5270 FORGIVE YOURSELF!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Dear Stef: how can one learn to forgive oneself, and even love oneself after making some serious mistakes and and bad decisions? No excuses, though I could site childhood etc, but it's my fault. Separated now because of it. Started therapy, really working on myself, but the shame remains. I've come out a more genuine, honest, virtuous person, but the shame remains. Kind regards from long time subscriber and rare - but generous - donator.
can it be a demand if its never made?/is that not just a wish? And I can demand Elon Musk give me ten million dollars but without a credible threat of harm to him or someone he cares for that is not much of a demand and would be ignored. If it is credible its immotal and illegal unless I am in govt.
Or I make heck of a pitch. One for the angels so to speak. Appealing to logic with a real humdinger of a case as to why he would make a lot of money from it, and convince his accontants.
Or lastly an appeal to emotion so moving.and convinving he is so moved by it to open.his heart and wallet. Then my demands might be answred in the.affirmative. do you think stef bot would be able to script such an appeal? Lol.
But my real point I think even if it could doing so under false pretense is.a violation of UPB and a genuine scuzxy behaviour asides from.that fact.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning everybody. Hope you doing well. Time for our wee walk and talk. Great questions. |
| 0:05.6 | Dear staff, how can one learn to forgive oneself and even love oneself after making some serious |
| 0:11.2 | mistakes and bad decisions? No excuses though. I could cite childhood etc but it's my fault. |
| 0:18.7 | Separated now because of it. I started therapy really working on myself but the shame remains. |
| 0:24.4 | I've come out a more genuine honest virtuous person but the shame remains. Kind regards from |
| 0:33.5 | a long time subscriber and rare but generous donated. Well thank you. I appreciate your support |
| 0:38.1 | and I will do my best to help you my friend because wrong doing wrong is endemic to the human |
| 0:46.8 | condition and it's really exacerbated by sort of current forces. So let's go back to Socrates. |
| 0:56.4 | So Socrates had the belief that what we call evil was a form of ignorance that if people who did |
| 1:06.9 | wrong, who did evil knew how bad evil was for them and knew how happy virtue would make them |
| 1:15.4 | then they would not be evil and so to instruct people on morality was to make them good so it |
| 1:23.0 | would sort of be analogous to no kids sort of wakes up and says well I just really want to be fat |
| 1:27.8 | and wrestled with being overweight or obese my whole life so we just would teach children |
| 1:34.4 | about nutrition and exercise and lo and behold those children would not be fat right so that's |
| 1:41.5 | the general idea. You and I were raised in society that actually failed |
| 1:57.0 | to instruct us morally please please please I'm begging you I would get on my knees if I could |
| 2:05.2 | get back up again easily but I'm 57 now. Tell me what moral instructions do you recall |
| 2:16.3 | getting as a child and I don't mean just sort of like obey standard line it's a fire drill do your |
| 2:24.3 | homework don't jump don't scare don't upset your classmates don't talk back don't fidget don't like |
| 2:31.2 | all of this micro managing bullshit hysterical OCD semi-fascist control crap I'm talking about a |
| 2:39.7 | genuine moral lesson that was inspiring that helped you that you remember that you used to |
| 2:49.9 | this day what were you taught morally I mean I of course was raised a Christian child and |
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