And now for a few words… (Part one)…on the idea of freedom I know of but one freedom… and that is freedom of (ones) own mind. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves Humanity is free at the moment it wishes to be Humans fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves Liberty means responsibility. That is why most humans dread it Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err Freedom is an illusion. A state of mind that created by a species that has this thing we call reason. As such we automatically think we are better than others, not just the animals, but those around us. Not as good looking, as smart, as successful, as rich. Our freedom has cost us connection. We say we fight for freedom, yes, but we most often mean we fight for our idea of what that means. Is that wrong? Is that right? That is for you to decide. The moment one thinks about their idea of free… another is repressed…. and the cycle continues.
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And now for a few words… (Part one)
…on the idea of freedom

I know of but one freedom… and that is freedom of (ones) own mind.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Humanity is free at the moment it wishes to be

Humans fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most humans dread it

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err


Freedom is an illusion. A state of mind that created by a species that has this thing we call reason. As such we automatically think we are better than others, not just the animals, but those around us. Not as good looking, as smart, as successful, as rich. Our freedom has cost us connection. We say we fight for freedom, yes, but we most often mean we fight for our idea of what that means. Is that wrong? Is that right? That is for you to decide.

The moment one thinks about their idea of free… another is repressed…. and the cycle continues.

A Poem By Any Other Name. (Spells a recipe for disaster?)… The great Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Vision of Sin” contains this couplet: “Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born”. Well not to get too picky but actually According to the Population Reference Bureau’s “2010 World Population Data Sheet” 1.8 people die every second, 108 a minute and 4.45 people are born every second worldwide or 267 a minute, on the average. While most western nations (and a few Asian ie Korea, Taiwan and Japan), are stagnant or in decline, other areas are not. Africa alone is expected to DOUBLE (perhaps more depending if they can get the birth rate down faster… NOTE TO THE CHURCH (you know, that entity that is run by people without vaginas)… BIRTH CONTROL IS NOT A BAD THING and if you REALLY understood the big picture and REALLY cared about the human race as a whole ,…and women’s rights…, you would see that… but I digress….) its population by the year 2050 to 2,000,000,000!! ……….. Doesn’t have quite the same poetic ring to it, does it?!
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A Poem By Any Other Name. (Spells a recipe for disaster?)…

The great Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Vision of Sin” contains this couplet:

“Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born”.

Well not to get too picky but actually According to the Population Reference Bureau’s “2010 World Population Data Sheet” 1.8 people die every second, 108 a minute and 4.45 people are born every second worldwide or 267 a minute, on the average. While most western nations (and a few Asian ie Korea, Taiwan and Japan), are stagnant or in decline, other areas are not. Africa alone is expected to DOUBLE (perhaps more depending if they can get the birth rate down faster… NOTE TO THE CHURCH (you know, that entity that is run by people without vaginas)… BIRTH CONTROL IS NOT A BAD THING and if you REALLY understood the big picture and REALLY cared about the human race as a whole ,…and women’s rights…, you would see that… but I digress….) its population by the year 2050 to 2,000,000,000!!

……….. Doesn’t have quite the same poetic ring to it, does it?!

A Dose of Sanity… Part Nine When I watch the debate in the United States on their “taking heads” news shows about the issue of contraceptives and religious medical institutions having to provide them under their health care plan, and I see the leaders of religions (oddly enough it seems they are all men doing the talking for both sexes), equating it to the slippery slope of Nazi Germany, the persecution of the Church, and other such sensationalists ramblings I can’t help but think of that spoiled one-child-in-the-family-syndrome. Use to getting what they want in their own way in life, and when one thing does not go their way, they scream… “Persecution!!!!, why are you not listening to me”?. To say that the Catholic Church (and religion in general) in the United States is under attack is like saying the United States has an inferior military. In fact the two seem the perfect metaphor for each other. Both are larger, have more control, power, money and influence than the combined (for the church) thoughts (for the military) forces of the next fifteen (or more) behind them…. and both are constantly saying how much they never have enough and are always under attack. Is not crying about someone trying to push their values on you while you are using the exact same tatics in your argument against theirs (but saying yours is “different… because it is gods laws”) strange to only me? Silly, silly humans. For a country that is constantly on the guard and pointing out the zealots of other nations in their religious ideologies, it seems many a person there turn a blind eye to their own. ……Or maybe that is just the perception of a person whom does not live there and can see outside “the bubble”
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A Dose of Sanity… Part Nine

When I watch the debate in the United States on their “taking heads” news shows about the issue of contraceptives and religious medical institutions having to provide them under their health care plan, and I see the leaders of religions (oddly enough it seems they are all men doing the talking for both sexes), equating it to the slippery slope of Nazi Germany, the persecution of the Church, and other such sensationalists ramblings I can’t help but think of that spoiled one-child-in-the-family-syndrome. Use to getting what they want in their own way in life, and when one thing does not go their way, they scream… “Persecution!!!!, why are you not listening to me”?.

To say that the Catholic Church (and religion in general) in the United States is under attack is like saying the United States has an inferior military. In fact the two seem the perfect metaphor for each other. Both are larger, have more control, power, money and influence than the combined (for the church) thoughts (for the military) forces of the next fifteen (or more) behind them…. and both are constantly saying how much they never have enough and are always under attack.

Is not crying about someone trying to push their values on you while you are using the exact same tatics in your argument against theirs (but saying yours is “different… because it is gods laws”) strange to only me? Silly, silly humans.

For a country that is constantly on the guard and pointing out the zealots of other nations in their religious ideologies, it seems many a person there turn a blind eye to their own.

……Or maybe that is just the perception of a person whom does not live there and can see outside “the bubble”