The condition that follows lost agency: the sinner stops acting as if meaningful change is available.
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passive
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"...she just imagine yourself as forever lacking agency. This makes her passive and it makes her accept whatever. Comes. Her way. So that when..."
"...one about um real faith right so it was kind of passive and that that showed a limited understanding of god that showed limited..."
"...upon another's blood. The two bloods makes one ready to be passive and one active because of perfect. The heart prepared them. The active..."
"Yeah. Yeah. They're active, right? Whereas, uh, in infernal, they were passive. They were just indifferent. Nothing could move them. Uh, yes."
"...strict, like the economy, right? That the souls in hell were passive, indifferent. They just accept their fate. Whereas here, the souls are curious...."
"Hell is a place of inactivity or being very passive and no curiosity, no consciousness, no wanting to learn or improve, no agency. And..."
"...most okay um love is action right to not just be passive but to be active to believe that injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere..."
"...hope and love means taking yourself seriously okay like don't be passive be active and number three um it's basically giving up life okay..."
"...you see what's happening, where before, you were taught to be passive, to be humble, to accept the will of God. And now you're..."
"that's just unfortunate all right yes it seems like a really passive way to add for me like"
"somehow is that this is passive yes this is passive to live every life to live every single day to live every single moment..."
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