Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke.
Your body doesn't know the difference.
Words are energy and cast spells, that is why it is called spelling.
Change the way you speak about yourself and you will change your life.
What you're not changing, you are also choosing."
I found the above quote attached to a Bruce Lee photo with him holding up what appears to be a bullet. If Bruce Lee actually came up with these words, that I don't know. I post it because this speaks to this idea of free speech and what is and is not freeing.
- What does Free Speech mean to you?
Let me answer first address this question as it is typically thought about.
Free speech to most people, and to me for much of my life until only a couple of years ago, means that I have the right to say anything that I want everywhere and anywhere that I want, disregarding who is present or what I am rambling on about, or where I am at in the current moment.
Free Speech to most people means that I can go onto Facebook or some other social media site and type out the most horrible of things when I'm feeling angry and hostile at the world, myself, the roommate, the wife, the bills coming in, etc. with no thought put into what these words will do to those who read them or what it will do to me as the writer or what it will do to the relationships that I have.
Most people think of - Free Speech - in only one way while neglecting that the speech being spoken by a few may not be freeing at all; rather, it binds and limits one to heavier and heavier chains. When that speech begins to bind and limit others, due to its very nature, are you still willing to protect and defend the idea of Free Speech for all when they express themselves everywhere and anywhere they want as they spew forth their binding words?
What is meant by this concept of "free?" Does free have boundaries or is it an infinite space that we can fill? There are people who equate being free with anarchy, claiming that there are no rulers and no rules, while at the head of the snake we find a group of leaders who have given out rules/guidelines/suggestions for what anarchy is and is not to those of us who have "lost our way". What are they free of? Even they have a governing body and rules (they will deny this of course). They live within a boundary, the one they say is the only free way to live.
Just like anarchy (or any and all other systems, concepts/ideas, etc.), Free Speech has boundaries. It has rules that govern it. Going back to the quote at the start of this post, we read that we must choose our words because they carry energy behind them, whether or not you believe this is irrelevant to the fact.
So, Free Speech means to me, at this current stage of my life, is having the ability to speak words that uplift and/or diminish myself and/or others.
But when, where, and in front of whom is a person allowed to express their right of Free Speech are questions that are rarely thought about in light of words having either positive or negative energy behind them.
- Do you believe Free Speech is worth saving? If yes, why do you believe it is important?
Yes, free speech is worth saving. It must be protected. It is very important that we have those who are brave enough to stand up to tyrannical governments, who are brave enough to call out the injustices they see in the world, who are brave enough to speak their minds even when the entire world is against them in places where they can be heard by small/large amounts of people.
Yes, I'm all for protecting the rights of Free Speech for those who come out about the surveillance state we find our selves in or coming out about the chemtrails found in our skies across the entire span of the globe or coming out about the poisons that can be found in our foods, either by way of spray and/or by way of the toxic shit they put in with the food or the other numerous things that evil people wish to keep hidden in the dark. These people's right to Free Speech, generally, is meant to expose the sugar-coated lies that are being fed to us. That knowledge is freeing when we take the knowledge and put it into practice. In these circumstances, let Free Speech prevail everywhere and anywhere.
Yes, I'm all for letting people speak freely about the good stuff, like love, too. However, ...
No, I'm not for letting people freely speak on any platform they like if their words are meant to control people; if their words are vile and hateful.
No, a person does not have the right to freely speak in front of a crowd, whether it be a small stage or the grand stage, when his words are vile and are meant to enslave the very people that can't psychologically defend themselves. - Have you not seen the outcome of letting tyrants freely speak played out in history on multiply continents over the centuries? (What rock are you under?)
No, a person doesn't have the right to vent anywhere and everywhere they like and see fit.
No, a person doesn't have the right to degrade and demean people anywhere and everywhere they like.
Yes, these "no" examples above have a right to free speech -BUT- in the company of people who are trained professionals and who can defend themselves from the psychological vomit the above people will be spewing from their mouths.
If one feels like they need to vent, there should be a person who is trained in such matters around to truly listen and help guide that venter back to greener pastures. Or, this venter can write out on a piece of paper all the hateful shit that is going through their mind and burn the pages when they are done. Or, they can draw. Or, something else besides posting it on social media where that hateful speech has the potential to spread like a forest wildfire being pushed by the wind on a blistering hot day through the dead and dying trees.
The tyrant has a right to Free Speech in front of people that can psychologically defend themselves, not on a stage speaking to the masses about whatever and getting them to do whatever he wishes them to do.
For those that like to demean and degrade people, they should be working out those issues with a psychologist or someone else in that sort of field. They shouldn't be allowed to post their hatred of another human because they despise their skin color, nationality or whatever. That shit should be removed and dealt with by professionals or else we get more people that hate others simply because of their skin color, nationality, or whatever. (Fact, the U.S. Army and the like have been known to teach their new grunts demeaning and degrading words to use against other people [the supposed enemy] because, when the other side isn't seen as human, the new grunts are better killing machines.)
Don't you see it?
A part of defending Free Speech is also about deciding when, where and in front of whom a person can be free to express himself/herself when taking into account the words that come out of his/her mouth.
This is the type of concept when I think about Free Speech and all that it means to me is what I find worth saving.
I'm pretty sure this will have to be flushed out more in the future. This is what I have to offer at this current stage of my life. Thanks for tuning in and not dropping out.
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