Freedom.....
>>Freedom is choice. It can also be refraining from choice. But that in itself is a choice to allow events to take their course. On the one hand, the more events take their course, the more we are subject to fate, and therefore not free. On the other hand, the more we choose,the more we determine our destiny, but also settle things, and foreclose some options. If I am in Annapolis, I cannot go to the Louvre, but I have to be somewhere, I cannot be everywhere or even nowhere. Thus, I only have as much freedom as I have available options at any given time. Freedom is always conditional........>>
Neocon:
Let's give freedom it's full honor.
Freedom is limitless.
There really is NO limit to the choices we can make and the resulting destiny that evolves from those choices.
Freedom is never conditional. It's always ON, in the background. NO LIMITS. Timeless. You can't define, touch, freedom. But you can "feel" it and appreciate it.
Choice, on the other hand is conditional and only limited by the extent to which there are options to chose from.
Even if there are limited options to chose from, this is no way limits/restricts our freedom to do anything we want. If I have chosen to be in Chicago, the fact that I have chosen Chicago doesn't restrict or conditionalize my freedom to go to Paris. I CAN go to Paris, but I must chose. I can't have it both ways. Choices that embrace actions have to be made.
My only limits are those I impose on myself or those which I allow or accept that others impose on me.
My freedom to chose may be limitless, but the actual power of choice becomes a reflection of my belief and faith.
If my belief and faith is limited, that doesn't take anything away from my core limitless power to chose. It's just that I'm not willing to embrace and reflect that power through belief and faith.
And if this comes across as a second spin cycle that just means that this thread is beginning to rub off on me too much.
I'm in defiance of the phrase "you can never have too much of a good thing."
Peace.
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