The True Price of Being LOVED! Twitter/X Space

Name: The True Price of Being LOVED! Twitter/X Space
Uploaded: 2025-12-26T01:17:51+00:00
Duration: 1 h 21 min 9 s
Channel: Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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On Christmas Day 2025, Stefan Molyneux addresses loneliness during the holidays, drawing from his own experiences and using the image of a ring marked "this too shall pass." He sets the empty routines of a "dead city" against the process of finding oneself, encouraging people to value their own views. In talks with callers, he shows understanding for loss and difficulties, closing with a note to pursue real bonds and accept who you are amid the celebrations.

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00:00:00Hello, hello, my friends. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas. Ah, what's that lovely old song?

00:00:09Children roasting on an open fire. Anyway, I hope you're having a lovely day. And, you know,

00:00:18listen, I'll be straight up with you. I'm sure that there are some of you out there who are

00:00:22having a tough day. And I just wanted to drop in, obviously say hi, give you some good Christmas

00:00:28cheer, give you a couple of comforts of philosophy, and just remind you that everyone on the planet

00:00:38who's honest has had one or more bad Christmases. And if this is a bad Christmas for you,

00:00:48maybe you're alienated from people, maybe you're alone, maybe you had a recent breakup,

00:00:52maybe you're unemployed, maybe you're stressed, maybe you don't have enough money for the holidays,

00:00:57and I just wanted to sort of reach out, give you a big virtual hug, wish that we were all there

00:01:05together with good food and good cheer and good stories, and just remind you that you're not alone

00:01:12in being alone. And I thought I might share a couple of stories of a few bad Christmases that

00:01:17I've had over the years, just to remind you that although things are tough, oh, life, life,

00:01:23life, what is that? There's this old story, it's an old story about a ring, a magic ring. A magic ring

00:01:28has the incredible power to make you happy when you're sad, and sad when you're happy. And nobody

00:01:34can figure out how the ring is able to do this, until at some point, somebody looks on the inside

00:01:39of the ring, and inside is inscribed the phrase, this too shall pass. So if you are having a solitary

00:01:48Christmas, if you are having a lonely Christmas, if you are having a broke Christmas, if you're far

00:01:52from home, if you're far from friends, if you feel infinitely far from love, connection, companionship,

00:01:59I just wanted to tell you, to remind you that it will not last forever, and you will get to the place

00:02:08that you need, you will get to good people. In the very first book I wrote on, like, pure philosophy,

00:02:15which is called On Truth, The Tyranny of Illusion. I talked about this journey, this journey that

00:02:24if you want the truth, if you want connection, if you want love, if you want virtue, there's

00:02:30a journey. And it took me an embarrassingly long time to do this journey, to start on this journey.

00:02:36I started on this journey about, I don't know, probably about 30 years ago. Wait, how the heck

00:02:42old am I? 59, 30, 29? Yeah, yeah, I was about 30 years ago, maybe a little more. And on this journey,

00:02:51it goes something like this, and I hope that this will help you if you're having a tough Christmas.

00:02:57And the journey goes something like this. You spend your life in a city. And the city is full of life,

00:03:05it's full of light, it's full of energy, it's full of people. And you are distracted into

00:03:15a petty series of endless pleasures, right? You go dancing, you go to movies, you scroll,

00:03:22you go to discos, you go to bright, shiny light malls, and finger shiny objects, caress them,

00:03:31sniff them, perhaps. And you buy, and you consume, and you pass by your days, with as much friction

00:03:38and connection as a javelin passing through mist. Whistles passed, doesn't really touch anything,

00:03:43but it's very lean and efficient in its forward momentum. And then, oh gosh, one day, one day,

00:03:50one morning, the strangest things happen. And it usually is late 20s, you're pushing 30,

00:03:56right? You're entering, you're in the vicinity of entering into your fourth decade, and you wake

00:04:01up. And there's sort of a funny, slightly sour smell in the air. The light is a little bit different

00:04:07coming in through your bedroom window. Maybe you've got those Venetian blinds, and you have those

00:04:14golden stripes of bars on the far side of your bedroom. And details imprint themselves upon your

00:04:22senses. You wake up, and you can see the dustboats floating in the air. And for some reason, you

00:04:30think of human skin, particles of human skin, of all the people who've lived in the room that you live

00:04:37in before you. It's a rental place or something like that. And you get up, and you feel a bit funny.

00:04:43You feel a bit older. Some of those first creaks of middle age might be popping up.

00:04:47And you go out in the city, and you feel mad. You feel like you've lost your mind, because nothing

00:04:55in particular has changed. But somehow you know that everyone died in the night. But they did not

00:05:05die and lay still. They died and continued to move around. In other words, they had that most terrible

00:05:13form of death, which is where you don't even know that you're dead. And you go to the diner,

00:05:18and there's people sitting there, and their skin is a little ashen. Their teeth are a little yellow.

00:05:23Their eyes are a little bloodshot. They're not zombies. Not zombies. Nothing quite that dramatic

00:05:28and obvious. And you have a funny feeling that if you push your fingers into their necks or their

00:05:35pudgy wrists, you would feel no rhythm, no crusading rivulets of blood coursing to keep the extremities

00:05:43alive. But they would be like dead bags of red steel water. And they talk. They talk, for sure. You

00:05:53could hear them talking. But it's got this Grand Hog Day series of having heard things before. You know

00:05:59when you're in a relationship? Could be with friends. Could be family. A lover, maybe. You're in a

00:06:04relationship. And you get to a certain point where you've looped back to the beginning.

00:06:09And they have no new stories. They have no new jokes. Everything is kind of what's happened before.

00:06:15This law of eternal recurrence. Everything is kind of what happened before. And when they start a story,

00:06:22you know exactly where it's going. When they start a joke, you know, they have a joke, which is,

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