http://www.owenfitzpatrick.com/meetowen/philosophy/philosophy.php#SlideFrame_1
This guy says "Personal Freedom is your own ability to take control over the way you think and feel and decide to become happier and more successful."
Surely it can't be that easy?
Mind over matter? What about all those external stimuli?
That financial crisis for instance. A whole bunch of people are pretty frazzled after the house of representitives shot down the savey deal. It's not quite the same as congress, but I'm a little fuzzy on that.
Still, the suggestion is that happiness and freedom are linked - not a bad idea. They might even be the same thing.
So maybe personal freedom as an ability relies on mental spam filters. If all the outside stuff bums you out, the only way you can get happy again is thinking your way there. Almost a bit like other skills and stats e.g. long distance running, stamina, patience, origami or dancing.
Showing posts with label freedoms. Show all posts
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
#7 I'm lucky, but sometimes everything changes
Routine. Any freedom in that? Sure: how about the freedom from thought?
Some freedoms aren't as good as others. Heh, the freedom to choose freedoms, now that's a good one. All freedoms have limits. Bush said there ought to be limits to freedom. Not sure if he was joking, but there are.
You've the freedom of your time up to when you get hungry or thirsty. Then you lose a freedom to your body. This one loss starts the domino effect. You have to go find food and/or water (usually water).
What would life be like if we didn't need food or water? Now that I think about it Jesus said a lot about bread and water.
Let's say you could still eat and drink for fun. No famine, that's a given. Pestilence? That'd take a hit for sure. Plenty of folks died from bad food and water. War? Majorly hit too. Food competition is out of the equation so all we fight over are things like natural resources. Not sure if oil would still cause problems. Death? Hard to say. Isn't aging caused by oxidization? Call an expert in.
Most of what I'm writing about has already been written elsewhere. The difference is that I'm piecing it all together for myself from places like books and modern media.
The grand objective remains. This perhaps brings in a third need.
Love.
Some freedoms aren't as good as others. Heh, the freedom to choose freedoms, now that's a good one. All freedoms have limits. Bush said there ought to be limits to freedom. Not sure if he was joking, but there are.
You've the freedom of your time up to when you get hungry or thirsty. Then you lose a freedom to your body. This one loss starts the domino effect. You have to go find food and/or water (usually water).
What would life be like if we didn't need food or water? Now that I think about it Jesus said a lot about bread and water.
Let's say you could still eat and drink for fun. No famine, that's a given. Pestilence? That'd take a hit for sure. Plenty of folks died from bad food and water. War? Majorly hit too. Food competition is out of the equation so all we fight over are things like natural resources. Not sure if oil would still cause problems. Death? Hard to say. Isn't aging caused by oxidization? Call an expert in.
Most of what I'm writing about has already been written elsewhere. The difference is that I'm piecing it all together for myself from places like books and modern media.
The grand objective remains. This perhaps brings in a third need.
Love.
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