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For being right of course.
Also, I can't say for certain they didn't, but I find it unlikely they desired the life they experienced. I can't imagine things turned out they way they intended.
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Allstarslacker posted:
You choose to interact or not to interact, and you can choose to stop interacting or start, but while you are interacting you are not in control.
You can choose what you offer them, but you can not choose what they offer you.
You will interact or you won't, but you will not be able to dictate the circumstances of that interaction.
This is true whether you are interacting with someone or in solitude. I fail to see how Solitude is control because you are literally saying you control nothing.
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Because it is by choice.
Also, solitude is not nothingness.
Control for the context of this thread is being the only input into your designs. Not omnipotence.
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IMHO  Title: Official Outpost Greeter
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Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.
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You have control over yourself.
You don't have control over others.
These are constants, if you're in solitude or not.
You lose nothing because you never had that control in the first place.
Can you bring a specific example of how interactions cause a loss of control. Exactly where does that control exist that is lost? Input sensors? Information processed in your brain? Not being able to politely kick your neighbor out?
I expect my answer to remain the same no matter what: You either have control or you don't, the act of interacting doesn't lose you anything.
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It's not about gaining or losing.
You most definitely stand to gain more by interacting than by not. That is what makes the risk worth while.
Your world is bigger once you bring someone else into it, so the amount of control you have over your existence is diminished to the extent that person is able to change your world in ways you do or don't want.
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Z-Elder  Posts: 671
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What is solitude?
You focus on control only matters when others are involved and not with your environment?
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they stand in the state of division and separation which by their own motion, they have made for themselves"
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My ability to control my environment rests solely on my ability to understand and manipulate it.
I do not need it's approval to get what I want from it. Just the mastery necessary to accomplish what I set out to do.
People are complicated, and much harder to manipulate because I have to inspire the necessary feelings within them to get what I want from them.
I can not force them to do what I want.
To me solitude is a lack of peers.
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I am what I am because of who we all are
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Halloweve  Posts: 422
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If you can't enjoy and appreciate just your own company, you will never fully enjoy the company of others.
If someone needs to be glued to your side to feel loved, they are greatly lacking.
I have never been hurt if the one I love wants some alone time, I get it. They need to be able to return the favor. I dig my alone time.
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