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Jiang says that before Dante Purgatory was for special cases and mostly for people rich enough to pay indulgences, so it did not apply to most people.
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Special Cases
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Do you guys understand what's going on? If there's ever a special case, like, I don't know what's going on, Purgatory, right? So at..."
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Limbo and purgatory are presented as Christian solutions to special-case problems in salvation, such as innocent babies or sins that do not seem to fit simple heaven/hell categories.
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"...Do you guys understand what's going on? If there's ever a special case, like, I don't know what's going on, Purgatory, right? So at..."
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"...unlucky. Right? So, they create this place called limbo for these special cases. Okay. that's where we get the idea of limbo from. And..."
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"...means anyone, everyone participates in this system. Purgatory was designed for special cases. Now it's like anyone, everyone can participate, okay? If you're poor,..."
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"...help the infants ascend to heaven okay okay so those are special cases um okay yeah i would also yes first of all he..."
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"um that's a really special case this is something i never really thought about where the gas purposefully uh betrays the host uh but..."
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"...is able to do the same thing, okay? China is a special case because of the Himalayas. So there is trade, actually, between China..."
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"Okay. Because there are lots of special cases where, okay, this person did some sin and so doesn't can't have access to heaven but..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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