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Faith strong enough to mobilize large numbers of people into long, difficult temple construction.
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Religious devotion
Faith strong enough to mobilize large numbers of people into long, difficult temple construction.
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Jiang says we could not build the pyramids today because modern work lacks the religious devotion, shared vision, care, and purpose that organized ancient labor.
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The Taiping analogy shows, for Jiang, that a strange new religion can become revolutionary power when it fuses religious devotion with the promise of a new world.
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He says the Muslim movement succeeded because it fused revolutionary zeal against the social order with religious devotion that God was with them.
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Jiang argues the pyramids were not built by slaves for religious purposes but by tens of thousands of laborers whose devotion could explain the quality of the ultimate temple.
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Jiang argues that building Gobekli Tepe required religious devotion or faith, because the work was enormous and done by hand over years with many people.
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"...before let's go over the differences okay ancient times people had religious devotion when they worked on a project like the temple like like..."
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"prosperous okay that's why they worked so hard today it's make more money okay second thing vision people back then had bigger brains okay..."
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"know like to produce a great piece of art you stay and you work really hard at it okay but in school what do..."
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"lack that vision the last thing this is most important is you have vision when you have religious purpose every you do is careful..."
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"three i'll just look at three okay the first is from 1850 to 1864 in china there's something called the taiping rebellion i'm not..."
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"...the tai ping soldiers in battle was both the idea of religious devotion god is with us and revolutionary zeal we are making a..."
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"...Okay? So this combines revolutionary zeal overturning the social order with religious devotion. God is with us. And this is the same mentality that..."
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"...Empire and half of the Byzantine Empire. That's the power of religious devotion and revolutionary zeal. So that's how they were able to do..."
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"The people don't really do anything special. Ra gives life, Osiris gives civilization, Horus provides the kingship, okay? So the Egyptian understanding of the..."
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"...Churches, temples, mosques, right? So that just demonstrates the power of religious devotion in the act of creation. So if the Egyptians saw the..."
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"Well, you needed something called religious devotion, right? Faith. Does that make sense? Okay? And again, throughout human history, we've seen this, right? So,..."
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"So, who these charismatic leaders are, are people who have visions or dreams of God or the spirit world, okay? And then, they present..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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