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Posted on 07/06/2009 8:59:32 PM PDT by johns777

What is the value of choosing to believe anything without being open to other possibilities?

If being open to other possibilities is the primary requirement to learning and I choose to believe something without being open to other possibilities, then have I voluntarily limited my ability to learn?

Is there awareness without contrast?

If one was born in a fragrant garden, lived their whole life in the garden and finally died in the garden would that one be aware of the fragrance?

May something be so common and pervasive that we may not be aware of it?

If something is 'normal', common and pervasive does that mean it may not be psychotic?

How does 'control' enhance 'liberty', 'freedom' or 'responsibility'?

If one considers controlling another a success then may we consider that one as being psychotic?


TOPICS: Education; Government; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: control; empowerment; freedom; liberty

1 posted on 07/06/2009 8:59:32 PM PDT by johns777
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To: johns777
Welcome to Free Republic.
2 posted on 07/06/2009 9:08:13 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: johns777
Blackstone of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (1753)
3 posted on 07/06/2009 9:40:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: smokingfrog
I get that we voluntarily agree to control for the benefit of civil liberty. However I feel like there is a psychotic control freak tyrant, who would be king, who intends to cram his religion of ‘climate change’ down my throat. I intend to die as a free person long before I live as a subject or slave.
4 posted on 07/16/2009 2:03:07 PM PDT by johns777
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To: johns777

Feeling very vanity-oriented today, are we?


5 posted on 08/14/2009 9:09:48 PM PDT by MarMema (Marxism is never about truth, it is about power)
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