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Feb.15.2010
FREEDOM, in the Philippines, has a very distinct definition and unique connotation. It has both historic underpinnings and experience-based meaning. And, somehow, it is quite difficult to find a proper definition, without mentioning certain events, even exceptional individuals in the various...
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Feb.14.2010
My first blog in a while so bear with me. I have heard the song by Janice Joplin that says "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to loose" that is so not true. I am a prior military man who, while I never saw combat and cannot imagine what it would be like, knows that freedom is...
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Feb.14.2010
When first asked to write about freedom, I thought about talking about the slave trade; I could talk about human trafficking and domestic abuse, proving that in this day and age people still wear shackles, even if they are invisible; I could talk about how I feel trapped in my life (if you've seen...
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Feb.12.2010
Searching all my days just to find youI'm not sure who I'm looking forI'll know itWhen I see youUntil then, I'll hide in my bedroomStaying up all night just to writeA love song for no one
-----John Mayer
Why do I choose a love song to introduce the concept of freedom? I walk to the station,...
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Feb.12.2010
“I was vowed to liberty. Men were to be as gods, and earth as heaven.” Robert Browning.
Ever since Eve was seduced by the serpent while Adam looked on, last Friday was it? - or Tuesday? - I forget, her children have been plagued...
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Feb.12.2010
The Central Report on Freedom
Weather - 60 inches of snow and counting…
Knowledge is freedom…
With unlimited megabytes of memory.
Whether - to decide that now is the time to remember sitting by the ocean front with your shell phone,
And eating s’mores by the camp fire in...
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Feb.12.2010
Freedom has a broad range of definitions and meanings. This of course depends on the context in which it is being used or who is using it. For instance some people when asked what freedom means to them may respond; being an American, able to speak their mind, able to carry a firearm, protection...
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Feb.12.2010
FREE TO BE By Mary Cook, M.A., R.A.S. WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM
Our minds can enslave us in fear, judgment, pettiness, perfectionism and arrogance. Depression, anxiety and anger can attack our hearts. Defense mechanisms keep us dysfunctional and dominate our spirits. We are used to false beliefs and...
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Feb.12.2010
In Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary: Unabridged Second Edition – Deluxe Color, the word freedom resides between freedman and freedwoman.
freedman – a man legally freed from slavery or bondage.
freedom – 1. the state or quality of being free; especially, (a) exemption or liberation from...
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Feb.12.2010
The minute our souls are breathed into this fleshly casing—we are bound, fettered. The sun rises and sets. Clocks tick. Our stomachs rumble with self-preservation. There are laws both seen and unseen that govern our every breath.
We emerge from the womb and enter the...
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