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Students explicitly resist Jiang's wording by arguing that wanting equality with God or replacement of God does not automatically mean a desire to kill God.
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Student objection
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So, where did it say that we want to kill God? Like, this is monotheism, I know. But, like, where did it say we..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So, where did it say that we want to kill God? Like, this is monotheism, I know. But, like, where did it say we..."
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A student objects that the metaphor is strange and overly absolute, suggesting therapy as an alternative to Jiang's binary between punishment and permissiveness.
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A student argues that Jiang's metaphor is too absolute because responsible parenting could include education or therapy rather than only punishment or permissiveness.
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A counterstudent argues that parents should remain the primary helpers because they know the child better than a random stranger.
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A student argues that this divine explanation is too absolute because it diminishes Dante and the Divine Comedy as humanist achievements, and because human beings do not need God in order to value them.
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"So, where did it say that we want to kill God? Like, this is monotheism, I know. But, like, where did it say we..."
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"Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Just like she said, the thing... You don't want to kill him. Just, you can't replace them. You can't..."
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"I think this is a very strange metaphor, because if I was the parent, I would send Eve to therapy. Like, I think..."
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"I would send Eve to therapy. Like, I think this is a very absolute situation. Like, it's either punishment or it's allowance. Like, why..."
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"You're... You're... What? But your parents know you the best. Like, your parents should be the ones that could help you, not a random..."
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"Again, I think that's a very very absolute perspective. And I think it actually diminishes the value of Dante and of the Divine Comedy..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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