@3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agoWanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedommessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down120
arrow-up1103arrow-down1message-squareWanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedom@3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareJackGreenEarthlinkfedilinkEnglish26•3 months agoMight be happiness for some, but it’s certainly not freedom, in any normal sense of the word.
minus-square@Aurenkin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink-2•edit-23 months agoIn what sense? Aside from whether it’s practical to really desire nothing, if you could wouldn’t you be free by definition because you could do and have absolutely everything you wanted, that being nothing?
minus-square@TexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilink10•3 months agoNobody wants nothing, that’s conceptually silly
minus-square@exanimelink5•3 months agoAt the very least and no matter how humble your threshold is, everyone wants food, shelter and some kind of company. The first 2 cannot be attained for free in our world’s ergo, you cannot be free from whatever obligations you may incurr to procure them This is all nice theoretical advice… Not to be used literally in practice
Might be happiness for some, but it’s certainly not freedom, in any normal sense of the word.
In what sense? Aside from whether it’s practical to really desire nothing, if you could wouldn’t you be free by definition because you could do and have absolutely everything you wanted, that being nothing?
Nobody wants nothing, that’s conceptually silly
At the very least and no matter how humble your threshold is, everyone wants food, shelter and some kind of company.
The first 2 cannot be attained for free in our world’s ergo, you cannot be free from whatever obligations you may incurr to procure them
This is all nice theoretical advice… Not to be used literally in practice