https://freedomain.locals.com/post/2801768/ask-me-anything-locals-ama-27-9-2022

Thanks for all the GREAT questions - in particular the very savage one!

Hope you had a great birthday, Stefan. I was wondering why some people refuse to discuss anything beyond the surface-level. As soon as the conversation reaches a point where it is no longer about repeating media talking points or regurgitating someone else’s opinion, the conversation just halts, as if you had stepped on a land mine. I get that there are sensitive topics that most people would like to avoid, but this has happened in conversations that were passionately initiated by the other person.

Hello Stef! The history of philosophy shows have been fantastic! Do you think ancient Greek and Roman mythology has anything to teach the modern world about wisdom, virtue or moral philosophy?

Did you know that Gabor Mate used ayahuasca to treat his patients?

What do you think about it?

Stef, how do you think your life would have played out if you had grown up with today's technology?

Why do you think people don't want to strive to live good moral lives anymore? I've read about polls that place living a moral life very low on the priorities list of young people, I would think that everyone would at least want to live a moral life ideally, even if people's opinions and worldviews are very different, but evidently, people don't even care anymore. It's like total apathy.
MASCULINE MORALITY IS HONOR, FEMININE MORALITY IS SHAME

@freedomain Wife has begun to alter her financial contribution to our agreed upon marriage arrangements. We verbally agreed to split expenses 50/50, I pay for my children's expenses. I put on average $15000 extra in our joint checking every year to cover Christmas, vacations, her medical bills, etc. She refuses to acknowledge reality of situation and hurls verbal abuse my way when explaining situation. She often claims I am stealing from her. I make $130k per year and she $71k. I save $50k per year for our future and she gets her nails done. Recently she has not been contributing to our joint checking as usual and causing disturbances to our finances and stability. She moved over two counties and we were married 3.5 years ago, I have two children with a previous wife, 2 beautiful and wonderful young girls. She claims I have sacrificed nothing and she everything, she changed teaching positions and I stood behind her during a DUI conviction. She put down $66k on our home from her home sale and I am grateful to her, but she claims its only her home, while pressuring me to invest into it by building a $30k deck, repairs, etc. This also shielded her monies from long-term capital gains taxes (15%). I paid $38k cash for moving, furniture, etc in our new home. Please help with advice as I am shaken and have no idea how to move forward Stefan. I asked earlier about refusal to acknowledge reality? She always claims all disagreements are solely my fault. I am stealing from her somehow although I make more???? I am a successful neuroscientist and my other friendships and work relationships are rock solid. She also does not meet my physical needs, either intimately or emotionally and everything is conditional. She will lay down her responsibilities and pile them on me whenever she fabricates she does not get what she wants. She also recently stole $2000 from my investment account by hacking into my bank accounts and claims I owed it to her. Its all insane, I'm getting gaslit and cornered via verbal abuse and manipulation by withholding affection, etc. Please advise. Is this beyond repair, has she never loved me as I assume, and should I leave the relationship and never look back?

Also EMJ has noted that all anti theists have absent fathers because God is an exalted father and so they cannot connect with God easily. Is this hypothesis new to you? It was to me. What are your thoughts?

I remember a suggestion you gave to get quality time with your spouse after your (young) children’s bedtime, but in my family we’re totally exhausted at that time. TV is the only reliable distraction during the day (the kids would rather play with us than do anything else) but I feel guilty giving the kids TV in order to have uninterrupted time with my wife. Any suggestions?

Stefan you complain that people did not follow you from Youtube.
But you spent 5 years manipulating people on Youtube.
You spent 5 years talking politics, promoting Trump.
You did not believe in what you were saying, for those 5 years (assuming that you are telling the truth now).
Now you say that all politics is a farce, the political system is based on violence and cannot be saved.
You never believed in the viability of politics. You started off your podcast 16 years ago talking about the futility of nagging the state.
But why did you spend 5 years manipulating your audience of close to a million on Youtube?
Telling them to vote Trump, this election is the most important ever, etc.
If you are so good at identifying abusers, why did you promote Trump? Right now it is obvious that Trump is/was a total buffoon, joker, fraudster, manipulator, incompetent political parasite, who manipulated his most loyal followers right into the FBI's trap on Jan 6th.
Also, if you spent 5 years manipulating your Youtube audience, how do we know you are not manipulating us now?

I love your work Stefan. I peacefully raised my now 30 year old daughter with attachment parenting and unschooling.
Do you know anything about pre-Christian European Mystery School Gnosticism. Some say Socrates was an initiate.
They claim psychedelics are a tool of observation. At the local mystery cult, 8 men and 8 women would take say psilocybin mushrooms and report their observations. They predicted the problem of the rise of the Abrahamic Cults and their child abuse practices like circumcision.
I credit psilocybin healing my depression by accelerating empathy with my childhood. I felt like I got 5 years of therapy in a dozen sessions.
Are you open to psychedelic therapies?

What's a fast and effective way to undo old destructive programming like the pessimist in the last call-in show?