Bullets of Freedom

• Freedom of ideas is making ideas compete so the good idea always dominates. Restricting freedom is claiming that the ideas you agree with are true and every other idea cannot be right or useful.


• If you had freedom in religion, the best religion will dominate. If you have it in enterprise the best enterprise will dominate. If they continue to function in a free environment, their domination cannot persist unless they can continuously prove they are the best. It is often easier to fight freedom than to compete to be the best continuously, therefore enterprises lobby to restrict freedom of trade, and religious scholars lobby to restrict freedom of religion, know that this lobbying came out of weakness not out of strength.


• Weakness is fear of the new idea. Fear that the new idea will be viewed as better by people and the current idea will be deserted. If you believe that the current idea, the idea you are holding is the ultimate truth and every other idea is wrong, then you will have the arrogance to restrict people’s freedom to renegotiate, revaluate, and probably refute your idea.


• No prophet restricted this fight and generation of ideas even when they disagreed. For ideas can only be fought by ideas, and idea stagnancy cannot persist for long. Prophets came with not only a belief in the oneness of God but with a belief that this idea is the truth that would last against doubters and evaluators. All prophets encouraged asking questions for they have a strong belief and confidence of their idea, a belief we almost never see these days among their followers


• I am certain that there were more prophets of man than prophets of God throughout history. I am positive that they generated great ideas of God(s) and salvation, but their ideas faded with the light of the sun of God. It is meaningful to ask: who is chosen.. God or prophets? Who chooses who? I lean toward the idea that Prophets chose God not the common belief that it is the other way around. Moreover, I am positive that God does not have the care to choose before being chosen, before he gets approached and asked for help. It is mainly because I think we are viewed by God like we observe bacteria in a lab.


• To fight freedom based on the waste it emits is like rejecting the sun because of skin cancer. It is like ignoring all the benefits we get from the sun and the fact that life cannot persist without it. We can always protect ourselves from skin cancer by blowing up the sun, but what can we do with the consequent hunger, bone problems, and depression. It is with sadness I note that we did blow up the sun in Saudi Arabia, and we are living with the consequences of rejecting freedom. We feared it because they claim we are not ready. It is like you can be ready for the marathon by waiting to get ready rather than training and running. Do you remember learning how to swim or bike? How many times you almost drowned and how many times you had ugly bruises. If you really want it, memories of drowning or ugly bruises would not stop you from trying and trying using the same method of learning by doing.


• Totalitarian governments will always oppose freedom for their main issue is existence even if their end is better for humanity. Freedom is to be able to choose your ruler, your employer, and most importantly your God. It is apparent that a government that bloodily resists being changed is an enemy of freedom, and humanity. It is apparent why those governments do not want freedom, because in the near foreseeable future, freedom means their demise for people will eventually learn that freedom is better and they will seek it with their teeth if they had to. 4th of January 2011