2007-10-06 07:07:29 · 16 answers · asked by -:¦:-SKY-:¦:- 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hmm beautiful question...I don't think it has a right or wrong answer so I agree and disagree.
When you've lost everything and I do mean everything you can be free because there's pretty much nothing left for you to loose...at this point though...you'd probably be dead...after all you've lost everything. If you believe in life after death it gets a bit tricksy...I guess if your soul goes to heaven then you're free...living in eternal happiness and joy...if your soul goes to hell then it's gonna be tormented eternally...and there's no real freedom in being tormented.
Very beautiful question I'd love to see how a philosopher answers it.
2007-10-06 11:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by Lucky 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one at any point in life has nothing to loose. There is always life itself and our future that may hold remarkable things that we can not imagine at the sp-ace and time we are at now. Therefore, being "free" in a worldy sense is illusive.
Humans have a deep desire to be free. We were born that way, it's natural. Freedom is not only a state of mind, it is a state of soul & spirit. It is the complete confidence that one has hope for their lives.
One of the worst ways to have our freedom taken away is to be put in jail. I can tell you about 2 men who were beaten almost to death and then thrown in a rat infested dungon where they were chained to the wall. Yet they were more free than so many of people walking around in the world living their lives doing exactly as they please, being free Americans.
How did they have this freedom? Well, they began to sing! Not just any random song. They began to sing to the Lord. When one has been given the free gift of hope from God, no one can take that away. Not even if chained up and left to die. We are always free, no matter what life brings.
God made us with this desire to be free. And true freedom can only be found by giving our lives, the life that he gave to us, right back to him.
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2007-10-06 14:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by cookie_time 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This sounds very true. If you do have something that you do not want to lose then it means you will then have to act to keep it. Kind of like being chained to it in a way.
An example would be people who have families would be less likely to act in a way that would put themselves at risk than a person who does not have a family. They would put up with more injustices than a unattached person for the preservation of family.
Maybe this is why many people who go "postal" are often referred to by others later on as...."he was such a nice quite guy, living alone, staying to himself most of the time...."
Nothing to lose doesn't have to be bad either, people could be more likely to travel the world or invent something.
2007-10-06 14:15:56 · answer #3 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, so I guess this isn't a free country after all. =P
If we have nothing else to lose besides our own life then I agree. But nobody knows for sure about what happens when we die, so I'm not sure if that's completely true. For all we know, we might not even have souls and that sightings are just the trick of the eye or the light + relflection of the camera.
2007-10-06 14:46:35 · answer #4 · answered by Rawr! :O 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree
2007-10-06 16:40:27 · answer #5 · answered by 12345 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very close but not quite. You have to be willing to risk the loss of something and not be concerned if you do. You can still have material possesions and be free, you just can't be too attached to them.
Freedom is a state of mind more than it is a measure of your material possesions one way or the other.
If (Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
2007-10-06 14:29:42 · answer #6 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and luckily for us having nothing to lose is a state of mind more than it is literally having possessions or not. If you're attached to your items and circumstances then you have things to lose. When you can look at everything around you as a bonus to your own existence, that's a very good feeling of freedom and you'll notice that by the joy that you feel so strongly from it.
2007-10-06 14:16:15 · answer #7 · answered by Answerer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I may agree that you can only be free, and feel free, when you get what your really strongly wanted to get. When you have got what you wanted to get, and you have it with you, then you may feel free and corroborated, and you may even be happy, and you think of no loss and you think of no need.
When you have with you that which your really wanted to have, and you are fulfilled up to the point that you do not think at all, no thought at all, you are fully inundated of a glowing dazzling atmosphere of blisfulness, and you do not think of loss, and you do not think of willing to have more, you do not think at all, you are fulfilled, you have, that's the perfect, the utmost free fulfilment.
2007-10-06 14:42:05 · answer #8 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree as even then you have desire to get something. You are only free when you are free from your passions. You do not love or hate somebody. You do not envy somebody and similarly you are free from all passions.
2007-10-06 14:16:20 · answer #9 · answered by ashok 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Janis and Bob Dylan had it right... I apply it to possessions and responsibilities. If I didn't have to worry about acquiring possessions and if I didn't create responsibilities for myself then I could live my life freely.
2007-10-06 14:10:46 · answer #10 · answered by nothingconstant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋