Slavery is forever
___How little people understand, freedom is an illusion. A lie perpetrated by our goverment and many others for centuries. Freedom is a lie in that the supposed gaining of it enslaves oneself to oneself. We are a slave, at the beck and call of our own decisions. But freedom however illusionary cannot be bought, sold or stolen. One cannot be oppressed unless you accept oppression. A man could take your life and all you own but unless you accept defeat you are still free. It is as simple as that. In this way it would seem that it is not peasants but the kings that have the least freedom. They are bound to their decisions day and night, never able to escape. The peasant by converse lays the burden of thought on the leaders and is thus free of it, free to explore life through thought. It is of course true that the governed have the right to overthrow the governors when their freedoms are repressed but it is only by the oppressed accepting it that they are such, so the act of overthrowing the leading class can be done as simple as accepting the burdens layed on the governed class whatever they may be. Besides the obvious fact that the decison to gain freedom through the overthow of a leader brings about less freedom than is had merely by letting things be. These lost freedoms take the form of decision that need to be made on how to overthrow, when, and who to put in his place. And in doing so you enslave yourself to the pursuit of a freedom you never lost in the first place.
___The extent of this elaborate lie can be seen to almost its full extent in our own decleration of independance. The inaliable rights of man kind, as claimed by that sacred document, are life, liberty, and the pursute of happiness. But this could not be farther from the truth. No man has the right to his life, but no man has the right to take it. If you are drowning in the ocean what does the ocean care of your right to life. Liberty is reletive and varies person to person so cannot be seen as an inalienable right unless we are to accept the fact that all opinions are correct to their fullest extent. All this contradiction would lead to chaos untill all but one opinion remains and thus the freedom of your right to liberty and all other relatives has been determined for you, thus you are a slave to your own opinions. And lastly the pursuit of happiness, the essence of freedom. Their is no doubt that this is a right, but it is more than that, it is your soul, it is freedom itself. As long as your brain still function you retain the ability to pursue happiness, but that does not mean you can achieve it and that is where the misconception arises. Many believe that their rights are supressed when they cannot achieve the happiness they so desire but happiness can almost be described as the pusuit of it. We are in a constant strugle to maintain a balanance between wanting and having. To want is to strive to have, but to have is to forsake our want, thus the reason for drug addictions. They can be had without a permanent attachment. So we are slaves to a decision between what we have and what we want and a slave to the decision itself. The cure comes from within not without. When the foolish feel their rights are infringed when they have not achieve their happiness they seek a physical reprimand. The truth is that it is a matter of achieving a want for what you have. The absolute of this is to want what you have when you have nothing and thus you achieve happiness and perhaps the freedom that so eludes many today.
___Your soul is free from birth and no one but you can change that. Those that are too earth oriented fear the loss of a freedom that cannot be lost. The loss of physical things which ultimatly amount to naught do not take with them your freedom. Physical things in fact reduce your freedom by the decisions they bring with them. Decisions cloud and tangle you freedom when it doesnt have to be so, so long as you understand that you will sucumb to a decision. When you are hungry you eat, but many would starve trying to make a decision between two foods they love. For that reason do people give up their burdens for a dose of freedom by relying on another source for thought. Thus to achive complete freedom one doesnt free himself from all people and live aloof of them but place all faith in them or even greater, a cause. By accepting a cause such as the pursuit of absolut freedom, pehaps the only true and pure pursuit, to make your decisions you free you mind from the burden and loss of freedom of those decisions without forcing another to surrender their freedoms to both their own and your decisions. But some would accept those burdens for the freedom of those they lead. Perhaps a noble pursuit but gives rise to the desire for more responsibility and decison making power, which in turn becomes the desire for power itself. A leader therfore is enslaved by all the decisions that entail the pursuit of power and ultimately happiness through that power and thus cannot achieve it. You can now understand how power corrupts. The drive to achive happiness leads many down a never ending path of despair wether or not those following it see it as such. Allow your cause or, if you must, your leader, whatever form it may take be it a single person or a commity of many, to make your decisions and free your mind, achive peace, and ultimatley happiness.
___The the truth boils down to one fact. You already have your freedom and not a thing in this universe can take it away from you without your consent.
___"I would rather be a slave than a king."
-Vyktrius
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Originally Posted by vikingsiddhu
