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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 per
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Religious/Mystic Brainwashing Hurts Children
I'd like to point your attention to two excellent blog posts. The first one is at Skeptico talking about the so-called "psychic" kids, and the second one is at Debunking Christianity where Marlene Winell talks about recovering from religious damage. ...
Reader Mail #59
I'm responding to a few items in FSK's reader mail post here. FSK: I saw someone complain about the US Constitution being a "living document". When people say that, they mean "We interpret the US Constitution in the manner that's most convenient f...
To Kent, FSK, David & My Final Thoughts On This Topic
Just to recap, this conversation is about how best to be free and achieve freedom, particularly when it comes to a stateless society. I think, for me at least, this conversation has gone it's course and I think you'll see why towards the end. Not tha...
A Reply To David Gross (Tax-Resistance Discussion)
David Gross left the following comment on the post with FSK and I talking about agorism:David:I’ve been following this debate, or bits and pieces of it anyway, but haven’t put my two cents in yet. This is partially because I’m not sure I unders...
Re: Is There A Silver Bullet
Kent makes an interesting post here and I suspect he's implicitly talking about the recent debates between many of us anarchists as to the methodology of freedom. If not, it is related enough that I'd like to reply to it anyway.Kent:Ignoring the stat...
FSK & I Converse On Taxes & Other Stuff
Believe it or not, many readers and fellow bloggers are actually enjoying this cross-blog talk that I have been dong quite recently. A few friends of mine remarked that they enjoy reading these back-and-fourth discussions between myself and FSK and o...
On Patriots, Liberty, Land, & Flags
Kent talks about patriotism over on his blog. I couldn't resist adding my two cents on the subject.I once wrote an article on an old blog I co-authored called Patriotism is Just Another Religion which, naturally, pissed off a lot of minarchists and l...
Anarchy Hour
Peter over at Liberty Is My Homie suggests that anarchists get together every 8th of the month for drinks and discussing anarchy. That's my kind of cocktail party! Unfortunately, I live in a crappy desert city out in the middle of nowhere and I doubt...
Who Let's The State Get Away With It?
Kent makes some observations about the State and then proclaims:"And we let them do it!"He then asks the important question, WHY?Well, firstly it is the statists that let them do it, not you nor I. If it were up to us the State would go away in a hea...
Anarchy - Philosophy & Agorism: Where To Take Action?
I seemed to have sparked up a lot of conversations lately concerning my criticism of the agorist approach to anarchy. For those just now joining us, here is a recap: Sunni makes this post on personal freedom and revolution. I chimed in with my obser...
Livingly Freely
This is a on-going conversation between myself and Sunni. You can find Sunni's post here that I will be referring to in this reply.Sunni:I do not see how agorism fails to meet the “live their philosophy in their personal lives” criterion.In a sen...
Re: Why Every Day Is “Revolution” Day
This has to be one of the best blog posts of the week. Here's a sample:I am soooo tired of reading pro-freedom commentary that begins, “After the revolution, I’ll [insert idea/plan here]”. Seems to me that kind of attitude is a perfect recipe...
[FDR] Ethics & Science And The Evil Banana Empire
Ethics & Science:The Evil Banana Empire: ...
Relationship Discussion (Continued)
In this video Stefan Molyneux talks with a long time listener about some strategies and advice on meeting good quality women, especially Online.FSK has also made a reply to our on-going discussion about relationships, dating, and hucksters out there ...
Re: Help! I'm Trapped in Somebody Else's Life!
(Note: This is a public blog reply to a blog post which can be found here. Just follow the link Preston provides in that post to see my earlier post that was a reply to his post.)Preston, I hope you don't mind me replying to your post here. I'd email...
Ghost Bikes & The Roads
I do sympathize with this campaign. I'm not a motorcyclist or a bike rider, but I am sensitive to these riders on the road. Whereas with a car you have a steel frame around you for protection, these folks don't.The problem I see with this campaign is...
Dating & Good vs. Bad Advise
This is a continuation of a blog conversation between me and FSK which started here. The post I am replying to is here, also check the top of FSK's post to see the thread in this conversation.FSK:I'll refer to the abusive techniques by the seduction ...
Re: Most Psychatrists are Evil!
This is a public blog reply to the original post which you can find by clicking on the title of this post. My good friend FSK made some great comments on a phenomenon that I've been noticing lately and I wanted to get my 2 cents in.The topic here is...
[FDR] The Atheists, The Mormons & The Baby
What do you do as a couple when one side of the family are Mormons, and the other side are atheists? - Provided by Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio. ...
[FDR] The Christian & The Philosopher
A wonderful discussion between Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, and a Christian. BTW, I'm going to start putting [FDR] in posts where I reproduce things from Stef or FDR. I like to promote the site as much as I can because I believe there i...
Anger
Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain Radio talks with a listener on the topic of anger. ...
The Ethics Debate: Freedomain Radio
Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain Radio has an ethics debate with another Youtuber about UPB. ...
Life Lessons From the Dead (Conversations)
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, has a listener conversation. Check out the website for more insightful conversations....
