Stefan Molyneux
  • 4 months ago
The speaker delves into analyzing a received message, focusing on its passive-aggressive and manipulative aspects. They stress the importance of self-awareness and effective communication, reflecting on their own ability to remain emotionally stable in interactions. Transitioning into discussing the soul's eternal truths, they emphasize creating content with lasting impact for future generations. Connecting the soul to timeless concepts, they underscore the eternal nature of truth and the role of philosophical thought in shaping humanity's insights. Lastly, they contrast the fleeting nature of the body with the enduring qualities of the mind, advocating for upholding moral values and pursuing universal truths for societal betterment. In conclusion, they urge self-reflection, the pursuit of universal truths, and the transformative power of philosophical thought in enhancing humanity's collective understanding of existence.

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Transcript
00:00So, every now and then you get a message that is just a sheer work of art in particular
00:05due to its passive-aggressive nature and it's very, very instructive and I'm going to read
00:15it to you so that we can unpack it.
00:21Somebody wrote, this is a question about the soul which had answered, he said, thanks for
00:24answering my question and apologies for upsetting you, but I assure you that that was not my
00:31intention.
00:33My question was based on genuine curiosity and I don't find your answer particularly
00:38satisfying because you basically just insulted me and completely ignored the core of my argument.
00:47Oh my.
00:51I'm older now.
00:53I'm wiser now.
00:54I'll just tell you straight up, people, and this is, you know, again, if you want quality
00:58people in your life, then what you need to do is show a modicum of self-knowledge and
01:04a modicum of how you appear to others.
01:06So when I see this brain tangle of fairly hysterical manipulation, I roll my eyes and
01:13I don't particularly want to answer this person's question.
01:16If I've misunderstood a question, you can tell me in a nice way, but, you know, just
01:20insulted you and so on.
01:22And the funny thing is that he's very sensitive to being insulted and then he insults me.
01:29Like just, you know, how this stuff works, right?
01:31So first of all, he says, thanks for answering my question.
01:34And then he says, your answer was wrong.
01:36Okay.
01:37Whatever.
01:38Right.
01:39Apologize for upsetting you.
01:40See, here's the thing.
01:41If I find something annoying or offensive or silly or foolish or whatever it is, to say
01:47that I'm upset is a sort of power move, right?
01:51It's a way of, well, I'm sorry that you're so triggered and so upset, right?
01:54It's a way of, I guess, making me appear, you know, somewhat volatile or something like
01:59that.
02:00And I assure you that that was not my intention.
02:03As an empiricist, I put almost no stop in people's self-assessment of their intentions.
02:12Because you see, intentions are something that you can just lie about.
02:16I mean, you can lie about them to yourselves and so on, right?
02:19So I'm not a person who is easy to offend or upset.
02:24You know, I say this all the time in my call-in shows where I say, it's mildly annoying.
02:31It's fine.
02:32I'm not mad at you.
02:33Or if people are rude or whatever, you know, I'm not an easy person to upset.
02:38I'm sort of very stable that way.
02:43So when people say, I apologize for upsetting you, but I assure you that was not my intention.
02:50So the reason why this is so, first of all, thank you for answering my question.
02:53And then he says, I didn't answer it.
02:54And then he says, I apologize for upsetting you.
02:58But if I'm upset because of my own irrationality, then you have nothing to apologize for, right?
03:06So I'll give you an example from my childhood.
03:09When I was a little kid, I had mice and hamsters and we bred hamsters and all that kind of
03:12stuff.
03:13Now, I wanted to show my hamster to the French couple who lived upstairs.
03:18Now they were older and I assumed they'd been through the war and I assumed that having
03:21gone through the war, they had terrible experiences with rats and mice, which of course flourish
03:27in a time of war because of all of the bodies and lack of sanitary sanitation and so on.
03:34So I went up to show my hamster to the French couple who lived upstairs and the woman screamed
03:45and ran away.
03:47And the husband was like, I'm so sorry.
03:49Now I didn't feel apologetic.
03:51I didn't say, oh my gosh, I did something wrong because someone was upset, right?
03:55I mean, I obviously don't want that person to be upset, but, you know, showing someone
03:59my hamster is not cause for that level of upset, at least not the act of showing the
04:04hamster.
04:05So I wouldn't have apologized to that woman because I hadn't done anything wrong.
04:11And an apology is for when you do something wrong.
04:14So if I have genuinely no intention of upsetting someone and someone gets upset, I mean, they
04:20don't even necessarily owe me an apology.
04:22It wasn't like the French woman had to apologize to me.
04:25But you don't apologize if you haven't done something wrong.
04:31So if he had no intention of upsetting me and nothing he did was upsetting in any objective
04:40way, then me being upset is not something he has to apologize for.
04:45So there's just so much convoluted and manipulative falsehoods at the beginning here.
04:52So thanks for answering my question.
04:54And apologies for upsetting you.
04:55Not even I apologize.
04:56Apologies for upsetting you, but I assure you that that was not my intention, right?
05:03So anyone who claims a perfect knowledge of intentionality is lying.
05:13To know what your own intentions are, your own personal intentions, your unconscious
05:19intentions, the intentions of all of the alter egos that float around in our heads, being
05:26defensive, whether you're being defensive or not.
05:29So saying that to be upsetting was in no way, shape or form, any part of my intention is
05:38to claim a knowledge of intentionality, which is almost certainly a lie.
05:43I'm still trying to figure out why I'm so much into philosophy, right?
05:48This is an interesting question for me.
05:50My intentions.
05:52I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.
05:54Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.
05:58So he says, my question was based on genuine curiosity.
06:06And I don't find your answer particularly satisfying because you basically just insulted
06:10me and completely ignored the core of my argument.
06:13So now he's claiming not just a perfect knowledge of his intentions, but a perfect knowledge
06:20of my intentions.
06:21And you can't communicate with people like this because he's saying, not that I misunderstood
06:27him, but I ignored, what did he say here?
06:32Completely ignored the core of my argument, ignored, not made a mistake, not misinterpreted,
06:37but I ignored the core of his argument.
06:41And what that means is that I was aware of it, but I ignored it.
06:45So now he's claiming my intention is one of conscious ignorance and avoidance, right?
06:53So if you walk into the room and somebody, you know, somebody can hear you and so on,
07:00and they don't look up, right?
07:02Maybe you've had a conflict with them or something like that.
07:05And then you walk past them, you say, hello, they don't respond back.
07:08Then you say, oh, this person is ignoring me, right?
07:10They know that I'm here.
07:12They're ignoring me, right?
07:14If somebody in Seoul, Korea is playing a video game with headphones on, and I'm here in Canada,
07:21I don't think that that person is ignoring me because they don't know that I exist or
07:26certainly what I'm doing right now.
07:28So to ignore someone is to know that they're there and then purposefully evade interaction,
07:33right?
07:34So when he says I'm ignoring the core of his argument, he's saying that I knew, I knew
07:38what the core of his argument is, but I'm ignoring it, completely ignored the core of
07:44my argument.
07:45So he's claiming a perfect knowledge of his own intentions, which is easy to falsify.
07:51And he also claims to have a perfect knowledge of my intentions, which is to purposefully
07:56ignore the core of his argument.
07:59So how on earth is it possible to have a conversation with someone who claims a perfect knowledge
08:04of his own intentions and a perfect knowledge of my intentions, his own intentions are completely
08:10clear to him, even though I made a case.
08:13And my intention, according to this guy, was to completely ignore, not just misunderstand
08:20or misinterpret, but to ignore his argument, right?
08:24To accuse me of being defensive and avoidant or whatever it is, right?
08:28So in just one, in two sentences, right, he thanked me, he thanks me for answering
08:37and then says I didn't answer.
08:39He apologizes for upsetting me, even though I had no real reason to be upset and therefore
08:44he has nothing to apologize for.
08:46He assures me that this was not his intention, which is an insult to me because he's saying
08:51if I have no intention to offend someone and that person gets offended, then clearly that
08:57person is unstable or weird or triggered or defensive, you know, something like that, right?
09:05I certainly had no intention of frightening the French woman with my hamster, point as
09:09a sentence, I wasn't, I didn't think I'd be talking about that.
09:13So there is an insult to me, he had no intention of, quote, upsetting me.
09:20Now I didn't just say that I was upset, I actually went through and identified the reasons
09:23why what he said was vaguely annoying or whatever.
09:27And it's only confirmed by this, right?
09:29So he says my question was based on genuine curiosity.
09:34So if his question is based on genuine curiosity, then me being upset at what I'm, I'm apparently
09:40now I'm upset, you see, by genuine curiosity.
09:44Genuine curiosity is just horribly upsetting to me because I guess I'm unstable or whatever
09:47it is, right?
09:48It's just very, very, very, the reason I want to unpack this is very concentrated laser
09:54like manipulation, and you need to see this kind of stuff in your life as a whole.
10:01So yeah, thanks for answering my question, didn't answer his question, apologies for
10:05upsetting you, nothing to apologize for, and I wasn't upset.
10:08I was annoyed for, I mean, I wasn't upset, I was, but it wasn't, I wasn't just upset,
10:12I sort of said why.
10:14I assure you that was not my intention, that's putting the entire onus of the negative experience
10:19on me and him being a perfect angel.
10:21My question, my question was based on genuine curiosity, right?
10:25Don't believe it, don't believe it for a second, any more than I believe anything that he's
10:28writing here.
10:29And again, I'm not saying he's consciously lying.
10:31This is just a habit of manipulation, which is one-upping someone else, right?
10:36It's one-upping someone else, right?
10:38Oh, I'm sorry you were so upset.
10:41I had no intention of upsetting you, right?
10:43Thus painting me as the unstable and triggered one and blah, blah, blah.
10:46And his, his question is based on genuine curiosity.
10:49I don't find your answer particularly satisfying because you basically just insulted me and
10:53completely ignored the core of my argument, right?
10:56So he's very sensitive to being insulting, but everything he writes is an insult, even
11:01the word the.
11:02All right, so let's go on.
11:05It would have been fine, for instance, to say that your use of the word soul is just
11:11a figure of speech or that answering the question of the existence of the soul does not really
11:16belong in the realm of a moral philosopher.
11:19After all, it is not really necessary in order to prove UPB, which of course is a far greater
11:24importance for the work that you do.
11:27Okay, so what do you mean here?
11:30For instance, to say that your use of the word soul is just as a figure of speech, okay,
11:38a figure of speech, what kind of figure of speech, how literal, how figurative and so
11:42on doesn't really answer much.
11:44Or that answering the question of the existence of the soul does not really belong into the
11:48realm of moral philosopher.
11:52I think it does.
11:54I think it does.
11:55Because if there's a soul, then that raises the possibility of a God, particularly if
12:00there is immortality in the soul.
12:03And thus, divine commandments would be much more credible and thus there would be no particular
12:08need for UPB.
12:09So I think it does.
12:10And of course, the other thing too, FDR podcast, he could just have done a search for wherever
12:15I've done shows on the soul, I had a four-part series on the soul.
12:19But I took your arguments to heart and in an effort to increase self-knowledge and lead
12:23with love, as you suggested, which he didn't lead with love, he accused me of being unstable,
12:30unavoidant and manipulative.
12:32Anyway, I went back over some of the past podcast episodes, oh good, where you mentioned
12:36the soul and attempted to answer my own question, as well as figure out my possible motive for
12:41being triggered.
12:42What?
12:43Okay, well, I'm glad he went over this.
12:49So why was he, he's saying that he's, what?
12:56He's saying he had no intention of upsetting me, but he was triggered.
13:01He said his question came from genuine curiosity, but now he says he's triggered.
13:04I don't understand, okay.
13:07In episodes 70, 71 and 189, you basically use the term soul as interchangeable or synonymous
13:17with the true self or original personality that existed before the infliction of any
13:20childhood trauma.
13:21You also make the case that soul murder is essentially the infiltration of a false narrative
13:26on someone, usually children, whether by means of violence slash threats, manipulations or
13:30through forced participation culture, which is both violent and manipulative.
13:37Saving one's soul entails amplifying universal morals and telling the truth about the abuse
13:43that you suffered and thus going against the false narrative of society.
13:46Episode 2129.
13:47Excellent.
13:48Logically selling your soul to the devil would therefore entail doing the opposite.
13:53That is enthusiastically participating, sorry, enthusiastic participation in culture because
13:59it is easier to obtain resources that way and thus becoming an accessory to theft via
14:03taxation, murder, war, and child abuse.
14:06I believe I've also heard you make the case, although I'm not sure what episode this was,
14:11that actively harming a child when you're a grownup and thus many times stronger than
14:16them is the point where the soul last becomes irrecoverable because empathy cannot be restored
14:22after that.
14:28Does this seem like an acceptable answer to you?
14:30Because it certainly makes sense to me and I think this is in fact the answer I was expecting
14:35since it is both logical and consistent with the empirical evidence and perfectly explains
14:40why you do the work that you do.
14:43And just to be clear, I certainly don't think of it as entertainment.
14:46I find it enormously helpful and valuable and I've been a paying subscriber for several
14:50years.
14:51I'm also working very hard on myself and trying to find ways to contribute value to the community
14:56which is admittedly rather difficult for me as much of my childhood experience consists
15:02of not being valued by my parents at all, which I'm very sorry for, I really do sympathize
15:06with that.
15:07Hopefully this post will serve as a demonstration of goodwill and restitution for the emotional
15:10upset I caused.
15:13I appreciate that and I identify these things, I find myself mildly annoyed when reading
15:22it, I'm not particularly upset or triggered, it doesn't ruin my day, it's just something
15:26that I notice and I need those emotions to notice that kind of stuff.
15:30So to try and answer your question in a better way, what I would say is I use the soul as
15:38an analogy to talk about abstract things that we partake of that are true and universal
15:44and eternal.
15:45So two and two make four is true and universal and eternal.
15:49By eternal I mean it's always true throughout time, go back in time, go forward in time,
15:53go across the universes.
15:56It was a reality in the past that two and two make four.
16:02Two rocks and then two rocks that wash up on a stream did in fact make four rocks but
16:06until it was identified in the conceptual mind of man it remained a fact but not true
16:14because truth is when we compare the contents of the mind to the facts and processes of
16:20reality and so it was a fact that there were four rocks on the shore but the statement
16:29two and two make four was not true until human beings identified it because truth did not
16:33exist.
16:34Obviously the atoms existed and the natural processes existed and the discrete entities
16:38known as rocks existed and the fact that two and two is just another way of saying four,
16:44the fact that four discrete entities existed, all of these are true but two and two make
16:49four while it is eternally true and universally true was not a truth that existed before the
16:54human mind identified these sort of facts and principles of reality.
16:59So when I talk about the soul I'm talking about the aspects of consciousness that define
17:05and unite with that which is true and universal and absolute, which is UPP as well, right?
17:13So the soul is the part of our mind that is the most human aspect of us, what differentiates
17:20us from the animals, which is our capacity to create, identify and validate statements
17:27in the mind that outlive us, that are immortal.
17:31We say well the soul lives on after death, well the truth that we identify lives on after
17:38us.
17:39Newton's physics is valid, I mean obviously refined a little bit by Einstein, but Newton's
17:43physics are valid even though Newton is long dead.
17:50To be or not to be, that is the question whether it is noble in their mind to suffer the slings
17:54and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troublesome by opposing
17:59end them, to be or not to be is a wonderful sequence of poetry, although Shakespeare has
18:08not been for 400 years, his thoughts live on and as long as people draw breath, as one
18:16of the sonnets go, these lines will be celebrated and rightly so.
18:22So we identify truths that outlive us, we weep over the plight of Oliver Twist, though
18:31he never existed, and Charles Dickens is long dead, and I'm very aware that the arguments
18:39that I make and put forward to the degree that they are true and universal and essential
18:46and that I am taking the operations of my mind and literally like with a knife point
18:53I'm carving them into the atoms of the universe because the atoms on this camera, the atoms
18:59that are on the server, the atoms that flow through the TCPIP network protocols, they
19:07rearrange the atoms in your phone or your computer or wherever you're listening to this,
19:13the atoms on my screen are changing based on my hand getting closer and further away
19:18from the screen, and they are frozen in time, altering the atoms of the universe in ways
19:27that can never be undone, and also I am rearranging the atoms in your mind, just as thought rearranges
19:34the atoms in my mind.
19:36So I am changing atoms universally, and in many ways for all time, although everyone
19:48who's listening to this will die, what I'm doing, and especially now, there's no degradation
19:54of quality, you don't get that old herky-jerky movie stuff because there's no degradation
19:58of quality.
19:59When I'm played in a thousand years, it will be like nothing changed.
20:04This room, this lighting, this sort of early evening, I guess late evening now, fading
20:10lighting and all of that is all going to remain absolutely perfect.
20:13It's as crisp and as clear and as accessible and as vivid in a thousand years or ten thousand
20:20years as it is now tonight with me talking in this room, and the opportunity to speak
20:27the truth in a clear, vivid, personal manner for all time, to rearrange the atoms of the
20:35universe, to rearrange the atoms of people's minds in perpetuity is a great blessing and
20:39a great honor, and one in which I take, of course, very seriously.
20:43So my thoughts, while I will die, will remain eternal.
20:50As long as people are drawing breath, the philosophical questions and answers that I
20:54deal with and other philosophers have dealt with will remain forefront in people's minds.
20:59I have done most of the major work that I wanted to do, and I've really sort of felt
21:04that just by the by.
21:05I've really sort of felt that since the end of peaceful parenting, which was a year plus
21:09of pretty ferocious labor, and the shortened version of peaceful parenting, which is you
21:14can get at peacefulparenting.com, I really feel that the major parts of what I wanted
21:21to do are done.
21:23That doesn't mean I'm not going to continue to enjoy philosophy.
21:25I love these kinds of conversations, and maybe new stuff will come along, and I'm sure I'll
21:29write more books and so on, but I don't have a yearning, burning, major thing to do.
21:35Maybe I can be a little bit more, well, certainly peaceful parenting was grim, joyful, and recreational
21:40with this kind of stuff going forward.
21:42So the soul is that which unites our minds with a communicable truth that spreads and
21:54lasts forever.
21:55It is the immortal aspect of our thoughts, and immortality for a lot of people is not
22:01in the conceptual realm, but rather in the biological realm.
22:05Now the problem with that, of course, is that my daughter is half my genetics and half my
22:09wife's genetics, but these videos are all me.
22:12It doesn't mean I'm not influenced by other people, but I don't have to dilute or water
22:16down or mix in with other things.
22:19There's not intersplicing things with people saying the opposite or saying other things.
22:24This is sort of all me, in the same way that Newton's genetics were a mix of his mother's
22:31and his father's, but Newtonian physics is all his, all the product of his mind, and
22:37it's not diluted or changed.
22:38So the perfect form of reproduction is conceptual and communicated, genetics is a way to pass
22:45along your genes, but there's an intermixing that doesn't happen with conceptual arguments
22:50and ideas.
22:51I mean, obviously I mixed in with other people's thoughts and so on, but the form of communication,
22:54the content of the communication is mine and mine alone.
22:58And it is, you know, when I do shows, I'm very much aware of the tunnel of time argument
23:03that if I'm right in my assessment of what it is that I've done, philosophically speaking,
23:09which has answered most of the major questions of philosophy in rigorous and syllogistical
23:16ways, if I'm right in my assessment of that, I believe that I am, then I'm very much aware
23:24that what I say is going to continue on and continue on and continue on.
23:30I've obviously wanted to be the guy who puts a lot of these controversies to rest, and
23:36that doesn't mean the controversies won't continue, but the controversies are put to
23:40rest if you're willing to be rational and empirical about things.
23:45So the soul of an idea is that which outlasts the physical mind.
23:51The concepts that transfer and flit like ghosts from mind to mind and replicate and are carved
23:58into objective reality in the way that memorized stories were, like Beowulf and the Distant
24:03Past or The Iliad or The Odyssey, and in the way that Shakespeare is and in the way that
24:09written language is and songs and so on, right?
24:11We still know the tune of Greensleeves, right?
24:16So this is in many ways, to me, the purest form of thought reproduction that can be achieved.
24:28And everyone's going to say, why is his nose always itchy?
24:31I don't know.
24:32Somebody said that when you go on camera, your blood vessels dilate and your nose gets
24:36a little itchy.
24:37It's just a thing.
24:38So this, to me, is the purest form of idea transmission, which is the lively mind, unfiltered,
24:48unedited communicating in real time in a perfectly reproducible format for all time, a perfect...what's
24:56the best way to put it?
24:59A non-degraded quality.
25:01You ever hear sort of like, oh, here are the great singers of the past and the recordings
25:05are pretty bad by modern standards and so on, right?
25:08So this is the most essential thought reproduction that is capable of.
25:16Even when you listen to, I remember TS Eliot reading The Wasteland and so on, the audio
25:21is pretty bad.
25:23It's pretty affected, you know, and headpieces filled with straw, alas, you know, that kind
25:29of chanting middle intellectual 1950s stuff.
25:36So I am laying tracks that go on forever.
25:44I am laying language down that alters reality in a physical sense, in a biological sense,
25:53in a conceptual sense.
25:54I am rearranging atoms in a perfectly reproducible format that lasts for all time.
26:01It's about as good as a philosopher has ever had it, and of course I do credit the perfection
26:08of the medium with giving me a lot of the insight and drive, right?
26:15So I speak to a limited number of people in the present, obviously more limited now since
26:20I spoke a little too much truth for the general censorious overlords, but I am laying tracks
26:29that will go on forever and knowing the impact that what I do will have in the future gives
26:35me a lot of motivation to do what I do in the present, right?
26:39So the soul is the definition and communication of concepts that are true and universal that
26:53outlast the test of time.
26:57True can also mean deep and meaningful in a poetic or literary sense, which is one of
27:01the reasons I work in poetry and novels, and of course I wrote like 30 plays as well.
27:07So true can just be something that connects people in a very sort of powerful and deep
27:13way.
27:14We could say meaningful and so on, but in terms of morals and philosophy, the goal is
27:17truth not emotional resonance, although of course I like to bring that in as well.
27:24So that which elevates us to the universal and the conceptual, which unites humanity
27:30in common threads of reason and experience and lasts forever or lasts as long as people
27:37and language and technology will last, which I assume will be pretty much forever, that
27:42is an amazing thing.
27:45And of course in the future I put out enough material that I will live on in the future
27:51in a strange kind of way.
27:52I mean, honestly, I've got so much video material, written material, spoken material that my
27:59call-in shows will go on forever because there will be enough extraction of what I do from
28:06all of the call-in shows that I've done that people will be able to call me up in the future
28:09and have the exact same experience, a hundred thousand people at the same time if they want,
28:15have the exact same experience of having a call-in show with me or as close to that as
28:20humanly possible.
28:22And where it lacks in accuracy, it will make up for in volume, which is great.
28:27I'd rather have a hundred thousand imperfect Stephs than one quote perfect Steph who's going
28:33to die.
28:35And this will happen not just in an audio sense, but in a video sense as well, like
28:39you can talk to me as if I'm here forever.
28:42That's just this sort of AI and of course this technology is only going to get better
28:45and better.
28:46There'll be a reality Steph.
28:47There'll be a Steph that you can take to the park, friend Steph, husband Steph, Lord knows
28:56what.
28:57I should probably make a plaster cast like Jimi Hendrix.
29:01So I am building both the content, the form, and the value of living forever through technology
29:10and that is my eternity.
29:13That is my eternity.
29:17So the flesh is, you know, the mere wetware physical casing and, you know, three pounds
29:23of neurons that is going to die and rot at the ground, right?
29:26I've probably got, you know, 20, 30 years to go.
29:28I'm dead and rotting in the ground.
29:30I'll live on digitally, but I won't be aware of that.
29:32I won't be conceiving of that because it's not me, right?
29:34It will just be another copy, like a Cylon copy paste kind of thing, right?
29:39So, but the thoughts and the pattern, like people are going to extract because I've done,
29:43I don't know, thousands of call-in shows one time or another.
29:47And so the principles and the AI will extract how that works.
29:52Now will it get the same sort of spontaneity?
29:54I don't know because I don't know how far AI is going to go.
29:56AI becomes human when it can analyze its own dreams and find meaning in its existence,
30:01which is a long way off if it ever does arrive.
30:03But as far as the sort of functional and technical aspect of what I do, it will be a word guesser
30:09predictive and predictive enough to have powerful call-in shows with people as a whole
30:14because the principles aren't that varied.
30:18So the soul is the part of you that ascends to eternity through definition, objectivity,
30:29value and meaning and truth, obviously truth.
30:33So the flesh is obviously the source of all of that.
30:38And I am not a ghost in a machine, though I will be in the future.
30:42I am three pounds of wetware functioning at, to me, an incomprehensible biological level.
30:47It is absolutely completely and totally incomprehensible to me how my brain does what it does.
30:56I don't know.
30:57It makes no sense to me.
30:59The energy and eruptions of spontaneous brilliance that occur in my communication.
31:06And I say brilliance with no like, oh, I'm so brilliant.
31:09It just kind of happens and I'm managing the process.
31:12I mean, I'm riding a coked up horse.
31:16I'm not calling myself a great runner.
31:18I'm just saying I'm not too bad at managing the coked up horse of my unconscious that
31:23apparently can ride clouds like a Pegasus.
31:26So I don't consider myself brilliant.
31:29I consider myself fairly good at managing the brilliance that comes up in my mind, which
31:36is not me.
31:37It is something else.
31:39And I'm not even going to hesitate as to what that is.
31:43I certainly can completely and totally understand how people can believe that they're channeling
31:47the divine, because there are times when I have thoughts and insights, both in call-in
31:51shows and regular shows, that completely defy—we defy augury, as Hamlet says, right?
31:56I don't know where the analogies come from.
32:00I don't know where some of the insights come from.
32:03I'm going to work hard to formalize them and make them make sense, but I don't know.
32:07I do not know where all of this stuff comes from, any more than you go to a songwriter
32:12and you say, well, where did this song come from?
32:13He's like, I don't know.
32:14It's just playing around.
32:15And then this came and then that came.
32:16And you can see Paul McCartney in the Abbey Road tapes working on Get Back and just sort
32:24of slowly grinding it forward and grinding it through.
32:26Freddie Mercury came up with a crazy little thing called love lying in a bath in Hamburg
32:31or someplace in Germany.
32:35So who knows?
32:37Of course, if people knew where these things would come from, they'd just create more of
32:40them and reproduce them and so on.
32:41And Paul McCartney's last album, a bit like the fish above the Indianapolis.
32:49So the flesh is that which is transitory and falls away and does not differentiate
32:57you much from others.
32:58So I'm a shade under six feet tall, a little taller than the average, not super tall.
33:04I have two eyes.
33:05Everyone has two eyes.
33:06I have a nose.
33:07Everybody has a nose.
33:08I have teeth.
33:09Most people have teeth.
33:10I have two nipples, pretty common except for Chandler.
33:13So yes, I do not share that much that is different physically from everybody else in
33:21the world.
33:22But the operations of my mind is a different kind of category.
33:26So that's a different matter.
33:29So physically, I am fairly unremarkable, but with a very round Charlie Brown head.
33:35So physically, I'm fairly unremarkable.
33:38My brain doesn't weigh more than other people's brains.
33:43I'm sure that they'll slice and dice and analyze my brain after I'm dead and gone, at least
33:46I hope they do.
33:48And they'll find out that the language center is like, I don't know, 16 times the norm or
33:53something like that, like those London cab drivers, which have their spatial reasoning
33:57is all kinds of crazy high.
34:00But you wouldn't look at me and like I have a certain, I guess, vague nobility of countenance
34:04and so on, but you wouldn't look at me and say, ah, you know, wow, you know, in any way
34:09that you'd look at, you know, Freddie Mercury pulling a rickshaw and say, he must be a great
34:13singer, right?
34:14You wouldn't notice that until you heard him, right?
34:17So the flesh is undifferentiated, falls away, is unremarkable in that, you know, a great
34:28singer is infinitely more valuable to a band than a bad singer who, I mean, if you're just
34:34looking for a singer, a bad singer has negative value, a great singer has positive value.
34:39And so from a negative infinity to a positive infinity is double infinity.
34:47But people are just shorter and taller, right?
34:49And it's like four feet or five feet or six feet between the tallest and the shortest.
34:53And most people are in the center of the bell curve where there's only a couple of inches
34:56difference.
34:57So the body does not differentiate that much.
34:59The mind, however, is in a completely different category.
35:02That's where, I mean, almost asymptotic to omniscience is close to what the brain can
35:10do in terms of exponential abilities.
35:14So you know, Paul McCartney is not just a, you know, twice as good a songwriter as, what
35:23was it, the guy who played Radar, O'Reilly on MASH apparently wrote hundreds and hundreds
35:26of songs, or Ike Turner wrote a bunch of songs or whatever, which apparently sounded pretty
35:31much the same.
35:32And so he's not just better-ish, you know, Taylor Swift is not just slightly more popular
35:41than, I don't know, the woman who played Ginger on Gilligan's Island, who was also a singer,
35:48or Diane Lane's mother, who was a 1957 Playboy pinup and also a singer, which nobody really
35:54knows or remembers anymore.
35:58So the brain has the capacity for multiple levels of value that the body really doesn't.
36:09Now you could say, of course, well, say Kobe Bryant or Reggie Jackson or whoever, like
36:16fantastic top-tier athletes, that their bodies are doing all Michael Phelps with his double-jointed
36:23wrists and feet and elongated torso and half the lactic acid production and so on.
36:29But that makes them slightly faster swimmers.
36:32But philosophy and other kinds of abilities are just a different matter.
36:36I mean, I can't obviously swim nearly as fast as Michael Phelps, although I was seventh
36:40in Ontario back in the day, I can't swim nearly as fast as...
36:43But his difference would be, I don't know, 30 seconds faster than mine.
36:48But a great songwriter doesn't just write 30 seconds of better material.
36:55Like a great songwriter's song, a fantastic hit song is 3 minutes 30, but an average songwriter
37:00is only 3 minutes, right?
37:01It's a whole different category.
37:05So as far as selling your soul, that is surrendering the conceptual to the physical.
37:13So it is surrendering the joys and meaning and power and value of participating in eternity
37:20and universality.
37:22It is to sacrifice all of that for the sake of the flesh, right?
37:29So if you look at some of the ruined people, like the 27 Club of Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison
37:36and Jimi Hendrix and others, they sacrificed some amazing musical talents for the sake
37:44of drugs and alcohol, right?
37:46If you look at Marlon Brando, they sacrificed a lot of his incredible genius at acting,
37:53depriving us of countless fantastic performances because he liked to eat a lot.
38:03Or people who sacrifice the love of their wives and the love of their children for the
38:08sake of petty lusts and cheating and so on, right?
38:12Cheating with other women or men and so on, right?
38:16And so if you take and destroy our ability to participate in eternity for the sake of
38:22eternally indulging, or not internally as long as you're alive, indulging in the mere
38:28pleasures of the flesh, then that is selling your soul to the devil.
38:31Now this is not to make the devil, the flesh, I'm not that way inclined because there is
38:37no angel without the flesh.
38:39There is no eternity without the temporary.
38:42There is no conceptual truth without the transitory physical brain, right?
38:47So the body serves eternity and there is no eternity without the mortal.
38:53There is no immortality without the death because it is the body which produces our
38:59capacity for eternity.
39:01Without the body we don't have that and so the body should serve eternity and eternity
39:06should also serve the body, right?
39:07So I want to do philosophy as long as possible so I'm generally on a program of losing a
39:12couple of pounds a year because that will sort of soft land me into living longer.
39:17I exercise for, you know, eight to ten hours a week because I want to stay healthy in order
39:25to do philosophy.
39:26I got out of politics when it became a very dangerous bloodsport because I wanted to be
39:30able to participate in philosophy for longer so the body serves eternity and the capacity
39:35for eternity in the conceptual mind should also serve the body because that gives you
39:40the chance to produce more of value in the concept.
39:42Then I view my brain as a sort of collective entity which is why I give my stuff away for
39:47free, freedomain.com slash donations to help out the show, but I view my brain as a collective
39:56product.
39:57It is not just sort of my brain because I didn't create it, I didn't earn it, I didn't
40:00know.
40:01I do some management of it.
40:02I ride the coked up horse fairly well, I think, but it's not my horse, right?
40:07It's a product of evolution and society.
40:09I didn't invent the language, I didn't invent philosophy, I didn't invent syllogism, I didn't
40:13invent the words I use and the technology that I use to communicate so I view my brain
40:20as a collective value that I should attempt to manage as best as possible for the good
40:27of mankind as a whole.
40:29I mean if you have some weird ability to cure people of an illness by touching them, it's
40:35not weird if you're Jesus, I suppose, but it would be if you're not.
40:37You have some ability to cure people by touching them, you should really try to touch people
40:43and cure them because that's a gift you didn't earn that could really be used to the benefit
40:48of mankind and that's sort of the way that I view it.
40:51So if you take your capacity for eternity and you then use it or degrade it to be a
40:56slave or handmaiden or serf to the physical demands of the transitory body, then you are
41:04removing from mankind very powerful internal truths for the sake of pursuing your own petty
41:09lusts.
41:12That is selling your soul to the devil.
41:14Of course, truth in a philosophical sense is opposed to hierarchy in a political sense.
41:21We are all human, UPB is universal, and it strips away the adulation and worship of human
41:28pretend deities for the sake of moral egalitarianism and very much an egalitarian when it comes
41:34to morals.
41:36Everyone is subjected to them and they're everybody's responsibility.
41:41So the power structures of the world come to people who have the capacity to create
41:47great virtues and try to bribe them or threaten them.
41:50You bribe them with money to join your, say, media empire, or you threaten them with violence,
41:58imprisonment, harassment, de-platforming, de-banking, and all this kind of stuff in
42:03order to get them to be quiet and trying to ride that gap.
42:06To produce maximum philosophy is the goal for me because I have a collective gift for
42:11this and therefore whatever I can do to produce the maximum, like if you have the capacity
42:16to heal people by the touch, don't get yourself thrown in jail because that's another couple
42:20of hundred people you can't heal, right?
42:22So you want to try and do that.
42:25Obviously this is an analogy, I'm not putting Jesus in the equation anywhere near me by
42:29a zillion miles.
42:33So sacrificing that which is pure and eternal and true and of value and necessary for the
42:41world for the sake of temporary pleasures, if I were to not exercise, eat badly, smoke
42:51or do drugs or something like that, then I would be sacrificing something that is I think
42:59of true and great value to the world as a whole for the sake of something that is a
43:03transitory pleasure that destroys my capacity to create crystalline eternal truths and
43:08communicate them and carve them into the fabric of the universe through this incredible technology.
43:13So that I hopefully understand, I'm sure that I've, what was it, purposefully misunderstood
43:20your question and so on, but that would be mine.
43:25The other thing of course with regards to selling the soul is when you use the truths
43:32of morality and you change and distort them in order to serve the greed of the body, right?
43:40So if you say, well we have to help the poor, which should mean going out and actually helping
43:45the poor, which is what I've been doing for most of my adult life, certainly as an entrepreneur,
43:51to help the poor.
43:52And it turns out that helping the poor is just forcing people to transfer wealth at
43:56the gunpoint that's selling your soul because you are sacrificing the truth of morality
44:04for the sake of people's material greed.
44:07What do the poor need?
44:08The poor need help, guidance, moral self-knowledge, sympathy, understanding, and exposure to people
44:15who've overcome obstacles so that they themselves can overcome obstacles, which is why I have
44:21charged for private call-ins recently just as a result of demand, but you know again
44:27thousands of people I've helped with call-in shows and not charged a penny.
44:32And then put those examples out for the world as a whole to listen to and to consume.
44:40So that's helping the poor, peaceful parenting I put out for free, millions of children since
44:44I've started are no longer being hit and circumcised and yelled at and abused because of the work
44:49that I've done.
44:50Again, with your support at freedomain.com slash donate.
44:53Thank you by the way.
44:55So when you wrestle the angels down and put them and chain them to Satan's army as minions
45:10of falsified virtue serving the endless balistris of greed, analogy was not the three-point
45:22landing but it happens sometimes I suppose, but when you spear down the angels and put
45:28them as slaves to the orcs, that's selling the soul to the devil.
45:33So taking true virtues and then distorting them to serve the material greed of people
45:38and say well the way you help the poor is you rip money away from these people and you
45:43give money to these people and that is a distortion of virtue and that definitely would be in
45:47the category of selling your soul in this case, it would be for votes and political
45:52points.
45:53So I hope that helps.
45:54I really do appreciate these questions and comments.
45:56Hey, be as bitchy as you like.
45:57It does seem to get some good stuff out of me and I appreciate that.
46:00Have yourselves a wonderful, wonderful evening, freedomain.com slash donate.
46:04Take care my friends.
46:05I'll talk to you soon.
46:06Bye.