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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5719 The Only Future Worth Having!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explore key questions about time travel, philosophy, and societal constructs after a decade of listener engagement. I discuss the physics of time travel, emphasizing the impossibility of returning to the past and how our understanding of time shapes our present and future.

I examine the critical role of philosophy in society, arguing that a promising future depends on our commitment to reasoned discourse and critical thinking. I also address societal misconceptions about language and moral responsibility, advocating for confronting uncomfortable truths to foster genuine progress.

Critiquing the growing influence of government over personal freedoms, I emphasize the importance of personal accountability and rational dialogue. Conclusively, I call for a future grounded in philosophy and reason to ensure depth and meaning in our lives.

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody. Sifan Maloney for Free Domain. Hope you doing well. Great, great questions from

0:05.0

freedomain.locals.com. I hope you would join the community. So somebody has asked, after listening

0:12.1

to you for a decade, you've done an excellent job of covering most everything I could ever think of.

0:15.7

The few things that I might ask, I just use your basic principles and the answer is there.

0:22.1

Not my basic principle, so I appreciate the thought.

0:24.8

We'd love to get on a time machine and see what impacts your ideas we'll have on the future.

0:28.4

Right.

0:29.3

I mean, you know, time travel is one of these funny things.

0:32.7

Okay, so the only way that you can time travel that we know of, and really it's the only,

0:36.7

it's only one way,

0:41.6

and the only thing you can do is go close to the speed of light, which will slow down time for you, and thus when you decelerate from close to the speed of light, time will have passed

0:46.6

farther for everyone else. There's a song by noted astrophysicist and occasional guitar jockey,

0:52.5

Brian May from Queen, and the song is called 39.

0:55.9

In fact, the number 39. It's a lovely little folk song about time travel, one of the few

1:03.2

in that genre, I think. So you could conceivably go forward in the future. I mean, I guess

1:09.5

you can cryogenically freeze yourself

1:11.1

and so on, but you can't go forward and you can't go back, can't go back. And you can't get into

1:17.1

a little thing, like you can't get into a little booth and then time travel. You know, that's,

1:22.0

that's just lazy writing for writers who want to break reality. Because the Earth is in constant motion, you know, it's,

1:28.3

I mean, not only rotating, but it's corkscrewing around the sun, which itself is rotating

1:31.8

around the galaxy, which itself is rushing through space. So even if you went forward in time,

1:38.1

say, like where you were, you changed whatever time, let's say you were able to go back 10

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