I Interview Pete Gerlach

The Death of Reason

"People have not the ability to critically thing. People are born with the ability to critically think. People are punished for critical thinking. When you bring criticial thinking to people what you are doing is you are evoking all the punishments they received as children for true critical thinking. So if they were reaised religions, they have questions and they ask those quesitons and they are attacked and mocked and humilated and punished for having those questions. A child who is hit by a mom when the mom says dn't hit has some critical questions to ask of that mother. These are all questions that children that want to ask their parents. I know this for a fact because my daughter is continually asking me these kinds of questions. She is curious about my level of inegrity with the values I put forward. So when I say we don't use aggression to get what we want she is constantly scanning to see if I'm using aggression. She is trying to find out if I have integrity or if I'm just using rules to control her. All hypocrisy results in brutality because the hypocrisy that doesn't enforce itself through hypocrisy doesn't last." - Stefan Molyneux

Staying Happy

In my time here I have found the most indispensible attribute towards maintaining hapiness in life is a conscious discipline of choosing not to view situations, even adverse ones, as oppositional to us, but instead as opportunities to learn specific skills we have have prescribed for ourselves. This attitude frees us from comparing ourselves to any (impossible to acheive) standards of perfection, but instead as students on our journey to mastery. Our awareness is now freed to view the effects of our actions empirically as we assess "what is happening here? what did I leanr? what would I do next time to acheive better results?" We begin growing into life instead of experiencing it as a never ending serries of challenges that undermine our sense of adequacy.

alien ambassador

In my dream I was an ambassador from an alien species. I landed near a school which was almost empty apart from a couple of adults whom I seemed to think were part of the government. I kept referring to each of them respectfully as the 'minister for -' ... 'is the minister for education such-and-such?' whatever I assumed their position was. Some guy kept taking me around the corridors, I wanted to see the right people and speak to them but he kept prevaricating by doing that. Inhabiting this character was interesting because he was very benevolent, I could tell that on his planet the government was really there to do for people, they really cared. He probably would have been very upset if he ever found out what it was like on earth. It was interesting feel that way or that that was even possible from as an anarchist.

my prayer

I forgive my sins
I accept my shortcomings
I give of myself what I am prepared to give - in the moment - I am prepared to give it

I open my hands to the fruits of life
I open my eyes to the consequence of my actions
I open my mind to the truth and to reason
I open my heart to love and be loved
I open my soul to the passion of purpose
I open my fate to forge my own path

I surrender myself to the oneness of all things
In the unity of all I am truly my own.

Antony Sammeroff 2/5/13

I Interview Stefan Molyneux

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