Comments on: I am not a number. I am a free man!

By: Daniel Argento Giabo

Daniel Argento Giabo — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:27:50 +0000

MAIDEN! MAIDEN! MAIDEN!

By: Margaret Woodruff

Margaret Woodruff — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:02:37 +0000

There is a reason for denial

By: Sue Whitney

Sue Whitney — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:06:10 +0000

Psychiatry infiltrated the education system in the mid 60′s they changed texts, omitted data, changed learning methods all in the name of “Dumbing Down America”. They did the same thing in Nazi Germany.

By: Jim Ekstrom

Jim Ekstrom — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:22:07 +0000

Excellent article

By: Jason Simms

Jason Simms — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:01:54 +0000

By: Joseph H Weldinger

Joseph H Weldinger — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:13:41 +0000

The Prisoner?

By: theCL Report: The Illusion of Choice

theCL Report: The Illusion of Choice — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:19:53 +0000

[...] I am not a number. I am a free man! [...]

By: WilliamSchooler

WilliamSchooler — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:27:05 +0000

Stories, stories, stories and many more distractions all to pull you away from you. To be a free man one should look very close at what this truly represents, it is not something that falls out off the sky and hits you like an asteroid. It is the recognition of self and the DECISION to make it that way.

The decision, the most remarkable act of all LIFE on this planet, yet we pretend we do not own it. Individuality is individual choice, to be able upon your own accord do the act of deciding for you. Should you recognize the true you which is LIFE and understand this connection completely would you do very well in deciding. The truth most of you do not, most of you have not recognized not one thing we have ever done happened without choice and most things with a lot of choice.

Independence is simply the recognition of me as LIFE, as idea creation, imagination and decision skills, all abilities each life owns regardless of THINKING. Understanding this ability and the use the most significant part of us.

And here is the real startling truth, Thomas Jefferson realized this long ago and left us with a full set of instructions which still today each one of you refuses to decide to use. The truth resides entirely around us from inside us as we are able to view and evaluate what is important to LIFE as you are.

@onetenther all things known are done so by personal experience so you are correct they become unknowable. The act of pretending is to make something up in the mind and not test it for workability, to assume something is versus knowing what it does and what it supports.

Regardless of thinking all life is connected with all other life, when this becomes recognized and lived will life begin to blossom and not until then. Some lessons take longer than others and we are on a 200 year quest and have learned so little given us already by deceptive story telling to deceive intelligent life for self gains. WE are far better than this only when we decide we shall be and this comes from our own understanding of us period.

By: onetenther

onetenther — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:51:26 +0000

I was kind of thinking about this and communist seemed bent on destroying the personality of each person through various tricks that they have learned. If a person’s mind is so destroyed by these tricks how would anyone have the power to resist any kind of tyranical government. They wouldn’t even know if they are under tyranny. That in itself is mind-boggling.

By: onetenther

onetenther — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:35:10 +0000

“means that superficiality and image trump truth and the individual.”

I find that this statement really rings true that outward appearances of intelligence and truth seem to be more important than actually being intelligent and saying something truthful. Appearance trumps reality but I have a question about something I read.

I find the logic behind this statement true even though I despise its consequences.

“that is, can we really know anything about anything? Is reality a mere social construct? Since society creates any knowledge that people may possess, does this mean that human beings are simply products of the given social setting from which they are manufactured?”

Isn’t our image of reality an accumulation of the total knowledge that we have acquired and wasn’t that knowledge created by people. Wouldn’t this mean that society creates that image? I find that when dealing with people who think like this that their opinion that existence is a construct of society that their logic is correct and I have a hard time dealing with it.

The best answer I can think of is that man can’t create knowledge that is untrue and have it workable in ‘reality’. I can’t say that the london bridge is in London (it ain’t. It is in Arizona) and expect to walk across where I and perhaps everyone else seems to think it is. I can even hallucinate and imagine it being there but when I try to walk across it I would fall and die. Apparently I could not create anything I wanted and reality seems to have its own existence that is independent of my own.