What is Freedom

What is Freedom?

By Richlatino

In all my years I’ve wondered if we truly have freedom in America. Our founding fathers that created the Declaration of Independence to fight for our freedom to make America what it is today to be a country of freedom of speech and so forth. I sometimes wonder though. Are we truly free? And what is true freedom? For a country that is founded upon freedom to choose and express yourself I’ve noticed we have to abide by certain rules and laws in order to be free. If we don’t abide by those rules and laws we get punished for breaking them. So can we truly say we are a free country? For a country that is founded upon equal rights and freedom to choose where you want to work and what religion you choose in these coming days I’ve noticed our freedom is becoming limited. Today I was cleaning out the fish bowl at the office because the water was dirty so I had to filter the water before I could put little Art back in there. Yes little Art is our fish’s name. I am not sure how long it was but I put little Art in a Styrofoam cup with water of course and left him on the table so I could clean his bowl when I came back I noticed little Art wasn’t in the cup. I was shocked little Art jumped out of his cup and onto the floor. Now for a tiny fish this was an astounding jump. I grabbed little Art from the floor and put him back in his fish bowl, surprisingly little Art was okay for now! He was swimming around in his fish bowl. I wondered if the reason he jumped out of his fish bowl because he felt he was bound by his freedom to leave his fish bowl and wanted to take a chance and regain his freedom. 

In a way that sort of makes me think are we in our own fish bowl and were waiting for that chance to make a jump for it to gain our freedom? Are we at the point where we are ready to make an escape and jump out and be free? Little Art made me think that our freedom is limited for now but when we work for ourselves and be our own boss we start to gain more freedom. Being in business for yourself and not depending on the government you have more control of your life because your life doesn’t revolve around your job. You don’t get that Sunday pit stomachs dreading to go to work the next day when you’re in business for yourself. I now realize that being in business for myself I have more fun and more freedom to enjoy life. To spend with my family and friends. To live my life freely and really enjoy true freedom. I have jumped out of my fish bowl and regained my freedom like little Art showed me. What the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve. By having that burning desire you can achieve what you put your mind to and regain that freedom. Of course you need to have a definite plan and take action to pursuing that burning desire. So ask yourself are you at the point where you’re in the fish tank and waiting for the chance to escape and regain your freedom? Why wait? Take action now!

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Cell Phones destroying verbal communication

More and more people nowadays are using wireless devices to communicate with each other. As technology advances more and more people are owning cell phones, pda’s, you name it so they can talk to each other. As the years go by younger people and children are having cell phones as well. For example I would take the public transportation to school or even to go somewhere and especially during school time I see more and more students just texting and on there wireless devices and what gets worse is sometimes they text each other and they are sitting right next to each other! As time passes we aren’t communicating with our voices and having simple conversations with our family and friends but we are communicating with technology and speaking through that. I could tell you this if technology moves as fast as its going within 5 or 10 years more and more people won’t be speaking with one another but rather speaking through technology with one another. Which means we aren’t really communicating with one another we are really technologically communicating with each other.

Remember the movie Pleasantville where the two teens go into the show and in the show everyone is all happy and talking to one another. They don’t have cell phones or any type of technology to distract them from one another and they are as happy as ever can be. Well what happened to that reality when we could hold a conversation with one another and be like “How are you doing today?, How was your day? Tell me about it” Instead we communicate via text message or via social networking exchange.

Here are what some teens would text to one another. “Hey what’s up? Nothing much sitting next to you in class this teacher is boring” That just shows you that in reality people whether young or mature that do use technology that its gotten to a point were we are sitting next to each other and texting each other. How sad is that? If people put down their cell phone, pda, wireless device and just spend some time communicating with their mouths rather than through a wireless device we can actually be like the actors in Pleasantville. So Uncle Sam and I want you to communicate more with your family and friends and get off that cell phone!

Google suggestion words racist

Interesting keywords in Google's search bar. Here is just some of the weird but shocking words I found for suggestions in Google Search. Outrageous or is Google racist. You decide. And this is just from typing Kayne West is... Puerto Ricans are... and Tiger Woods is...

Do you agree with CBS for banning this commercial

So the internet is causing a stir over a Super Bowl ad commercial that CBS rejected. I don't think they should have banned it. I have friends that are gay and I support them, this shows you that CBS is racist when it comes to sex preferences. I'm sure if it were 2 girls kissing they would show it. What do you think Blogging Community?

Are social networking sites getting taken over by bots and scammers

I've noticed in 2010 an increase in bots and scammers pretending to be people they aren't. These people try there best to trick a person to believing that they are real that they go to far extents to make pics look real. Sites like Myspace, Migente, and Tagged have some of the biggest bots and scammers around. The only site I know that doesn't accept bots or scammers is Facebook. Because they validate that the pictures are real. I've noticed though on these other sites they try to fool people with the pictures pretending to be as if they are taken in a mirror but really its a photoshopped picture. With photoshop you can do so much nowadays to make a picture look valid. It's no joke. So what can you as a person do so you don't get caught by a bot trap or scammer trap. Question it with trick questions.

I've noticed that when a bot that looks almost to real to be true I question it with trick questions and if it can't answer them correctly I know its a fake page. Some ways to tell a bot is a fake on a social networking site.

1. When they give you there yahoo email in there status or send a message that looks to auto generated that includes there IM address.

2. When they have "Model" pictures. Reason I say this because you aren't going to be that damn lucky to be talking to a real model on a site like Tagged. Believe that if its too good to be true chances are its NOT!

3. When it looks like someone else is taking a picture of them and they aren't doing the picture taking. Now this one varies because there are friends who take pictures of there friends for there pages but then there are fake pages that the one actually taking the picture is the one behind the account and not the one in the picture. So be careful with this one.

So I figured I would just give my opinions and advice on how to deal with bots and scammers. Hopefully you will use it and not be caught in the bot scamming game. Thank you. And please help support my blogs by clicking on the links and ads.