Oct. 10, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Please, do me a solid. Do me a favor. | |
| Picture this. It's really, really important. | |
| Imagine that online you meet the girl of your dreams, the woman of your dreams, or the man. | |
| She's beautiful. She's smart. | |
| She's funny. She's wise. | |
| She's virtuous. She's fertile. | |
| She's everything that you could possibly imagine. | |
| She's wonderful. And miracle of unbelievable miracles. | |
| It turns out she lives just a few streets away from you. | |
| Amazing. So you grab your flowers and chocolates and you whistle your way on over to her house. | |
| You knock on the door. She opens it up. | |
| She's everything. She's actually like she looked at the pictures. | |
| And she's wonderful and she's sunny and the smell of fresh muffins hangs in the air and she has a latte maker that is exquisite. | |
| And you go in and you chat and you find out you have so much in common and your values match and your intellects match and it's a beautiful thing, right? | |
| So you start thinking, hey, could this be the one? | |
| So every day, you walk over to her place, she comes to you, and you're getting along famously. | |
| Now, a couple of months in, when it really looks like the circumstances of life are creating this cyclone of future possibilities, going to lift you to a higher plane, what happens is she sends you a message and says, oh, I got a really mean landlord. | |
| He's kicked me out. I got to move one house over. | |
| I gotta move one house further. | |
| But don't worry, like, I'm just one house over. | |
| So then what happens is you, like, you walk over, right? | |
| And you stop at the house she used to live at. | |
| And there's a little note there that says, I'm one house over. | |
| And you stand there and you're like, ah. | |
| She's great. She's great. She's smart, funny, wise, virtuous, fertile, beautiful. | |
| She's great. She's everything I want. | |
| But she is one house further away. | |
| I mean, that's further. | |
| It was great. Forget it. | |
| Forget it. And you turn and you walk back home. | |
| And she sends you messages like, where are you? | |
| Where are you? I'm one house over. | |
| I'm one house over. Where are you? | |
| And eventually, like a week or two later, you send her a message and say, I really miss you. | |
| You know, we had really great times together. | |
| I really, really miss you. | |
| I'm sorry that you got booted out of your house. | |
| It was really unfair. I really, really miss you. | |
| I wish I knew where you were, but, you know, it's over. | |
| Do you understand? This would be kind of irrational. | |
| The reason I'm telling you this story is I want you to know what it's like on this side of the screen, on this side of the relationship, because we do indeed, we do in fact have a relationship. | |
| I put out philosophy, you send me messages, we have conversations. | |
| It's a relationship. As you know, this summer, actually really over the last year, I got booted off a wide variety of social media platforms. | |
| I'm a truth teller. I'm honest. | |
| I'm frank. I'm factual. | |
| I'm data-driven. I interview experts. | |
| Oh, and by the way, it's an election year, so I got booted off. | |
| And I'm getting so many messages from people who are saying, man, I really miss you on, insert name, of social media platform here. | |
| Like, I really miss you, man. | |
| You were great. Where are you? | |
| LAUGHTER I love you guys so much. | |
| I really want to tell you the truth and give you honest feedback. | |
| I'm one house over. | |
| I'm one website over. | |
| Instead of Twitter, you can type in Parler. | |
| P-A-R-L-E-R. Instead of YouTube, you can type in a variety of things. | |
| I'm on Rumble. | |
| I'm on Dailymotion. | |
| I'm on Brighteon. I'm on LBRY. I'm on BitChute. | |
| I'm on all over the place. | |
| I'm circling you like a shark. | |
| I'm right here. I'm right here. | |
| So it's a little strange for me. | |
| Oh, I love your show. Fantastic philosophy show. | |
| Best philosophy show out there. | |
| And I move one website over and oh no, man, that's a bridge too far, man. | |
| I mean, it's like you move to Hades and I just don't have any kind of interdimensional travel capacities. | |
| You've moved to some unknown cave on the rooftop of the world somewhere around Mount Everest. | |
| I just can't get there, man. | |
| I can't make it. | |
| No, no. Here's the big barrier, man, the big barrier to continuing to enjoy the massive fruits of philosophy. | |
| Is one website further. | |
| And you can go free domain.com forward slash connect. | |
| You can see all the places that I'm on. | |
| I'm still here. Heart's still beating. | |
| Mouth's still talking. I'm still doing my thing. | |
| But you know, of course, that the bad guys, right? | |
| The de-platformers, the silencers of wisdom. | |
| What did they want you to do? | |
| Well, they want you to forget about me. | |
| But don't you forget about me. | |
| Right. They want you to forget about me and they want you to kind of be slowly drawn back into the general soup and saccharine sinkwater of sophistry that passes for communication in the modern world. | |
| Like I'm just gone, right? Because there's a three-pronged approach, right? | |
| When you really want to, if the hard left, the socialist and so on, when they want to do something, right, they'll do three things. | |
| They'll try to destroy your source of income. | |
| They'll try to destroy your reputation. | |
| They'll try to remove you from the public square. | |
| Now, you see, they can't do any of that without your participation. | |
| They can't do any of that without your participation, because if you follow me, if you continue to support what it is that I do, hey, look, the bullet goes wide. | |
| And we survive and we flourish and we can, in fact, even be stronger than we were before. | |
| But that's on you. I can't do that. | |
| I can only push the string. You have to pull it in order for motion to occur. | |
| So it's really, really important that you continue to follow what it is that I'm doing. | |
| Don't let the bad guys win! | |
| It's not like I'm asking you to join me in some Bataan death march to confront the armies of North Korea. | |
| It's one website over, people! | |
| It's one website over. | |
| And I'm still producing great stuff. | |
| I'm still doing my interviews. I'm still doing my call-in shows. | |
| I'm still doing my presentations. I'm working on a new book on peaceful parenting. | |
| I've released two of my novels for free. | |
| I'll put the links to them below. | |
| They're great. And I'm just one website over. | |
| Because look, I get these testimonials. | |
| I'll just do a couple real briefly here, and I'll put the link to this below. | |
| A little while ago I started gathering these so people could see them, right? | |
| So here we go. This is the good that this show is doing, but it can't do without your support and participation, right? | |
| Guy writes to me, my wife and I came from very abusive childhoods. | |
| I firmly believed in a good whooping, to quote Barack, when it came to raising children, we planned on both working and sending our future kids to daycare, etc. | |
| The whole normal societal story. | |
| We got into your podcast about two years ago and have since spent what seems to be thousands of hours discussing life, reshaping our marriage, beliefs, friends and family. | |
| We've grown closer and closer to each other. | |
| And for the first time in my life, I know what it means to be loved and to love someone. | |
| All of this self-study found a purpose a few months ago when we had the most incredible news that our first child is on the way. | |
| As a result of your work and many conversations, we move to a cheaper neighborhood, cut back on expenses. | |
| My wife has quit her job and will be a stay-at-home mom. | |
| She will also homeschool. | |
| Most importantly, we will be loving, peaceful parents, promoting voluntarism, negotiation, communication, and understanding. | |
| Two nights ago, I told my wife with tears in my eyes that I wish I could have been reincarnated as our soon-to-be-born son. | |
| I wish I knew how beautiful life could have been. | |
| My point is to thank you for showing us a different way. | |
| My future son thanks you. | |
| I will be able to love him. | |
| His childhood will not be taken from him. | |
| My heart bleeds of thankfulness towards you every time I think of the future of my new family. | |
| I look back in horror at myself in the past when I would comment that some child needs a beating. | |
| Thank you. Thank you very much. | |
| Paul wrote, your videos have helped free me to live better virtue and transformed the parenting of my son. | |
| Refusing to get him circumcised and setting out firm guidelines not to spank or yell have given me such hope for him and the feeling that I have broken a chain of violence. | |
| I have no idea what the possibilities are for him in this future that are unlocked because of the power of peaceful parenting, but I am excited and hopeful to find out. | |
| Thank God for you. | |
| Ryan wrote, Everything. | |
| Will wrote, when I discovered your work back in 2015, I was single and did not believe in monogamous relationships. | |
| I was severely depressed, a hardcore socialist, postmodernist, atheist, and neo-Marxist. | |
| after discovering your work and largely because of your work I renounced my former beliefs in favor of the rigorous application of the non-aggression principle which leads inevitably to anarcho-capitalism, rededicated myself to the Christian tradition of my childhood, got married and had a beautiful daughter who was now seven months old. | |
| From the very bottom of my heart Stephan, thank you. | |
| Thank you for providing the intellectual artillery necessary to achieve such a drastic transformation. | |
| My marriage and the two children that I call my own have both brought such joy into my life as I might never have achieved before And it was your work that made all this possible for me. | |
| So look, there's many, many of these. | |
| You can go and look at them in the links below. | |
| But this is all because of you. | |
| It's all because of you. So please, please. | |
| Help out this show at freedomain.com forward slash donate. | |
| Go to freedomain.com forward slash connect to figure out where I am. | |
| Let's keep this thing going. | |
| Don't let the bad guys win. | |
| Give CPR to the wisdom that is currently being asphyxiated by some pretty scaly and brutal hands. | |
| It's up to you. It's not up to me. |
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