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Jiang develops the heaviness analogy by saying sin can keep reproducing itself until it becomes a giant.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that once someone violates a vow, the deeper danger is habituation: the act changes self-understanding and makes repeated betrayal more likely.
model
Jiang says poetry recreates perception by making people feel what they perceive and imagine what they know, renewing a universe blunted by repetition.
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method
Jiang says repeated content from the prior civilization series is intentional because he is reanalyzing history from the angle of secret societies and building a different overarching thesis.
prediction
He argues that if psychohistory works, it would change the fate of humanity forever by helping humanity stop repeating the same historical mistakes.
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"Yes. That's really interesting. Exactly. Right? So yeah, the angels are light. The giants are obviously heavy. Right? And maybe that's a metaphor for..."
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"Okay. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Let's imagine your husband and she and she and your wife once. Okay. What are you..."
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"God and before people, you're. Making a contract with yourself. And if you break this contract, you'll probably keep on doing it because it's..."
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"It compels us to feel that which we perceive and to imagine that which we know. It creates a new universe after it has..."
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"have two natures an altruistic and utitarian nature and what we've discovered is that um if you break the balance and you become too..."
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"the slant the over thesis has changed okay and I'm and I'm going over a lot of this information in order to build a..."
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"But also going back to throughout history and seeing how history can be revamped or changed so that it's more accurate. Okay? Does that..."
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"one thing that you notice in this class, it's like we tend to repeat the same mistakes. Right? The question is like, why do..."
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"...for example, energy is a very important concept, life force, cycle, repetition. Well, then you have to use symbols in order to express these..."
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"...very long time all right I mean this is all just repetition even an angel should not have lived by the angel standard but..."
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"...some things you can't draw. For example, love or energy or repetition or balance, harmony, cycle. Right? These things you can't draw. So you..."
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