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Hyroglyphx
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Message 92 of 300 (344526)
08-28-2006 11:20 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
08-26-2006 8:42 PM


Half-baked ideas
I have not experienced true freedom once, in my life. I have been under something that seems free, that people tell me is free, that schools teach is free, that media forces onto me as free. Should I have to settle for such freedom? For the seemingly free? For "the best that there is yet", for systems that are designed to keep me thinking that I am truly free? For propaganda, and wars all centered on essentially maintaining our "free" system, the "free" way of things. If I was to be truly free, things would be different.
Your post seemed a bit emo/anti-establishment and there was alot of unrealistic hope, the kind of misdirected hope that one has when he's now in college and feels as though the entire world is a giant facade and that he's unique in that he's just the kind of genius that can bring us out of our drab existence. Your proposals called for the eradication of any and all moorings that keep people free from tyranny. You've basically expressed the propagation of an anarchistic society that can never work because it requires all people to follow your particular brand of hippy justice. The world just doesn't operate like that. It seems to me that you want to live with total impunity, not that you lament for your fellow man who is free, but not really.
Edited by nemesis_juggernaut, : typos

“It is in vain, O' man, that you seek within yourselves the cure for all your miseries. All your insight has led you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good.” -Blaise Pascal

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 112 of 300 (344851)
08-29-2006 6:52 PM
Reply to: Message 103 by joshua221
08-29-2006 2:45 PM


Dreamworlds
It's hard for someone who has been desensitized by the system to think outside of it, I am in an ideal position it seems to present my ideas, to all of whom have entered it already.
Well, Neo, in the real world which has actual consequences attatched to our decisions. You seem to have irritated just about everyone with your arrogance. Are we all just desensitized by the system and you are the budding genius that sees beyond our capacity or is it that you might not have a grasp on the real world? You make life seem like its a warm, gentle breeze when its anything but.
Although I am sure that I could design a well developed society without the horrible elements that exist within modern society, that was not at all the point of my first post.
So, you honestly think that you've thought of a system devoid of pitfalls that have gripped all nations in every era? You think you've cornered the market on a system that no one has ever thought of? Could you lay out your master plan for us?

“It is in vain, O' man, that you seek within yourselves the cure for all your miseries. All your insight has led you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good.” -Blaise Pascal

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 114 of 300 (344854)
08-29-2006 6:57 PM
Reply to: Message 107 by jar
08-29-2006 3:44 PM


Re: Question to Evc
Hint: There is a purpose in there but so far it seems unlikely you will find it.
That was pretty cool Jar. I barely saw it.
Edited by nemesis_juggernaut, : No reason given.

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