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marybuko asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves." Is this true?

Quote is by Virginia Woolf.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Funny way of putting it, but yes. If you are not in control, the world will control you. In order to know freedom, you have to realize you are in prison. Once you notice that you are in prison, then and only then can you contemplate freedom. Then you have to control your desires and move your desires towards that which is true freedom. True freedom is not to be under the control of some government entity.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes, my friend.

    Having a freedom is a bless, not all could have one.

    See one recent news, 3 people achieved theirs after

    more than 2 decades being kept and locked away from

    us in a house.

    But then always remember, appreciate and use it wisely

    that freedom because enjoying it too much will sure kill

    you.

    Stay good and take care :)

  • 7 years ago

    Hello marybuko, yes to unknot the rope around the wood usually we put a strong knot around nearby. It would make the first knot in a loose state. Now unknot becomes so easy. In the same way as we have self discipline [only self not imposed by anyone] we get total freedom. Enjoy yourself dear. All the best

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    no many people have freedom and no self control and they seem to be enjoying just fine they don't want people with self control doing right they want people running around out there minds feeding every evil desire they have and destroying them selves that's why the problems we have will never be solved its like trying to clean up the trash and a big dump truck comes and just keeps dumping more and more they don't want us to be ok some are able to use the resources in this world like lawyers an such to bring some amount of civility into their life but not me its your world not mine

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  • 7 years ago

    Without self-control and discipline we become enslaved to our foibles and interiorised external factors and images. True freedom comes from bringing out what we truly want, not that which strikes our fancy at the time.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Freedom is a man'birth rights.Every man wants to live his own way.Freedom does not mean that any person can do recklessly what he wants.To lead a happy life,every man should control himself. To control one's is the quality of freedom.

  • 7 years ago

    To be your own master you have to control yourself in every way. Your enemies, the gut flora group, live in your intestines and the fungi and microbial worms live on your body in the form of dots and hair. Do you know that when your nose itch, it is because most of the hair that is in your nose is worm or other vermin tentacles dangling. When your nose itch, it is because the live microbes living in your nose want to use your hands to bring them smell and germs so they can eat. Any part of your skin that itches has a live microbe embedded in that area. So these enemies cause you to do vile things that is against your welfare in order to kill you. Your body is like a high rise apartment to them and they live crowded in each room.

    They make mankind crave for everything mankind sees. They even sell your relatives to the highest bidder for even a grain of food. They cause untold miseries not only to the host, you, but to the host's relatives. Do you know that every one you know that dies is deliberately killed by these vermin that live in them?

    But what is Freedom? Can anyone have freedom in an infected world like earth, that is ruled by vermin?

    The gut flora living in everyone's intestine is used by the vermin around you. In your house the vermin are there because of the gut flora. At night, your anal open to emit noxious gases to communicate with all vermin in your room. That is how the gut flora communicates with the vermin around them. Electricity in your body is used for gathering information via eyes, nose, mouth, and hands. You are controlled via electricity that your body makes by the gut flora living in your intestines and the vermin living on your body.

    Your only means of freedom is to keep yourself clean. Even then, the vermin will attack you to even make you become homeless in order to protect the nest that they put in you. Then you will find out that everyone is a zombie and the gut flora is the one ruling the infected planet via the vermin living around you. You will see that a fly is a disgusted enemy.

    Some people wake up and go back to sleep partying, drinking, and waiting to die. Some wake up and willingly serve the gut flora in exchange for power, which they can never have in the world of the infection because the infection doesn't recognize the host as one of its kind.

    But you can live doing what mankind was supposed to be doing: Clean your environment. live a clean life, make group of clean people to fight the infection. Money and metal are the two ways the infection travels or spun people daily to put them in sleepy mode. Therefore, be aware of that and disinfect yourself daily. You can observe cashiers if you want to at supermarket. You will see how the infection keep them zombified. The cashiers receive the filthy money from everyone and the gut flora uses the filthy hands of the cashiers to put germs on heir face, their hair, their clothes, their mouth, and even their genital area when they go to the bathroom. By the end of the day, a cashier put under a microscope would look like a swamp creature. If you have ever watched the movie "spawn", you would understand because the character "spawn" is an infected character.

    At least, living a clean life is a way to get back at the infection and let them know that we clean creatures are to be feared and not be abused by vermin. The infection is a thief, a hijacker, a prostitute, an entertainer, a priest, a homeless, a lamb, a cow, a relative, a father, a mother, a child, and everything on earth because of its ability to mimic. But the infection cannot be mammals because mammals are clean creature that can love, hate, cry, and feel. The infection cannot and that is how it is recognized even though camouflaged.

  • 7 years ago

    I see the aspect as true because if we control ourselves no one would have to do it for us. The myriad of laws upon laws would not be necessary to a populous that would control themselves.

  • Kira
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yes, you have to control yourself to keep from interfering with another persons freedom.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    freedom means nothing to stop you and obviously you can't walk through a tree so control is needed

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