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3 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-10-01, day precision Aliases: religious-histories

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Religious History

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that's 33. So, in my opinion, if you just look at religious history, this would be classified as a ritual sacrifice. So, and the..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that's 33. So, in my opinion, if you just look at religious history, this would be classified as a ritual sacrifice. So, and the..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Empire as Ponzi, War as Ritual (2025-10-01, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Empire as Ponzi, War as Ritual; Kill The Cult Of The Self.

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Key Notes

Historical model used in the 2025-06-04 lecture.

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Jiang frames human religious history as moving from animist interconnection, to mother goddess fertility, to polytheistic city competition, to Christian monotheism.

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Timestamped Evidence

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"Okay, good morning. Today we do Sigmund Freud. First what I will do is I will put Freud in the context of the Western..."

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Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

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"But as populations grew and towns came into being, they came into competition. They came into competition with each other, and they started to..."

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Empire as Ponzi, War as Ritual

2025-10-01, day precision · ⚡WW3: A Major War Begins In OCTOBER w/ Prof. Jiang

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"...that's 33. So, in my opinion, if you just look at religious history, this would be classified as a ritual sacrifice. So, and the..."

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Relevant Lectures And Readings

Empire as Ponzi, War as Ritual

2025-10-01, day precision · alias-match

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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.

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