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March 5, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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How to Deal With Sadness
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All right.
What helps you find strength in the suffering if you ever feel really sad or the weight of the past is on your shoulders?
What's wrong with feeling really sad?
Sorry, like, do you think that sadness is just some affliction to be cured and eliminated?
That the state of life as a whole is just deep joy and, right?
I don't quite understand.
And like, what's wrong with feeling sad?
Sadness is not a problem to be solved or fixed.
It's just a state of mind that is teaching you that there's something to learn.
So you figure out what sadness is trying to teach you to learn and you learn it.
And then your sadness will go away, right?
If you're sitting on something and it's hurting your ass, right?
You ever do this?
You sit in your car, your car keys are in your back pocket and they jab your ass.
Oh, that's just, that's uncomfortable.
Well, what's my body telling me?
You have keys in your ass.
Attempting to unlock your sphincter.
And...
You take the keys out of your back pocket, and you're better, right?
So, sadness is not a problem to be solved.
How do you get rid of sadness?
How do you deal with sadness?
Learn a lesson, right?
Learn a lesson.
Don't get shitty with me, Steph.
It's boring.
AF! You've praised yourself thousands of times for proving ethics without religion.
Now you were listening to sermons?
Do tell!
You're fucking hilarious.
That is too funny.
Why the fuck would I want to talk with you?
I mean, it's so weird to me that people are just like, well, you gotta tell me this.
I don't have to do shit.
I don't have to do shit with you.
Don't get shitty with me.
Answer my question, you hypocrite.
It's like, why the fuck would I want to engage with you?
I mean, maybe this works with trashy people in your life.
I don't know.
That's so weird to me.
Like, why would people think that I would engage with them when they're...
Kind of shitty and trashing me.
That's so weird to me.
I don't need to.
I've got lots of people I enjoy engaging with.
Why would I engage with somebody who's kind of rude to me?
Anyway, it's just weird to me.
I don't know why.
I don't know why people do that.
Like, the entitlement, the narcissism is just staggering, right?
Heal, as in stop making bad choices and make good choices and stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past.
Simon the Boxer stuff.
Well, if you know what good choices are, you just have to make them.
Like, you just have to make the good choices.
There's no magic in that.
Like, so, stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past.
Well, of course, but the best way to stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past is to get toxic people out of your life, because the unhealthy habits developed in response to toxic people in the past, right?
Learning about peaceful parenting from you has definitely made me better going into fatherhood, and my kids' lives are on a lot better path than mine.
Thank you, Stefan.
Thank you, my friend.
That is great to hear.
Congratulations.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
I haven't seen Stefan promoting any religion.
He has been reviewing the Bible and giving his thoughts on the sayings therein.
Yeah, fantastic stuff.
Yeah, that's, I mean, sorry, I don't mean my thoughts, although I think that's true too, but yeah, the Bible stuff is, I'm really, really finding that wonderful.
All right.
Powerful thoughts on healing.
I'm glad to be with help.
What helps you find the strength in the suffering?
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