Is freedom just another word for nothing left to loose, or what does it mean to you?

Question

Sorry, should read lose

Answer 1

No.

Only once you have lost your freedom...THEN you have nothing left to lose....in your attempts to try regain it.

(Why is a song with these words haunting me,  that I can not lay my finger on?)

Blousook: Thank you for putting me out of my misery. Now I’ve got an earworm.

I guess in that sense it is true. If you free yourself of all your material possessions…you truly do have nothing left to lose, and you therefore are, as free as a bird.

Answer 2

Humans are never free, even the stinking rich have some things in their lives that hold them back, restrict them.  So real freedom is never to be.

But, I would like to decide what I have to do, or at least have a say in.

Answer 3

Sounds like you,ve been busted flat in baton rouge?

Answer 4

On that fateful day in October, within the 342 pages that comprised US Patriot Act I, we lost our right to due process, to client/attorney confidentiality, to privacy and protection in our own homes, to surf freely on the worldwide Web, to have telephone conversations without fear of being spied upon, to choose our friends, even if they happen to be Arab or even Arab-looking.

Answer 5

For me freedom means the following -

Self-determination

Independence

Choice

Free will

Sovereignty

The most powerful one for me is choice which means I have the opportunity to determine my own future and can do anything within the laws of the country and move at free will wherever I wish.

Answer 6

Bobby McGee. Me and Bobby, that is. The song was written by Kris Kristofferson for Janis Joplin in the late 60's. Recorded in 1970.

It was in the "revolutionary" time of free love and peace. A revolution against the "American dream" of chasing money and material gain.

Still true today. If you don't have anything (material) to rule your life, you are free.

Koos Doep dit a similar song in Afrikaans. "Skielik is jy vry."

Answer 7

It means exactly as you wrote. no big tricks;-p

Answer 8

Freedom is to have a voice sadly we have lost that in the world today.

Answer 9

Freedom is to have choices in life.

To decide what is going to make you happy today, tomorrow and the day after that.

Answer 10

I do not understand.

Answer 11

The man who walks with Jesus cannot be chained, for though they crucified Him He rose again on the third day. Those who have faith in the Father, The Sun and the Holy Spirit can never be enslaved.