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Nov. 14, 2011 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
11:57
2030 Bobspeed, Herman!

Do you know where you are?

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Hi. Do you know why you're here?
Oh... Mother, that hurts.
No. No, I don't.
Okay, do you remember what you were doing before you came here, just before you came here?
Uh... Yeah.
Yeah. No, it tastes foul.
I was talking to people.
Bright lights. It was a stage, a podium.
I think I'd gone off my notes and I was just talking to people.
Do you remember what you were saying to these people?
Yeah. Yeah, I was talking to them about how Bob had told me that I should have the power of life and death over millions of people.
Bob had told me that I should have the power of war and peace, that I should have control of the biggest military in the world.
And I should have massive power over the lives of hundreds of millions of people or billions of people, that I should be the most powerful man in the world.
And that Bob had told me all of this, and I accepted it, and I was going to follow Bob's commandments and do that.
Okay. I mean, we've talked to some of the people around you, and nobody knows Nobody knows this Bob person.
Can you tell me a little bit about Bob?
I'll tell you about Bob.
I don't understand the question.
Bob is eternal.
Bob is all-knowing, all-powerful, love, justice.
I'm a judge and Bob tells me what to do.
If I listen to Bob and do what Bob says, then I am right.
I am good because Bob is right and Bob is good.
Let me ask you this. How do you communicate with Bob?
What I do is, I mean it's pretty common I guess, I sort of curl up in a little fetal position and then I sort of lean up and I do this like I'm giving myself a handshake and then I concentrate and I ask Bob questions and Bob will give me answers and whatever Bob gives me as an answer is perfect, it's true, it's good and I do that.
How does Bob answer you exactly?
Does he speak in your head?
Yeah, I mean, not necessarily with an accent, but yeah, he speaks in my head.
That's what Bob does.
You ask him and he will tell you.
What to do. Okay.
So you ask this thing, this entity, and then he tells you.
He tells you what to do.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like a voice in my head.
Okay. So, again, I'm just trying to sort of be an impartial mirror back to you, because I don't know if you remember what happened exactly, but I think it's important that you get this perspective.
What you're telling me It's that there's a voice in your head that you consider to be outside of your head, that you consider to be all-perfect, all-wise, eternal, incapable of error,
and that this voice in your head has told you that you must have the power of life and death over millions of people and control over millions of people and have the power of war and peace and to wage war, if necessary, against Millions of people around the world, and this is what the voice in your head is telling you, and you are openly talking about this.
Well, yeah. I'm proud of it.
I'm proud to be the one that Bob has picked to rule.
Proud of that. So it doesn't...
okay. Let me ask a couple other questions, just to clarify.
You know that there are other people running for president, right?
Certainly on the good side of the aisle there are, yeah.
And they all, I assume, they say that they talk to Bob as well.
They say that. They certainly do.
I can't verify it. I haven't asked him, but that's what they say.
Okay, so...
So if Bob's chosen you, then he must have not chosen them.
And if they're talking to Bob, and he said you're the guy to be president, then he must have told these other guys that they're not the guys to be president, or the woman.
And so, why have they not dropped out of the race?
You're asking the wrong guy.
I don't know. I'm not them. I mean, either they ain't talking to him, or he ain't talking to them, or...
They ain't listening. But I can't tell you why they're still in.
But I can tell you, as I've told everyone, Bob has told me.
The voice in my head has told me that I have to have the power of life and death over millions.
Okay. How do you know that this voice in your head is all good?
He tells me so. Yes, but...
That could be a bad person.
I don't know. What's the opposite of Bob?
If you spell it, it's still Bob, but you know what?
Don't make jokes. Okay, sorry, sorry.
How do you know that Bob is all good?
I mean, does he conform to some standard of goodness?
Well, yeah. He does conform to standards.
He is all good. He is all good.
Okay, so what are some of those standards?
Well, he says don't kill, don't...
Don't steal. Don't covet your neighbor's ass unless she happens to be working for you.
Oh, that still stings.
Okay, so then this bob never suggests killing or stealing or doing something with your neighbor's donkey.
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess that would be a little bit in contradiction to the half-power of war and life and death and all that sort of stuff.
And, of course, Bob has informed me, through print, that Bob saw fit to kill the whole human race, except for a couple of guys on a boat, some animals, in the past, because they were all doing wrong.
What? All doing wrong?
I don't understand. Well, they were wicked.
They were turning away from Bob.
They weren't listening to Bob, and so Bob killed, I guess, hundreds and hundreds of millions of people.
Drowned them, actually.
Wait. So, the voice in your head not only claims that you should have the power of life and death over millions of people, But also the voice in your head has openly admitted to you to having killed, murdered really, hundreds of millions of people in the past.
Yeah, but Bob knew that they were bad guys.
They were all bad guys?
Even the children? Bob knew that they were going to grow up to be bad guys, so he can do that.
He's above his own rules because he's perfect.
Well, but perfection is sort of defined as being in conformity to rules, right?
If I say that I'm a marathon runner, I have to at least run a marathon or two.
Otherwise, I'm just a liar. Hey, don't you finish that thought.
Okay, okay. I'm just trying to understand.
Trying to chip it away at it. But there would have been women who were pregnant when Bob killed everyone.
So he would have killed the fetuses, too, the blastocysts, the near-term babies, even before they were born.
I guess that's true.
But you're quite anti-abortion, wouldn't you say, based upon your Bob-ism.
Look, I'm not a priest.
I'm not a theologian. I'm just a simple guy trying to follow Bob.
Okay, okay.
We can leave that. Do you remember what happened at the end of your speech?
Well, I remember that I didn't get a chance to finish it, but...
Yeah, I got a pinch or a prick in my leg, like a bee sting or a wasp.
Stung me. Okay.
Yes, that's true.
Somebody had a tranquilizer and they were frankly quite concerned that you were crazy.
You say crazy. No, I mean, that's not a word I particularly use or we use, but it's like, you know, if someone...
He comes into a doctor's office and says that a voice that claims to have killed hundreds of millions of people in the past is telling him that he needs to have the power of life and death over the world and be the greatest man in the world, the most powerful man in the world, and that obviously he's perfectly entitled to this position because the voice in his head has told him that the doctor would probably place a call to us.
And he may, in fact, restrain if there's imminent threat.
And to my understanding, you had threatened under certain conditions to kill millions of people, and that's called an imminent threat in our circle.
And if you say that you're hearing voices telling you that you may have to kill millions of people, and those voices say that they've killed millions or he's killed millions of people before, then that's...
You can say crazy, but it certainly doesn't seem sane to you.
From my side of the fence, it's perfectly sane.
It's you who live in this empty, barbless universe who seems crazy.
You were tranquilized, which is what we felt was necessary at the time.
That's how you woke up here.
Unfortunately, the people who get that you're mental are so much in the minority that we can't keep you here, and we're going to have to release you to seek after this power that you crave.
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