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Young Heretics

Ep. 131: Give All for All

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What do you want? In this final episode of his series on Thomas Traherne, Spencer Klavan explores Traherene's daring suggestion that you might not want enough. The 17th-century mystic argued that God gives us the world anew each time he creates a new human being—a thought that can radically change the way you look at basically everything.

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Transcript

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Moreover, when you fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their

0:06.9

faces that they may appear unto men to fast.

0:10.4

Barely I say unto you, they have their reward.

0:14.4

But thou, with thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, but thou appear not unto

0:20.3

men to fast, but unto thy father, which is in secret, and thy father, which seeeth in

0:25.7

secret, shall reward thee, open.

0:29.0

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and

0:34.5

where thieves break through and steal.

0:37.2

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,

0:42.2

and where thieves do not break through nor steal, for where your treasure is, there will

0:47.6

your heart be, so.

0:50.1

So later in the episode, I'm going to take a mailbag question about food.

0:56.4

And one of the major points I want to make about food is that you want clean food with

1:01.5

ingredients you can pronounce.

1:03.2

That's why public goods is so cool.

1:06.1

It's not just food.

1:07.2

It's all sorts of basics like dish soap and toilet paper, and they have cat food and all

1:15.6

that stuff.

1:17.1

But really what it is is everything that you get there is made with stuff that you can trust

1:22.1

to be clean and simple.

1:24.6

I mentioned on Twitter that I was in Europe, and I ate an ate an ate, but I didn't like

1:29.8

get put on a bunch of fat or anything.

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