01c. 1966 ADTribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
03c. 1966 ADWe are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
04c. 1966 ADThe acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
05c. 1966 ADThe unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
06c. 1966 ADIf there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
07c. 1966 ADCulture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
08c. 1966 ADNo mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
09c. 1966 ADThe woman who left abusive husbands in the 60's and 70's improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive relationships are a massive advertisement to non- consequentiality of abuse.So, if you stay in a abusive relationship you are signaling to everyone who ever comes in contact with you or hears about you that abusers face no consequences to their abuse therefore by staying in an abusive relationship you are encouraging and subsidizing abuse.By getting out of abusive relationships you are saying the whole world over that abusers can't get away with it. That there are negative consequences to child, adult, or spousal abuse. You name it. It just doesn't have consequences for you, it has consequences for other people.When you break out and reject abusive and irredeemable relationships you are sending a clear signal which all abusers are listening for at all times. "Can I get away with it?" That's all they're thinking. It is my hope that abusers hear this and say "Oh shit. The game is up.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
10c. 1966 ADHonesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
11c. 1966 ADAll money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
13c. 1966 ADThe ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
14c. 1966 ADWhen you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
15c. 1966 ADIt takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focusStefan Molyneux / quote ↗
16c. 1966 ADBullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
17c. 1966 ADImproving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
18c. 1966 ADA philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
20c. 1966 ADEvil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
21c. 1966 ADSelf-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
22c. 1966 ADSorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Do not drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people's ancient superstitions, unbeliefs, aggressions, culture and crap! No! Be a flare! We were born that way. Born perfectly happy being inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, cry, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream... We are, in essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we're born, how we grow and develop. I choose to inconvenience the irrational.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
23c. 1966 ADBeing loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you cant disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the degree that you erase yourself and conform to the irrational expectations of bullies. That isn't love obviously. Now if somebody in you life demands that you not disagree with them and gets angry, "offended", or outraged should you disagree with them then, that person is not a good person. It's pretty narcissistic. It's somebody who does not have the maturity, wisdom, and ego strength to handle, and in fact welcome disagreements. When people disagree with me as a whole I think it's a great opportunity for learning. People don't want to expose topics that might cause disagreement because, if the disagreement is punished then the illusion of being loved by good people is shattered.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
24c. 1966 ADTo be yourself is in many ways, is to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.To be alive, to be in a relationship is to constantly court inconvenience to others and out of that inconvenience can come enormous growth. I simply work as an imperasist. Empiricism comes first. So, I speak things that are inconvenient to others but, true for me. I observe their response. It's incredibly easy to find out the truth in your relationships. All you do is speak the truth. You speak the truth about what's on your mind to those around you and their true natures will be revealed in about 5 seconds.You have honesty in your relationships. You speak the truth about your experience, thought's, and feelings in your relationships and then you do not control how other people respond. Your as honest as can be and you simply observe how they respond. It's like that spray you use to see the lasers in the room. Honesty reveals everything.OK So, if these people constantly sacrifice my happiness, security, and mental health for the sake of their petty emotional selfish needs then I could choose to stay in those relationships if I want. I mean, I could choose to continue to hire an employee who steals from me everyday. I just have to be aware that he's stealing from me everyday.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
