Picture, passage or quote: Freedom

[Lark]

I've seen this done on other forums and even on facebook media by the BBC, can you illustrate what you believe is meant by freedom using a picture, a passage or citation or a quote?

I think if this works then it'd be possible to create threads with other topics too, such as equality, liberty, fraternity, socialism, liberalism, conservatism, fascism, communism, ecologism etc.

 

[Gaze]

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personal freedom

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_freedom.html#VptI0Oeqouw4RWkb.99​

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do what we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
- Peter Marshall

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_freedom.html#VptI0Oeqouw4RWkb.99​

 

[Barnabas]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[say what]

**Disclaimer: I think activities like this change daily for me. What I think if freedom one day, might be a source of restraint another! So, these pictures represent what I think freedom is today **

 

[Eventhorizon]

 

[Lark]

And the citation is psalm 22

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ADgK#v=onepage&q=psalm 22 erich fromm&f=false

I'm linking this for the appendix: Psalm 22 and The Passion, it is a good, short explanation of why its significant at all.

The images are the all seeing eye of God, some books because I think freedom to print and read what you want is pretty important and some battered black pudding, because freedom to eat crazy crap is freedom too.

 

[Lark]

One thing I wonder too, is it possible to conceive of "unfreedom" or the opposite of freedom more easily than freedom itself? Why should that be the case? Also what do you consider more important than freedom? Do you think that certain freedoms should and are forfeit purely by virtue of social attitudes and do you think that's a good or a bad thing?

 

[say what]

I think sometimes it's easier to identify our constraints than it is to feel truly free.

I'm not sure what I think is greater than freedom- for me, I think freedom means different things to different people. It reminds me of that scene from the Matrix where the guy just wants to be able to taste the steak again and be happy- to him, being happy is worth more than his freedom.

Who's to say that freedom is the ultimate thing to strive for? In some respects I think if I was truly happy, and yet not free...I would be content with that!

 

[sprinkles]

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Freedom is a strong spirit. But freedom needs guidance. Some times freedom doesn't want the guidance and becomes the poison dragon. Beautiful but also tragic and destructive.