you..."
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"Exactly, right? Would you be comfortable in this world? Why not? Why would you be comfortable in this world of paganism, yes? Well, you..."
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"You constantly live in fear. No. No. Like if you're doing the right thing or not. Yes, right?"
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"...If you were to be transported back 3,000 years into the pagan world, OK? Can somebody explain to me what the pagan world is..."
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"...ideas. And when they don't, we argue with them. But the pagan world is almost more tolerant in a way. There's more gods. There's..."
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"OK, so this is confusing because neopaganism, the modern pagan world, it embraces many different traditions, including Judaism, animism. But throughout most of human..."
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"...we were to go back in time and look at the pagan world, we'd be disgusted by the murders, by the violence, by all..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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