The prisoners are the ones with the capacity to create reality; the powers behind them must trick the prisoners into creating the reality the powers want.
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Prisoners
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...But you don't know what's really happening. Okay. All right. These prisoners, they're the ones with the capacity to create reality. Okay. You understand..."
"...lightly such disgrace. The other, who once left his ship as prisoner, I see him sell his daughter, bargaining as pirates haggle over female..."
"...allegory the cave okay players of the cave is where imagine prisoners a million of them"
"...fire and you know this to be reality but then one prisoner escapes and he goes out into the light and he sees the..."
"...in front of everyone. And everyone is lined up together as prisoners. They are chained to the floor. And there's about a million of..."
"...under discouragement. There was at Rome a few Carthaginian soldiers, taken prisoners. Who exactly? refused to bow to Flaminius, and had little of Hannibal's..."
"...don't fight to the death. If they're allowed to be taken prisoner, I'll kill their families back at home. South Koreans are rich. They..."
"...education, school system. Okay? These are the people who are all prisoners who have become leaders of the prisoners and who are helping them..."
"...invasion but Ben Gavir is celebrating this new law where Palestinian prisoners are subject to a death penalty that is not part of the..."
"...see education as a zero -sum game. It's almost like a prisoner's dilemma in that only a few students can win out. And they..."
"...what happens is that a greek soldier emerges and he's a prisoner he was caught by some shepherds and he tells a story of..."
"...so as the Greeks are ravaging the city killing as many prisoners as they can now and he is down at the town which..."
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