<p>@ Daxlo5: They come from freedom.</p>
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<p>They are coming from the college, institutions around your neighborhood, etc. Essentially everywhere. You just have to go find them. But they’re given to you.</p>
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A PIECE OF PAPER FROM THE GOVERNMENT TELLS YOU THE GOVERNMENT IS FREEDOM
SO CLEARLY IT MUST BE FREEDOM
YES THAT MAKES SENSE, IT’S NOT LIKE GOVERNMENT REGULATES OR ANYTHING</p>
<p>Oh my god I can’t even fathom the ignorance. Government is NOT freedom, and liberty is NOT the same as freedom.</p>
<p>These opportunities are coming from people who DID work hard and didn’t F*** up in HS/college. If everyone followed your philosophy, we would still be in the stone age. </p>
<p>Money doesn’t grow on trees.</p>
<p>Exactly, these opportunities aren’t coming because “oh you can do whatever you want! Like murder people~!” Because that’s what freedom is.
The opportunities are from money that comes from taxes according to government programs.</p>
<p>I work hard because I feel like I deserve better grades than the dumber guy next to me. That’s it.</p>
<p>@ Wanton: That is why I said we need to ask Bubbabubba. </p>
<p>What I am trying to say is that we get opportunities from freedom.</p>
<p>Liberty=Freedom</p>
<p>Princeton’s encyclopedia says that liberty is "freedom of choice; “liberty of opinion”; “liberty of worship”; “liberty–perfect liberty–to think or feel or do just as one pleases”; “at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”</p>
<p>No, we don’t need to ask him. Because we were responding to his POST, not him. When you analyze a text it is no longer the author’s and the author’s say is of no matter. It is in the hands of the people.</p>
<p>^ well said, my boy.</p>
<p>Just by reading the OPs post I knew from the get-go that many will go against. Lets be serious who gives a crap about someones high school grades, who gives a crap about what college you go to. What matters is what you do in life, and how well you live it. You can be a college dropout and an outcast, but the minute you do something grand, you will suddenly look way better than an “ivy league grad”. In the end, were all gonna be dead.</p>
<p>How do you guys turns such an uplifting, inspirational thread into a war zone? Whether or not you agree with the OPs thread is irrelevant because it’s his epiphany and no one else’s (although I mostly am in agreement with the OP). We all live by our own accord, no one is necessarily wrong or right.</p>
<p>% of dropouts who do amazing things < % Ivy league grads who do amazing things.</p>
<p>My goodness! I can’t keep up with you guys! Martyr me as you will, but here is what I am trying to say…</p>
<p>I am a conservative Republican. I do not believe that liberalism, communism, or any of it’s forms are a good system of government or is even affective.</p>
<p>Government is a system to insure order, a set of views, and to restrain evil. The US government was set up to insure freedom, life, and the pursuit of happiness.</p>
<p>Does the US do a good job at it insuring it? Not the best, but it does better than others. At the end of the day it is still a system made by man and is imperfect.</p>
<p>@ Wanton: We are criticizing and defining his original post. You are trying to define what he said and I am too. We are now bringing our own views into it, and both you and I are defending our stances. It’s as simple as that.</p>
<p>Conservative Republican.</p>
<p>That explains everything.</p>
<p>EDIT: WOW that sounds really judgemental and mean, I’m not trying to criticize your character because of your political party, I’m just saying that it explains the beliefs that you have expressed on this thread. Sorry.</p>
<p>@ Hoping411: No offense taken! Although, I really meant to say just conservative. But, I feel the Republican party most upholds my beliefs. : o)</p>
<p>^^Lol its true, I realized this after reading Hamlet. Sure in life we will never be equal, but in death were all equal. Death will come to all of us, so no matter how great we are, we will be 6 feet under rotting.</p>
<p>Yay!</p>
<p>Also, I work hard because I enjoy working hard. I enjoy accomplishing things. I want to be someone and accomplish something. The only people that accomplish things without ever working hard are Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and their ilk. I understand that you’re trying to say that in the grand scheme of things high school doesn’t matter that much. And it doesn’t. But how hard you work in high school usually reflects how hard you work later on in life, unless you do a complete flip flop which really isn’t that uncommon.</p>
<p>Wow, so I totally missed that whole accomplishments>college thing, but I most definitly agree. Death is the great leveler.</p>
<p>^Not really, people change. And high school is never like who a person will act once grown up, well, except for a few people. But in life its WHO YOU KNOW that matters. Heck BUSH went to Yale, some of the biggest idiots went to top schools throughout history. School means crap, you can become someone important with out an elite name on your resume.</p>
<p>Just to clean this whole thing up for anybody reading this…</p>
<p>Bubbabubba was just making a point. Some people were trying to say that he was referring to welfare and whatever else. I expressed my own original view to to the subject and I suggested that (to clear things up) we ask the original poster to define what he was meaning.</p>
<p>Sorry if I looked like a ■■■■■ or made anyone else feel like one!</p>