Glossary
The anxiety-driven ordering of the world into a simplified, coherent system.
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rationalization
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so there is a fundamental error in your logic. And the fundamental error is that it is up to us to be able..."
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normative
Jiang says the fundamental error is believing people can rationalize away their sins through thought alone.
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The student's answer is that vow-breaking often gets rationalized as helplessness: the person says the breach was not really a free choice.
causal
Jiang argues that actions alter character: committing sin does not simply produce regret, but tends to generate rationalization and repetition until the sin consumes the person.
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model
Jiang defines anxiety-driven rationalization as an OCD-like attempt to order the physical world in order to reduce confusion.
model
Money standardizes plural perspectives into one shared symbol, then reshapes reality according to that symbol.
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"Okay, so there is a fundamental error in your logic. And the fundamental error is that it is up to us to be able..."
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"Helplessness. I couldn't do anything about it."
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"Exactly. Right. Like, like, yeah, I shit my wife, but you know, I got drunk and she raped me. So it wasn't really my..."
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"Yeah. Okay. So this is something that's really hard for us to appreciate, but our actions change our character. You understand if you commit..."
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"Okay? All you had to do was believe in the church, and you were fine. But then, what happens if you get rid of..."
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"The word we use is rationalize. They're trying to rationalize the world around them in order to reduce your anxiety. Okay? All right? Does..."
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"And only a few, the elect, will be saved. Only these people will be allowed to go to heaven. Everyone else will be condemned..."
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"That's the second issue. The third issue is the idea of double predestination, which says that if you do not truly believe in God,..."
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"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know...."
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"They were different. These are different bottles of wine, but they didn't know which one was better. Okay? Then what the experimenters did was..."
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"then once the standardization happens it reshapes reality into a rational order okay does that make sense all right okay so let's go back..."
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"...are wealthy. Again, I, this is my problem where I make rationalizations because I'm moving too fast, I'm oversimplifying, and often I'm working from..."
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