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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Sun May 5, 2013, 09:41 PM May 2013

America: Where we are “free”...



... to barely scrape by at next to slave wages with no time of our own as the fat cats fatten up feasting off our government.

But hey…we are FREE god damnit ’cause we got us some guns!!!

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America: Where we are “free”... (Original Post) SHRED May 2013 OP
Freedom has many views! Newest Reality May 2013 #1
Oh, I like the Vernon Howard Quote... n/t Timbuk3 May 2013 #3
George had a point: Newest Reality May 2013 #2

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Freedom has many views!
Sun May 5, 2013, 10:08 PM
May 2013

Last edited Sun May 5, 2013, 11:47 PM - Edit history (1)

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no.


I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis


You have to live with your ideas and suffer. There is no way out for you. If somebody says there is a way out, go there. Stand on your head; stand on your shoulders; hang from the tree; meditate – do what you like – misery continues. That is adding yet another misery. What are you? You are miserable. You are a sitting misery, walking misery, talking misery, living misery. You want to get out of that misery. You are choked. What is it that is choking you, destroying the very thing that you want? It is all those human values and all the good things. You want freedom, and that is killing you. To be free from the very demand to be free is all that you have to do. That is not easy. - U.G. Krishnamurti


Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Vernon Howard


Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. George had a point:
Sun May 5, 2013, 10:22 PM
May 2013
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
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