≠ Coercion surrounds, pressuring every action of my self. I

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= You make it seem so weak, this self that can recognize its surroundings, that can acknowledge its influences - as if its very awareness were not enough to defeat these forces of the outside. In truth, the dignity of your self is in its strength of overcoming - of seeing the powers that would manipulate it, and agreeing or refusing to be so controlled. =

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≠ So simple it must be, believing in this “truth” - that the self is at peace when unforced from outside. Can you conceive, though, the torture that inflicts from within - your own inner nature, that compels you to be thus and not otherwise? It is no less enslavement, to uncontrollably want what you do - to function suchwise, without designing so - when any integrity of rebellion would be launched against your very innateness of self. ≠

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= You twist and knot yourself; do you desire to be deranged? If your self can disturb itself from contentment, then your self can restore itself also. How can you be alienated from your own self? How can you resist your very nature that makes resistance possible? You are here, you are thus - this is given. You are aware, you are thus - this is freedom. =

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I appreciate the thread OP

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edgy teenager larping/philosophy 101 wankery goes here: >>>/x/