Can you handle freedom....

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  1. bird_migration

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    .... or do you need structure?
     
  2. TopNotchStoner

    TopNotchStoner Georgia Homegrown

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    I can handle freedom. But I need money to enjoy freedom, so I guess I need structure too. I could start robbing people.........
     
  3. stinkfoot

    stinkfoot truth

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    The government hates competition.
     
  4. seamonster66

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    I get high from freedom when I can find it
     
  5. TopNotchStoner

    TopNotchStoner Georgia Homegrown

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    True, but there's really no competition for such wide-scale robbery.
     
  6. alex714

    alex714 To the Left

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    I dont know freedom so, if faced with it, I probably wouldnt know how to handle it
     
  7. okeefe

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    Self-imposed structure is fine. Sometimes I have difficulty with external "authority."
     
  8. TopNotchStoner

    TopNotchStoner Georgia Homegrown

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    Self-imposed structure is still freedom.
     
  9. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I need freedom and for others to have structure.
     
  10. seamonster66

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    the ability to impose a structure on yourself is freedom
     
  11. PeterPan

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    Good question. I am a left wing, liberal person. I am socially liberal, so I think people should be able to do what they like (if their actions don't have any negative impact on anyone else), but also politically/economically libeal, hence I think the economy needs more regulation: I think a semi-socialist economy would work the best such that no one was left to live on the streets or have nothing to eat. But a person should also be able to eat a couple of ludes and smoke some pot, without being arrested and facing fines/imprisonment. That's just my opinion.
     
  12. Lodog

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    If by Handle you mean handles, and freedom you mean 10 speed bike... Hell yeah
     
  13. fritz

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    I can handle freedom, but I prefer to have money.
     
  14. Rebel_1

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    I could handle freedom very well. Too bad it basically pretty much doesn't seem to exist.
     
  15. BraveSirRubin

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    I am in Alaska with my mother and step-father for the first two weeks here, and the structure is anoyying me to such an extent that I am ready to go on a murderous rampage.

    In other words, I enjoy freedom. I grew up with structure which made me function in society and understand its laws in order to break them without getting caught, and I am grateful for that... but now I love my freedom, and it is hard not to have as much of it right now.
     
  16. andcrs2

    andcrs2 Senior Member

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    Freedom and money are not mutually exclusive from my POV.
     
  17. fritz

    fritz Heathen

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    Most freed up person in the world is homeless...
     
  18. indian~summer

    indian~summer yo ho & a bottle of yum

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    it really depends on your definition of freedom, i can not handle structure in any way...i go insane...take a design class and you'll find out how much you can handle structure..:eek:
    i need freedom, if i don't have freedom to do what i want, i loose myself and i just..i go insane..best way i can put it..
    school is what destroys me, because of the structure of it all..the public schools i was in just killed me, until i went to college..
    freedom is what you make it :)
    and in my opinion structure is what other people impose on you
     
  19. AshtonsMom

    AshtonsMom Banned

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    Is there a structured freedom? :D
     
  20. DroopySnoopy

    DroopySnoopy The ORIGINAL Dr. Droop

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    freedom never existed, in my opinion. it is just a state of mind.that's ok, though, for some, that is what keeps them going. but really, we all live in a controlled world. we have to work, study, be responsible, or else our lives will fall apart and the economy will crumble.
     
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