Are you a man, or a slave?

Question

"A man chooses. A slave obeys" ~ Andrew Ryan

Answer 1

im a slave just realizing im a slave, and trying hard to become a man.

Answer 2

"A man chooses. A slave obeys" - all as it relates to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Yet God does not make us slaves (or servants). That choice is ours.
What boggles the mind is why anyone would not want to be a slave or servant of his.

Answer 3

HAHAHAHA... Tell Andrew Ryan he has created a False Dicotomy

I Beg to differ... a Man CHOOSES to OBEY, a slave is FORCED to OBEY.

Using your line (or Andrew Ryan's line,) of thinking...What happens to a Man when he chooses to obey? Does he cease to be a man?
OR
Is it the Highest aspiration of man to CHOOSE to follow?

Answer me THIS...
If your parents ask you to do something or NOT do something and you obey even though you selfishly want to do something else... are you their slave? - I would say you are being wise to choose to substitute your limited experience for theirs.


What about a soldier? He/She has chosen at some point to obey his/her superiors...right? -- Slave or Soldier?

I could go on and on with countless examples where these two things are NOT polar oppostes AND actually a good thing.

I think it is a NOBLE and UNSELFISH thing for a man to freely submits his will to his Country or King.
And in that line of reasoning.. then what could be nobler still then to submit your will to GOD, who is way better then any king or country.

Answer 4

Of all those born of woman none was greater then John the Baptist. so said Jesus. He was a man and a slave. He was a slave to God, and stood up to the ridicule of his day. He was a man. So to your question. A man chooses his master! To whom shall I serve?

Answer 5

Being the socially forward-thinking type I am, my slave is gender-neutral. It licks the swimming pool clean with its little blue rubber tongue. It's the only slave I have so far but I'm working on one I saw on TV: a beer fridge that senses your mood and turns itself into an espresso machine.

Answer 6

All men are slaves to something. Some to themselves, some to religion, but most importantly the ones that move and shake the World are:

Slaves to Freedom!

Answer 7

A free man chooses according to his desired form for his liberty, an enslaved man chooses to survive, therefore there is notion for a hope.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phba.htm

The Phenomenology of Mind

— B —
Self Consciousness

A: Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness:
Lordship and Bondage


Φ 188. This trial by death, however, cancels both the truth which was to result from it, and therewith the certainty of self altogether. For just as life is the natural “position” of consciousness, independence without absolute negativity, so death is the natural “negation” of consciousness, negation without independence, which thus remains without the requisite significance of actual recognition. Through death, doubtless, there has arisen the certainty that both did stake their life, and held it lightly both in their own case and in the case of the other; but that is not for those who underwent this struggle. They cancel their consciousness which had its place in this alien element of natural existence; in other words, they cancel themselves and are sublated as terms or extremes seeking to have existence on their own account. But along with this there vanishes from the play of change the essential moment, viz. that of breaking up into extremes with opposite characteristics; and the middle term collapses into a lifeless unity which is broken up into lifeless extremes, merely existent and not opposed. And the two do not mutually give and receive one another back from each other through consciousness; they let one another go quite indifferently, like things. Their act is abstract negation, not the negation characteristic of consciousness, which cancels in such a way that it preserves and maintains what is sublated, and thereby survives its being sublated.

Answer 8

A Man who is slave of God

Answer 9

Oh but everyone is a slave...

"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness" (Rom 6:16)

Answer 10

I am human and a slave only to evolution and not a slave because I can understand my evolution and move to change things I can see that are wrong,