Escape By Death
Amazing quote from Epictetus:
“That is why we shall call free only those animals which do not submit to captivity, but escape by dying as soon as they are captured.”
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October 10th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Have you heard the parable of the wolf and the dog?
October 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Didn’t we already talk about this?
October 10th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
prolly. That’s what I was wondering.
October 10th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Janis Joplin.
October 10th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I don’t remember it. What about the wolf and dog Ted? And don’t be brief.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Ok Julia,
here goes.
A wolf met a dog in the woods. The wolf noticed the dog was well fed. he asked the dog about and the dog said his master gives him all the table scraps he wants, just for guarding the house.
The wolf was quite thin and never knew where his next meal would come from.
The wolf said, “hey, maybe the master would let me come and be a dog.”
The dog said “Sure, come with me.”
As they were walking the wolf noticed a mark where the fur was rubbed off around the dogs neck. he asked the dog what it was.
The dog said “oh that is where my master fastens the chain around my neck.”
The wolf said “you mean you are not free to come and go as you please?”
The dog said “No, but what difference does that make?”
The wolf said “That makes all the difference.” and trotted off into the woods.
As they were w
October 10th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Btw
Hi Scott!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:19 am
I hadn’t heard that one. It reminds me of the tale of the town mouse and the country mouse.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
[…] Rights not asserted are rights happily given up. What associations do you belong to, what clubs? What organizations of men standing for some purpose, some shared value? None? You just go to work where you ignore, hate or tolerate you co-workers, and then retire to your product-lair you call an apartment so you can watch other people getting together with each other to have fun, while you yourself have none? […]