Jiang answers that the cycle cannot be avoided in today's society and that it is impossible to build a stable society over a long period of time.
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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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"...Thank you. Excuse me? Oh, can you avoid this cycle, in today's society? Okay. That's a good question. And the answer is no. Okay?..."
"right so i want to begin today's class by talking about uh yes yes i have a"
"...candle 15 and I want to do as much as possible today. Okay? Because this is the. Last two days. Okay."
"...we're trying to figure out how the mind, the mind works today, okay? And who studies psychology? Okay, you study psychology, right? How do..."
"...teasing, actually, it's something that was interesting too. You went on today. Whatever to do fun stuff all the time, you just don't give..."
"...people. Okay. You may care about these people because they're alive today. But 100 years from now, no one's going to read like... Who's..."
"...consciousness so i feel like and so i feel like in today's world there is like improving uh converging point into like the exterior..."
"...unchanged, though a worthy prayer below makes what falls to you today take place tomorrow."
"...Okay. All right. So that's it. That's great. That's it for today. Any questions? Tomorrow? Yes. One last question, Fred."
"good day everyone and welcome back to the dante workshop today we have a very very special guest dialing in from connecticut our beloved..."
"...course, those are often used idiomatically by ordinary speakers in English today. But they logically mean exactly the same thing. What's done is done,..."
"...murder but then slavery and there was a lot of people today that would say like slavery is worse than murder because slavery is..."
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