5285 WHY CHOOSE TRUTH?
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
I was asked this today and didn’t have an answer
saying any attempt to debunk UPB reinforces UPB, is the typical argument that any assertion that there is no truth is an assertion about truth and therefore it is paradoxical and debunks itself etc. Is not a huge discovery, it's an "amateurish Kantianism"
What do you think of the excuse "It's not black and white"?
Something we take for granted with good reason. An example of a warranted assumption would be trusting the published bus schedule. The bus should show up as schedule. Another example would be trusting that my key will start my car.
John Vervaeke's community can't agree that our memory of an object can match a physical object. They don't believe we use memory to drive a car.
Can warranted assumptions become True Universals?
Funny thing: higher IQ, more capacity to be NPC.
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| 0:00.0 | ah song quiz um without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse without freedom from the past |
| 0:10.4 | things can only get worse isn't that an appropriate song sooner or later by and now it's staying |
| 0:19.7 | actually yeah staying actually is fried is hearing from too much touring uh I guess like |
| 0:25.7 | peaked townsland and Roger Daltry fried his hearing and he said yeah I got a hearing aid but |
| 0:31.2 | found when I turned it on I wasn't turned it off it wasn't really missing much |
| 0:37.2 | all right so listen I am here for you my friends as always on this glorious Friday night |
| 0:43.4 | I have been giving some thought to the interesting criticism called inappropriate |
| 0:51.3 | mirth or inappropriate glee how dare I laugh at a time when the world is in flames how dare I be happy |
| 1:02.0 | when there is such suffering in the world have you ever um you ever heard that it's inappropriate |
| 1:13.2 | inappropriate shouting for it so I mean I've really been thinking about this I've been uh |
| 1:18.7 | I've been really thinking about this is it right is it wrong is it good is it bad right and you know |
| 1:23.4 | I'm obviously happy to take criticism and maybe I am a cold-hearted mirth addict who just |
| 1:30.7 | is enjoying life despite the fact that there's suffering in the world um as always I ask for your |
| 1:39.8 | capacity to accept harshness and directness I always want to check with you first before the |
| 1:47.6 | harshness and directness occurs one to ten how harsh how direct should I be I'm happy to serve |
| 1:58.1 | you as always my friends autumn coming in hard coming in hard but eat yourself isn't that the |
| 2:05.0 | definition of Scottish for play please yourself all right ten on the harshness the dread pirate comes |
| 2:12.4 | in at six I'm afraid that neither dread nor piracy nor can't do that all right so uh it looks to be |
| 2:20.6 | pretty pretty harsh okay why do we give people good advice knowing a lot of times they're not |
| 2:32.0 | going to take it like why do we give people good advice hit me with a why if you've given people |
| 2:38.0 | in your life some damn fine advice but they just don't take it yes I think we've all been there |
| 2:46.2 | yes yes yes |
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