287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Icons Not Made With Hands
There's a way in which the idea that the icon not made with hands was never made by anybody. As opposed to it appears like it appears and so because it's the same with some of these icons, you know, people. It just came from heaven in that sense, right? So yeah, typically speaking for these things, like they have kind of a mythic authority, right? This is why sometimes when your parents tell you something, you won't listen, because you know your parents, right? But then some other adult who you do not know as well, they tell you the same thing, and suddenly it's got cache. Yeah. I mean, this is actually why
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