Topic: Are you FREE? - page 2. (Read 1773 times)
I am free from studies
Vaguely, but with the awareness that that "freedom" could be taken away at the drop of a hat. The prison industry is one of the biggest money makers in the US, along with that the powers-that-be have a hard-on for getting everyone into the system via misdemeanors and felonies - I recently stopped and thought about how many people I know have been arrested at some point in their life - and these are regular, "middle class" types I'm talking about - when I was growing-up in the 70s/early 80s it would have been unheard of to hear so-and-so's wife or mom down the street being arrested and thrown-on probation but now, so many have dwi's, pot or recreational drug charges, various misdemeanors, especially in post-9/11 - "Patriot" Act America...it is crazy.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now
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Fear makes for easy politics. It both wins votes and primes us to give government more power at the expense of personal liberty. And that's certainly true when it comes to crime. With the possible exception of an incumbent mayor, politicians only benefit from exaggerating the threat of violent crime. Senators, Congressmen, and even governors are rarely held responsible when the crime rate goes up. But they do win votes by proposing new powers for police and prosecutors to bring it down.
The result has been a one-way ratchet effect on crime policy. We're perpetually expanding police and prosecutorial power, a process only occasionally slowed by the courts. Congress and state legislatures rarely take old criminal statutes off the books, but they're always adding new ones. A 2008 report from the Heritage Foundation estimates that at the federal level alone, Congress has been adding about 55 new crimes to the federal criminal code each year since the 1980s. There are now about 4,500 separate federal crimes. And that doesn't include federal regulations, which are increasingly being enforced with criminal, not administrative, penalties. It also doesn't include the increasing leeway with which prosecutors can enforce broadly written federal conspiracy, racketeering, and money laundering laws. And this is before we even get to the states' criminal codes.
In his new book, the Boston-based civil liberties advocate and occasional Reason contributor Harvey Silverglate estimates that in 2009, the average American commits about three federal felonies per day. And yet, we aren’t a nation of degenerates. On the contrary, most social indicators have been moving in a positive direction for a generation. Silverglate argues we're committing these crimes unwittingly. The federal criminal code has become so vast and open to interpretation, Silverglate argues, that a U.S. Attorney can find a way to charge just about anyone with violating federal law. In fact, it's nearly impossible for some business owners to comply with one federal regulation without violating another one. We're no longer governed by laws, we're governed by the whims of lawyers.
The result has been a one-way ratchet effect on crime policy. We're perpetually expanding police and prosecutorial power, a process only occasionally slowed by the courts. Congress and state legislatures rarely take old criminal statutes off the books, but they're always adding new ones. A 2008 report from the Heritage Foundation estimates that at the federal level alone, Congress has been adding about 55 new crimes to the federal criminal code each year since the 1980s. There are now about 4,500 separate federal crimes. And that doesn't include federal regulations, which are increasingly being enforced with criminal, not administrative, penalties. It also doesn't include the increasing leeway with which prosecutors can enforce broadly written federal conspiracy, racketeering, and money laundering laws. And this is before we even get to the states' criminal codes.
In his new book, the Boston-based civil liberties advocate and occasional Reason contributor Harvey Silverglate estimates that in 2009, the average American commits about three federal felonies per day. And yet, we aren’t a nation of degenerates. On the contrary, most social indicators have been moving in a positive direction for a generation. Silverglate argues we're committing these crimes unwittingly. The federal criminal code has become so vast and open to interpretation, Silverglate argues, that a U.S. Attorney can find a way to charge just about anyone with violating federal law. In fact, it's nearly impossible for some business owners to comply with one federal regulation without violating another one. We're no longer governed by laws, we're governed by the whims of lawyers.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now
im not free....very bussy... 
I am too busy always
Please make your question clear first.
feer is the degerous thing if you are love it ,bacause I don't belive good luck born with the feer
free from what? yes im free now because i dont have any partner.
Do you feel free?
yes ! free and single! it's good I like a lot
Yes I am feeling free
first you gotta define "free" and "freedom" because everybody sees and feels it differently.
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
Your feeling of being free is artificial. But, if you didn't feel free, but felt enslaved, that would be artificial as well.
Nobody is free except in one tiny area. That area has to do with how much faith in God he is freely willing to let himself have. Then, God takes the faith and adjusts all of life, including thinking, to match the faith of the person.
Sounds like god has a faithometer and heaven is hierarchical just like here. cool! can't wait... more enslavement.
Enslavement is here, not in Heaven. You are a slave to needing air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, etc. Yet, because of the way you are built, those enslaving properties are the things that give you freedom if you have them.
You don't have the freedom to simply jump to the moon. But isn't this a good thing? Think of how many dead people there would be if we all had the ability to jump to the moon. People would die from exposure to the hostile environment of space. So, not having the freedom to jump to the moon is more like having the freedom to live a while longer.
Once you understand what freedom really is, then you might start to consider that cause and effect controls EVERY LAST THING IN YOUR LIFE, even your thinking, and the thing that you call free will. Way down deep in your soul, God has provide you with a touch of freedom. The only thing that you do in your freedom area is to decide on how strongly you are in favor of God. God controls the rest through cause and effect, based on your faith in Him, and, since He made everything, His free will which is truly free.
No
Do you feel free?
Im a worker not a free man like a boss
Somebody with deep pockets please take Gambino up on his offer. Gleb?
Yes i am free, and will always free
Yes, i am free and i can do what i want, but than i will answer for it for sure.
Do you feel free?
I feel free even tho I don't have any real bucks that are disposable, I feel free because I can do in my life whatever I want and I am not limited by anyone, ANYONE! That's the freedom of being anonymous, I can say anything to anyone, none can mock me, none can kill me, none can do anything to me.
I run I2VPN only to spread this freedom in clearnet.
first you gotta define "free" and "freedom" because everybody sees and feels it differently.
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
Your feeling of being free is artificial. But, if you didn't feel free, but felt enslaved, that would be artificial as well.
Nobody is free except in one tiny area. That area has to do with how much faith in God he is freely willing to let himself have. Then, God takes the faith and adjusts all of life, including thinking, to match the faith of the person.
Sounds like god has a faithometer and heaven is hierarchical just like here. cool! can't wait... more enslavement.
first you gotta define "free" and "freedom" because everybody sees and feels it differently.
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
and to answer your questions, yes i do feel completely free. even though i have a day job my time is super flexible and i don't feel babysitted
Your feeling of being free is artificial. But, if you didn't feel free, but felt enslaved, that would be artificial as well.
Nobody is free except in one tiny area. That area has to do with how much faith in God he is freely willing to let himself have. Then, God takes the faith and adjusts all of life, including thinking, to match the faith of the person.
I'm not free
I would like to sell the space on my forehead for tattoo advertising for 10 BTC per year
I would like to sell the space on my forehead for tattoo advertising for 10 BTC per year
I feel good. and free
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