Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

My name is [name] and I am 52 years old. My sister is hosting an 80th birthday party for my mom and I don’t want to go. My mother has never made it a priority to attend any significant family milestone events in my life, including my oldest daughter’s wedding last week. We lived within 50 minutes of each other for 18 years as I raised my five children and she never attended one of their baby blessings, baptisms, concerts, performances, and even some of her own birthday parties that I planned and had at my house. She would often cancel coming over for our family Christmas or Easter parties an hour before the event. My children would get so excited to see Grandma and then be totally disappointed when she wouldn’t show. I have good, well behaved kids. It has nothing to do with behavior on their part. I have never been able to be open and honest with my mom about things she has done that has hurt me or my kids. I was never allowed to “talk back” or act sad or go against her ideas when I was growing up. To this day I can’t say, “you hurt my feelings when you didn’t show up for your birthday party.” Or “I don’t want to come because you don’t ever support me or any of my siblings when we have important milestones” because if I do, she will hang up on me or fall apart and then gossip about me to other family members. She has never ever said she was wrong about something. I always act very kind and respectful to my mom, even when she has done really bad things to me or my husband. When I look back on my life, it seems that she always acted on her best interests instead of her 5 children’s or husbands. (She has had 5 husbands) She has hurt me so many times on so many levels and I feel like at this point in my life, I just can’t take it anymore. I have Zero courage at all to call her out on ANYTHING.

I think it is important to be a supportive family member and having an 80th birthday is a big deal, but I just feel really resentful and don’t want to make the 1,100 mile trip to attend the party and if I did go, it would be out of total guilt. Am I obligated to go?

I have listened to your show for a few years now and respect your insight on family matters. I have many childhood hangups and have mastered the art of doing the opposite of what my mother has done with her life, but I am so surprised at how she still has such a pull on me.

Thank you so much for your consideration, I would love to talk to you if you have the time.

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Questions I missed on the Feb 24 Ask Me Anything Livestream!

DeVincent A. McFarlin

Stef, I'm looking to get involved in politics. What are your thoughts on Civic nationalism? I am majoring political science/paralegal studies. Advice?


Physes

Do you believe that states are or could be a valid form of collective property, analogous to a joint-stock company? It seems to me that possession, property rights (title) and sovereignty are all valid forms of ownership.

Stef- tell us something about yourself noone else knows, Thanks


Andrew Thomas:

Been donating monthly since 2016! I'm really wondering what happened to the show's format? Like, where's Michael? You two had a great dynamic...


Matthew Johnson:

Been donating monthly since 2016! I'm really wondering what happened to the show's format? Like, where's Michael? You two had a great dynamic...


Brian:

With consideration to the current state of our culture and its future, would you rather raise a daughter or a son?


PhoenixOn:

Defense Distributed vs Gewal, 3D guns file distribution as a first amendment speech right. It is a second amendment case built on first amendment grounds, thoughts?


Orebbit:

​Are you an alpha male, Stefan?


​jordan4270
​GOD DAMMIT STEFAN, HILARY SWANK SMASH OR PASS ANSWER ME!!!!!

​Stefan, sometimes, I like to dye myself orange, paint myself green, sit in a hole, and pretend I'm a carrot. Is this win Y/N? - UNTIL GIANT RABBIT


​stefan is all of our dads - sting memory


Mr. Xray

Hi Stefan, I was wondering what your favorite/least favorite coding language to work with is?


Anna Walsteyn
​So we can bring our governments to court because my country is not a safe place anymore


Brian

With consideration to the current state of our culture and its future, would you rather raise a daughter or a son?


Thoughts on Elon Musk and Tesla?


Chris Newgent

I have 3 rules of virtue, I would like your input. Am I missing something? I tweeted a link to you, not sure of a better way to communicate. Thank you for your work.


James Murphy

Since monthly income tax receipts are needed to service debt. What if 25% of the “makers” Decided to take 3-6 months off from work. How long till government yells “uncle


MARC PAYNE:

I’m depressed. Should I try to get happy before trying to get rich or vice versa? What’s your opinion on happiness vs usefulness?


Devon Spittle:

Do you ever feel like Wilson from Home Improvement when you help people on your call in show? Thanks for all your hard work!


harambe jr:

Was wondering if you could do a debate with Jay Dyer on the validity God. He’s a formidable debater and I think it would definitely add to the conversation and your resume.


fataraska:

Can you explain the UPB argument against assault and explain why it doesn't apply to "hate speech" (eg. speech people didn't consent to hearing)


dan l

Doesn't history show that democracy and libertarianism are incompatible? Once the franchise is universal, people just vote for ever larger government.


​@stefanmolyneux Were you disappointed to be overlooked for the lead role in the Freddie Mercury movie?

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Come by to talk to Stefan Molyneux about what is on your mind!

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A desperate women with 4 kids by 2 men calls into the Freedomain philosophy to ask how she should deal with the fact that her husband is getting out of jail soon - what should she do?

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January 29 2019: Jussie Smollett, a black gay actor from “Empire,” claimed that he was assaulted by two white men in MAGA hats with a noose and a bleach-like liquid on him at 2 AM on the below-freezing, snowy streets of Chicago.

Smollett alleged that his attackers asked him, “Aren’t you that f*ggot Empire n*gger?”

TMZ reported on Smollett’s claims at the time:

The 2 men — both white and wearing ski masks — viciously attacked Jussie as he fought back, but they beat him badly and fractured a rib. They put a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him and as they left they yelled, “This is MAGA country.”

Somehow Smollett was able hang onto his Subway sandwich throughout the entire attack, because he was seen on surveillance still holding it when he returned to his apartment.

Chicago police claimed via statement:

Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime. Detectives are currently working to gather video, identify potential witnesses and establish an investigative timeline.

Empire creator and producer Lee Daniels described Smollett’s claims as “just another f*cking day in America.”

NAACP: The recent racist and homophobic attack on acclaimed actor and activist Jussie Smollett is troubling. The rise in hate crimes is directly linked to President Donald J. Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric. It is dangerous for any society to allow a tone of divisiveness and hatred to dominate the political discourse. As this rhetoric continues to bleed into our everyday lives, dangerous behavior will continue to place many law-abiding individuals at risk. We pray for a full physical and mental recovery Jussie Smollett and many unnamed victims of this forum of hate based terrorism.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA): But we have to understand this is happening for a reason. Why all of a sudden do we have people unable to study while black, unable to mow a lawn while black, unable to have a picnic while black, and being attacked? It’s coming from the President of the United States. He’s dog-whistling every day. He’s separating and dividing, and he is basically emboldening those folks who feel this way, maybe never said and never talked about it, never could act it out, but now they’re on it.


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A desperate caller whose wife is about to divorce him begs for help from Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain.

Can the marriage be saved? What about his son? Can the relationship be saved? Should he even try?

If you are struggling in your romantic relationship, this call is for you!

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Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

Journalist David Sheff (Steve Carell) is in the office of addiction expert Dr. Brown (Timothy Hutton). He explains that he's not there for an article - he's there because he doesn't know his son anymore - he's a drug addict, doing multiple drugs but most recently crystal meth, and he needs help.

Flashback to one year earlier.

David and his wife Karen (Maura Tierney) live in San Francisco with their two young kids Jasper and Daisy and David's son from his first marriage, Nic (Timothee Chalamet). One night, Nic doesn't come home. David calls his ex-wife, Nic's mother Vicki (Amy Ryan). The two get into a heated argument about Nic and his behavior. Two days later, Nic returns home, hungover. With his behavior getting alarming, David goes to see a drug rehab counselor, who says their program has an eighty percent success rate. David enters Nic into the program, and the two hug and exchange the word "everything" to each other.

After some time in rehab, Nic tells David and Karen that he wants to stay on at the rehab center's extension program, a halfway house, and not go to college right away. Later, David gets a call that Nic has not returned to the halfway home. He angrily wants to know why no one is looking for Nic, but is told that their job at that point is not to locate him, but they will be there if he should return. They say relapse is part of recovery. David takes it upon himself to find Nic, eventually locating him in an alley in the rain. Nic vomits inside David's car, and David enters him back into rehab. When he and Karen bring him back, he demands to know the full extent of Nic's drug habits, learning just how many drugs his son is using.

Later on, Nic is doing better and tells his dad he wants to go to college. David is excited and drops Nic off at school. Again, they exchange "everything"s. It goes well at first, and Nic even starts dating a classmate. While at Thanksgiving at his girlfriend's, Nic finds pills in their bathroom and takes them. He begins doing hard drugs again at school, his relationship falling apart. When he next comes back home, he asks if he can borrow David's car in order to go to a narcotics anonymous meeting. Instead, he goes out and scores. The next morning, when the two young children get into a fight because Jasper thinks Daisy stole the money out of his piggy bank, David confronts Nic asking if he stole the money. Nic gets aggressive and denies it, but David realizes he's using again. David says he shouldn't have let Nic go to school, he wasn't ready - but Nic refuses any more treatment and runs away.

Caught up to the beginning of the film, Dr. Brown explains that crystal meth is extremely addictive, and that no matter what number he was told, the likelihood of someone overcoming an addiction is closer to eight percent. While searching for Nic, David goes through intense experiences - buying and using cocaine to try to understand his son's experience, and meeting and buying a meal for a young addict girl for some insight. Finally, he hears from Nic, but when they meet, Nic is erratic and high, and says he's clean but needs a few hundred dollars. David refuses to give him money and tries to get him to come home with him, but Nic flees, completely irrational and unreasonable.

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Mexico is not paying for the wall. There does not seem to be a wall - all Americans get is "fencing" and "barriers." Is this 4-D chess? Is it capitulation?

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"Over the last five years Stefan Molyneux has risen to fame, and while I personally enjoy a lot of his content, I maintain that a great many of his assertions are disastrously flawed… and his Universally Preferable Behaviour (otherwise known as UPB) is one of them. What follows is a refutation of the Five Proofs that Molyneux offers, and hence, this is Universally Preferable Behaviour Debunked!

As promised within the video, here’s a link to Common Sense Atheism’s review of UPB (of which I found very useful in my research, and I highly recommend). Give him/her some love! http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=75

For a detailed explanation of the flaws and fallacies within Molyneux’s Five Proofs, please watch the video, but if you just want a brief announcement of some of the flaws, they are as follows:

The First Proof is flawed because:

• Premise two is a False Premise.

The Second Proof is flawed because:

• Premise one is Begging the Question, and;
• Premise four unjustifiably smuggles in the word “acceptance”.

The Third Proof is flawed because:

• Premise two is Begging the Question;
• Premise three is a False Premise, and;
• Premise four is a False Premise.

The Fourth Proof is flawed because:

• Premise one is either pedantic or a False Premise;
• Premise three commits an Ambiguity Fallacy, and;
• Premise four is a Non Sequitur.

And finally (thanks for sticking around people!), the Fifth Proof is flawed because:

• Premise one is Begging the Question, and;
• Premise two is Arbitrarily Assigning Significance"

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James Delingpole interviews Stefan Molyneux after his speech at the European Union Parliament on Tech Censorship.

EU speech: https://youtu.be/hgdcUI-5OAM

Audio mastering by идиот; incidental music by Thomas Schweikert!

http://delingpoleworld.com/delingpod-6-stefan-molyneux/

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