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Jiang distinguishes good from bad writers by ontological access: bad writers make things up, while good writers are chosen and have a stronger connection to the divine.
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Writers
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He makes the strong deterministic-sounding claim that true writers are born that way and chosen by God rather than becoming writers through ambition or will alone.
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When pressed about determinism and writers, Jiang restricts his claim to historically decisive writers who alter civilization and treats them as divine prophets or messengers for the monad.
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He explicitly demotes contemporary market success or technical proficiency relative to long-term historical world-changing force.
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Jiang flatly predicts that J.K. Rowling's contemporary prominence will not translate into the kind of century-scale readership he associates with prophetic writers who change history.
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The student objection sharpens Jiang's frame by asking whether prophetic writers are determined in advance by God.
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One student formulates good writing as emptiness or vesselhood: the writer becomes a channel for divine content instead of merely performing technique.
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Another student extends Jiang's body-as-filter language and argues that some writers are born with filters that either distort celestial order or faithfully convey it to the secular world.
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"yeah but he could be a bad writer in which case he's making crap up okay but but how's the the"
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"the writer has a different connection to the divine okay like no no no it's really simple okay if you choose to be a..."
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"...Then how do you... But you've said before there are good writers and bad writers. Does that mean a kind of deterministic... No, no,..."
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"...Let me explain what I mean. Okay. What I mean are writers who become historical figures. Writers who change the course of history. People..."
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"J.K. Rowling. No one's going to read J.K. Rowling 100 years from now."
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"Okay. So, the prophets are determined before by God."
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"I think good writers are willing to kind of be a vessel for God's things. So, you are very empty on the inside. It's..."
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"I think those good writers, they're just born with a different filter, right? Because like you said, our body is basically a filter to..."
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"Okay. Bruce? Thank you. I was saying there's so many famous writers. Some of the writers in America, for example, like Hemingway, right? So,..."
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"...I just think I really agree with that. It's about bad writers are people that let their own mind and biases and experience cloud..."
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"...but if you are an intellectual, if you are an aspiring writer, the Divine Comedy is what will guide you in your imaginations. Okay?..."
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"...down okay that's why they're saying history is written by the writers right history is not written by the winners history is written by..."
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