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War and suffering are treated by the Jerusalem faction as spiritually useful because losing everything can make people rediscover God, as in Job.
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He defines this eschatological response as creating fanaticism by telling a suffering population that suffering is part of God's plan, produces invincibility, and gives martyrdom heavenly reward.
War and suffering are treated by the Jerusalem faction as spiritually useful because losing everything can make people rediscover God, as in Job.
Jiang closes by saying religious people would frame redemption as possible only through suffering, pain, and tragedy.
Without pain, suffering, loss, or evil, people cannot imagine things and nothing has meaning.
Only through pain and suffering can humans achieve their full potential, because pain focuses the mind and gives meaning to goodness.
Dostoevsky’s accusation is that Jesus did not relieve human beings but increased freedom and therefore spiritual suffering.
He argues humans exist because the perfect spirit world cannot generate pain, mistakes, new experience, or imagination; embodied suffering lets the universe expand its consciousness.
Russian music, especially Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, is presented as beauty created from suffering and as an artistic expression of the pagan-Christian contradiction.
"...to create fanaticism among your people, right? Because your people are suffering. They don't have enough to eat. They don't have any hope in..."
"And this is the divine soul. All right? So, what the animal soul is, you seek material comfort. You want to have sex. You..."
"And so, God decides, you know what? Maybe he's only faithful to me because he's very wealthy. So, Job loses everything. And this heightens..."
"...of God. Okay? And it's unfortunate that all this war and suffering is happening. But again, what a lot of people who are religious..."
"...you have to struggle for it. And that requires pain and suffering."
"...world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why are we in this world? To improve our imagination. Okay? Because..."
"...increase it and burden the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its suffering forever okay so what he's saying is is you came to this..."
"people to tell them that the more not exist that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can..."
"going thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid..."
"spirit world everything is perfect everything is eternal everything is immutable and so by definition you can feel no pain you cannot suffer you..."
"the principle of free will well free will this system cannot work if if you are if you do what you're supposed to do..."
"And so what's important for us to remember is again for most of human history race was not a concept. People didn't really care..."
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