Comments on: “It’s great to be free”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:53:10 +0000

Hmmm, you’re ass backwards but I get your point. Money is the Honey, i.e. the produce (not wholly, but clearly money is an intricate mechanism to production). Religion can indeed be used as a tool of manipulation, or chemical trail as you put it, or opiate as Marx put it… only we are no further from what I was saying originally.

I mean if you think we are all like bees, dude I can dismiss that out of hand. Society is riddled with sociopathic predators and that is just the extreme end. More importantly, any psychologist will tell you that ALL cooperation is machiavellian, i.e. at root, borne of self-interest. It is actually paradoxically using ‘Theory of Mind’ to compete by way of cooperation… kinda weird to get your head around, but you’re a doctor! You can handle it!

Oh, and it ain’t confusing… I dig on this shit!

Ha! Ha! Ha!

By: The Opinion

The Opinion — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:32:41 +0000

Laws of the jungle don’t work for humans.
We are ants, or maybe bees.Religion is the honey that keeps us all together.Lets face it, we are all just following a chemical trail in the end.
Jesus, it gets quite confusing after a bit doesn’t it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:23:41 +0000

Nooooo, that wasn’t ‘my idea’ of freedom. I am simply stating that contrived cooperation is not freedom. In fact, while I don’t advocate anarchy, that is closer to the mark than anything else that has been alluded to. Of course things then get a little Darwinian, a little ‘law of the jungle’… but surely you wouldn’t argue that a Gazelle didn’t live a free life just coz it ends up getting chased by a Lion? Further more, at least in this instance the Predator had the grace to end its exploitation in the blink of an eye, rather than drag it out for a lifetime. The reality for many living in the so-called freedom of the Corporate State!

By: The Opinion

The Opinion — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:47:54 +0000

BS Tone.Your idea of freedom tumbles into anarchy before you know it. Kember probably thought it was divine intervention that saved him.He’s a naive idealist who could have done a lot more useful work at home.He missed his calling as a lollypop man.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:25:53 +0000

That is not true, what you are talking about is social cooperation for mutual benefit. Freedom is what it is… autonomy! Once you start slapping ifs and buts into the equation it becomes conditional and that is by definition, not freedom! On the other hand, America exercises freedom because there is nobody to stop them! So quit cheezing and thank fuck it ain’t China!

Anyway, dunno about Kember but obviously he’d rap some shit about ultimate responsibility being to his Episcopal faith! Urm, yeah… represented by some twat in a knob shaped hat!

P.S Actually I wasn’t referring to the Pontiff, just a lowly Bishop of another denomination! Catholics stand down!

By: The Opinion

The Opinion — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:17:34 +0000

Freedom is not about giving people the opportunity to do whatever they believe in…it has to be married with personal responsibility.Where was Kember’s?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:14:47 +0000

Oh, that’s just a pretext Rec… everyone knows that! They wish to establish freedom of the market in Iraq and like it or not that is where the real hypocrisy lay. Coz the truth is, consumerist ideology of post new right liberalism is something we all help to prop up and Iraq is just a rather unpleasant extension of that. Anyway, it would have been politically, socially and culturally unacceptable for the British military not to pursue a rescue attempt.

So like it or not, ol’ Norman, Holy Rollin’ Kemper put lives in potential danger with his ill-conceived little crusade to the mean streets of Baghdad! I’d support your argument that he should have the freedom to behave like an idiot if and only if British ‘boots’ had the freedom to say fuck him, he got himself into this crap and thus became part of the problem, not the solution!

Only that’s a freedom that don’t exist due to reasons already pointed out and despite any assurances from misguided Christian soldiers waving the desire to have their asses forcibly pulled out of the fire!

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and if my ol’ man, my husband, my brother, my son got shot up coz of some dildo’s conscience, I’d be narked about that shit dooode… and so would you!

By: Recidivist

Recidivist — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:38:03 +0000

But my point is, if we believe in freedom we should believe that this man is free to go and pursue his desire to fight for a cause he believes in. If the government here denies him that right, or berates him for pursuing it, why do they care about establishing the self same freedoms in Iraq?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:53:56 +0000

‘All people who believe in freedom should laud him’… I dunno about that? Perhaps all people that believe in peace should laud him? Y’see, sometimes freedom has to be fought for. Iraq is a fine example being that rednecks are fighting for the freedom to drive big, fuck off ‘cathedrals to consumerism’. While at the same time the military-industrial complex is fighting for the freedom to make a ‘bomb’… no pun intended!

Hell, men have fought the less!