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Hey yall, I have been off the forums (was of course still donating) for about 4 years but still on board with FDR's message. I am having some depression issues lately I would love to talk about with some people. I have been to therapy and had a talk on Stefan's show years ago but am still fight... -
Hello Stefan, Thank you for your video titled "An Important Birthday Message From Stefan Molyneux", I enjoyed listening to it. Even though I understand the essence of the message, it does not change my desire to not have children. In all honesty, I don't think I'... -
Couple of years ago a large portion of the call-in shows either focused on or evolved into (sometimes from seemingly completely unrelated topics) childhood talks with the callers. I found this the most powerful way in which Stefan would both connect emotionally and go to the roots of the problem of...
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I remember listening to a call about social anxiety (first call). If my memory serves me right, at some point Stefan affirmed that "people with good childhoods do not have empathy for people who had bad childhoods" (and as a result developed social anxiety). It is very likely that I am paraphr...
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Looking back in my childhood and teenage years I realize that I seemed to be very different from most of my peers in regards with anything social especially. Every since I can remember most of my peers and classmates had a much easier and enjoyable time making friends, having a good time interac... -
How comedy and fame are used as coping mechanisms for one's hurtful childhood. -
A new article, where I answer a very common question: should I talk to my parents about my painful childhood experiences? Link: http://blog.selfarcheology.com/2016/03/q-should-i-talk-to-my-parents-about-my.html
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So, in my online dating hunt I see something that disturbs me over and over.. It's worded differently every time, but the sentiment is the same.. I love animals more than people. Why do so many young women feel this way? It doesn't make sense to me. There is simply no way that one ca... -
Hello everybody. Long time lurker, first time poster. I wanted to bring up the subject of comfort objects that many of us attach to as children (i.e. stuffed animals, blankets, etc.) In my case, I had a blanket that I would cling to. I wouldn't be able to fall asleep without it until...
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A month ago, or two, I had a weekday off and went to a newly opened cinema oriented on less popular quality movies. Without too much pondering, the choice fell on Amy, a documentary about the artist, as I thought it would be an interesting watch considering her quite recent death and what tabloids d... -
I’m currently working on overcoming a powerful emotional response I have when it comes to asserting my own preferences. My problem is I don’t. When I attempt to I hit a wall of fear that leads me to staying quite or not participating. I’m currently in therapy and I've figured out where it comes...
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I made this video with a segment from one of the latest call in shows FDR2974 How to ‘Find Yourself’. It deeply resonates with me that nostalgia for the past. What do you guys think?
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While I trust and value Dr. Maté's experiences through working with intravenous drug users for eight years, I cannot accept his conclusions because they aren't based on principles. Here is a list of the possible remedies he proposes in the book. 1) The most successful means of overcoming addicti... -
This is a must listen. To the degree to which this is new information is, I think, the degree of the propaganda we were made to ingest. The following is a video series / lecture by Roslyn Rose about: treating parenting as a job, why there should be no adolescence, bringing your children with you...
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In this video I present a short concept of what does it mean to work on yourself, heal, and grow.
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Part two in the series I'm doing on the fear of rejection.
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My newest video. In it, James Hetfield from "Metallica" talks about his painful childhood, his relationship with his abusive parents, and how it influenced his music. I included my comments and observations in a form of hard-burned closed captions. Apologies for poor audio quality. These were the be...
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I saw the movie "Prisoners" yesterday and I thought it was pretty good. A thought I had about the movie was that the title was well chosen because children, even those who are not kidnapped, are not in their situations voluntarily. The movie, I think, showed the massive power parents have over their...
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*Warning: disturbing, reprehensible details shared here In a recent video, the antidote to cruelty, I found revealing parallels between myself and the first caller. Basically the caller killed animals when he was younger and in his mind he was justified. Stefan pointed out that when he was young...
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My dad died a week before my 8th birthday, after 2 weeks in the hospital. I'm 30 now. I've been doing a lot of introspection recently and I'm feeling a lot of pain about his death. One of the layers to this is, motivated by Stef's podcasts and all the books I have found through them, I have bee...
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Unsure of how to approach my parents to talk about my childhood
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As I progress into my late teenage years, I am finding it increasingly difficult to relate to my parents. The more I look back on how they raised me, the harder it becomes for me to respect or even tolerate them. They live in a completely different world from me, my mother reads gossip magazines and... -
It's not finished, but I was so eager to share what I had, I felt like posting. Enjoy In the film Tangled, Disney's version of Rapunzel, the story begins by having the film's anti-hero, Flynn Rider, give the audience back-story which introduces us to our main characters. Rapunzel is a daughte...
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Hi everyone. I'm a newcomer here. This is more of a rant than anything. I found Stefan and this movement through his Truth About Elliot Rodger video (it sounds like that brought a lot of people here) and he has really struck a chord with me. I had already held a lot of the same philosophical views o... -
There may be some evidence here or it could be just random postulation, but I would like to pose a question and I would be curious to hear feedback. If you were to compare the childhoods of FDR members to the average public would the be worse or better? Would there be certain threads that might...
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Hey guys, one more freedom lover from the southern tax farm of Brazil/São Paulo here. I figured from the meetup groups (or lack thereof) that there aren't many philosophers who share the green and yellow pride to be born inside these meltingly hot imaginary lines of nice asses and great food... I h...
