Are you bound by unseen chains?...?

Question

How do you view this question?...

Answer 1

Aren't we all? Only we call it family, friendship, love, whatever...

But not being facetious... I think these chains (socialisation) bind us all to society and its norms, but can be slowly loosened with time, as our experiences and horizons expand. It's called maturing.

Answer 2

Yes, and the ultimate chain God.

Answer 3

Definitely, by societal norms and standards and environmental components such as temperature, economic stability/instability end so on.

Answer 4

If you're not then how come you're no free to do what ever is that you want to do. We as individuals and societies are bound by countless chains. Over the years we break some, tie some more, different combination etc.

We are born in a chain, a direct chain between mother and child. We have families, friends, teachers, mentors. We have police, government, institutions. We have our own ideas and thinking.

Then there are countless instances in lives where we have no control over outcome. We are bound by the hand we are dealt, albeit we can chose how to play it!

If these chains were to break, the bonds that keep us intact will shatter, resulting in end of society as we know it.

Answer 5

yeah.

Fear + Love.

i try not to show my fears.

because i feel like as if people see my fears then theyll be able to control me and that if i show people my fears and/or emotions then ill become vunerable and im not going down that route.

Answer 6

Yes. Fear.  

Answer 7

No. I am bound by chains of my own making which I do not want to see! The chains caused by identifying with the world dished out by my senses attached to the external world only, neglecting the internal.

Answer 8

I view this question as being extremely subtle.

My sister, these chains are in a state of deterioration.

There is the world of the seen and the world of the unseen.

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In the world of the seen we are bound by chains

In the world of the unseen we are bound by what is known as "attachments".

If one can recognize and discard these "attachments", one can then take flight and soar like the "Phoenix".

If one cannot recognize these "attachments" and discard them, one will then flounder and remain, submerged, in an "Ocean of Illusion", known as the world.

This is philosophy, is it not?

"Peace be always with you."

Answer 9

Yes, anger and power struggle.  Still keeping score with my parents, even though they're dead now.  Sometimes I'm afraid of success, partly becuase I feel I don't deserve it and part of it is that lack of success is justification for anger, which I've been told I'm not supposed to have so I feel the need to justify it.

Answer 10

Crave, anger, ignorance,

Suspicion, assumption, unknown,

Fear, hatred, fate,

Responsibility, duty, self,

Etc, etc, etc.

You name it, dear Tracy.

Find out the pains,

Discover these chains,

Learn the needs,

And cut this greed.

Riddle me this,

Riddle me that,

Riddle it is, these unseen chains.

Cut it all and freedom, we attain.

To love you dear, there is not chain.

Answer 11

In my family, I am the only daughter. When my mother needed help she always counted on me.I was pretty much at her beck and call. I felt totally responsible for her well being. When she got alsheimers and had to be placed into a nursing home. I am the one who had to do it.My brother legally took on the responsibility. and although I was upset I was also very relieved, I felt like the world and lifted from my shoulders, until that moment I didn't realize how much that responsability had weighed me down.

I think that best describes unseen chains, chains that you are not aware of.

Answer 12

Wut you mean by "How do you view this question?"

The answer to "Are you bound by unseen chains?" is YES.  We are all bound by chains, because there are other people in this world except us.  "h**l is other people."--Jean-Paul Sartre.  We act differently when we are around other people.  We do not act as we want to.  We are bound by other people's rules.  We are bound by so many things

Answer 13

There are many bindings.  Most help us to keep it together.

Many are unseen.

Answer 14

No, I just have funny glasses that won't come off.

Answer 15

Of course, but they are ones I've chosen.  Duty, honor, responsibility, honesty, charity, love.

And, no, I am not military.  These are ones any respectable person has.