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"True liberation is
a release from
hyperreality.
This is not
a gift; it is
to be discovered and experienced.
It is not an acquisition to be
gathered to glorify
self.
It is a state
of being, as silence, in which
there is
no
becoming, in which there is
completeness.
This trait may not
necessarily seek expression.
You need not be
a great artist or
have an audience;
if
you seek these, you will miss the inward Reality.
It is neither a gift, nor is it the
outcome of talent; it is to
be found, this imperishable
treasure, where thought frees itself from lust,
ill-will and
ignorance, where
thought frees itself
from worldliness and personal craving.
It is to be
experienced
through thought and meditation."
J.
Krishnamurti
"Human liberty comprises, first,
the inward domain of
consciousness in the most comprehensive sense:
liberty of thought and
feeling,
scientific,
moral or
theological." - Ogden Livingston
Mills
"So long as some men wish
to do violence to others, there cannot be complete liberty, as
the wish to do violence must be
restrained, or victims
left to suffer.
Autonomy does not come from allowing
the strong to oppress the
weak .
This is
the basis of the
socialist revolt against the kind of freedom advocated by
laissez-faire
economists." - Bertrand
Russell
"The idea
of human liberty is grounded in the belief that each individual has
the inviolate right to
live his life according to his
own conception of the "good life," even when others may believe, and
believe strongly, that the road he has
chosen is leading him to
hell.
As long as he respects
the rights of others to follow other - perhaps more noble - paths,
his destiny is to be left in his
own hands.
The freedom
philosophy has also
argued that the best chance for individual and
social improvement is an
environment in which peaceful persuasion and
exemplary example act as
the avenues for change." - Richard M. Ebeling
"Of all the
natural human rights
that have ever been invented,
liberty is least likely to be cheap and is
never free of cost."
Robert
Heinlein
Liberty is defined as:Self-determination
Freedom from
coercion
Freedom to do as one
pleases
Freedom or right to
frequent or use a place
Freedom from
external or foreign
rule; independence
Freedom from
arbitrary control or
despotic
government
Freedom from
captivity,
confinement, or
physical
restraint
Freedom
from interference, obligation,
restriction,
hampering
conditions
"A Christian man is the most free lord of all,
and subject to none;
a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and
subject to everyone."
Martin Luther
Freedom is defined as:free will
uninhibited
individual liberty
clear of obstructions
being free of restraint
privileges;
franchises;
immunities
the capacity to exercise
independent choice
exempt from
something specified that controls
Exempt from external authority,
interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one's will, thought, choice,
action, etc.; independent; unrestricted.
"Let's stop talking about
freedom as if it is a commodity that someone can
sneak in your house and steal.
The real danger is the false
patriotism that tricks us into surrendering it willingly - and whether or
not we build a concrete and steel
monument to it is somewhat irrelevant." - Carolyn Almos
It is a fallacy to suppose
human beings are truly free at all.
The only human being that could be
considered truly free is the hermit that lives alone in the wilderness and
has no contact with any other
humans.
Every action taken either
fits within the acceptable
standards or it does not.
"How much freedom of individual
action can a social culture allow?"
If individuals are responsible
then more freedom should be granted them by.
"How responsible are the individuals that run the
social culture in question?
If the individuals are less responsible
then less freedom should be granted.
Who decides what defines a
"responsible" individual?
"Responsible" individuals
command staggering revolving credit lines.
In this case those who
buy and sell debt,
packaged as
over-the-counter marketable securities, are those that are granted the most
freedom.
China has a social scoring system while America has a credit
score.
This devalues all other considerations allowing a
withering from
within.
This
way of granting freedom of individual action relies on rewarding ill
will.
Americans do not enjoy freedom:
1) The controlling interests of America are
not frank, open or
unreserved.
2) The only choice most Americans have is
choice of corporate
overlord.
3) Unscrupulous individuals
create unpleasant and
onerous conditions.
4) Free to act within
narrow boundaries set in place by
overlords.
5)
Americans are 'free' to pay
taxes; 'choose' a corporate overlord; an
insurance carrier; a
stock broker, a
money manager, a
bond broker
…
6) Americans are
not allowed a representative in government.
7)
Americans can not
require corporations to be socially responsible.
8) Americans do
not have fresh clean air to
breath, fresh clean
water to drink or wholesome
clean healthy nourishing food.
9) Americans are not free of the
drumbeat of the "transhuman
machine" that turns living,
breathing,
empathetic beings into
mindless
automatons.
8) Americans are not free from
the arbitrary exercise of
authority if it is in the "best interests" of society (corporate
interests).
1928
Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, a Spanish Roman Catholic masochistic priest,
founds Opus
Dei.
Opus Dei, centered around
mortification of the
flesh with the scourge, supports the fascist governments of
Francisco Franco
and Augusto
Pinochet.
Josemaría Escrivá's maxim: "Loved be pain.
Sanctified be pain. Glorified be pain!"
Opus Dei Awareness Network
"To refer
to Liberation Theology as "Marxist Catholicism" is
incorrect.
Christian communities
preceded Marxism by nineteen centuries.
4th century Imperial
Christianity married the church to militarism.
Liberation
Theology is the antithesis of Imperial
Christianity.
We built small Christian communities to observe
and act on real issues.
Conscience and
critical thinking became
part of a vibrant
spirituality.
Liberation Theology is the key to a future of
religious and spiritual integrity." - Blase Bonpane, Director, Office of the
Americas, Los Angeles
Father Jon Sobrino is a surviving liberation
theologist, part of a team of intellectual Jesuit priests based at the
University of Central America.
Father Jon Sobrino was a close
friend of Oscar Romero the archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated by
right-wing paramilitaries in 1980.
On March 23, 1980 Oscar Romero
delivers a sermon.
He calls on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to
obey God's higher order and to stop
government's repression and
violations of basic human
rights.
On March 24, 1980 A monthly gathering of priests organized
by Opus Dei and led by Msgr. Fernando Sáenz Lacalle is concluded with a
Mass at a small chapel at Hospital de la Divina Providencia, a church-run
hospital specializing in oncology, led by Oscar Romero.
Romero,
finishing his sermon, took a few steps to
the center of the altar.
A red car came to a stop on the street in front of the chapel, a gunman
got out and shot Oscar Romero through the heart in front of the
altar.
Fernando Saenz Lacalle, a prominent San Salvador member of Opus
Dei, has pushed the Vatican to silence
Father Jon Sobrino for
several years.
Father Jon Sobrino was silenced by
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, Pope
Benedict XVI, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of
the Vatican and will not be allowed
to teach or write.
"Americans concerned with illegal immigration need to
start questioning our track record of befriending only the rich and powerful of
Latin America while its wretched masses flood our frontiers." - Roger
Carasso |
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