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A student proposal Jiang takes seriously is that purgatorial suffering works because it is inhabited as an endless practice rather than as a finite task with a finish line.
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A second answer Jiang welcomes is love, concretized not as sentiment but as helping others instead of wearing them down or hoarding gains for oneself.
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Jiang treats the unanswered problem as practical rather than merely doctrinal by repeatedly asking how one actually returns to God.
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He says the daily newspaper required students to gather information, write, edit, publish, and deliver under real deadlines, making it a demanding practice environment.
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Jiang defines ritual as the expression of religion in everyday practice, where bodies, words, timing, and posture carry religious meaning.
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Religion is basically ritual: habits, practices, and actions that maintain the cosmic and social order, such as sacrifice after killing animals.
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Greg says years of interviewing intuitive guests taught him that practical manifestation means setting clear intentions, asking for guidance, and acting on the intuition that follows.
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"Because even the promise of 10,000 years would not give you a growth mindset. So I think in this scene, they're just singing themselves..."
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"Why? Because you have to do it every second with no thought of the end. You can't do it as if there's a finish..."
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"The solution to which we once were urged by courtesy and love where hearts now host perversity. So love, I would say. Yeah."
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"Well, instead of trying to wear down others, you help them and you have empathy for them. And instead of trying to gain everything..."
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"okay um 2008 i was the first person to do anything okay oh okay okay just i mean like like yeah similar yeah all..."
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"for 15 years, and they have all these wild stories about listening to their intuition, and I'm like, oh, I don't get messages. Well,..."
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"...of ritual. Ritual is just the expression of religion in everyday practice. In other words, their lives are extremely ritualized, meaning what they do..."
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"...class. How religion is just ritual. Okay? Just just habits and practices and actions. Any other questions? That's a great question by the way."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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.
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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