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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I reflect on my recent birthday, sharing humorous family moments and transitioning to a deeper discussion on relationship dynamics, including the significance of waiting for marriage to engage in intimacy. I emphasize personal accountability and the philosophical pursuit of higher standards in relationships.
We also examine societal challenges, such as youth entitlement and the impact of the digital age on attention spans and gratification. I critique drug use as a form of escapism, arguing that true growth comes from confronting fears rather than avoiding them.
We touch on moral responsibilities in today's society, including issues of censorship and research integrity, while sharing personal stories about familial changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. I highlight the importance of mental maturity and self-reflection, encouraging listeners to embrace difficult truths for meaningful personal growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody 25th of September 2024. I am in the 58th I had thank you for your |
| 0:07.7 | inquiries I had a lovely lovely birthday I'm in bowling with a group. My daughter was in charge of the names for everyone and she put me down a Senior Discount. |
| 0:27.0 | Very, very funny. She put me down a Senior Discount, my wife down as |
| 0:29.8 | Midget and hers offspring. |
| 0:31.6 | I couldn't figure out. |
| 0:35.0 | Senior Discount has one? |
| 0:36.0 | What? |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, that would be me. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, it was very, very funny. |
| 0:40.0 | All right. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you for the tip. |
| 0:42.0 | Let's get straight to your questions. All right. |
| 0:44.0 | Steph, is it illogical and hypocritical to want to wait until engagement or marriage if you have |
| 0:49.2 | had sex in the past? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, yeah. So it's really hard to... |
| 1:10.0 | It's really hard to make a strong case for better than your worst decisions. Right? It's a tough thing to make a case that you should get better than your worst decisions. |
| 1:17.0 | It's sort of like saying, I should get paid a lot more than I'm willing to get paid for, if that makes sense, right? |
| 1:26.0 | Like if you say, well, I will accept $60,000 a year, but I should be being paid $160,000 a year that doesn't really make much sense. |
| 1:38.0 | And this is somewhat in the present. It's not like, you know, my first job was getting 2.45 an hour two dollars and |
| 1:44.8 | forty-five cents an hour it's not like I'd take that now but it's hard to say I |
| 1:52.1 | deserve more than my lowest standard, right? |
| 1:57.0 | So if your lowest standard is, well, I don't care if she's, you know, obese and tattooed and blue hair and piercings all over the place you know I deserve a better |
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