God created me free, not almost free....If i am not free it is because by fear i dont want to be free....
We may enter this life as almost a blank slate, but often enough, or most often, our beliefs are the results of our own meaning making machine.
It may not be by fear we are not free though, it may be the ignorance of not knowing what we don’t know?
Great reply rix.... thanks...
But ignorance about anything never impede a free creative gesture ( a tasting gesture for 2 half baked chunk of ham)....Fear do...
Ignorance about the real reason behind the ham half-cut, can allow for a creative compensation : the taste seems and perhaps is different.... It is very different to roast a big chunk of pork or two smaller one...
Ignorance is not only an anvil it may be also a springboard...The choice is sometimes ours....
And yes we do not entered life like an absolute blank slate, like you justly said with the cautionary word " almost"....
We come from an another world which memory is imprinted in us...And in this world ignorance and knowledge are wedding mates and there is no fear....
«Ignorance create sometimes fear, but fear always create a darker ignorance»-Anonymus Smith
«Ignorance like knowledge come with the same hues scale»-Anonymus smith
«Ignorance and knowledge converge and meet in the absolute, they diverge in this world of illusion»-Anonymus Smith
«Fear separate ignorance from knowledge, free love reunite them»-Anonymus Smith
«Do you past retirement time talking gibberish?»-Groucho Marx 🤓