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June 12, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:40
How to Handle Your Fears
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All right.
Take me to church.
All right.
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Hey, Steph, I want to go to church.
Something in my mind stops me.
It feels like an environment I won't fit in.
And as I am being disingenuous, and as if I'm being disingenuous, could this be past people in my mind sabotaging me, or is it possibly an irrational fear?
I have read the present again.
And it is what sparked this will in me.
Thanks.
Yeah, this is my novel, a bit of a love letter to Christianity, my novel called The Present, which you should definitely check out.
So, I'll give you a general philosophical take on this because, of course, I don't know the details of what might be preventing you from this.
I don't know what's going on deep down.
I wouldn't pretend to know because...
Of course, if you want to talk to me one-on-one, you can go to freedomain.com slash call.
We can have a public or a private call.
It's entirely up to you.
But what I would say is this.
You do not need to figure out where your fears are coming from in order to overcome them.
You do not need to know where your fears are coming from in order to overcome them.
Sometimes you just need to do stuff.
And through that doing of things, You will find out the truth of your motivations.
You will find out the truth of your history through doing things.
You will find out quite quickly what your resistance is.
So you go to church and see what happens emotionally.
You don't need to figure all of this stuff out ahead of time.
You don't need to get all your ducks in a row and figure out all your unconscious motivations.
That's a form of paralysis.
Just get to a nunnery.
Just go to church.
And deal with the fallout that comes up emotionally.
Good question, Steph.
The way some guys are reacting to Trump versus Musk is pretty emasculating for them.
The same thing struck me.
Yeah, it's saying that all powerful people with substantial moral disagreements are just like bickering tween girl guides.
It is a way of just absolutely crushing down to nothing the depth.
Complexity and power of moral disagreements and arguments.
It's female in its essence, that men who are fighting, oh, boys will be boys, and you know how boys are, and it's toxic, matriarchal, ball-busting, diminishing of male power and conflict.
It's really terrible, honestly.
We're trying to stay away from people who minimize this kind of thing and just try and chalk it up to, oh, boys will fight, you know?
It's like two boys in a sandbox, like two boys in a mud pit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, oh, I hate that stuff.
I hate that stuff with a deep, visceral hatred, passion.
I hate that stuff.
Some conflicts are bloody worth having and very powerful and important.
And meaningful.
It's not just, fight, fight, fight.
It's just this diminishing shit.
It's so unbelievably toxic.
Thank you.
All right.
Sopanta, nice to see you, says, maybe they're framing it as some gay bromance fight to feel powerful, special, and important.
They've got a judgment and an opinion, so they feel they have one-upped the situation.
I've met plenty of people who do these sorts of things.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, they are, I mean, whatever you think of them, sort of plus or minus, it is an absolute fact that the most powerful man in the world, Trump, the richest man in the world, Musk, are doing things out of passionate patriotism to save the American system and to save the economy and to save the country.
They are acting to save the country.
And to me, it's sort of like if Your house has been broken into, and the cop is coming in through the window and taking on the robber who's there to, you know, kill your family and torture your children, or torture your children, kill your family.
If the cop is fighting, you say, oh, well, they're just, and your wife is like, oh, well, boys will be boys.
The cop and the criminal are just fighting.
It's like, it's a little more serious than that.
What the fuck is wrong with people that they can't have any seriousness at all?
Everything's got to be this mocking, ironic, obscene.
Stupid joke.
Everything's a fucking joke.
People risking their lives.
Like, you understand, Trump and Musk are risking their lives to try and save your greedy ass, or at least the asses of the greedy people in the country.
Again, you can say right or wrong, good or bad, but that's what they're doing, and they sure as shit don't need to.
Trump could have sailed off into the sunset, enjoyed his grandchildren and his money and his incredibly high IQ factor.
Musk could have continued on with his businesses, which is what he prefers to do.
But no, they stepped out of their comfort.
They stepped out of their happy, pleasurable, wealthy and productive zone in order to try and save the country.
Thank you.
And how do people?
Do people betray them?
They pay them back by diminishing them to, like, tween spats over some silly boy.
Oh, it's sad.
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