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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!
Feel free to have a look around, chat with other members, share your thoughts, objections, arguments and memes!
This is a place where we strive to achieve the truth through consistent virtue - a great playground for innovative ideas and interactions!
Feel free to have a look around, chat with other members, share your thoughts, objections, arguments and memes!
This is a place where we strive to achieve the truth through consistent virtue - a great playground for innovative ideas and interactions!
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Stefan Molyneux@freedomain
July 13, 2024
Another excerpt from Peaceful Parenting, please share it far and wide!
If you hurt your children, they deserve an apology. Maybe this will fix the relationship, maybe it won’t. But we don’t judge the morality of an action by its consequences. We don’t say we can’t end slavery because society will have no way to produce food and cotton. Do the right thing, though the skies fall!
After you apologize, you make restitution, as best you can. Then you do everything – absolutely everything – in your power to show you will never do evil again. Go to therapy, study moral philosophy, take anger management courses, reject and abandon evil people in your life. Do everything necessary to prevent the return of evil into your heart and hands.
Use workbooks by psychologists to get to the root of your motivations. Talk to your parents, examine your childhood, trace the growth of your immorality, confront yourself, challenging the devils that live in in each of us. Weep, wail, gnash your teeth, confront the heart you blackened with badness, overthrow the devil you grew, and throw your broken soul into the arms of the angels.
Surrender your twisted will, excuses, manipulations, and hypocrisies to the shining standards of universal virtue. Obey what is good and right, not your base animal hedonism. Serve righteousness, morality, virtue – God. Stop making excuses, and start making progress. Stop lying for immediate benefit, and start telling the truth for long-term happiness. Give your children freedom by taking responsibility for everything you have done – and everything you failed to do. Find your soul – and save it. Graduate from self-righteousness to righteousness, the service of virtue, rather than your own ego and vanity. Drop the need to feel right, and pursue the glory of being good.
Perhaps you make it, perhaps you don’t. Perhaps it’s too late – perhaps it isn’t. But if you finally and honorably live the values you have always claimed – that you would do anything for your children – the world will become inestimably better.
Think of all the great souls who have dragged humanity up the thorny cliff-sides of virtue. Think of all the freedoms and opportunities you possess because of their sacrifices. It is better to add to the honor of the species than to exploit the sacrifices of your ancestors. We will all be gone soon enough – the purpose is to be good before we go! Add to the truth of the world, not the hypocrisy that serves only your vanity. Talk to your children – apologize, make restitution – and be better. Morality is empirical, not verbal. Virtue is for living, not talking. If you are not doing good, you are not good.
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The Truth About Gene Wars: r/K Selection Theory
Stefan Molyneux kicks off his "Gene Wars" series by diving into r/K selection theory, using it to unpack how genetics and evolution shape human behavior and the way societies are built. He breaks down the r strategy—lots of offspring with minimal parental effort—against the K approach, which involves fewer kids but more resources poured into each one. Drawing from animals, he shows how surroundings push species toward one path or the other in reproduction. Molyneux then applies this to people, suggesting that social environments can encourage either set of traits, and he ties it to current political and cultural tensions. He argues that getting a handle on these biological ideas helps explain splits in ideology, while hinting at deeper looks ahead into their genetic roots and effects on society.
Remastered from the original 2015 presentation!
0:00:00 Introduction to Gene Wars
0:01:13 The R and K Strategies
0:04:49 Understanding R Strategy Characteristics
0:07:43 Exploring K Strategy Traits
0:13:44 R ...
00:56:07
What Did We Win?
In this Friday Night Live on 16 January 2026, Stefan Molyneux talks about his thoughts on aging in his 60th year. He examines the fallout from the COVID pandemic, from disputes over vaccinations to the mental toll they took. He points to the value of sharp reasoning and personal accountability, warns against authoritarian control, and calls on people to defend their views with straightforward honesty.
0:00:00 Embracing Age
0:01:48 Reflecting on Scott Adams
0:10:00 Vaccine Consequences
0:10:26 Exploring Vaccine Injury
0:12:18 Deathbed Conversions
0:14:42 Government Overreach
0:16:30 Questioning Victories
0:20:16 The Psychological Impact
0:28:07 The Cost of Compliance
0:30:22 Continuing the Discussion
0:31:11 Historical Perspectives
0:35:31 Experiences in Education
0:53:37 The Impact on Children
0:58:27 The Weight of Crime
0:58:54 Historical Perspectives on Parenthood
1:02:50 The Importance of Sibling Bonds
1:07:02 Navigating Parenting in Today's World
1:08:09 The Cost of Speaking Out
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01:47:46
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I find that I get so much peace and joy from Christianity ✝️. I know that some here might say it’s irrational and maybe it is but nothing else in life has helped me feel so peaceful than being a Christian. Stefan’s show has helped me in an incalculable way as I was basically killing myself before I found his show, but I also needed Christianity to complete the journey. I hardly ever struggle with persistent toxic feelings of any kind since I started praying 🙏 everyday, going to church every week, and reading the Bible. Father Spyridon, a Russian Orthodox priest, is one of my favorite YouTube channels.
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