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Jiang says Jacob Frank radicalized this transgressive logic through ritual sacrifice and incest, and he cites mainstream summaries like Wikipedia as supporting evidence for the sect's practices.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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"by defying the laws of humanity you're showing your devotion to god so now you have this new concept that justification by sin that..."
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"...go on, I know this sounds weird, but just go to Wikipedia, I'm not saying Wikipedia is a great source, but it's a mainstream..."
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"...version. That's the first point. And the second point is that Wikipedia says here that Bernard is also a reformer of the Benedictines. And..."
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"...follow -up question. Because according to my understanding and according to Wikipedia... Which is not a credible source, but it's valuable for basic understanding......"
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"...Genoa, and Venice, they have two major political factions. This is Wikipedia, by the way. The Guelphs, which support the papacy, and the Ghibellines,..."
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"Okay. So, again, this is from Wikipedia. And when Dante is exiled from Florence, he never returns to Florence. He spends all his life..."
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"Yeah, I was looking up her Wikipedia just now. I wanted to see. But it doesn't list in the early life what I was..."
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"...deployment with ground forces. And even the introduction of WhatsApp, and Wikipedia, of a national draft um in fact um donald trump has is..."
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"...the Illuminati. This is well known. If you just go on Wikipedia, it will tell you that Goethe was a member of many different..."
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"...the Czar of Russia. But again, let me just read from Wikipedia a bit. Alexander I's reign was from 1801 to 1825, and he..."
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"...to make you smarter. You know, if you could have like Wikipedia in your brain at all times and you just, you know, you..."
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"Okay, so this is Wikipedia, okay? All right, so the first thing that Muhammad's going to do is announce the concentration of Medina, which..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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