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Jiang says Virgil's flower-and-diamond pursuit is finally aimed at sex, which for Virgil is what love cashes out to.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and buying her a diamond ring? What does he really want? Sex. Yeah. All he wants is sex, man. Okay. For him, that's what..."
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The class tests whether Dante's issue is pride, sexual appetite, or the search for sameness, but Jiang implies these answers are still too shallow.
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Jiang says sex represents God because sex is the unit or unity of all things.
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Jiang frames Talese's decade of sexual immersion for Thy Neighbor's Wife as anthropological courage: the book is disturbing because it shows humans as animals, but it also reveals that sex is fundamentally driven by a religious search for God.
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Jiang says the tree of life is sexual in nature because the universe advances by two forces combining to create a third, which he also glosses as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
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Jiang presents the book's second solution as free, promiscuous sex that destroys taboo so people can distinguish mere bodily contact from genuine love and thereby liberate the soul.
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Jiang argues human sex, at its highest level, is about religious reunion and self-discovery rather than pleasure alone.
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Students must abandon false material reality, including money, power, sex, and fame, and focus on embracing the great books.
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"...and buying her a diamond ring? What does he really want? Sex. Yeah. All he wants is sex, man. Okay. For him, that's what..."
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"Well, what are they obsessed about? Yeah. Yes. Could be pride to me. Pride."
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"...Yeah. Because it's difficult to know. It's not, it's not about sex. Okay. Not into today's world, but back then, uh, not back then..."
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"to climax aka getting closer to God exactly okay the sex is meant to represent God it doesn't make sense you guys okay because..."
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"...morality of that time. He decided to write a book on sex. And there have been lots of books published about sex. There have..."
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"...of humans and to do that, you first need to appreciate sex, okay? So this is a book that no one talks about because..."
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"Our need, our search for God. Ultimately, that's why we have sex. If you actually read this anthropological study of sex, you understand that..."
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"...the will to receive so there's a divine fundamental force to sex okay you've been taught that it's a dirty thing but in fact..."
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"And this is the tree of life. In other words, the tree of life is the fundamental movement of the universe. And we can..."
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"...okay? So that's the first solution. Second solution is to embrace sex, okay? So the theory here is that sex is meant to be..."
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"...you ask yourself, well, why is that that important? Why is sex and love really the same thing? So what if you have sex..."
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"When we receive him completely, this creates a union which allows us to understand ourselves and understand the universe. Okay? So this is exactly..."
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