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2016-04-22 at 4:19 AM UTC in why i was wrong about atheismNo actually I think Lanny is a smart person who hasn't been fooled by Stephan (unlike you). Lanny doesn't think Stephan is a person to be taken seriously. In other words he's a joke. But it's actually worse than that, he's a fraud, liar and cult leader.
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2016-04-21 at 8:59 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheismHere is a father's story: *** *********** I am a father of one*fewer children than I had before.* My son was stolen from me by wolves in sheep’s clothing—wolves named Stefan Molyneux and Christina Papadopoulos.* Together these two and their destructive worldview* warped my son’s heart and stole everything he held dear, until he found himself isolated and hopeless.* My son killed himself as a result of their destructive influence on his life. *********** We’ll call my son Sam.* Sam was in his young adulthood, only three years into life on his own, with his own job, own car, an apartment with a buddy, and enjoying life.* His childhood was idyllic—safe environment, loving family, raised in Christian love yet given freedom to think for himself, and not abused in any way.* After graduation he joined the Army—a childhood dream of his—and was living in the south.* While away he maintained strong ties with family and many friends in several states.* He kept in contact with them regularly and even visited numerous times despite being half a continent away.* He even drove across the country for his mom’s birthday! *********** Within a two month period, that all changed.* He went from, “I’ll be praying for you†or “I can’t wait to see what God has in store for meâ€, to “I have no faith†and a total excommunication of Christian family and friends.* He even shunned and quit communicating with his three siblings, whom he loved dearly. *********** Many of us tried to find out what was going on in Sam’s life.* The one thing he mentioned was studying the teachings of Stefan Molyneux, Christina Papadopoulos and their blog minions at FreeDomainRadio.* While this organization has some appealing features and draws people in with their fresh and exciting podcasts and blogs on politics and philosophy, under the surface is a worldview that is destructive to those who become immersed.* Sam was swept up by it. *********** The worldview preached by the Molyneux cult is a combination of extreme libertarian politics, atheistic religion, and a warped psychology that believes parents are the root cause of all a person’s problems.* In their view, there is no such thing as a good parent.* They clearly counseled Sam to distance himself early from parents and Christians.* It initially started with a lack of the usual responsive communication, then to “de-friending†on Facebook, to “leave me alone,†and finally to a scathing “goodbye-forever†letter, all within the period of a few months.* The letter is too painful to quote from, filled with crazy jargon and phrases, evidence of brainwashing by the Molyneux wolves. *********** We saw that coming.* We did our research on the Molyneux cult and learned of other families that had been ripped apart by the infamous “DeFOOâ€â€”Departing the Family Of Origin.* That’s exactly what Sam did to us, and then some.* He completely burned his family and Christian friend bridges.* Not only didn’t it solve his problems but rather contributed to his self-destruction. *********** There is much written elsewhere about the religion of atheism versus following Jesus Christ or any other deity.* It might seem an oxymoron, but atheism is actually a religion too—that of the self being the only high authority in life, a sort of self-worship.* As one gets to know oneself more, however, he comes to the realization that focus on self is a short, dead-end trail that leaves one utterly disappointed.* I believe Sam reached the end of that trail, and in his mind he had no family and support structure to turn back to, even though we would have welcomed him home with open arms and a party of the grandest designs. *********** After finishing his service to the Army—less than six months after the DeFOO--Sam set off on his own to find a new career, new home, a new identity as a free man.* Only seven days into his journey he found himself sitting alone in the car he lived in, with no one to turn to who could see the root cause of his suffering and offer him help, and no hope in his heart for redemption by a loving and forgiving God.* Sam shot himself in the head and died instantly. *********** We all hurt for Sam, for ourselves, and for those who also miss him.* It was painful enough to lose him as a result of DeFOO, but we thought there would come a day when he would come back to us.* There was always hope of his return.* Now Sam has been ripped away forever, and the wound is deeper than before.* We will never on this earth have a chance to tell him again how much we love him, grow closer as he matures, or play with the children he never had.* * Chalk one up to Molyneux and Papadopoulos, The Destroyers.* May it never happen again.
I willingly admit I like a lot of what Molyneux has said but he also destroys families and wrote a ridiculous book that even Lanny isn't fooled by. If you have an actual argument for why you think this guy is so great I'd like to read it but if our past conversations on this topic are any indication I doubt that will happen. -
2016-04-21 at 8:34 PM UTC in SPLOO LOSES HIS SHIT LIVESTREAMEDSploo where are all your other videos? I want to watch them all.
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2016-04-21 at 8:07 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheismDid poast abandon his family of origin? Is that why in his "trolling the underground" videos he's living in an area with a hundred homeless methheads right outside his front door?
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2016-04-21 at 6:12 PM UTC in Anyone here like Dennis miller?I don't really know. I guess I just figured it would be kind of fun to say something that is basically worthless and meaningless and see if you would reply to it so as to create this tangent conversation when your thread was supposed to be about something else entirely. But now that I've actually explained this whole shenanigan to you it's sort of lost the appeal it once had.
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2016-04-21 at 6:05 PM UTC in Peeping at somebody undressing can make you a sex offender...What is this world coming to?
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2016-04-21 at 6:02 PM UTC in Mathematics^ Thanks for saying that, I like that we agree on this. After I posted that I had another thought: Pi as a symbol can never be expressed exactly, it is always approximated. Does this demonstrate a fault in the language we use to express it, or does it mean that Pi as it exists in nature is also never expressed as an exact value but rather somewhat vague?
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2016-04-21 at 5:55 PM UTC in I need new websites to trollTry searching for a feminist or SJW forum, easy pickings.
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2016-04-21 at 5:23 PM UTC in Anyone here like Dennis miller?I don't know, but I also don't want to click on all those videos to find out.
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2016-04-21 at 4:50 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheismquaerere veritatem
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2016-04-21 at 4:37 PM UTC in MathematicsI made this thread after watching a video about math. The theme of the film was that basically everything can be broken down into math. Their idea was that we live in a world of math, that the universe could literally just be a whole lot of math. And there's something about that idea that seems right, it makes a lot of sense. But after reading some of the replies to this thread I think they were wrong about that. Math is like a language, a way to describe something else, like a symbol. We discovered the reality and created the symbol. We invented mathematics after discovering something very similar to math in reality, we use the symbol to describe the reality. Like π. π is a symbol we use to discuss something we discovered that shows up basically everywhere in nature, everywhere we look we see π. π is the way the human attempt to comprehend something that is probably incomprehensible. The symbol π is a metaphor for something that is clearly real and involved in basically everything in our reality.
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2016-04-21 at 4:22 PM UTC in Humans are a disease
Well that's kinda my point. Parasitism or disease implies that a host has interests and they are being violated by the parasite/disease somehow. We wouldn't call moss on a rock parasitic because rocks don't have interests. To call humans a disease is to imply there's something upon which we are a disease and I can find no suitable thing possessing the necessary structure to have interests to be undermined by us in a disease-like way.
You are right in that to literally call humans a disease is incorrect, I agree with you there. But I think it's pretty clear the OP was speaking metaphorically, and I doubt you can honestly deny there are some metaphorical similarities between humans and something like a mold or a parasite. An apple has no "directive to live", it doesn't care if mold devours it, and there are are definitely metaphorical similarities between a mold growing on an apple and humans growing on Earth. A rock doesn't care if some plant grows all over it and slowly crushes it into dust, that plant isn't literally a parasite or a disease to the rock, but there is clearly a metaphorical similarity there, and likewise with humans. -
2016-04-21 at 4:11 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheism
Oh shit, that guy is Molyneux! Haha, I had no idea, just thought he was some random vlogger. Jesus, and people wonder why no one takes the guy seriously.
On the contrary, the dude has his own cult following and I'm pretty sure at least one Space Nigga is among them. -
2016-04-21 at 3:23 PM UTC in I hate MOON PERSONs, specifically the type of person who posts on reddit.I especially hate people who always complain about literally anything they can every chance they get, it's like they can't ever see the good in anything and can't ever shut up about it. You know the type, the "glass half empty" type, the sort of person who hates life and wants everybody to hate their life too. Those people must have brain damage because I don't understand how being a mopey douche bag about everything in life could have ever been an evolutionary advantage. Whenever one of those jackasses opens their mouth and you already know it's just going to be bitching and moaning before they even say a word, I can't help but wish they would just kill themselves already and spare the rest of us from having to listen to their venomous tripe.
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2016-04-21 at 2:31 PM UTC in ATTN: Snoopy
I meant in life, not on the internet.
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2016-04-21 at 2:14 PM UTC in How populated of an area do you live in?1.2 million or so.
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2016-04-21 at 1:03 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheismLanny, it gets even better when you learn this guy has cult followers, wrote his own "bible" on "universally preferable behavior" and that Sophie eats it all up.
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2016-04-21 at 12:58 PM UTC in Ever met met someone that was sexually abused as a child?I've met quite a few women who claim to have been sexually abused as children. Never knew any men to claim it.
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2016-04-18 at 10:38 PM UTC in MathematicsMathematics can be used to describe basically everything in our reality. In your opinion is mathematics something that humans created? Or did we discover something that was already there?
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2016-04-18 at 10:15 PM UTC in Republican Party RULE #40@Lanny your thoughts?
