This was a disappointment. I have no better understanding of why experimentation in nature belongs in the lowest circle of fraud than I did coming in. Perhaps that is because the alchemists were not experimenting in nature, but rather engaging in a fraud against it. Should we ask if needlessly politicizing the material without enlightening the viewer is a fraud as well?

Dr Ralph C. Woods lectures are all incredible! I've listened to them all and taken a notebook full of intriguing notes! I've recently read several novels, The Republic by Plato, Lady Chadderleys Lover by D.H. Lawrence, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien; a poem by T.S Eliot- The Waste Land. I highly recommend listening to all of his lectures.

Beautiful!

Magnificent!

Believe it or not, avarice or greed pops all pockets!

This presentation helps us understand the story in real terms, how it rationally fits with our own lives, our own ideals of virtue; magnificent

Outstanding analysis and presentation

My nation’s constitution (along with many others, including the United States) specifically mentions God as a sort of predicator of the constitution’s good intent, yet usury, though frowned upon in the Hebrew Bible is the backbone of our economy. Our founding fathers may be surprised to find themselves down with the userers.

This presentation to me is the high point of the series, a diamond amidst a mine of jewels

The president is lying on his back, face toward the ceiling. How does he see the back of his head? He says he looked down into his skull cavity. How can he look ‘down’ into his skull if the opening is at the back of the head and the back of his head is on the cart? If he looked down into it the opening has to be on the top of his head.

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Best lecture so far! Love the organization and attention to the small details that hold much more significant meaning. Brilliant and well delivered.

Thank you for your enlightening contribution. I would like to suggest that Beatrice’s “butt-kicking” is the challenge that Dante needs to achieve contrition and the absolution. It is tough love, without which he would not have been able for heaven.

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Hey my grandfather explain this book to me and I'm really into it but it's hard for me to understand it now that he's dead but I feel it's a really good

I thought the furies were different from the Fates.

Beautiful!

The Dr's excietment is contagious. Can't wait to read the next canto.

The movie "Parkland" was not totally accurate in some scenes. I saw the movie, and they failed in some areas to be accurate when President Kennedy was wheeled into Trauma Room 1. Firstly, in reality, President Kennedy's bloody head was covered by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's suit jacket to prevent the press from taking photos. Also, when the doctors gave him blood transfusions, the blood in massive gushing amounts spurted out of his massive head wound all over the doctors and nurses and all over the floor. The dummy the movie used as President Kennedy was not making any movements like President Kennedy was to breathe as he made agonizing and rapid attempts to breathe, gasping as his chest was jerking up and down rapidly when they first wheeled him in. Just as Dr. McClelland says, that Jackie Kennedy in the movie was hysterically crying which again in reality was not the case. The movie was good, but the true realism of some scenes of what really happened in the Trauma Room on that day was not accurate.

What is interesting that the heliocentric system is in accordance with Dante's vision. The further we move from the sun, Christ is a Sun Being, the slower the planets move. Mercury: Approximately 47.87 km/s (about 107,082 miles per hour). Mercury has the fastest orbital speed due to its proximity to the Sun Venus: Around 35.02 km/s (about 78,337 miles per hour). Venus orbits the Sun at a slower speed than Mercury. Earth: Approximately 29.78 km/s (about 66,616 miles per hour). Earth’s orbital speed is relatively moderate compared to the inner planets Mars: About 24.07 km/s (approximately 53,100 miles per hour). Mars moves slower than Earth. Jupiter: Roughly 13.07 km/s (about 29,236 miles per hour). As the largest planet, Jupiter has a much slower orbital speed. Saturn: Approximately 9.69 km/s (around 21,600 miles per hour). Saturn's distance from the Sun contributes to its slower speed. Uranus: About 6.81 km/s (approximately 15,200 miles per hour). Uranus orbits at a greater distance, resulting in a lower speed. Neptune: Roughly 5.43 km/s (about 12,146 miles per hour). Neptune has the slowest orbital speed among the major planets. Pluto: Although classified as a dwarf planet, Pluto's orbital speed is about 4.74 km/s (approximately 10,600 miles per hour).

Grazie mille

good stuff

His memory of the events is impeccable, and his statements regarding the head wound directly contradict the autopsy photographs from Bethesda. Several medical personnel at the autopsy stated that the photographs were fake.

EXCELENT 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

“We will not discover truth, goodness, happiness and beauty until we know we have lost it.”

Did he seriously reference Trump and Harris 3 years ago or is there a trick of reuploading without losing the timestamp?

You sir took one of the most straightforward cantos and made a great impact by asking questions of self-reflection and exanding the scope of gluttony. Thank you.

As the Josh Turner song goes, "Time is love--gotta run!"

Hilarious that Dr Wood used Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as examples and lo and behold, they are now running against each other.

I’m coming back here after some time to repeat, enthusiastically, that this is a phenomenal presentation. Probably the best one and most heartfelt in this entire, glorious project.

This is excellent, Dr. Williams!

Thank you

Excellent!

Thank you but I can not be persuaded that on the very first line of his book, Dante intended to make a sort of quantification of any kind. I believe to my self that the verse "NEL MEZZO DEL CAMMIN" is dealing with something more abstract, and less "modern" as an exact measure can be, especially when measuring human life. Greetings from Italy

thx professor, greetings from Venice, Italy… though that was too boring compared to Benigni and Sermonti

Why so angry? We like you.

Wow! what a masterpiece. This just elevated what my lecturer said.

*"An entry wound in the throat" ~Dr. Perry* *"A huge wound in the rear right of Kennedy's head.'"~ Dr. McClelland* *Certainly an exit wound at the right occipital-parietal, indicating a shot from the front.* *Now wasn't Oswald supposed to be firing from the rear? Yes from a six floor window.*

Today I read Canto 5.

Great explanation of Purgatorio. I am a non-Catholic Christian reader, so now I will look at Purgatory like life here on earth, following Christ as pilgrims, knowing Heaven awaits.

Who decided to have an open top limousine in Autumn/fall?

"Our service for others should be for God alone and not for what we can get out of it." Spot on

She does a great take on seduction & flattery. Parts made my skin crawl. YIKES!!

At first I was bummed that this -wasn't- presented by N.T. Wright ~ but Dr. Moore speaks more sense than Wright is right!

Thumbs-up merely for your pronunciation of "Beatrice" 👍 And a second thumbs-up for a brilliant exegesis!

WOW! Very exciting. Another great take. Thanks

Shortly, after the Berlin Wall went up I had my first real affair. The fact that my lover was Russian was no coincidence: like everything most memorable or pleasurable in my early life I owed my discovery of women to communism. It sounds to me that you have second doubts about your choices in life, but your politics reach the anarchy, its trial and error-cool.21-234 George v. McDonough (06/15/2022)

“He is not Dis” well actually…

I had no idea that diss tracks can be traced all the way back to the Middle Ages 😂 I’ll have to go on a tenzone deep dive now

What did alchemy mean in this context? Since it’s not a real thing, what metals were being produced and what were alchemists producing in general that made people so afraid?