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Jiang provocatively recasts Jesus and Zarathustra as poets rather than religious figures.
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Zarathustra
Jiang treats poor prophets as divinely inspired carriers of a shared truth, so Rumi can illuminate Zarathustra across centuries.
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Zarathustra is framed as the most influential person who ever lived because Zoroastrianism creates a world religion and helps make possible the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
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Jiang estimates Zarathustra between 2000 and 1000 BCE and suspects the late Bronze Age because mature capital had produced slavery, debt, corruption, misery, and desire for another voice.
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Jiang treats poor prophets as divinely inspired carriers of a shared truth, so Rumi can illuminate Zarathustra across centuries.
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Nietzsche and Rumi are treated as reincarnations or modern carriers of Zarathustra, speaking a divine truth in different historical lenses.
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"...all these great religious figures of the past, including Jesus, including Zarathustra. They weren't religious figures. They were really poets. Okay? And how they're..."
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"So, we've done the Greeks, and we've done the Israelites, and today we discuss the Persians. And today I introduce to you the most..."
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"Okay? All right. So Zarathustra, we don't know when he lived. Okay? But we estimate anywhere between the year 2000 BCE to about 1000..."
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"...of that culture, we gain insight into the true thinking of Zarathustra. Okay? So this is Rumi, who is considered the greatest Persian poet..."
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"This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return..."
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"you actually read what Nietzsche writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zoroastria himself promoted during his time. Of course,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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