david_mancuso
11-21-2007, 01:47 PM
Do you really believe that you are free? Do you? Tell me exactly how you are free. Do you decide if your country goes to war or not? Do you decide where your tax money goes? Do you decide the wages your politicians should get? Do you decide their perks? Do you decide their domestic and foreign policies? Do you decide if you want them to tap your phone line? Do you decide to have CCTV or not? Do you decide whether your children are vaccinated or not? Do you decide whether the media should be a monopoly or not? Do you decide whether they should tell you the truth or not? Do you decide what candidates run for president or not? Do you decide the shadow power structure? Do you decide who sits at the top of international institutions like the world bank or the IMF? Do you decide what interest rates should be charged? Do you decide what bank rates? Do you decide what the value of the dollar should be and who should print it? What do you decide?
But then again this is a global situation. America is just a piece of the chess game.
-free is as free does........
believe you are free = free
no believe = no free
believe ------> :)
:( <----- no believe
Nobody has access to me. Nobody has access to my memories, my experiences, my ups and downs. Nobody knows what its like to be inside my head. Nobody can touch my core without love and certainly without my permission. That is enough for me. Its all I need to work out what I need to achieve in order to move on. I choose to remain alive in a world that challenges and that persistently tests my ability to love, understand and feel compassion. I seek out knowledge, information and undergo an informal sort of education. I choose to do this because an education is something nobody can steal. I have my imagination and no matter what I do, I get to live inside that part of me which no technology on earth can transmit effectively.
That is the extent of my freedom, but the way I see it - its quite a lot of freedom. Everything else that happens all around me is outside my sphere of control. I can't help what the world decides to do...I can only help myself by being in control of my reactions. Yeah all that other stuff exists, but with an education and a bit of perseverance you just work with it. Green energy is there to flow and be spent. The material is the greatest trap you'll ever encounter. If it holds you, then you will never be free.
But its all a matter of perception.
But then again this is a global situation. America is just a piece of the chess game.
-free is as free does........
believe you are free = free
no believe = no free
believe ------> :)
:( <----- no believe
Nobody has access to me. Nobody has access to my memories, my experiences, my ups and downs. Nobody knows what its like to be inside my head. Nobody can touch my core without love and certainly without my permission. That is enough for me. Its all I need to work out what I need to achieve in order to move on. I choose to remain alive in a world that challenges and that persistently tests my ability to love, understand and feel compassion. I seek out knowledge, information and undergo an informal sort of education. I choose to do this because an education is something nobody can steal. I have my imagination and no matter what I do, I get to live inside that part of me which no technology on earth can transmit effectively.
That is the extent of my freedom, but the way I see it - its quite a lot of freedom. Everything else that happens all around me is outside my sphere of control. I can't help what the world decides to do...I can only help myself by being in control of my reactions. Yeah all that other stuff exists, but with an education and a bit of perseverance you just work with it. Green energy is there to flow and be spent. The material is the greatest trap you'll ever encounter. If it holds you, then you will never be free.
But its all a matter of perception.