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Originally posted by Aestheteka
reply to post by IAMIAM
You were not born free. None of us were.
We were born slaves, we live our lives as slaves and we die as slaves.
That is fact.
Originally posted by Aestheteka
reply to post by IAMIAM
Ah, now I understand.
Good luck with that freedom thing then.
As a servant of God.
Originally posted by Aestheteka
reply to post by IAMIAM
Isn't that like the blind leading the blind?
Doesn't the repeated usage of the word 'sheep' to describe the followers of God set off any alarm bells? Or the fact that he's addressed as 'Lord'?
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.... and all that.
I didn't mean to disrupt your thread. I'll leave you in peace to your beliefs.
Pax
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by IAMIAM
It is not other people's power that scares so many people, it is their own that scares the crap out of them.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by IAMIAM
I love you too, brother, but I think you've misread what I posted. Read it again.
Or, if I am incorrect in my assumption, the logical question would be, what is your problem with embracing personal power?
The problem with this statement my friend is that you are assuming that others have been given the same as what YOU have been given.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
I have made no such assumption. I am speaking to your threads title and question. I am suggesting that the greatest fear of freedom is the individuals unwillingness to trust the goodness in themselves. Instead, too many see in themselves something that cannot be trusted. They recognize their personal power, but they fear what they might do with it, so they fear freedom. In this regard, it is not other people's power that scares them as much as their own.
You are still doing it my friend. You cannot speak for anyone but yourself. You are using you's and they's where the question of the title is asking the individual.