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I am not...what is his theory?

I am glad you read UPB, the next one I recommend is "Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism"

Welcome. I sympathize with the feeling of loneliness, this feeling is not foreign to me at all. If you feel like it, you could share your personal story here, but if you are concerned about your privacy do not share too many personal details. I am curious in hearing about your case.

Why "should" it be harder to prove truths of type c) than b),d)?

How is a "truth" different from "moral truth?"

Thank me later.

I find your arguments against "life purpose" as something you were "meant" to be good at without flaw. My question is, how would you call what Stefan chose to do with his life? At one point he was an entrepreneur....some people are entrepreneurs all their lives and seem that this is what they are more passionate and gives them most happiness, however this was not the case for Stefan, for him this was something that was not making him feel "complete"...is this just the result of him being an even better philosopher than entrepreneur? What is that something about being a podcast philosopher that gives him the most happiness? And for other people it wouldn't?

Although I don't ever remember Stefan referring to career/job /a way of giving value and receive money for it as "life purpose" I think he gets close to this when he is saying, I might be paraphrasing but I doubt it, "everyone is good at something"...frankly this phrase never hit me as something that comes after some long philosophical inquiry into this problem but since Stefan does not ever tend to say random things I think there is something about this that I am not seeing. I think another way he often puts it is "a talent for something". What I have noticed however is that he always referred to this "gift", "talent" as something that is done for the world, for helping others.

How old are you? Have you read any of Stefan's books? I recommend starting with On Truth and then RTR and UPB.

Are you gonna explain it too or just leave it at this?

Why is using one's property to deny another the use of their property internally inconsistent?

Would you be willing to expand on the second point a little?

No, not yet at least...I recently started looking into C++ tho.

Sounds great What languages are you good at btw?

I was not talking about adobe having audio wiget, I doubt that it has. I was talking about any android book reader on the market. I reccomend Smart audio book reader on android market. Why are you using Vlc BTW? What does it allow for that sth else doesn't?

That's quite a persuasive argument, I have never given this therapy thing too much thought but I will have to consider this idea more seriously from now on. When I first started listening to FDR, listening to the call-in shows where callers were discussing problems that are usually dealt with in therapy such as social anxiety, isolation, depression, fear, bullying, emotions...and so forth I had tons of epiphanies...the kind of epiphanies that I did not have reading, skimming, searching any kind of psychology/therapy book, website, video, scientific study, article...etc. Nonetheless, something that I remember always feeling somehow confused by when I was a new listener was the fact that at the end of every such call Stefan would suggest at the end him/her going into therapy...the confusing part about this universal suggestion was that in my mind more or less consciously it would always arise the question along the lines of "Who (what therapist) the fuck could top that? (the caller-Stefan discussion). Looking back at this now I think that what I was really "asking" was who other than Stefan would be able to make me feel the same power, liveliness, grief, healthy anger, hope, calmness etc...that I felt listening to a lot of the personal centered call-in shows. To me, those call-in shows felt like therapy...having my crape veil of unawareness and reality swaying and distortion lifted off of my eyes to the true causes and roots of a lot of my psychological issues. The fundamental difference that is between Stefan and the almost boundless majority of the people, therapists included, that I always sensed was his unseen, in somebody else by me, capacity for and degree of empathy that only comes as a result of capability to reason, processing reality as it is and massive amounts of wisdom accumulated throughout decades of philosophical inquiry. Maybe, unfortunately believing that I won't find a therapist with similar proportions of rationality, empathy, maturity, willingness to be challenged and corrected and so on I always had an uneasy feeling about me going into therapy...why is this so important to me I do not fully understand but I know that mentally picturing me opening to and letting my whole true self out is the significantly easiest with Stefan, there is no other person I can mentally picture being able to and having a relative easy time with exposing my true self without significant fears, feelings and thoughts of self-attack, and this is my big hurdle with therapy. I for whatever reason seem to believe that the only way I could really profit from therapy is if the therapist is very like-minded with Stefan, However...I was really taken aback by what Stefan said in regards to his own therapist, that he so warmly always talked about, I cannot really remember the exact word he used but it was synonymous with "hack", he said that philosophically she was a "hack", which startled me deeply since I always seemed to believe that the only way you can truly profit from therapy with a therapist is if he/she is very philosophically rigorous and rational. "Are you learning to be your own therapist? How's it going? How do you know how well it's going? Do you not feel lost and aimless?" All, good questions. I have taken some steps here and there, not to the degree to which you should consider big leaps forward but if it were not for my seemingly everlasting fluctuating mood I would have been much further. The degree to which I feel lost and aimless is a function of mood. The more depressed I feel the more helpless, aimless and lost I feel but whenever I have some good days I don't seem to feel this way at all, quite the opposite sometimes, even tough the challenge is to increase the number of good or relatively good days and diminish the number of days in which I feel like shit. How would I do that? I do not know yet...the case for has been made...it looks like an option I would consider now, the fact that I am scared of it and seem to make quite a few rationalizations against is proof that there is growth to be made from it.

What if you read the book from your Adobe Reader application whilst you control the audio book with an audiobook reader widget button that sits on top of the book? Plus, you can do real-time editing of the text in adobe, a thing you can not do with the text in a browser. The audio widget lets for greater functionality too since some have options like going 5, 10 seconds back or forward...

Verry fair point. Indeed...shortly after I posted this question I realized that a better question to have asked would have been: To what degree is self-therapy limited compared to therapy with a therapist? What is the difference between the cost-benefits of those two options?

Does this mean you are not rejecting astrology on metaphysical grounds?

I think rose did a great job bringing that excuse up because I believe this is in fact the most common one. It might not be the most popular among FDR audience but I think I have never heard one more used by the general population than this one and it's various forms...I.e. "therapy is useless" etc...

What is it exactly doing with a therapist that you could not do otherwise?

Most of the call in shows of late 2013 - middle of 2014. 1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88I0k6Rufc 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpB4bXlz2m8 3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfpQ99eJNoQ http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2563/making-excuses-for-evil-people-wednesday-call-in-show-december-18th-2013 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2568/the-truth-is-a-bomb-christmas-eve-call-in-show-december-24th-2013 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2596/the-world-is-built-on-crushed-souls-sunday-call-in-show-january-19th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2600/descended-from-extraterrestrials-sunday-call-in-show-january-26th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2613/sunlight-to-the-vampire-sunday-call-in-show-february-9th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2619/giving-up-on-the-world-sunday-call-in-show-february-16th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2623/shielding-yourself-from-tomorrow-wednesday-call-in-show-february-19th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2640/a-roundtable-of-discontented-ghosts-sunday-call-in-show-march-16th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2652/one-way-ticket-to-oblivion-sunday-call-in-show-march-30th-2014 http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2657/why-you-were-bullied-sunday-call-in-show-april-6th-2014

Not everyone on this forum disposes of enough money to donate to the show, I have absolutely zero income at the moment and in fact I never had any income at all. The little personal money that I have will be crucial for me when I leave the town for uni this year, plus good luck explaining to my parents where my money are going, maybe for you that live on your own I assume and have a job these problems seem irrelevant but not everyone on this forum is in the position to risk getting kicked out of the house for "being in a cult". Moreover, Stefan always said that money is not the only way to contribute to the show, sharing,bringing people in, talking about the show, with outsiders are also ways to contribute to the show, he even said that if you need to pursue therapy rather give your money to that, you can donate to the show later.

An even better question is why would we not ostracize you.

Failing to properly assess another person's intelligence is proof of your own low level of intelligence. He's not creepy, he is just stupid.