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I wonder what freedom is like.
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one day...


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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Freedom?
This is freedom:
:rastana: and this  :pinkelephant:  and this too  :dj: ... and the like :wink:

Damn I missed those emoticons


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:bunny::bunnyhug:
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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Suffering limits us. So freedom is the absence of suffering, to fulfill ones' enjoyments into happiness and pleasure.
Or something like that...


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Though lovers be lost love shall not  And death shall have no dominion
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Acceptance is the absolute key - at that moment you gain freedom and you gain power and you gain courage'

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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How can freedom be in the future? Freedom is not anywhere else but right here and right now.


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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freedom exists in the mind of the individual.


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From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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freedom from freedom is not freedom

:oogle:

such a funny word

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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Cracka_X said:
one day...


One day? When. How do you know? If you can't do it today what makes you think it will be here tomorrow?

Or maybe you're talking about death. As the old song goes "Any way now, any day now, I shall be released".;)


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron talks about how the best way to understand freedom is to understand your prison. She compares suffering to the shadow of a beautiful flower. Once you're quite familiar with the shape and outline of the shadow, it is easy to turn around and see the flower, and the light shining upon it.

Why acquaint yourself first with suffering? Because one of our most powerful tendencies is to avoid suffering at any cost, and this in fact is what binds us to it. You are familiar with a Chinese finger trap. It's very much like this. To experience freedom, you have to be willing to experience suffering of all kinds with your whole being, without resistance. This, of course, is much easier said, and is something mastered over a life time.


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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Ped]
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you're already free
or you wouldn't exist


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I'm just passing thru u

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: dream_alchemy]
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it's so hard to answer all these. yes you're already free but I guess there's different degrees of freedom, death, for some, being ultimate freedom.

when I rant/bitch about this freedom above, I'm referring to the scheduling of life and the thought-out process of everything as opposed to the spontaneous nature that things occur in, at least for most people in america.

There's so much being hidden, because "That's the way it is" or "This is how we've done it for so many years". I want freedom from these chains.

Ped, yeah definately feel the chinese finger trap comparison. I'm gonna check out that book too.

All these responses are pretty much yeah I know.


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Cracka_X]
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JK :laugh:

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: vigilant_mind]
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ought we circulate those things even out of joy and jolly good humor?

think about what it is actually saying, the fact that someone took the time to create, and the fact that if certain people saw it would undoubtedly be one of the many apathetic hands pushing him off his own cliff

this is coming from someone who has been there.

our culture has plenty of nooses and bear traps lying around in, it is just biting, dabbling at first, but eventually you find that you can even make friends that will encourage you off the edge and facilitate your fall.


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I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo!

....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: leery11]
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Freedom


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The Prophecy!

Learn To Code

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: blewmeanie]
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I can see nothing from that pic, can you enlarge?


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:bunny::bunnyhug:
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: MushroomTrip]
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Its not like anyone gets my humor anyway.


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The Prophecy!

Learn To Code

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: Ped]
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Ped said:
In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron talks about how the best way to understand freedom is to understand your prison. She compares suffering to the shadow of a beautiful flower. Once you're quite familiar with the shape and outline of the shadow, it is easy to turn around and see the flower, and the light shining upon it.

Why acquaint yourself first with suffering? Because one of our most powerful tendencies is to avoid suffering at any cost, and this in fact is what binds us to it. You are familiar with a Chinese finger trap. It's very much like this. To experience freedom, you have to be willing to experience suffering of all kinds with your whole being, without resistance. This, of course, is much easier said, and is something mastered over a life time.


One of the best posts I've ever read! Thank you! +5 shrooms for you!

Mayhap I should check out this "Pema Chodron"


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:hst:
Society in every form is a blessing,
but government at its best is but a necessary evil 
- Thomas Paine

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Re: I wonder what freedom is like. [Re: blewmeanie]
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blewmeanie said:
Its not like anyone gets my humor anyway.


Lol I get it, now since I can see what it says :lol: :thumbup:


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:bunny::bunnyhug:
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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