Topic: Freedom
Ainia's photo
Wed 05/06/15 01:30 AM
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. –truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair -

(c)Ainia/5/5/2015

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Wed 05/06/15 01:50 AM

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. –truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair -

(c)Ainia/5/5/2015



Lol, you trying to claim copyright on that are you?


germanchoclate1981's photo
Wed 05/06/15 02:17 AM
There have been several large scale revolutions that didn't involve personal ones. Revelations, yes, led to industrial revolution, many coup de tas that were all born of revelations but fueled by propagandists lies and uncouth behavior to be put nicely. I have learned that history and the truth are like strangers in the night. On the other hand I also feel that there ate things that shouldn't be public knowledge. Truth is like a weapon, it can be used to defend what you hold dear or to attack what jeopardizes your chosen lifestyle. The freedom you speak of (and I understand what you're expressing) is non-existent. For example, you think that you are Madonna. You dress eat sing all her songs to the best of your ability just as she would. Whether some whacko agent forces you to preform as Madonna or you do it by choice or you're mentally ill and actually believe that you are Madonna the truth is the same, you're not. Period. If you're impersonating, YOU are an impersonator. If you're her biggest fan and you idolize her, you're a fan and an idolitor. If you're mentally ill you're mentally ill. Which ever the case may be you are still YOU. It is impossible to BE another person. It is possible to emulate traits passion, lifestyle characteristics of someone else but you will never be another person. What is possible in reality is personal growth. Yes there are things that you may not enjoy in life but those too are a part of who and what you realistically are.
I think you have fiction confused. It is not bound to possibility, that would be nonfiction. You can make the argument that fiction and fantasy are separate but both employ the impossible the improbable etc. If I write a story where my coffee drinks me and I travel backwards through
the brewing grinding packaging roasting harvest growing planting and pop back up out of the ground in Sumatra, that's fiction. It could never happen, not in a million years. I'm real I could write the story it is possible. That is nonfiction.

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Wed 05/06/15 02:23 AM
Quick points on truth, it is bound to the possible. Some things that are true are SEEMINGLY impossible, but if they are true then they must be possible. Extremophiles, bacteria and tubeworms near volcanic vents on the ocean floor where no other living things could survive live in those conditions because it s possible. Birds fly underwater. Fish fly through the air. Both briefly but only true because it is actually possible.
Unfortunately truth can also lead to despair.