I see how it was taken that way. I was pretty vague, but I was actually thinking more like when contentment is gained a person experiences mental peace and a state free of worries therefore they are free.

"Abracadbra" the things you name are things you are allowed to do ...you are controlled by the laws of the outside forces ..which are the laws of physics/nature, the laws of society and the laws of a God (if you believe in one)

and at an instant those forces can take away any or all those freedoms you believe you have ...

as long as you are governed by these laws freedom or spiritual freedom is all just an illusion

When I was married to my second husband I was not free. He was a bit of a neurotic control freak. He forbade me from keeping a bar of hand soap in the kitchen. He said I should go into the bathroom to wash my hands.

Yet when I cooked food I like to wash my hands before I handle food. Having to go into the bathroom was an inconvenience and sometimes it was in use.

This kind of reasoning was rejected because it became all about control and about him being the boss of me because I was "his wife."

This is just a tiny example of how people attempt exert control over others and over their spouses simply to give them the feeling of power.

My spirit was shackled and my heart was sad in that kind of relationship. I had no power. No freedom. My creative power was sucked from me, I could not paint or be creative in any way because my heart was sad and in bondage. It was all about control on the psychological level.

When I divorced him, I went from depressed to happy and free and I could feel the inner joy of my spirit DANCING.

Here is some advice:
Don't try to control someone else particularly your spouse or your love interest. If you do, you are like the vampire who sucks the life's blood out of them and you will kill the love and the joy of the relationship.

Today, I keep a bar of hand soap in my kitchen. To me, it represents a tiny bit of freedom.

True freedom will come when the curse of sin is lifted once & for all & God restores everything back to what it was before the fall.

Until then, the sin nature will always wrestle against the spirit.

"Quikstepper"are you referring to when everyone was folicking around the garden of eden in the nude ...I always knew you have a little devil in you

Yep, sounds like she is talking about fairy land were you can even have sex with animals, and everyone is the same sex, it's all good in fairy land.

Only in a perverted mind would something this sick come from.

You prove us right everytime...THANKS!

You are the one who brought it up. You don't know what that world was like. No knowledge of good and evil means anything at all is perfectly normal.

More twisted logic?

You would be sad if you weren't so funny. LOL

So then you are glad that Eve ate the forbidden fruit and gained the knowledge of good and evil?

I thought so.

well now that you think about it ...Eve was seduced by a snake

Could it be when all aspects of your surrounding environment (including all people with which you interact) neither strike you as "good" or "bad", regardless of circumstances?

When there is no requirement for comparison or baseline... no parameters...no boundaries.... no fear.