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Jiang's highest-stakes commitment, whose violation deforms the self more deeply than ordinary promise-breaking.
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vow to God
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...exactly what I wanted for Carter. Right. She made a vow to God. Very, very serious. Okay. The most serious thing you can do..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...exactly what I wanted for Carter. Right. She made a vow to God. Very, very serious. Okay. The most serious thing you can do..."
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"...exactly what I wanted for Carter. Right. She made a vow to God. Very, very serious. Okay. The most serious thing you can do..."
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"...mission on earth right so the catholic church made a vow to god that we will be forever mary and i will forever promote..."
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"...is really serious. Why? You've broken. You've broken your, your vow to God, essentially."
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"...you can do whatever you want. Do not make a vow to God unless you're willing to die for it. Sure. Right. Does that..."
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"...really try to unpack this. Okay. So you made this vow to God or to your wife. Okay. And again, don't make vows unless..."
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"...let me set up for you Ricardo has made a vow to God I'm going to marry you God um and what Beatrice tells..."
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"...get her back okay right because I I made a vow to God so now let us think deeply okay and say let's say..."
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"made a vow to God I swore to God to God right so here we have Picarda saying you know what I am on..."
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"...i know it is wrong for me to break my vow to god and if i break this vow to god is worse than..."
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"...to walk in my door okay right he's made this vow to god and according to beatrice if you make this vow to god..."
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"...bad why why would treachery be worse than breaking a vow to god i think it's"
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"...saying is, okay, yes, I understand that you made this vow to God, and you want to know what to keep and what to......"
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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