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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the material we have bodies right and this bodies creates pain and pleasure we can also die and as a result we can sin..."
Jiang argues that embodied physical life matters because pain and pleasure make experience and wisdom possible, which helps explain why Frank's theology takes worldly existence seriously instead of treating it as irrelevant.
"Sure. So I want to pick up on your Gnostic point. So the great thing about Jacob Frank is that he's actually working from..."
"...the material we have bodies right and this bodies creates pain and pleasure we can also die and as a result we can sin..."
"...should structure a society that mathematically calculates the amount of pain and pleasure we produce, and then we should maximize the pleasure and reduce..."
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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