Re: What is personal freedom?
I say (jokingly) that "I'm trapped in a body. Doing Time". That being so, well, no I'm not really free... have to bathe 'me', feed 'me', prepare this n that, do this n that, find something to wear, brush my hair. Golly I get tired sometimes....Tasks & more tasks. Even as a small child I thought it was a curious thing, wasteful even, to Have to do such things as eat food! What a mind I had even then! I have deep crevices between my eyebrows/deep wrinkles, saying "WTF" over! (of course I learned to make eating a luxurious, sensual and grateful experience... I LOVE food). And I'm growing my own organics.
So, we then (as you've heard stories of prisoners finding peace & freedom within prison) we go "spiritual". Freedom as a state of mind that does not include the body.? (that's a statement & inquiry)
The concept of freedom runs along the same lines as the concept of free will. Do we even know what they are?
Is freedom "control over one's life?" Is free will "the means to completely arrive at freedom?" If so, why have we not been paying attention and made ourselves vulnerable to the utility companies & paying jobs? Can we really be Other than who we are?
Oh, I remember..... mind control/programming, that's it, boing boing boing.
I'm shmirky this morning, sort of shruggy... say "whatever" out loud!
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