freedom silentbob choice the ability of being vulnerable but not afraid Expression The right to choose between Coke or Pepsi, Mars or Earth, Red or Blue, Syphillis or AIDS pretty soon the only differences between people will be what their addictions and obsessions are. 010125 ... guitar_freak sad but true 010204 ... soia if this country is so fucking free then I'll burn the flag whenever I damn well please 010205 ... unhinged aaaahhh nothing is underlined here....allow me to be neurotic for a moment. i think the red color excites me a little bit too much. 010307 ... dB Until you destroy all boundries, and kill your very shadow, you will never truly be free. 010307 ... dB Actually, you know whatws really weird? You take away people shackles, and throw them on the ground. You say to them "You are no longer bound. You are your own. You are free!" And they just mill around for a while, and start trying to fix their shackles. Such is the way of humans. You complain and complain, then when freedom is finally delivered, you don't leave the cell. Rather you try to make your own lock so you don't have to come out. Total madness. 010307 ... mikey freedom is a hope. and hope is when it will never happen or come to pass so hope is a semi tangible thing to cling onto. TINSTAAFL 010308 ... quotree "It is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable." _Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins 020707 ... belly fire "O Lord of the feathers, deliver me this day. After a lifetime caged away from flight and truth, comes freedom. After long seasons of slow preparation for an innocent death, the world is theirs at last. From the carnivores that would tear me, breast from wishbone. "This is what he leaves to the world: grey and scarlet feathers strewn over the damp grass. Only this and nothing more, the tell-tale heart, tale of the carnivore. None of what he was taught in the house of the master. Only feathers, without the ball of Hope inside. Feathers at last at last and no words at all." "The Poisonwood Bible" Barbara Kingsolver 030129 ... bandersnatch "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." Eric Hoffer 030129 ... silentlybroken I went round to her place last night, I can honestly say I haven’t laughed or been that happy in so long. This last year has been one torturous existence, and I fear this coming year will be no different. Are we simply existing because we have to, or are we actually friends? Why don’t I smile, why don’t I laugh when I’m supposed to be living with my mate? Why do I feel so lonely and why do I feel so sad? You know what, I think I’m moving out. Fuck it. Fuck it. I_need_my_own_liberation. I_want_to_be_free. 040704 ... aM i DiStUrBeD? For whom do we live our lives for in this age? Righteousness not on the cards, but this page. Eternity to be led by our self obsessive leaders? Employed. Employed to put everything between us. Does running the rat race count anymore? Or has it become more than a race, a score? More or less than liberty offered us before? Freedom, now supplied in extra small, economy sized principles. 041031 ... belly fire g.m all we have to do is take these lies and make them true yeah, yeah all we have to see is that I don't belong to you and you don't belong to me 050114 ... lotuseater you are all free. the shackles are there because you dont want to take them off. they comfort you. cast them away. nothing matters. you are all free. 050114 ... bright eyes "freedom's a joke, we're just takin' a piss." 050114 ... lotuseater freedom '76 050305 ... auburn I used to think that I thrived on busyness. Thrived on chaos and disorder. Really. My spirit experiences true freedom in simplicity. I am what I am, what I am what I am. Breathe in. Exhale. Breathe in. Exhale. That's all I really need to know. That, and your hand fits perfectly into mine. 090419 ... unhinged everyone_leaves_eventually 090419 ... tender_square "the really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day." —david foster wallace 221220 what's it to you? who go blather from