Josh Friedman
There have been a lot of posts recently about unfairness in the media toward Ron Paul, so I'll shed some light since it seems a lot of people don't understand what Ron Paul stands for and what Libertarianism is.The original US constitution and Bill of Rights is the probably the closest any society ... Read More
I commented this on a similar idea and thought I would post it by iteslf. I've been noticing similar ideas... This is in response to someone who was trying to argue for objective truth by saying that a circle cannot be a square:My response was that nothing is a circle or a square. Perfect circles ... Read More
Why does the media ignore Ron Paul? It's simple - short tail economics. Media companies only have so much time, space, and resources. Their goal, like any business, is to maximize their profits. From that standpoint, it makes the most sense to focus their resources on the few candidates that ... Read More
Life is an absurd struggle between the human longing for meaning, order, and unity, and a reality which is void of all three. As odd as it sounds, there is joy to be found in the struggle. "But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself." "He who despairs over an event is a ... Read More
What makes people think that animals "suffer" in the human sense? What makes people think that other life - Plants, insects, fungi, bacteria, viruses, etc don't suffer?People can only understand emotions in terms of their own experience with them. Most would agree that we do not like to suffer ... Read More
Absolute faith in anything is bad. When people put absolute faith in something and a question arises that challenges that faith, people become irrational and immoral in an attempt to squash that challenge. This leads not only to religious fundamentalism, but also political fundamentalism.The most ... Read More
I think Judaism can be and needs to be reinvented. But first we must determine what makes a Jew today:Is Judaism the following of all the law in the Torah? No. Even the most orthodox do not follow all the laws. The rabbis throughout Jewish history have "reinterpreted" the law of the Torah because ... Read More
In a forum like this there are bound many discussions on the existence of "God". The discussions have little meaning though if every participant is discussing a different concept when they use the word "God". Maybe here we can see some of the differing opinions of the concept of "God" and perhaps ... Read More
It's possible that all reality is infinite. If that is true, the only way to make sense of anything is to draw boundaries in which to define things. It would then make perfect sense to say that the opposite of everything inside that boundary is the infinity that remians outside. Read More
About Josh Friedman
"The climax of every tragedy lies in the deafness of its heroes. Plato is right and not Moses and Nietzsche. Dialogue on the level of mankind is less costly than the gospel preached by totalitarian regimes in the form of monologue dictated from the top of a lonely mountain" - Albert Camus, The Rebel