...but I couldn't!

You see, all of the FDR "Ask a Therapist" podcasts starring XTina have been removed!

I was doing some research for an article and wanted to grab one for reference. Gone. Then I realized they've all been taken down. Now I'm noticing other podcasts, like the Defooing, Parts 1 and 2, are starting to disappear.

I'm confused. If you're doing nothing but delivering truth, beauty, and reason to the masses, what is there to hide?

Maybe it's because Christina is a mother now and wants her own mother back. You can't mend fences with that kind of stuff lying around in public. Molyneux may be a person of Supreme Importance online, but he is only one person in the household. I don't believe he practices everything he preaches, and babies always change the stakes.

There must be in error in thinking that they have been removed for any reason but spring cleaning. Afterall it is a tortuous 90 minutes that Stef and Xtina put themselves through reliving their troubled unresolved pasts and transferring memories and emotions, lock stock and barrel to some poor unfortuntes and the public in general. They do so much good making emotional cripples out of the vulnerable and after their cathartic and uncluttered by science approach to therapy they surely would want to share their wisdom for generations to come, including their own daughter who they have no trouble exploiting, oops celebrating on the website. No it must be just a spring clean!

Maybe there is an interesting shift going on at FDR! Recently some misguided soul, Robert, defooed. Instead of the universal acclaim usually heaped upon the new hero, the response seemed slightly more muted. Indeed even the great man himself seemed restrained.

Could this be a rethink going on. Are defooers going to be asked to refoo? Is Stef going to get reconciled with his family? Has Xtina realised that she is being used as a pawn and cover for Steff?

Or maybe Steff is planning to bring out a box set if "Ask the Therapist" for Chrismas at C$98.99

Cue announcer -
"Join us on the FDR website, and you too can find out these answers and more on.............
As the Chatroom Turns"
-Exit music

another FDR member with a mental breakdown? For all Molyneux's talk of leading people to happiness, showing the world how they're "relentlessly fucking happy" and whatnot, I just don't see it. In fact, I'll take your average statist christians as more inspirational people anyday.

They do seem like an overly depressed group wallowing in a collective pool of self pity and pride that they are voluntarily putting themselves and presumably a number other people through pain. Stef's and Xtina's approach to therapy is akin to a barber and a brain surgeon.

I hate to admit to what I've been doing, but I've been following an FDR person on Twitter. I can see this person's responses to many of the FDR regulars, although I cannot see most of what this person is responding to. However, these little blurbs were posted today, and it's interesting; it's one side of a conversation between two people, all in a row:

Quote:

"Thanks for searching so hard for me. It does sound like a fascinating podcast if ever we find it." "I hope that 'spring-cleaning' the 'ask a therapist' podcasts doesn't mean he's had 2nd thoughts about them." "I wonder if the transcripts were being searched for material to misuse. I guess he can see the search terms."

So which one of you has been searching the transcripts for material to misuse? You oughta be ashamed!

Sorry for the double post, but I was looking up references to "Spring Cleaning" on the forums and a search on "ask therapist podcast" brought up an interesting reference to a person who had heard Ask a Therapist #9:

A rather enraged listener...

This rather enraged listener got mad about what she heard Molyneux--a man who doesn't know her--say about her:

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This is "Sue" of "Sue" and "Jane". I'm the one who's friend is jumping from guy to guy. I can't believe you would turn that around on me, saying that I had a problem as well. What kind of society is this that I'm condemned for caring about my best friend? You claim that I should just ditch my best friend because she has problems?! That's horrible! You also said that I most definitely came from a troubled home with a parent with an addiction. That was wrong. Both of my parents were stable and loving parents. I had about as good a childhood as you could hope for. My boyfriend listened to the entire thing and you reaffirmed his belief that therapists are worthless. I always said that they can be very helpful. But I was disgusted by 99% of what you said. You turned the whole thing around into something entertaining for your listeners. You shouldn't be giving anyone advice. You claimed that I was trying to act the martyr by helping her and that she obviously didn't care what I thought. You must be pretty messed up not to know what truly loving a friend is like. When her whole family lies to her and says they like her boyfriend and then say behind her back that they hate him and I tell her the truth, it's me who in the end she thanks for being honest and her family who lets her down. And, no, I don't love to live through her drama. And, no, I'm not the "plain" friend. And, no, I don't feel I'm morally superior. And, yes, there are books and literature that help people with their problems! How could you say there isn't? In one sentence you say there are no books to help, and before you, Stefan, say that you've read tons of books on therapy. Get it straight man. You both ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I think you can only do harm for your listeners.

Molyneux dismisses it all and writes it off in a subsequent post with a glib:

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Yeah, and people who come from really happy families always get totally enraged when they feel misunderstood!

Nice work. Anyway, the talk wanders over to reference to podcast 600, "Mom and Dad Full Disclosure," which was published in January of 2007 and starts anyway as a little skit between Molyneux and a woman I think is Christina talking to hypothetical children about how parents only ever have children to use and exploit them. I downloaded it but I haven't listened to it. I might skim it later. I don't know if there's more to it than the skit. I'm sure that the Molynuex family had no selfish reasons at all to bring their own child into the world two years later.

Had similar words been directed at a parent, it would be described as "courage" and "assertiveness" rather than "rage".