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Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

John 8:1-11

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Transcript
00:00All right, so good morning. I've spent an embarrassing amount of years
00:05pondering this one since I first heard it when I was in the church choir as a
00:10child. This is John 8 and really I think cuts to the heart of the differences
00:17between the Old and the New Testament. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives and
00:21early in the morning he came again into the temple and all the people came unto
00:26him and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto
00:33him a woman taken in adultery and when they had set her in the midst they say
00:39unto him, Master this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in
00:43the law commanded us that such should be stoned but what sayest thou? This they
00:50said tempting him that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down
00:56and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not. So when they
01:02continued asking him he lifted up himself and said unto them he that is
01:09without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down
01:17and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it being convicted by their own
01:23conscience went out one by one beginning at the eldest even unto the last. And
01:29Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had
01:36lifted up himself and saw none but the woman he said unto her woman where are
01:45those thine accusers has no man condemned thee? She said no man Lord. And
01:51Jesus said unto her neither do I condemn thee go and sin no more. This is amazing
02:02deeply powerful. So remember of course Jesus was bound by the laws of the Old
02:09Testament and so if Jesus had said don't stone her then he would have been
02:16revealed as disobeying the laws of the Old Testament which would have been
02:19extremely dangerous. So this is a kind of trolling and this is like honestly it's
02:28like one of those impossible situations that someone in a movie gets into and
02:33then when they get out of it you're like wow ok that makes sense but wow I
02:40mean I remember reading the Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R Donaldson I
02:45think a very verbose and eloquent author and a good author and in it the hero
02:52makes friends with a horse that comes when you call it and then when he's in a
02:58dire emergency like many many many many chapters later he calls this horse
03:03and you're like ok yeah yeah that makes sense that's that's a good out that's
03:08incredible I'm sorry to diminish the story of Jesus with this fantasy novel
03:12but this is a very very powerful statement so this is a form of
03:20entrapment in this story so they drag a woman that they claim is taken in
03:28adultery now this is a big challenge and I've always had questions about this
03:34story because this could be a woman they threatened this could be a woman who's a
03:39prostitute that they simply paid for this this could be we don't know this is
03:43not gone through a trial a court or so what she's taken in adultery so that
03:48removes the doubt it's supposed to remove the doubt but who knows they
03:52could have threatened her child they could have dragged her there she could
03:56have been kind of shocked and stunned maybe it's true but this is not gone
03:59through a trial so what she was taken in adultery but we don't know that that's
04:03just hearsay that's just an accusation now the challenge of course if he if he
04:08says well there's no proof I don't know I didn't see it myself this isn't good
04:12hasn't gone through a court of law then the scribes the Pharisees would say oh
04:16so are you calling us liars right and then there's all that problem as well so
04:21he can't stone the woman he can't not stone the woman and he can't accuse her
04:29accusers of being liars or he can't express any doubt as to their honesty so
04:35what do you do what do you do in this situation what I think is very powerful
04:43is that Jesus himself really takes the time to think so this they said tempting
04:53him that they might have to accuse him right of disobeying the law but Jesus
04:59stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them
05:02not trying to puzzle it out like a mathematical puzzle like a genius with
05:07chalk on a chalkboard he wrote on the ground that to me is a
05:12fascinating detail he wrote on the ground like he's trying to puzzle this
05:16out like he's calling for intervention now of course the language has changed a
05:23lot but the concepts are the same to be grounded to be grounded to be grounded
05:29means to be in your body to be in contact with reality and not to be too
05:33reactive right it's the mind that does all of these particularly the
05:37neofrontal cortex that does all of this reactivity and escalation but to be
05:42grounded is to say I wonder if that's true I wonder what the answer is I don't
05:47know what the answer is I'm going to write on the ground to write is to
05:53reason to write is to consider to write is to think deeply and on the ground he
05:58didn't write on the wall he didn't write in the air didn't write on the velvet of
06:03a couch he wrote on the very ground he wanted to be grounded he went to the
06:10physicality he went to matter to material and it was too much for his
06:14mind to conceive of he needed to write it out to when they continued asking him
06:20which is a trap try and get a master size for killed he lifted up himself and
06:26said unto them he that is without sin among you let him cast first cast a
06:33stone at her and again he stooped down and wrote on the ground so he had his
06:38answer but he continued to write and this is a powerful image of course the
06:45quick sadists and the slow reasoner the man who panting and delirious with
06:54cruelty demands a rapid answer from a slow-moving deeply reasoning empathizing
07:01thinker who wants to reason it out for himself and of course Jesus knew the
07:08danger that he was in so he thinks he reasons he processes and he says if you
07:16have no sin then you can throw a stone so honestly it gives me goosebumps 50
07:25years 53 years after I first read it gives me goosebumps it really does the
07:31moral accusers the manipulators the hysterics the escalators the trolls the
07:36entrappers those who demand punishment those who are hysterically aggressive
07:43and quote moralists covering up their own sadism cruelty and entrapment
07:49because they want the woman to be stoned or Jesus to be punished the punishments
07:58were extreme the punishments were death for some of these infractions for Jesus
08:04and this of course I talked about this in the live stream last night this of
08:10course is the putting of people in impossible situations you can't win you
08:20condemn her your reputation is harmed and she dies you don't condemn her then
08:27you are punished as not following the law so what do you do what do you do and
08:34this had some real impact on me with regards to universally preferable
08:42behavior which is to forestall the attacks by looking at the nature of the
08:49attackers so he's saying oh you are all so perfect that you can stone a woman to
08:55death and you have not sinned and remember in the Christian formulation
08:59not of course that the scribes and Pharisees were Christians but in the
09:02Christian formulation the thought is also the sin so what he's saying is to
09:08some degree you want to stone this woman for committing adultery but if you have
09:13ever looked at a woman in lust who is not your wife you have also committed
09:17adultery and the real sin here is dragging her to me as a trap to destroy
09:25either her or me so thinking outside the box of the
09:30accusations thinking outside the fork in the road or the train tracks going one
09:35way or the other that people try to strap you on to to not react but to
09:41think that is the great challenge of life to not be put in these impossible
09:49situations to not let other people define your choices I remember many
09:56years ago watching a court trial and the prosecution was in my view badgering the
10:04witness asking a complex question and saying it's a yes or no answer it's a
10:11yes or no answer it's this or that and this happened once or twice and the
10:18witness tried to answer with context and eventually the defense said to the judge
10:25he's badgering the witness can the witness answer in her own terms and the
10:30judge says yes it is not a yes or no answer you cannot define that for the
10:33witness let her answer on her own terms and in the modern world of course this
10:38is everywhere you either support the welfare state or you hate the poor you
10:42either want socialized medicine or you want the sick to die it is either you
10:49support this person and hate the other person or you support the other person
10:54and hate this person all of these false dichotomies people attempt to strip you
10:58all the time with your willpower eviscerated by false dichotomies either
11:08you support taxation or you accept that there will be no roads either you
11:14support the state or you accept a warlord driven violent lawless wilderness
11:21of chaos and brutality so this false dichotomy is everywhere either you're
11:28very well educated and very well credentialed or you have nothing to add
11:35to the conversation this is a credentialism and what that means of
11:39course is either you are compliant to propaganda which is how you get most
11:45degrees in higher education either you are compliant to propaganda or you have
11:49nothing to add to the conversation and I wrote about this my gosh more than 30
11:56years ago I wrote about the autodidact self-taught brilliance of the working
12:02classes I wrote about this in just poor how the shepherds and the bakers and the
12:08butchers all got together to study mathematics and astronomy and the new
12:12science and so on credentialism is I cannot evaluate your judgments but I
12:19will dismiss you if you are not ambitious and compliant and of course if
12:26you get a PhD from some advanced university in whatever your
12:32philosophy or something like that well then you have devoted you know a decade
12:39plus of your life or more to getting this degree and therefore you are
12:45heavily invested in the value of this degree you expect to use it to get
12:49something and so you are controlled by opposition if you get a PhD from some
12:55Ivy League University in philosophy you do that so that you can get a job in
12:59philosophy at some advanced Ivy League degree and therefore if you say anything
13:04controversial you won't get the position and so you are controlled you're in
13:10debt you have no choice no options it's academia or bust for the most part and
13:15so you really can't say anything controversial so if pushed to say
13:19something controversial you're gonna have to flake out because you got
13:23nothing right yeah 35 years old you're desperate to get an academic position
13:30you're $150,000 in debt and one controversial statement will destroy
13:37your life so credentialism is a way of saying I only want to talk to people
13:43compliant to the system who can be destroyed by anything controversial and
13:48therefore I can trap them by holding their future hostage to get them to
13:52comply to my statements this is why credentialism exists
13:57well it exists because people can't think and it also exists because you
14:02need to wield a club of destruction against those you quote debate with to
14:10hamstring them and prevent them from saying anything controversial of course
14:13that's the point of deplatforming as well so credentialism is another one of
14:18these false dichotomies either you are compliant and frightened or you have
14:21nothing to add to the conversation either I have control over you by being
14:25able to destroy your future or I'm not going to talk to you at all so Jesus is
14:33presented with the false dichotomy affirm the law of Moses and destroy the
14:41woman kill the woman or defy the law of Moses and be condemned ostracized and
14:48destroyed yourself so that is the false dichotomy and in life reacting to the
14:56false dichotomy as if those are your only two choices destroys your free will
15:01and dishonors your choices when presented with a false dichotomy it's
15:08important to slow down and reason from first principles that's what reasoning
15:13from first principles is for in many ways is to have you jump the tracks of
15:18the false dichotomy that you're trying to be strapped to all the time by people
15:22in the world not reacting to false dichotomies but
15:27rather thinking through things yourself is the foundation of free will because
15:31if you accept and it happens to all of us so obviously I'm not perfect this way
15:35either but if you accept false dichotomies then you really don't have
15:40any choice because your choice is prescribed by others yes no this that a
15:46on a true false north-south do you letting other people program your free
15:55will by providing you these false dichotomies rather than acting in the
16:05moment based on first principles and projecting the false dichotomies is the
16:10essence to me of what Jesus is doing here he is affirming his own free will
16:16by not accepting the false dichotomies and reasoning things from first
16:20principles I reject says Jesus the choice being either the woman is
16:27destroyed or I am destroyed either I affirm the law and destroy the woman or
16:30I defy the law and destroy myself I reject that I'm gonna reason from first
16:36principles so the first principles are well what are the scribes and Pharisees
16:42saying about this a woman what do they say they're saying all who sin must be
16:49destroyed those who sin must be destroyed that's that's what he's again
16:57I don't know obviously but that's what I assume he's writing on the ground what
17:02is the principle behind the accusation the principle behind the accusation is
17:06all who sin must be destroyed not ooh we found this woman in adultery Moses says
17:14she has to be stoned we must stone her no that's a specific application of a
17:21general law which is all who sin must be destroyed all who sin must be a killed
17:26ostracized destroyed that is the principle if the principle is all who
17:32sin must be destroyed then he talks to the accusers and say you can only
17:39destroy this woman if you are without sin right all who sin must be destroyed
17:47therefore the only way to destroy a sinner is to be without sin yourself
17:52this is you know it's the basic Socratic or Aristotelian syllogism all
17:56who sin must be destroyed therefore the only one who can legitimately destroy a
18:00sinner is someone without sin himself because if all who sin must be destroyed
18:05and you accuse someone else of sinning while having sinned yourself then you
18:10and the sinner must be destroyed by somebody else who is without sin and so
18:13on right this is a recursive problem now the challenge here of course is in the
18:21statement and they which heard it being convicted by their own conscience went
18:26out one by one beginning at the eldest even unto the last and Jesus was left
18:33alone and the woman standing in the midst so this is a bit of an
18:39unbelievable story I'm not saying it didn't happen I'm just saying that the
18:42challenge is that how many cold and cruel sadistic sociopaths who want to
18:49who relish the thought of hefting heavy stones and pounding in the skull of a
18:54woman how many of those are like ooh I'm being convicted by my own conscience now
18:58this is a religious view which is to say that even the most cruel person has a
19:02conscience embedded in the personhood of the soul which cannot be taken from the
19:07body save through death that there is a ghost called a conscience in the heart
19:12mind and body of even the most cruel that continues to provide moral self
19:20evaluation and objective moral self-criticism or even self-condemnation
19:25in the presence of recent moral arguments in other words he says well if
19:30you're without sin cast the first stone and because of the religious perspective
19:35obviously in the Bible it is the prickling of their own conscience their
19:39soul which cannot be destroyed cannot be eradicated cannot be removed now modern
19:45brain scans defy this thesis that in the mind of an adult sadist with many
19:55decades of cruelty under his belt that there remains a whisper of conscience
20:01now I do believe that when you bring moral arguments to someone that causes
20:09their conscience to bother them and I know just I just said they don't have a
20:13conscience so let me sort of be clear about this sorry I'm being I'm being
20:16confusing I say but they don't really have a conscience but you can prickle
20:20their conscience so what I've experienced and what I've seen and what
20:24I've heard from many many listeners in the course of call-in shows is let's say
20:29they have abusive parents and they go and confront their parents with you know
20:34recent moral arguments and true experience and honest statements of
20:38suffering the parents in general escalate or disconnect not always but in
20:44general most times the parents escalate or disconnect they storm out they hang
20:48up or they yell scream intimidate or they just manipulate and right they so
20:52what happens is you bring your suffering to someone who's cruel and that person
21:00might feel bad about causing you to suffer or they might just feel bad
21:06because they're losing control or they might just feel bad because you know
21:10have some power and they've misused power so they're afraid of power they
21:13might feel bad because they want your resources as they age they want to time
21:17care attention as they age they don't and so they get mad at you and escalate
21:21because they're losing access to you as a resource it could be that they want to
21:26portray of course their family is good wise moral and and of great appearance
21:32and and status and stature and then if you criticize them and they behave badly
21:38then they lose the status of the family because people are saying well where's
21:42your son oh he hasn't seen like it's tough right then so then they view
21:46future so you don't know if people who've been cruel to you and you
21:49confront them you don't know if their reactions are because of a conscience or
21:52because of a power reversal that they hate but let's say it is in some
21:57whispering of a conscience somewhere in there the problem is if the cruel
22:03personality structure reacts to any whisper of the conscience by attacking
22:07the person provoking the conscience then the conscience has been judo'd into doing
22:13the opposite of the purpose of the conscience the purpose of the conscience
22:16is to reestablish empathy right so if I harm someone and they say to me you
22:23harmed me then my conscience says you have treated them badly you need to
22:29apologize because they're a real person and you don't like it when you get hurt
22:32and you need to reestablish your empathy with that person so the purpose of the
22:36conscience is to reestablish empathy if you confront an evildoer and that
22:41evildoer does more evil to you to punish you for provoking any negative feelings
22:46in themselves then the purpose of the conscience is to reestablish empathy but
22:51if you contact the conscience which provokes negative feelings in the
22:54evildoer and the evildoer then escalates his aggression manipulation avoidance
22:59withdrawal gaslighting whatever then he actually receives faint calls of the
23:07conscience the conscience says reestablish empathy but instead he does
23:11more evil so then the purpose of the conscience is to attempt to reestablish
23:15empathy but the results of provocation of the conscience is not increased
23:22empathy but increased cruelty so then you can say well there's a conscience in
23:26there okay maybe maybe they're reacting based upon some whispers of conscience
23:30but even if we say we're touching their conscience if they then do the reverse
23:36of what the conscience suggests then we have no functional access to their
23:42conscience or to put it another way their conscience or their reaction to
23:46their conscience is to do more evil it would be like if every time we said to
23:51someone you should lose weight they put on another 20 pounds well what could we
23:58do if we don't say to them they need to lose weight they put on five pounds a
24:05month if we say to them you need to lose weight they put on ten pounds a
24:10month so we you can say well but but you have access to them losing weight no you
24:16don't do you have functional practical access to someone's conscience in other
24:21words if you say to a person you hurt me do they attempt to reestablish empathy
24:27based upon feeling bad that they hurt you or do you get that little smile the
24:33gaslighting the manipulation and the fear of the loss of resources and
24:36therefore even a momentary appeasement but that has nothing to do with
24:39conscience conscience is when you wish to have empathy for another selfishness
24:46is when you have empathy only for yourself and so if you ask for empathy
24:51for yourself but the evildoer reacts only with empathy to themselves which is
24:56to attempt to maintain resources without admitting foundational fault or even if
25:00there is an admission of foundational fault to gaslight into non-existence
25:04that admission the next time you talk to act as if nothing happened and to attempt
25:08to go back to the way things were then you have no functional access to
25:12somebody's conscience it should of course be ideally if you say hey you
25:17hurt me and the other person says oh gosh I'm I'm sorry tell me more and they
25:21reestablish their empathy and apologize and figure out what went wrong and
25:25figure out how not to have it recur and so on right so Jesus says that he was
25:31without sin cast the first stone now it could be of course that the people who
25:36were gathered there in a sense to stone either the woman to death or Jesus to
25:41death that the people who were gathered there all know each other as having
25:44sinned and therefore they won't throw the first stone because each knows that
25:49the other has sinned and will roll their eyes and they will be subject to gossip
25:53oh yeah Bob stoned this woman through a stone claiming to have never sinned but
25:57I knew that I know that Bob cheated a customer last week last week and so
26:01they'll be subject so it could not it could be not that there's a whispers of
26:04conscience but there's some sort of status loss from each other so what I
26:12find tough to believe which could of course be my own failing my own lack of
26:17imagination but what I find test tough to believe is and then and they which
26:23heard it being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one so that
26:27is a sort of very powerful and but it's to me it's more of an analogy are you
26:33able to access the humility of self-righteous people who through their
26:40self-righteousness and attack on people who've sinned have the implicit claim
26:43that they themselves have never sent and of course this is the physician heal
26:48thyself argument which is why do you focus on the speck of dust in your
26:57brother's eye while ignoring the giant splinter in your own why are you so
27:01obsessed with stoning a woman to death rather than looking to the improvement
27:06of your own soul and you know that charts the sort of heat map of people on
27:12the right care about family friends and so on first and care less about
27:18strangers on the other side of the world as people on the left care about
27:21strangers on the other side of the world dust particles co2 rocks and so on more
27:28than they care about those who are close to them you've seen that sort of heat
27:30map so for me the same thing the sort of same heat map occurs when it comes to
27:35morality do you care about your own moral improvement or do you lecture and
27:40other people as a moralist which is to imply that you are morally much better
27:45than they are now there are people who can lecture people morally in the world
27:50in the same way that there are people who can say to others you should eat
27:55less and exercise more but the people who lecture others you should eat less
27:59and exercise more should not be fat themselves so this the analogy of course
28:04here is that there's a woman who has been caught in the act of overeating and
28:11all of the obese people are picking up stones saying those who overeat should
28:16be put to death and Jesus says well if the principle is that all who overeat
28:20should be put to death you guys are putting your own lives at risk because
28:24you're all 300 pounds so clearly you overeat so if the principle is not well
28:30this woman was caught in the act of overeating right we caught her in the
28:33act right and it's not those caught in the act of overeating should be killed
28:39because then you could just hide your overeating right just go eat in a cave
28:42somewhere or in the middle of the night in the basement or whatever so it's not
28:47those who are caught in the act of overeating it's those who overeat and so
28:53if people who are 300 pounds are dragging a woman into the street saying
28:59she was caught in the act of overeating well implicit in them being 300 pounds
29:04is that they're also overeating and Jesus is saying oh so somebody caught in
29:09the act of overeating should be stoned let he who has never overeaten cast the
29:14first stone and of course everyone's looking at each other like bro we're
29:16300 pounds I know five fat guys and you're four of them and so they shuffle
29:21off the principle is not being caught the principle is have you sinned and of
29:31course you know the condemnation of loose women has a lot to do with men
29:37who've been rejected by women right so we assume that a woman who is committing
29:43adultery if we assume the accusation is true a woman who is committing adultery
29:46is doing so because she's very attractive I mean I guess if you grind
29:50a little bit early in that prostitute he was found within the car but for the
29:54most part high-status men will cheat with women who are very attractive so a
30:00lot of the men dragging out the very attractive woman who's caught in the
30:06act of adultery is their own sublimated lust I can't have her she would reject
30:10me she's the kind of woman who reject would reject me she must be punished let
30:13stone her to death it really doesn't have much to do with the enforcement of
30:16sexual morality a lot of times it has to do with frustrated betas wanting to
30:22destroy a woman who would never a date with them a date them or sleep with them
30:26so even their hatred is a sin it is the sin of lust and envy that decide to
30:32destroy him does not arise out of sexual morality in other words well if she came
30:36on to you strong and you were on a business trip would you sleep with her
30:39what you'd be pretty bloody tempted and you probably would so how dare you
30:44condemn a man for sleeping with a woman that you would also sleep with if you
30:48have the opportunity so universalizing the principle it is not who is caught in
30:55the act of adultery it is who has sinned if all who sin must be destroyed we're
31:00all toast well except for Jesus who doesn't sin so universalizing moral
31:05condemnation to turn it into a form of self-criticism is very powerful
31:12amazing like it's this is a lightning strike in the consciousness of the world
31:17for Jesus to say this it is incredibly sophisticated beyond brilliant and we
31:24can say now because we have that he was without sin cast the phone's first on we
31:30have that now Jesus didn't have that back then this is really the foundation
31:35of the New Testament which is stop using morality as a weapon to hide your own
31:38sin and focus on your own moral improvement and this is to some degree a
31:46story because Jesus didn't write down anything and the woman wouldn't have
31:49written this down and so all the people leave so how do we know what Jesus said
31:54to the woman but it doesn't really matter so after the men leave Jesus had
32:00lifted up himself and saw none but the woman and he said unto her woman where
32:05are those thine accusers hath no man condemned thee she said no man Lord and
32:09Jesus said unto her neither do I condemn thee go and this is the part people
32:15always forget go and sin no more go and sin no more
32:21the redemption arc of the Christian world is beautiful and powerful almost
32:31beyond words and I said this I think back in 2015-2016 hard to believe that's
32:36almost 10 years ago but I said this with regards to Trump when Trump had the
32:41Billy Bush grabbed them by the pussy tape that Trump expressed deep
32:46contrition and regret and I said so on the left and they won't understand it
32:50because there's no redemption arc on the left there's no redemption arc you do
32:55something wrong you are condemned now maybe you can grovel your way into being
32:59left alone but there's no forgiveness on the left there's only the exercise of
33:05power so I said Christians will forgive him because he's sincere in his
33:09contrition but Christians will forgive him and it will not be a major obstacle
33:14to him getting elected in the same way for the left to be persecuted is to be
33:19wrong whereas for Christians to be persecuted is to be a Christian and also
33:24for people who study philosophy and history to be persecuted is not to be
33:29wrong in fact to be persecuted is very often the mark of being right and it's
33:34just a less intelligent thing right to say well you know he's been charged with
33:38X number of crimes therefore he must be guilty of at least one of them and so on
33:41whereas anybody who reads right who studies history who studies history
33:46philosophy the history of science knows that people who made advancements were
33:49condemned and persecuted all the time Christians of course base part of the
33:53virtue of Jesus on the fact that he was persecuted so there's a sort of
33:58fundamental divide a lack of comprehension of the other side Christians
34:04understand the lack of forgiveness and those who study history understand that
34:10accusations are very often made against the best people in society so yeah but
34:18people who don't read and who just react and who just want to attack and lamb
34:21based people so Christians and those who study history understand forgiveness and
34:28unjust accusations those who don't understand history and aren't really
34:33Christians don't understand forgiveness Christians understand a lack of
34:38forgiveness because they struggle with it all the time but non-christians don't
34:43really understand Christian forgiveness at all and because Trump did the right
34:49thing in the Billy Bush tapes he did the right thing he expressed deep
34:55contrition apologized vowed to do better and has since so that's
34:59forgiveness so he says go and sin no more so he didn't say yeah go go be a
35:08harlot again go and sin again go and have adultery he didn't say that go and
35:13sin no more so he said to the scribes and Pharisees the hypocrites really he
35:19said look to your own moral improvement and stop throwing rocks at women which
35:23you know it seems pretty obvious at this point maybe don't stone women to
35:28death but rather instead look at your own moral improvement and then he said
35:32to the woman go and sin no more look to your own moral improvement and obviously
35:38I don't know anything factual about Jesus's thinking but what I would
35:43imagine in great humility and probably in error but what whatever what I would
35:50imagine is that sometimes the most essential sin is the sin of despair so
35:59sometimes a woman who wants to die will commit adultery and be caught so that
36:06she can be killed that sometimes the greatest sin is despair or the most
36:11foundational element of despair which is the desire for death that sometimes the
36:17sin is despair and by killing the woman who committed adultery you are committing
36:25the grave sin of not dealing with her despair and in fact you are fulfilling
36:30her sin of despair by killing her because she wants to die and I said this
36:33before and I'll say it again do not underestimate the number of people who
36:38want to die do not underestimate please do not underestimate the number of
36:43people who want to die whose conscience has become so toxic that they can find
36:48no peace in this life the dissatisfaction the anger the tension the
36:54stress the rage the discomfort the burned-out adrenals the exhausted
36:58fight-or-flight mechanism they live in hell and certainly this is me in my
37:03general position but people who want a fascism they want one socialism they
37:08want communism and so on there's just a death impulse there I mean particularly
37:11now right when you look at you know a hundred million killed by communism in
37:15the 20th century alone or people who are sort of very pro-state and the
37:18government should do everything I mean they know that governments the
37:21democide right quarter of a million people killed by their own governments
37:25outside of war just in the 20th century the democide right so the people who
37:30just want more and more government want less and less life it is the sin of
37:35despair which is they've hit the tipping point where a good conscience can no
37:40longer be recovered because they have acted to use their conscience not to
37:45raise empathy but to harm others in other words somebody says something to
37:50Bob that provokes his bad conscience and Bob then attacks that person in order to
37:54because he views any discomfort to himself as an unjust attack from others
37:59so if you say something that Bob that makes him feel bad because of his
38:03conscience he will view that as an attack upon himself and then he will
38:06attack you and quote self-defense which means you have no as I said before no
38:10functional access to Bob's conscience and in fact if you try to get him to
38:14act better he will only act worse and once you're in a situation where if you
38:19try to get someone to act better they only act worse your only option is to
38:23disconnect at least that's been my experience like when I was talking to
38:26family members and when I tried to get them to act better they ended up
38:30escalating and becoming worse I'm like okay so I don't want you to keep gaining
38:36weight but every time I talk to you about your weight and try and help you
38:39binge eat more and get more unhealthy and fatter it's like okay well then I'm
38:43just gonna have to withdraw because I can't do anything here I can't help you
38:47because every time I try and help you you get worse every time I try and ask
38:51you for empathy you respond with more cruelty and escalation and gaslighting
38:54right so then you just have to disconnect and hope that you know cross
38:59your fingers in at a reasonable safe distance and say I hope that you improve
39:02but I will not participate in causing you to act badly right so with regards
39:07to my mother when I started to ask for you know basic empathy and connection
39:11and apologies and she started to escalate and act even worse and be more
39:14aggressive and violent I'm like okay well I I cannot in good conscience
39:18participate in you becoming an even worse person in other words if me trying
39:22to get you to have empathy with me causes you to escalate your cruelty and
39:27aggression then I am now morally responsible for making you a worse
39:31person by talking to you like I'm just not gonna I'm not gonna participate in
39:34that you know I care about my mother enough to not provoke her into worse
39:37behavior that further seals her in the bitter tomb of her own bad conscience no
39:41thank you so this is very powerful stuff and I hope that I'm doing some scant and
39:46faint justice to the power of what is going on in John 8 and of course it's a
39:51it's a long chapter I won't go into it like 59 verses so I won't go into it in
39:56more detail perhaps another time but I really did want to share my thoughts
39:59about this most powerful inflection or transition point in the morality of the
40:04world and in a particular of the West the suspicion that those who are morally
40:09violent and hysterical and aggressive are covering up their own bad conscience
40:13and committing a sin based on some other motivation such as lust and envy has
40:18sunk into our consciousness and it has given us a great weapon against the
40:21moralizers who attack in order to avoid their own bad conscience and Jesus
40:26absolutely I wouldn't say nails it that's it's a bad bad phrase to use with
40:30Jesus but he's bang on as far as this goes and I hope that this helps you if
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