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Hi there, this is Stefan Molyneux - welcome to Freedomain, the Locals community! One of the last homes for real philosophy in the world!
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Stefan Molyneux@freedomain
April 20, 2023
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Have you ever made an explicit list of conversations to have with a future spouse?
Hi Stef. I have a question. Philosophy has been a huge part of my life for a good few years now and has helped me.figure.out so much. However I find myself trying to push it onto my wife which is terrible of me. I don't want to be like that but find that my childhood traumas get triggered and suddenly I'm being pushy. I have asked her to read RTR and other books you have but she does struggle to engage probably because I am too pushy. How do I stop this pattern of behaviour?
Hey Stef, I don't want my future family to suffer under a totalitarian regime. I'm from central Europe and my current plan is to move out of the west, particularly into a south-american country with a right leaning government (like Uruguay), and to start my family there. I will either have to meet my future wife in Europe, and convince her to move to south america with me (which will probably be difficult), or just marry a woman from Latin america. Do you think this is a good idea?
Speaking of personalities, what do you think of MBTI - Myers Briggs personality type index? The gist of it is that everyone has a combination of cognitive functions that guide them toward making certain decisions in life. Any truth to this?
I grew up obese… and was nicknamed accordingly by my peers.
In the last few years, I have got in shape and lost about 80lbs of fat. From 255 to 180lbs at 6’ tall.
NONE of my peers recognize me now.
I have also created a six figure self employed business. (Blue Collar)
Now that I’m actually attractive to women,
I want to be wanted for me!
~Not a house,money, or muscles.
It’s kind of depressing that I became attractive , only after going through hell….
Hi Stef! My dad did very well in business and convinced me to sell most of my crypto when it had eclipsed 1k/btc. He made a joke years later that he had sold all his real estate to purchase Bitcoin when the price of btc was nearly 50k, implying it would be a speculative investment. He hasn’t acknowledged that he gave me the poor investment advice, even after it had 50x its price, but I haven’t called him out about it. Is that why I have regret to this day about selling or is it simply the price?
What's a good to differentiate between the value for value model and transactional relationships ?
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The concept of Universal Consequentialism 😱
A year ago, I presented a different view of consequentialism in this community, which is to devide the concept into rational and irrational consequentialism.
Here's a different approach to explain what consequentialism actually is, based on an example Stefan is providing in his book "Peaceful Parenting", chapter 11, page 153, timestamp 38:19 in the audio book. Quote:
"Since you are all very clever readers, you will be replying to me in your mind something along the lines of this: 'Ah, you say, Mr. Philosopher, that no one can accurately predict the future, but you also state that hitting children has negative outcomes!'
That is certainly true – both that I make that claim, and that hitting children does have generally negative outcomes.
However, we do not judge the morality of hitting children based upon positive or negative outcomes.
For instance, we know that state control of the economy leads to massive inefficiencies – but we don't judge the morality of state control of ...
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Any way I had dream about serendipitously meeting a minor celebrity from most comedy based video game show podcast (The bleeding heart of said group) co-star now current host though less popular (even I rarely listen nowadays). We were after like a meeting or something in the traditionally professional sphere. Afterwards I made same chitchat with the a woman (a professional ethnic looking woman (Spanish/South East Asian/Italian/Greek adajecent) next to me who start to talk vapiditly and incessantly. Until tried to get in a word edge wise about the podcaster sitting next to her. Who seemed to over hear and looked a bit...
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