Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - What Is the Goal of Life?
Aired: 2025-06-12
Duration: 04:53


=== Goal of Congruence (01:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, right.
[00:00:00]  So it's in reference to a goal.
[00:00:02]  Or the goal would be the imitation of Christ.
[00:00:04]  Someone's goal, right?
[00:00:06]  No, the goal is not the imitation of Christ.
[00:00:08]  The goal is the heaven or the virtue that results from that.
[00:00:11]  All right, we'll just finish up this, young lady.
[00:00:14]  Can be something that doesn't encompass being in congruence with God or being with God.
[00:00:19]  No, the thing that they want to be in congruence.
[00:00:22]  That's right.
[00:00:23]  That's right.
[00:00:24]  That's good.
[00:00:25]  Something that doesn't encompass being in congruence with Christ.
[00:00:27]  Someone's goal, right, can be something that doesn't encompass being in congruence with God or being with God.
[00:00:34]  No, the thing that they want to be in congruence with is fundamentally equivalent to their God.
[00:00:45]  So, what makes someone a Christian and what makes someone not a Christian?
[00:00:49]  That's what I'm trying to figure out.
[00:00:50]  That's a good question.
[00:00:51]  Yes.
[00:00:52]  Yeah, well, okay, I mean, I don't know that I know anything more about morality in an objective sense.
[00:01:00]  Morality is universally preferable behavior.
[00:01:02]  That's what it is, right?
[00:01:03]  And it needs to be universalizable and consistent and logical and achievable and pass the coma test.
[00:01:10]  I mean, this is all stuff that's in UPB as a whole.
[00:01:12]  So I still don't know what God is in this formulation.
[00:01:18]  I certainly don't know what morality is other than Stuff which has a good outcome.
[00:01:25]  I mean, that's the very subjective measure, right?
[00:01:27]  What is a good outcome?
[00:01:28]  For who?
[00:01:29]  Based on what?

=== Promises of Future Actions (03:23) ===

[00:01:30]  For how long?
[00:01:31]  You know, and so on, right?
[00:01:32]  So, I mean, an evil man, like a woman, I suppose, an evil man is a rapist.
[00:01:40]  A rapist, of course, prefers to be a rapist than not be a rapist, which is what he does, right?
[00:01:45]  And the evil work that he does.
[00:01:48]  And so, the system of It's an institutionalized rate benefits him.
[00:01:53]  Less attractive people benefit from forced marriage.
[00:01:57]  More attractive people benefit from voluntary marriage.
[00:02:02]  So, yeah, none of this really goes past basic Socratic skepticism.
[00:02:10]  All right.
[00:02:11]  Well, I'll stop here.
[00:02:12]  Maybe we'll continue.
[00:02:13]  I do find this stuff interesting.
[00:02:14]  It is like trying to unravel the Gordian knot of generalized confusion, but that's where the world is, and it's great to have these kinds of debates going on.
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[00:03:09]  So let's see here.
[00:03:10]  What do we have?
[00:03:11]  Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum.
[00:03:20]  I have not, but I am very proverbs.
[00:03:22]  I'm very proverbs.
[00:03:23]  Better than nouns.
[00:03:24]  Nouns are just things.
[00:03:25]  Verbs are action.
[00:03:27]  Knowing the best outcomes for everyone is akin to mysticism.
[00:03:30]  It is a count of it.
[00:03:30]  Well, it just invites sophistry.
[00:03:32]  Whoever can convince you of the glories of their system end up ruling the world and usually destroying it.
[00:03:39]  All right.
[00:03:40]  Good faith is a contractual legal term.
[00:03:43]  Contracts are promises of future actions.
[00:03:45]  Everyone here signed TOS and made and accepted promises of future actions.
[00:03:51]  contracts are promises of future actions.
[00:03:52]  Yeah, but I mean, how many people would have been pro-global warming if they were on the hook for $5 million if global warming failed to materialize?
[00:04:12]  If they lost everything and were put into bankruptcy and all of that and lost everything, all of their property, if...
[00:04:25]  I mean, the communists, when they failed to produce greater wealth and capitalism, they didn't sit there and say, oh, well, you know, I have a contract and therefore there are penalties if I'm wrong, right?
[00:04:35]  They already have their power and they just lie to get the power.
[00:04:38]  All right.
[00:04:39]  I will look at an analysis of the book of Proverbs.
[00:04:43]  I think that's very interesting and I appreciate that.
[00:04:45]  I appreciate that.
[00:04:46]  All right.
[00:04:47]  Thank you everyone so much.
[00:04:48]  Have yourself a glorious evening.
[00:04:49]  I appreciate your time tonight and I will talk to you Sunday.