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Hello, I'm a long time listener of the podcast and I'm really needing some advice. I'm a 30 year old homosexual white male, I've never liked my sexuality as it is a very difficult lifestyle. The common theme among the gay community is that homosexuality is natural and should be embraced, however I have always viewed it as a defect, something that is a hindrance to a happy life. My understanding is that homosexuality has existed throughout human history and has maintained a standard of ~5% of the population, this figure varies among sources. Regardless, the homosexuals that I have met throughout my life generally are not happy people. Most are impulsive, self medicate, and are unable to maintain stable relationships. I am also not attracted to the femininity found in the gay male community, I have never understood why gay men seem to all act the same, it seems insincere, as if they have altered their demeanor to advertise for the D. I am not sexually attracted to feminine men, the kissing and holding hands romantic aspect weirds me out. I have been with around 15 guys throughout my life, it has always been short term, I have tried relationships but I just have never been that into it. From what I can figure out, my attraction to males is purely sexual and not romantic I believe. I have been with one girl sexually, which happened when I was young and drunk. I do not have a sexual attraction to females. However, I do enjoy being in a romantic relationship with women, which has been limited (3) as well due to my fear of being able to perform sexually. I have always remained distant to potential female spouses in fear of hurting them if they get attached. I am a masculine male, and I am not out. I felt that I would come out when I found the right guy, but years just keep passing and it is not happening. I really want to have kids, I want to have a family, but I fear that I won't be able to maintain a healthy relationship with a female, I fear that I would end up hurting a potential spouse and wasting both of our time. I am pretty fucked up. I have my life together in all other aspects but I am starting to panic as I am getting older, and my apartment is empty when I come home. Any advice on how I can begin to fix this? Thank you for listening, this is an awesome community

How do we live the good life in a wicked world? This is an ancient conversation that continues. The dilemma is can we live a good life if we stay connected to evil communities, or should we leave? From what I've noticed in history, it's usually the craziest people who leave to start their own communes. I think Epicurus did it. The Anabaptists did it. The 1960s counterculture did it. This was Dagney Taggart's Dilemma in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Stefan Molyneux talks about not letting the evil people into his life. Where do you find the good people to replace the evil people?

Hi I'm new here, I don't know if this question is done to death but it seems to be a an important philosophical question. Plato was put to death for arguing rationally. Aristotle fled. Ayn Rand had a mental breakdown. I've just watched The Truth about Ayn Rand part 3. Stephan talks about Ayn Rand feeling like a failure because she couldn't get her political aims realised through rational argument. Stephan goes on to talk about how many people just don't have that rational part of their brain to argue with. Does he go further into this topic in another video? I find the things people disagree on to be the most interesting discussions and regularly take my arguments too far for timid people. My question is how do you know when something is worth arguing? How do you know where people's limits are? When and why is truth inappropriate? Can you ever win an argument with someone who thinks truth is relative or am I wasting my time?

Is it irony that the most controversial thing Stef ever talks about, the thing he's somewhat (understandably), but by far not entirely got away from the past two years, the thing which he was attacked for by people on the right, the thing which he based his whole show on from the very beginning, is the thing that will win this culture war? Are we surprised at that...? ....have you donated to the show recently? If you don't know about the Daddyofive YouTube channel, be warned, he and his wife abuse their children, especially the youngest, and try to pass it off as just pranks.

What's dishonest and vile about it? Sounds like you just want me to ignore the fact that you have no way of proving to me any form of reality or rational.

Sounds like the equivalent to "if you can't accept Jesus" I'll stop talking to you. We know for a fact that all perceptions are mere interpretations of sensory impulses. That means that there is no way to prove that there is an objective reality. My reality is very likely not your reality and my rationality is very likely not yours. That's why other people often appear irrational to us.

America is already bankrupt. Who better to lead the country than someone who knows the ins and outs of bankruptcy?

while its a useful concept, and can be an indicator of different things, in the end, its not worth worrying about and stopping you from living. Can you do stuff? If you can, then do that stuff. If you cant, but would like to do the stuff, then practice doing the stuff until you can do the stuff, or you realise you arent able to do the stuff.

Detection and measurement is based on your brain interpreting the impulses received from your nervous system. What you preceive as reality is a mere interpretation of these various inputs. Because of that I would argue that on the rational plain of consciousness you cannot prove that there is an objective reality. And since all rationalisations are based on these interpretations it appears to me as if ratio (or the mind) is an incapable tool to decerne actual "truth".

Living* men Those stats are about the survivors The suicided men don't tend to enter the actuarial stats, cuz... you know... they're dead

hate to break it to you, however, BUSINESS people are true negotiators, politicians are terrible negotiators; why you may ask? because businesses actually negotiate with THEIR resources, it matters. Politicians negotiate with OTHER peoples resources, it has no impact on them. as to your other statements regarding Trump, well, please show evidence that such happened in practice and not just a regurgitation of the mass media propaganda machine. Any modern businessman knows that being a "racist" will get you shutdown so fast you will not have time to get to your ATM before you have been fired. Companies direct their HR departments to bend over backwards to make sure that is not going to be an issue. This is the main challenge for t his generation, not defining reality by what they see on twitter/facebook. Same with the cry of misogyny, Trump has no doubt provided more opportunities for women than the federal government. Usually it is the feminists that have a fit over "beauty pageants", but those events and the scholarships they crank out have helped a lot of, well, ok, pretty girls. Now if you want to claim that Trump likes attractive women, yea, I agree with that. Being "attractive" is just another innate resource like intelligence; it is your resource so use it to your best advantage. Hillary was complete corruption that USED to resources of the people for her and her friends benefit. She actually caused thousands of deaths thru poor judgement! well this has gotten a bit off topic; Trump can negotiate, better than most. What Trump cannot handle is that in business you get used to negotiating with smart/tricky people...but never "crazy". North Korea is run by a lunatic; a business person is willing to negotiate, and even risk their company based on a risk analysis of the cost/benefits. Crazy people will lose everything for a certainty of nothing because, well, they are crazy.

Audiobooks Peaceful Parenting series Bomb in the Brain series I just started at podcast 0, most of my favorite stuff is below 1000.

I'm not any sort of expert at what I'm suggesting here, I just found it curious how you described a sexual attraction to men but a romantic attraction to women. The reason I asked about diet was mainly to know about hormones. What do you mean by clean and whole foods? Are you eating a lot of grains and fruits, or fats, vegetables, and high-quality meat (i.e. grassfed beef)? Again, I'm going out on a limb here, but if you're eating a lot of things with endocrine disruptors which mimic estrogen (like soy), while simultaneously foods that supply the body with what it needs to make testosterone, your hormones may be out of whack. Other examples of endocrine disruptors are sodium lauryl sulfate (very common in soaps and shampoos) and BPA (common in plastics and sales receipts). Regarding exercise, what kind are you doing? Have you heard of HIIT? I don't mean to patronize you if you already know this stuff, but there are ways to exercise than actually put more strain on your system then help. If you haven't looked into formulating a proper plan, I recommend checking it out. Divorce sucks, but I'm glad you're on the lower end of the spectrum on the ACE score. Again, I don't know what this might have to do with it, but dealing with the trauma you experienced as a child may help. I know everyone talks about therapy around here, but I want to recommend TRE - traumatic release exercises. I've been doing it now for nearly a year and it's incredible. I'll let the website do the explaining: http://traumaprevention.com/ List of providers all over the world here: http://traumaprevention.com/tre-provider-list/ Regarding sensations in your body, have you done any training that actively looks at those sensations and works with them? Soft style martial arts like Tai Chi or Systema, yoga, Wim Hof breathing method, Reichian therapy, bioenergetics, etc.? Many years ago I read some of the works of Wilhelm Reich (one of the students of Sigmund Freud) who was researching the affects of sex and the "flow of energy", for lack of a better term, through the body. Essentially, our bodies can get locked up in different places due to trauma (Reich called these "armor rings" and he identified seven of them), and there are exercises that can be done to free these things up. In one of his clinical examples, he had a man who came to him who believed he was a homosexual because of his lack of attraction to women, but after some sessions with Reich he very quickly began a sexual relationship with a woman. I couldn't help but remember that when I read your sexual vs. romantic attraction comment in your original post. If you found any of that interesting or useful, let me know and I can tell you more.

Well, I think the most important episode is the one that can benefit you the most. So, if you are looking to gain knowledge in something you can use the search to find relevant episodes. If there was a general episode I would recommend, maybe it would be UPB. Welcome to the forum and Good Luck

Rationality is merely a tool, much like language. Do not speak rationally to someone who does not understand it. People who understand rationality are in the minority on this planet. Just looking at IQ distribution, only 40% are above 100. I get error messages in my brain arguing with people at 110. So expecting people to understand rationality would be like demanding that everyone spoke Arabic. Also noteworthy that nobody is truly fluent rational... We aren't machines. There are however countless other ways to get a point across. Emotions, "lizard brain", idealism, sentimentalism, power, force, money, food, music... As Mother Theresa said, "a kind word changes more minds than a smart one." This is how the world works. For good or bad, I don't know.

Libertarian ideologue finds Trump supporters and gets pumped with red pills, but rejects reality and doesn't feel well and changes - COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. Many such cases!

see: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/49140-what-is-the-root-to-all-evil/#entry446944 He keeps insisting that the definitions I gave are incorrect therefore my argument is incorrect even though he offered no definitions prior to his assertion. He is just arguing against a dictionary at this point trying to save face.

Yes. I like to call this technique "using an argument". Very effective.

OMG, dude, pay attention. Don't just start addressing each and every example I've made as if they were single statements. They were put there to make a point and not to be taken individually. I just posted the definitions of idealogue, ideology, and gave an example of an ideology then I gave an example of a tenant of said ideology that is correct/right/moral/ethical/whatever. If you can't get a basic syllogism I don't know how much more clearer I could possibly be.

I disagree because it does not account for the instance when said ideologues are right. The root of evil is hypocrisy, making others follow a set of rules you are exempt from. Those who steal do not want property stolen from them, those who rape do not want to get raped, and those who murder do not want to get murdered. If ethics and morality are universal then any rules that are not universal stand in defiance of them.

MGTOW is another marxist trick to eradicate whites. I have never seen a black MGTOW. No married man is considered to be MGTOW. No man with a girlfriend is considered MGTOW. No man with a child is considered MGTOW. MGTOW specifically targets teenagers to forgo female contact. MGTOW creates a strawman of the female character as something undesirable (sour grapes). MGTOW promotes isolation from society (ghosting). MGTOW criticize any enjoyment of female interaction as misandry. MGTOW sells itself as a male boycott to female vanity but its true intentions became clear after the "leaders" stated that there's no such thing as a good woman.

So far, this thread has floated hypocrisy, nihilism, child abuse, jealousy, envy, and collectivism as the “roots of all evil”. The worst sin in the Old Testament was idolatry. This is why Jesus scourged the money-lenders and drove them from the Temple. This sin's magnitude is reinforced by Jesus' first commandment that thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart. So, idolatry is the worst form of deviation because it takes one's eyes off of God and puts them onto an idol of some kind, subject to one's sinful whims. Money can be such an idol. The difference between money and other idols, however, is the abstract force-like nature of money. The soul who loves money wishes it could buy everything, sees in it a symbol of everything, including the purchasing of hypocrisy itself. Money as a god annihilates other gods and concerns, displaces love of children, makes one jealous or envious, and corrupts the nation. The love of money is sloth, wrath, envy, pride, lust, gluttony, and greed incarnate. One can be slothful or greedy without loving money in a literal, conscious sense, but, so, one loves it as a god outside of the one God, secretly, and that secret love ramifies one's life. Just as modernists, collectivists especially, deny Original Sin, so do men deny that Mammon is the false god of false gods. For, what do we call what a man values but his "treasure"?

Ah, so are you effectively playing a psychological mind game to make a point? Idolatry, sounds similar to Ideology. I remember from a documentary somewhere that the Jewish moneylenders had a particular coin as a gift at a festival. Which cost more in silver then a regular minted coin, kind of like a modern day proof or special edition coin, but with associated religious or sacrilegious meaning. I don't think money itself is Evil merely a tool. I think currency is particularly corrupting, which includes bitcoin, as it does not even have some material to back it.

Money is no more corrupting than land or livestock or a personal aeroplane. It's the love of money that's corrupting. Let me be clear, I'm not saying "loving a coin" is the root of all evil, nor that enjoying prosperity is; I'm saying that loving Money as an idea, even an idea that has yet to reify, as with the paleolithic, is the problem. I conjecture that, just as behind all numerable numbers there is Number, and behind all spinnable stories there is Story, and behind all utterable entities there is the Word, so behind all sin and false gods there is Money. Even an inaccurate choice of modern classroom mathematics such as one based on Newtonian deductive axioms rather than a Keplerian principles and synthetic geometry, which has disastrous effects on human creativity, is in a sense monetary. Even the garden of Eden's tree of knowledge of good and evil bore, in the end, golden fruit that the serpent beguiled such a love of into Eve, that she with her unfallen nature would not have normally had, and she beguiled Adam, and thus there was the first sin: pride. ETA: Behind every sin is a false god, and behind all false gods is love of money.

Hypocrisy is an idol to the self. It is a luxury. And if the hypocritical man could buy that luxury instead of working for it, he would. Ergo, love of money or Mammon is the idol behind the idol of the hypocritical self.

The heart of man is desperately wicked with propensity to sin. The self wants, and it wants to have most efficiently, and nothing is more efficient than Money, effectively something-for-nothing. There it has found its God. Thus, love of Money is behind all idols which are behind all sins.

If you cannot concede this very very basic point, please stop with the philosophy. You're hurting yourself and others. This is completely dishonest and vile.

You claim there is no way to know reality, but you keep making claims about reality. Logic, reason and evidence are all derived from reality. Yet you try to use them to convince others they can't use them to know reality. This is what tyrants do. This is what truly evil people do. They get you to deny your own perception so that they can supplant it with their own. "There is no such thing as truth!" Really? So is it true there is no such thing as truth? sorry, won't work on me. I don't care how scary your parents were to you as a child. Now, if you are curious at all about what I've just said we can continue. However, if you persist in trying to get me to turn against myself, I'll simply block you for being a complete piece of crap. Here's where we get to see what's really in your heart.