3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedommessage-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedom3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoMight be happiness for some, but it’s certainly not freedom, in any normal sense of the word.
minus-squareAurenkin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoIn what sense? Aside from whether it’s practical to really desire nothing, if you could wouldn’t you be free by definition because you could do and have absolutely everything you wanted, that being nothing?
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoNobody wants nothing, that’s conceptually silly
Might be happiness for some, but it’s certainly not freedom, in any normal sense of the word.
In what sense? Aside from whether it’s practical to really desire nothing, if you could wouldn’t you be free by definition because you could do and have absolutely everything you wanted, that being nothing?
Nobody wants nothing, that’s conceptually silly