Comments on: Thoughts on freedom http://willtoexist.com/thoughts-on-freedom_821/ scribblings from a deist transhumanist libertarian minarchist citizen soldier Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Trevor http://willtoexist.com/thoughts-on-freedom_821/comment-page-1/#comment-27946 Trevor Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:39:37 +0000 http://willtoexist.com/2006/07/thoughts-on-freedom#comment-27946 Dad, Greyhawk did have some great words of wisdom to share with me. In the months and years to come, I'll talk more about my doldrums and how I came to be in the doldrums to begin with. I would like to think that in 10 years Iraq will be a prosperous stable economy. I'll continue to hope and pray for such an outcome. I want the quotient of human freedom and choice to continue to advance throughout the world. Dad,

Greyhawk did have some great words of wisdom to share with me. In the months and years to come, I’ll talk more about my doldrums and how I came to be in the doldrums to begin with.

I would like to think that in 10 years Iraq will be a prosperous stable economy. I’ll continue to hope and pray for such an outcome. I want the quotient of human freedom and choice to continue to advance throughout the world.

]]> By: Dad http://willtoexist.com/thoughts-on-freedom_821/comment-page-1/#comment-27940 Dad Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:10:49 +0000 http://willtoexist.com/2006/07/thoughts-on-freedom#comment-27940 Trevor, That was a great post by Greyhawk under your title of Opus. I think it's worth repeating with your post above. "You are deep in the doldrums of the rotation (been there, done that, will again) and it shows in many of your current posts. I don’t mean to be harsh, far from it. This is how it is, and if I guess right it’s becoming increasingly hard for you to sit down and post blog entries. No surprise there, it’s the cycle every deployed milblogger goes through. "In the end, you’ll have created one man’s view of the Iraq experience. You’ve shared that - in one of the finest voices I’ve encountered from theater - with a goodly number of good people who won’t ever experience it first hand. Good or bad, that will stand longer than the pixels you put together for MNF-I. "Aside from that, in the real world, you’ve done your bit. You’ve made history while others made noise. And no matter where you go from here, you’ll find it’s a new chapter in life with abundant opportunities for success or failure. You are familiar with failure, of course - since all wars are a series of failures culminating in victory. So when you get the opportunity to call your own shots, focus on success." Greyhawk I was really taken by the insight in your last sentence above. You've learned what Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes after most of a lifetime. From my perspective, it seems you're ready to write Chapter 12 -- in 21st Century English! You've done nothing, you've done politics, you've done religion, you've done philosophy, you've done war -- most is meaningless. As you put aside your tools of war, it's not too early to start on those abundant opportunities that Greyhawk references. Choose your friends and your influences carefully, then go for it! Dad Trevor,

That was a great post by Greyhawk under your title of Opus. I think it’s worth repeating with your post above.

“You are deep in the doldrums of the rotation (been there, done that, will again) and it shows in many of your current posts. I don’t mean to be harsh, far from it. This is how it is, and if I guess right it’s becoming increasingly hard for you to sit down and post blog entries. No surprise there, it’s the cycle every deployed milblogger goes through.

“In the end, you’ll have created one man’s view of the Iraq experience. You’ve shared that – in one of the finest voices I’ve encountered from theater – with a goodly number of good people who won’t ever experience it first hand. Good or bad, that will stand longer than the pixels you put together for MNF-I.

“Aside from that, in the real world, you’ve done your bit. You’ve made history while others made noise. And no matter where you go from here, you’ll find it’s a new chapter in life with abundant opportunities for success or failure. You are familiar with failure, of course – since all wars are a series of failures culminating in victory. So when you get the opportunity to call your own shots, focus on success.” Greyhawk

I was really taken by the insight in your last sentence above. You’ve learned what Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes after most of a lifetime. From my perspective, it seems you’re ready to write Chapter 12 — in 21st Century English! You’ve done nothing, you’ve done politics, you’ve done religion, you’ve done philosophy, you’ve done war — most is meaningless.

As you put aside your tools of war, it’s not too early to start on those abundant opportunities that Greyhawk references. Choose your friends and your influences carefully, then go for it!

Dad

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