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Jiang stresses that Rhipeus is basically Virgil’s own minor invention, which means Dante uses Virgil’s character against Virgil’s worldview.
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Jiang predicts that Dante will keep the official definition of faith on the surface while introducing subtle revisions to its meaning.
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Jiang says the class should treat Paul's absence from the scene as suspicious because Dante appears to be reciting doctrine only in order to revise its meaning.
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He says surprising U.S. midterm outcomes are one class of event that could force him to revise his current geopolitical predictions.
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He says building psychohistory also requires rewriting history because much accepted history is not correct.
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"Exactly. So he's constantly excusing himself, right? He'd rather, again, burn in hell than just to admit he's wrong. Riffius is interesting because who..."
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"Virgil writes, uniquely the most just of all the Trojans, the most faithful preserver of equity, but the gods decided otherwise."
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"way that we can have assurance about what we do not see um yeah right but it goes on right so so so yeah..."
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"he knows the Almighty and that one more time we're not to be found and cannot become pardoned by the power of god and..."
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"This is a great question. I want to thank you so much for this question. This is the exact sort of question I'm looking..."
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"If they're not correct, what you have to do is go away. You have to change these predictions, okay? And analysis. Okay? Does that..."
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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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"...they just put all four texts together without major editing or revisions? Why? Do you guys know? Why would they do that? It's very..."
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