tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post9080629954534419163..comments2024-03-28T22:42:37.931+10:00Comments on Just Watching the Wheels Go Round: Am I Really Chasing Freedom in the Game of Life?Brizdaz (Darren)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16218154629850982033noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-58747386503706601112012-04-19T00:03:54.014+10:002012-04-19T00:03:54.014+10:00I agree that we are free in our choices to a point...I agree that we are free in our choices to a point,Trish.<br />But my question is how free are we especially then we think we are free to make our own choices like the guys in the Derren Brown You Tube above?<br />They thought they were making a free choice when drafting up the advert,but they were manipulated beforehand by Derren and ended up basically drawing everything he wanted them to draw.They were free to come up with their own ideas,but Derren got to their subconscious by conditioning them beforehand and it was always unlikely that they would override the subconscious when they didn't know about the triggers embedded beneath their conscious thoughts. <br /><br />I think as in that example,that there are certain trigger points in our life <br />(that we may well of agreed to before incarnating) <br />that steer us into certain unavoidable life situations while giving us the illusion of choice.<br />For instance,my meeting and marrying my wife and having to boys with her.As free as I like to think that I was to not marry her and have two boys with her,my gut feeling tells me this was always going to happen,no matter how free a choice I thought I had made,because this decision I feel was made on a much higher level than my earthbound consciousness could ever hope to outwit.<br />I may be wrong,but that is the strong feeling I get the more I think about it. <br />Some things in life are almost impossible for our conscious selves to outmaneuver,like our true date with death,for example.Because I feel these things are well out of our hands down here,to avoid.Brizdaz (Darren)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16218154629850982033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-41017142351408585492012-04-18T21:20:23.035+10:002012-04-18T21:20:23.035+10:00Agree, they are self imposed 'baggage' - w...Agree, they are self imposed 'baggage' - which I wouldn't want to discard! We make our choices, which I agree is a freedom, but some choices are still restrictive or cause restriction.Mike Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02149847109691591945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-86998412767718021252012-04-18T14:31:17.285+10:002012-04-18T14:31:17.285+10:00OK, now I'll read this book. I agree with Mike...OK, now I'll read this book. I agree with Mike about "baggage." Yet, at the same time, we choose our baggage and isn't there a certain freedom in that? In the choice itself?Trish and Rob MacGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02846270474176860924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1837676046760437505.post-8621019316107154832012-04-18T02:09:32.476+10:002012-04-18T02:09:32.476+10:00I think we are free but we are kept in check (or h...I think we are free but we are kept in check (or hampered) by our emotions / feelings. The only way to escape is to be a single traveller with no baggage. I have 'baggage' (wife, children, grandson etc) and these restrict what I do and when. Because of this there are things I may not see/achieve. Though freedom may be a state of mind there can be more to it than this.Mike Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02149847109691591945noreply@blogger.com