@SeekingPlumb

Are we all slaves? If so, then what is freedom?

What's good and bad to live constrained inside pigeonholes or boxes of what is what should what ought to be versus this almost chaotic embracing of conflict war, the internal battle going on in the end, I can't say that I had any profound conclusions that came out of this stream of consciousness, of meandering

Slaves to our passions, The Man, a higher power. Conceptually, is slavery inescapable?

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Sreeja V
@WordsmithΒ Β·Β 1:30

Every experience only as a learning - joy of living

So if you look at each experience as a learning and move on, will we feel free? I loved the analogy that you gave about being able to appreciate the enemy and understand that the conflict is for a greater purpose, perhaps to take a few lessons from it and move on. But then there's the mind which keeps flitting like a butterfly between the past and present experiences and the future possible experience
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Hopeful & empowering. πŸ™πŸ» @wordsmith

Strisha, thank you so much for your reply. This sort of, like, flips things on its head for me, because when I think about, like, the slavery I was describing, it's more of a coming from a place of, like, victimhood. Right. But what you're describing sounds more like you're being placed or existing in this driver's seat with what I was describing, it felt inevitable. You were stuck inescapable trapped
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Caleb Paul
@tooshyΒ Β·Β 5:00

@SeekingPlumb

And when you're broken apart now you have the opportunity to become, to shine from inside. You know you got me thinking as well. About, like when caterpillars become butterfly, it's like there's another version of you waiting on the other side of you. Another version of it that is waiting after the storm. It's like you cannot be reborn. If you don't die, it's like you have to die to be reborn
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Thank you, @tooshy. You beautifully captured the blurred edges of freedom.

I have nothing to add to Shai. I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the analogies and the visuals you've presented. They encapsulate so well how blurred the lines are between the two. And for lack of a better phrase, not freedom. Anyway, I just want to say thank you for that. And I really enjoy listening to the crickets in the background. So thank you for that too
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Very interesting. @MerelyHuman

And what I mean is I don't know about your experience on the Internet, but it used to be in the olden days where you could repeatedly create a new persona and explore new things, new ideas without disrupting those around you, your friends and family. I feel like I've continued to grow and change throughout my life
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