:: Freedom ::
Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free
Angels alone, that soar above
Enjoy such liberty
- Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison -
and I once wrote..
"And chastity belts do not a virgin make.."
heh
And please don't flame me for this as I can't help but feel that the analogy involving the angels (the biblical ones at least) is a little inappropriate for angels supposedly have even less freedom than man due to the absence of free will...
I'm not very good at all this theological stuff though a similar argument can be found in the case of Judas. Did he really have a choice to rebel / betray or was it all part of some divine plan...
But anyway I'm really not keen to go down that road or pursue this any further as I feel that such debates are pretty pointless... different people will always have different points of view so the best way to get around it is to agree to disagree... I feel that we will only receive a definite answer when it doesn't matter anymore...
To quote Eleanor Wong in a recent interview - "This house believes that being thoughtful is better than proven right..."