"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Shurz
So, here I am...at the start of this journey...whatever it may be...wherever it may lead...this is where it begins. This must be where I lay the foundation...the basis...for everything that I believe. It can be summed up in one word...FREEDOM!
I am a religious person. I am a scientific explorer. I am a philosophical thinker. I cannot embrace one without the others. Thus, I approach every obstacle, discovery, and new (or old) idea with this in mind...test the theory, embrace the quest, and search the soul.
In all people I believe that this is present. That every person seeks to discover what "truth" serves them best...AND helps them attain exhaltation (religious or non...physical or spiritual). That each one of us lives their life in the only way that we know how is, I believe, the most basic of human traits. Because of this...the FREEDOM to do just that...is an absolute right!
When that is restricted...or rather when that restriction is attempted...we will find another way in which to accomplish this innate desire. Then WOE be unto the restrictor for they WILL be overthrown!
One might argue that freedom to all means that there will be those who seek to practice this 'freedom' at the cost of others. And, they are right. There will always be those who exhalt their freedoms above those of others. But, do they not then become restrictor's? Are they not then in danger of being brought down?
There is but one form of enforcement that is immune from this. IF one seeks to exhalt the FREEDOMS of all persons...they will ultimately prevail. For time is on their side.
Sara Jade
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