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The Holy Trinity becomes psychologically destabilizing once the Church is removed, because the believer must directly grasp an abstraction that cannot be touched or understood by ordinary cognition.
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The Holy Trinity becomes psychologically destabilizing once the Church is removed, because the believer must directly grasp an abstraction that cannot be touched or understood by ordinary cognition.
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Money standardizes plural perspectives into one shared symbol, then reshapes reality according to that symbol.
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Simmel explains money as the symbolic object that embodies mind, centralizes relationships, and creates reality by making abstract relations concrete.
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Money is Jiang's best example of a symbol becoming reality: modern people value paper money because they believe money is nothing and everything.
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"...mind can process this is by believing that this is a symbol."
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"...that it is both nothing and everything. And that's what a symbol is. A symbol is nothing that represents everything, depending on how you..."
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"That's the second issue. The third issue is the idea of double predestination, which says that if you do not truly believe in God,..."
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"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know...."
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"...our values, all our judgment now is placed into this one symbol, money. But then what happens is we then take this money and..."
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"...way to resolve the God issue this money is also a symbol so what you can do mentally is conflate God with money money..."
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"It's perfect, okay? He wrote this in about 1900. He predicted this would happen. And he's right. We live in a zombie civilization. All..."
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"Okay, when we do this, we turn God into money, our understanding of reality becomes much more vibrant. We're able to understand reality much..."
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"So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing,..."
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"We have come to believe that God is nothing and everything, okay? So let's look at this, okay? What is the underlying basis of..."
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"...money is God. Because money is nothing and everything, because the symbols have become reality."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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