2007-05-26 02:57:24 · 9 answers · asked by abc 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Most of the answers so far reflect the propaganda that has been spread throughout the US.
People only have control over you if you allow them.
2007-05-26 03:24:44 · update #1
Freedom is like a garden. You are free to do as you wish in the garden. However, if you do not work in the garden then surely it will be overwrought with weeds and there affecting your state of mind. Weed out by the choices you make and you will find a healthy state of mind and a nuturing garden!
2007-05-26 03:25:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello:
Your question has many implications, more than I can address in this forum, but I will cover what I can.
To be able to make most of our own decisions and carry them out without fear of repression is the result of living in a culture that supports such.
We must support the culture that supports us. Otherwise, other cultures that support harsh limits on their people would be able to dismantle ours and institute theirs.
We are free to support any culture we choose. Therefore, if we wish to live in the USA we must support it or it vanishes. We can choose to leave this country and live in another country and support its culture instead.
THAT IS FREEDOM!
As for 'state of mind having value'.
State of mind is the place in which we actually reside. We live in our thoughts, all the rest is only the environment which allows us the opportuinity to take care of our bodies.
We share our thoughts and influence each other with our thoughts continually. The shape of our world is formed by our thougths as we share them.
There is nothing more valuable than our thoughts.
Regards,
Tree Man
2007-05-26 03:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by Tree Man 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is freedom not free? How can a state of mind have value?
Both questions assume you are a thing.
First question: "Things" must be controlled by a higher order in order to be "civilized."
Second question: "Things" exist among other reason to be analyzed by higher order. Thus a higher order will assign value to different states of mind.
Both of these perspectives are hokum. You and each of us are made of value. Our culture completely overlooks this fact and must substitute materialism or thing-ism in place of the self perceived as value. Value is totally dynamic, seeking and giving gratification to self and all other values and in the process creating a human reality according to our genuine nature.
First understanding: Because of ignorance we a forced into the compromise of pursuing an ideal, that is, freedom. Freedom can never be realized or even understood because it is an unreal visualization for the benefit of "things."
Second understanding: The higher order in question routinely assigns value to "things." Being materialistic and continuing to hide its ignorance about the oversight, the higher order must assign value to "things" because value is a meaningful term. The revealing thing about value is value does not exist where materialism places it. It exists in the choice to assign, that is, in the person who speaks the word.
"How can a state of mind have value" is a question revealing the ignorance of the asker. The mind is the display of value both to yield and partake of it. Enjoy it!
2007-05-26 03:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by Wizard 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a wonderful question!
My first thoughts are that there are different kinds of freedom. Political freedom, religious freedom, freedom of choice, etc., but I agree with your comment that it is a state of mind. That's one kind of freedom. In my mind, I have complete freedom--to think what I want, be who I want to be, imagine what I want to imagine. The only cost to my freedom of mind is within me.
I guess the other kinds of freedom are more rights--permissions that others give, or allow, you to have. Those, come at a price--either paid by others or yourself.
2007-05-26 03:10:13 · answer #4 · answered by dashelamet 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because even freedom has it's price. You are paying for protection from being overtaken by a larger source or being thrown in jail. You are free as long as you pay for that right. And that is only available in some countries and from what I hear about them, what you're paying is probably a bargin.
2007-05-26 03:02:23 · answer #5 · answered by wscarpelli@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
freedom is not free because it was never free to begin with.
we are mental slaves. you are most free in your dreams by the looks of it. and value is only added by the human being the value of an object or idea is placed by humans, who are they to say gold, diamonds, your big screen tv, your ikea furniture, the land your house is on, your house, etc... is really worth that much?
and by giving into all that material SHlT we enslave ourselves
there for putting a price on our freedom.
its a fuked up place we live in, but we did it to ourselves.
2007-05-26 03:19:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing" - That's freedom. One never has to pay for it. (Freedom is indeed free..)
Freedom is anything but a state of mind... It is a state of being. Being independent, individual... jus' being free.
2007-05-26 06:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by Wrackspurt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
freedom is not a state of mind it is a state of being, one that must be fought to maintain because frankly other eople dont neccesarily want you to be in that state of mind. therefore in order to be free you must pay the price of defending your freedom and by this logic freedom is not free.
2007-05-26 03:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by michael n 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
State of mind is everything.
2007-05-26 03:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by bountyhunter101 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋