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Jiang's first answer to the arrow-order question is that Dante is trying to show a realm where events happen all at once, at a speed that collapses ordinary temporal sequence.
Jiang says Dante reverses the arrow's order because paradise collapses time and space, making events happen all at once or too quickly for ordinary human perception.
"in during this part of the text okay um so first of all we are beyond time and space meaning that what's happening here..."
"um okay so this is poetry and there are different uh conceptions okay but I think what he what he's doing is he's collapsing..."
"fast it's even beyond my perception but another way to interpret this is it's happening it's beyond your it's beyond your perception because he's..."
"...No, I completely agree with Alex's sentiment. I think that's very poetic. And one thing I will add is that we all have our..."
"...now I appreciate that Plato is much more imaginative, much more poetic than I previously thought. Aristotle is a man of science, he basically..."
"...to reconnect with the universe and therefore to return to its poetic self, okay? Keep on going."
"...to forgive himself. And so he's become wiser, more gentle, more poetic, more generous, all right? And this is what life is. This is..."
"...we read the gospel of thomas you can see this is poetic and this is beautiful when it touches you it's a divine spark..."
"...his cloak. And this brooch is beautiful. And he goes into poetic detail and describes this brooch. And at this point, when Penelope hears..."
"...What is the best political system? He's written a book on... Poetics, theater, basically. What makes for a good tragedy? He's written a book..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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