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Jiang's blunt shorthand for Beatrice's teaching that vows must be judged with intelligence and foresight rather than kept mechanically.
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use your brains
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So this was stupid. And ultimately, if you know the story of the Greeks, what happens to Agamemnon because he killed Iphigenia? Do you..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So this was stupid. And ultimately, if you know the story of the Greeks, what happens to Agamemnon because he killed Iphigenia? Do you..."
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"So this was stupid. And ultimately, if you know the story of the Greeks, what happens to Agamemnon because he killed Iphigenia? Do you..."
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"...the gods, but, like, what Beatrice is saying is, like, use your brains, people, okay? All right, so Jephthah was stupid, Agamemnon was stupid..."
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"...keep your vows to God. But at the same time, use your brain. And how can you use your brain? You have both testaments,..."
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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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