Skeptic Project

OK; so a brief summary oh my history with FreeDomainRadio (FDR from here on) and Stefan Molynuex (Stef from here on.) I was a follower of his on YouTube only. Never caught his podcasts, Sunday Shows...etc. just YouTube. He started delving into tabula rasa psychology, no-spank child raising, psychiatry denialism, and there were rumors of him telling his fans to disconnect from their families and that's when I got off the boat. I just came back to see what he was doing a year later and was shocked. Granted some of this is old news, I was just not aware of it. He doesn't post a lot of the cult aspects on the YouTube channel because cults are like jawbreakers. The sweet good stuff on the outside, it's the core that gets sour. Like I said; I only ever watched his YouTube videos.

They have a cult word. Cults usually like to invent or redefine words and they've picked this up and ran with it. 'deFOO' and 'FOO' are the only ones I've seen yet but it's definitions is disturbing. "FOO" is an acronym for "family of origin." Departing the Family Of Origin. So your mom and dad spanked you? Well that's the reason you get upset with them, that's why you like(d) the government(because government is violence,) and they are the reason you have depression, anxiety...etc.
http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/p/15871/130753.aspx
http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/p/26956/208877.aspx

There's an anonymous story (could be fake but it's consistant with many disconnect stories from other cults) where one of his followers disconnected himself from all of his friends and family and became homeless. Shortly after he committed suicide.
http://www.molyneuxrevealed.com/2012/06/suicide-caused-by-stefan-molyneux-and.html
(i have a feeling it's relating to the 'overmyhead' thread I posted above)

So for a while I'll be looking more into this and posting my findings and see how deep this rabbit hole goes.

http://www.molyneuxrevealed.com/2012/06/suicide-caused-by-stefan-molyneux-and.html

If you read the original posters comments about disbelief in evolution, and belief in creationism [contained in the original post and subsequent comments down the page]. Then look at how they consider atheists as religious too, you can pretty much boil down that the original poster Edmund is a creationist crank.


My thoughts on this are the following:

It is likely this is the heart of his problem, and the child/person who defood probably found the whole religion thing overbearing and too fucking stupid to believe, it is likely this reason why they moved over into a cult. Religious people when deprogramming themselves always tend to fall into other social groups or religions as a lifeline when breaking free from their religion. Falling into a cult like Stefans is fairly standard, just take a look at all the other cults mentioned on this board, their members are likely made up of religious or ex religious people trying to find something new to save them from their loss of faith. We all know that most religious people and cult members lack critical thinking skills and sound reasoning abilities, and particularly misunderstand the scientific method.

So it is my opinion that the original poster probably drove his kid nuts with religion in the first place. So yeah from one cult into another as they try to reconcile their lack of faith.

To validate my point that the person is a religious fruit cake, I made 3 comments [all of which were polite].

Post 1 : Questioned their claims about atheism and corrected their misunderstandings

Post 2: Gave evidence for their lack of understanding of evolution

Post 3: Agreed with them on a separate topic in another post

Which comment do you think was published ?

Yeah true enough man, people say all kinds of weird shit online just to get peoples attention and support.

Although falsifying a suicide story would be really low if that is the case.

He's starting to get a lot of pushback from a lot of antistatist libertarians because he refuses to use any argument outside of the "gun in the room" argument. He's said explicitly he has no use for consequentialism or practicality. Meaning it doesn't matter if something works so long as it doesn't go against NAP. His philosophy is very messy and inconsistent. He plagiarizes a lot and never gives credit which is a big faux pas in philosophy.

Stefbots will say that deFOO only applies if the parents or family are abusive and by all means I think that's fine. If they beat or rape you it'd be kind of hard or impractical to keep accosiating with them, but that's not all that he defines as abuse. I've heard him say things like spanking, raising in religious households, and being overly irrational were abusive.

There is a video where he says that voting for Ron Paul can be good and if you can't convince a friend to go and spend an hour to go vote for him in exchange for doing something they find valuable or important than it's something that would put a damper on the relationship up to the point of deFOO.

DAD, VOTE FOR RON PAUL OR I HAVE NO FATHER

Just so you know the dude who runs that molyneaux revealed is an evolution denier, and an intelligent design apologist. He doesn't believe the fossil record holds any intermediary evidence for transitional evolution, and he abuses logic claiming that it proves his stance that a god is not only possible but very likely.

His lack of understanding critical thinking and science, and his cognitive biases should be taken into consideration when using his information as evidence. He is perhaps not a reliable source of unbiased information for molyneaux.

I know this because he took it upon himself to god bother me with emails after denying my posts on his own blog.