5480 STOP MANIPULATING ME!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Join us on Wednesday Night Live as we discuss the impact of childhood experiences on adult behavior, the importance of traditional values versus post-Christian morality, and the decline of essential skills like swimming and cooking. We emphasize the value of diverse interests, effective communication, and emotional resilience in navigating relationships. Exploring manipulation and honesty, we highlight setting boundaries and the transformative power of self-awareness. Thank you for joining us on this journey through human behavior and relationships.
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| 0:18.0 | Yes, good evening everybody. Welcome to Wednesday Night Live. Oh gosh, what is it? 24th. So I think all philosophers have their trials. Some get burned at the steak. Some have to drink hemlock, some even get nailed to a cross, some get sold into slavery, and then, really at the pinnacle of human suffering, there's me who decides for reasons that past human |
| 0:25.9 | understanding to pour an entire day into reading an audiobook with a voice half destroyed |
| 0:31.2 | by a cold. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to peaceful parenting. |
| 0:35.0 | I am your Slavic demon, |
| 0:38.0 | Servolithic. |
| 0:39.0 | And we will take you into the dark part of the data regarding children and the childhoods. |
| 0:44.0 | So, it's going to be pretty much out of... |
| 0:48.0 | Ace Ventura? |
| 0:50.0 | Ventura! |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, Satan? |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, I'm sorry I mistook you for somebody else. |
| 0:59.0 | Who, Plato was sold into slavery. |
| 1:05.0 | All right, he says. Yeah, this is what happens when philosophers go into politics, he tried to go into politics, Plato, and he was sold in Syracuse, slavery and he just happened to be bought back for |
| 1:16.1 | about 400 bucks I think by one of his former pupils and and was freed but philosophers and politics, not necessarily the most magical of |
| 1:28.7 | mixes, because philosophers want to tell the truth and politics is lying. It's kind of the opposite job |
| 1:37.0 | description. |
| 1:38.0 | Somebody says, I wrote a novel last year, I don't know if it's morally good or bad. I do know that I believe in it, so I guess I'm asking me if that part, am I good or bad? |
| 1:50.0 | Well, writing the novel is just the first in a thousand steps of getting your ideas out into the world. |
| 1:58.0 | Now you have to get behind your novel and get it out into the world. |
| 2:02.0 | And that's the big challenge but thank you |
| 2:04.4 | for the tip I appreciate that and I wish you the very best of luck with your novel. |
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