177. Commusings: Jesus, Guns, and Free Will

Commune with Jeff Krasno

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Commusings is our Sunday morning newsletter where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. This week’s essay is inspired by recent research into the nature of free will. Examining the character of the human mind can be confounding, but it yields insight into the nature of reality and suffering, and thus can enhance our experience of life. To sign up for our weekly Commusings newsletter, visit onecommune.com. And for more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno. I am recording this on Easter, which, as you will hear, is needed context for the episode. So if you're listening to this around the time it was recorded, happy Easter. Many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article where I
0:22.5	address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical. And on occasion, I will also
0:28.1	record an audio version of these articles and release it as a bonus episode. If you are
0:33.5	interested in receiving my weekly article, sign up at onecommon.com. And if you're not
0:38.8	completely sick of me, follow me on Instagram at Jeff Krasnow. So today's recitation is an
0:46.0	exploration into free will, inspired by some of the cogitations of Sam Harris, Yuval Harari,
0:54.0	and to a lesser degree, Eric Fromm.
0:56.6	I candidly, I am still wrapping my prefrontal cortex around some of these ideas,
1:01.7	and I deeply appreciate the opportunity to audition them here. I'm sure they will evolve.
1:07.5	It is not a simple topic, and as if free will was not controversial enough, I've added
1:12.2	some additional intrigue to this omission. So I hope you appreciate the spirit in which I record it.
1:18.7	Without further ado, here is this week's commusing entitled Jesus, Gons, and Free Will.
1:37.8	Thank you. guns, and free will. Friday, April 3rd, 33 AD, Golgatha.
1:42.5	As Jesus of Nazareth hung upon the cross, the Roman centurians cast lots for his clothing.
1:48.9	The thieves on the crosses to either side reviled him. The religious leaders mocked him,
1:54.4	and the crowd blasphemed him. Even in his agony, Jesus summoned grace for those who scorned him.
2:02.3	Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
2:06.8	Two days hence, Jesus was resurrected, appearing to his apostles before ascending to heaven.
2:13.2	Today, Christians celebrate this miracle.
2:22.2	March 22nd, 2021 A this miracle. March 22, 2021 AD, Boulder, Colorado.
2:31.6	Ahmed al-Aliwi Alisa, 21, walked into a King Supers grocery store with a Ruger AR-556 pistol and proceeded to shoot and murder 10 people. According to police and witnesses,
2:36.9	the gunman was laughing and occasionally mumbling. Eventually, the Syrian-born U.S. citizen was injured
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