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The Freedom Symposium
http://thefreedomsymposium.blogspot.com/
The Freedom Symposium is the place where we can have a conversation about personal freedom. There will be articles, essays, and other written pieces on a variety of different topics. My goal is that people who read my blog will learn something new and perhaps even apply the knowledge they learn to become more free in their personal life. The Freedom Symposium is about the logic of personal freedom.
Recent Posts
Mother's Day Thoughts
Here is just a quick thought I had on this mother's day, and this goes for father's day too: If a mother and/or father is virtuous, kind, and good to be around, why does there need to be a national holiday for it? I think if your mother and/or father...
A 2 X 2 Matrix Explaining Faith Healing
So I'm sitting at Starbucks having coffee when I overhear these two women at another table talking about the other woman's ability to heal people using the power of the "holy spirit". The conversation involves the "healer" giving anecdotal evidence a...
Is Evil Necessary?
My latest article published on Lost Liberty Cafe. Special thanks to Nate a crap load of edits and suggestions. Foreword: This article has been waiting for a long time to be written. I finally sat down and put the pen to the paper, deeply exploring a ...
Faith & Despair: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?
This thought recently posted on the Maverick Philosopher: Despair requires as much of a leap as faith does. In either case we jump beyond what we can strictly know. I thought this was quite fascinating and wanted to expand on this a bit more here. F...
Understanding Perfectionism As It Relates To Self-Attacking
Check out this post reviewing research on perfectionism. I myself am currently doing a master's thesis in psychology and the subject is primarily extreme self-criticism. One of the facets of extreme self-criticism is the tendency to be a perfectionis...
The Good, The Bad, & Society
David Z. Makes some observations here that got me thinking: Most people spend so much time worrying about how society is going to deal with the “bad” people, that they’ve completely lost sight of what happens to the good people — if they e...

