


Freedom , Choices, Independence, and your rights as a Free Citizen
Freedom is an often used word, but how many truly know what it means? A better question probably is–How many people tell you to let them have their freedom, while trying to control your every move, in effect robbing you of your own freedom?
Parents force their children to attend the college that they never got to go to.
Churches intimidate people into performing strict rituals and than farther rob them of their freedom by guilt-tripping them into giving the church money under the name of *love gifts* or *tithes*.
Friends threaten to never speak to you again, if you don’t do this or that for them.
Aunts and uncles compare you to your cousins and try to convince you that you aren’t as good.
Fathers become dictators, threatening to disown the son that doesn’t join the family business.
Mothers become tyrants disguised as matchmakers, when they pick out husbands for their daughters.
The government forces a draft on the young people and sends them to jail if they refuse to *fight for their country*.
All of this is done in the name of freedom. It’s all about freedom.
Freedom: it’s what they want for themselves, but refuse to give to you.
(Remember that while you are 17 and under, you must obey your parents “household laws”, and you should respect their concerns–sometimes their concerns and fears really are truly well-founded, and should be worth looking into at least. Also, rebeling isn‘t a very wise choice either, as it often results in a lot of people getting hurt, including you. Use your freedom to choose, and choose wisely.)
Soon, you will be 18, or maybe you already are, or if you’re like me, you are a lot older, but don’t feel like it yet. In America, once you turn 18, you are considered to be an adult, this age varies in other countries, but since most of you are living in America, 18 is the age we use in this book. Do not worry if your country is not a free or independent one–God created all of us to be free, and who knows, you may be the one that fights to free your people and wins. Never give up hope, for making your nation a free one.
Once you are 18, you are a free citizen and are free to choose your own path in life. It is important for your parents, friends, and other people to let you go your own way. It is not healthy for them to try to mold you into their image of who you should be, what you should do, what college you should attend, what career path you should take, what religion you should belong to, where you should live, what church you should attend, or who you should marry. By dictating your life, they are making you weak and are putting you in great danger later on in your life. Oh, sure they mean well. Your parents, friends, and other people, usually are only trying to help you to not make the mistakes that they made at your age. Sometimes, it starts out innocent enough, but soon they discover that you will do anything they say, so they try to gain more and more control over you, seeing how far they can go before they push you to the limit. This is a very dangerous situation for you to be in, because they are simply trying to control or manipulate you into becoming what they wanted to be when they were your age. You essentially become their puppet, to be used in any way they please. They know that when they pull the strings, you will jump to do their bidding. They enjoy this sense of control, and at first, you may have enjoyed the sense of security you felt in the beginning, but this is a relationship built on power and dictatorship not love and trust, and it won’t last long before you become trapped. You soon lose control over your own life, and when you try to take control back, they tell you “but I love you”, “nobody else loves you like I do“, “I’m doing this for your own good”, “you don’t love me anymore”, “why are you so mean to me?” ,”I‘ll never speak to you again“, “all you ever think about is yourself–you don‘t care about how I feel“. They will say these and other sugary sweet or pitifully sad things, to draw you into their control. Come visit my parlor say the spider to the fly. Don’t be fooled, when they tell you that they are just trying to protect you and love you.
Control is not love. Verbal abuse is not love. Physical abuse is not love. Yes, they probably really do love you, and yes, they really do want to protect you from harm. In most cases they don’t even think that they are controlling you, they have convinced themselves that they are helping you, but when they make all of your decisions for you, they are stealing your freedom to choose, and trying to control your life, wither they realize they are doing it or not. If you are not allowed to make your own choices about your life, you will quickly be thrown out of balance. Your life will be empty. You will feel like you’ve lost control, lost hope, you’ll feel unloved and unwanted, you’ll feel that you are not important, because your opinion doesn’t matter to anyone. If your voice is never heard, why bother to speak at all. You know that your opinion doesn’t matter, because you have never been allowed to voice your opinion, you’ve never been given a chance to choose, no one ever let’s you make your own decisions, so you feel unimportant. Many people who become depressed and most people who commit suicide, do so because they feel they have no choose–all choices in their lives were taken away from them, so they feel that this is the only way they can get to make a real choice of their own. They aren’t allowed to choose anything about their life, so they feel that the only choice they are allowed to make is to choose how to die. They kill themselves, because they don’t want the only choice they have left, being taking away from them too. It is sad, but true. Look at the world today, sad depressed people everywhere you go, a suicide everyday–these poor souls have felt that their voices are unimportant, so they give up on life. How can this be prevented? Most people would say–love. They need to feel loved, they would want to live if someone loved them. Well, yes and no. Most suicide notes start with something like this:
“I know you love me, and would miss me, so I wrote this letter for you. I’m sorry it had to be this way, but I can’t take this life anymore. I feel so lost and alone, my life is out of control and I can’t get it back on track. I don’t want to hurt you anymore, so I decided to leave. I don’t want to be a burden to anyone. I’m sorry”.
Most people who kill themselves, know that they are loved, but they also know that they have no control over their lives. They feel trapped, lost, alone, and unable to gain control. They cannot control their life, but they can control their death, and so they do.
No, love is not the answer. Love is good, but love alone will not help. Freedom is the answer. They need the freedom to take control of their life. The freedom to choose their own path, they own college, their own job, their own marriage, even just being allowed to choose their own food will help. Why does allowing them the chance to choose help? Because it strengthens their self esteem, it gives them a sense of control, it gives them a sense of importance, it tells them that their opinion matters. They begin to think: life is worth living, because someone believes in me enough to let me choose for myself, they believe that I am capable of making a wise descision and gave me the chance to sink or swim. They think my thoughts are important, I’m important. I got to make my own choice. Do you see how being allowed to make a decision can boost their self esteem? It gives them hope.
Making choices strengthens you, even if you make bad choices. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. The greatest teacher you will ever have, is the lessons that mistakes teach you. But, you can not learn from your mistakes, if you are never allowed to choose. If you are not allowed to choose than you will never make mistakes, because any mistake you do make, you will always blame on the person who made the choice–it will never be your mistake, always their mistake. Wither this rational is the way you should think or not doesn’t matter, because this is they way the human mind responds wither it should or not.
If someone else made the bad choice for you, you’d say:” I could have chosen better if I’d only been given a chance, they didn’t let me choose for myself now I’m stuck in this mess, I hate them, they should have let me descide what I wanted to do, they‘d sure better have a way to get me out of this.”. (Of course, no matter how many threats they made to get you into this mess, they’ll always use the cop-out “Well you didn’t have to listen to me, you can’t expect me to help you out.“) If you made the bad choice yourself, than you’d be saying: “I got myself into this mess, there’s no one to blame but me, I’d better find a way out. I’ll remember this mistake so that I won’t do this again. I‘ll choose better next time.”
If you live in a vacuum, free of choices, you will never make your own mistakes, you will never grow emotionally, you will never grow spiritually, and you will never learn how to make better choices. You will end up becoming a mindless drone; like a seed blown to the wind and tossed to and fro, never able to root up and grow. If the seed doesn’t grab hold of the dirt, it will never grow roots, and if it doesn’t grow roots it will never grow tall, spread it’s leaves, and bloom; instead it will wither away and die, and no one will ever get to see the beautiful flower that it could have been.
Take hold of your freedom. Stand tall, stand proud, choose to do what you want to do with your life. Go to the college you want to go to, or if you don’t want to go to college at all, than don’t go. Marry who you want to marry, and only when you are ready to get married. Go after the career that you want. Follow the religion that believes the same things that you believe. Attend the church that you feel comfortable at.
By now you are probably wondering what any of this has to do with Witchcraft and witches. Well, I’ll tell you: It has a lot to do with Witches. You see Witches are among the most persecuted, least liked, and least understood group of people in the world. Once you announce that you are a Witch, you will get everybody’s opinion thrown down your throat. You will be told that you are evil, conniving, and Satanic. You will be told that you are doomed to burn in hell. You will be told to get on your knees and beg for forgiveness. And theses are only the things you’ll hear from friends and relatives–church people and strangers won’t be nearly as kind. You see, all of these people expect you to accept them for who they are, they expect you to give them the freedom to choose their own path in life, but they expect you to give up your own freedom, and do everything that they do. They think that in a perfect world everyone will be exactly like them. Here’s a thought on that: If you have one million people all thinking and doing exactly the same thing, than you know for possative sure that 999,999 of them are not thinking, and simply following the dictorial leadership of one tyrant. There are a few people who actually tried to put this “perfect world” idea into effect: Napoleon, Joseph Smith‘s One World Order, Adolf Hitler, the Davidians of Waco–they all tried to force their will one multitudes of people, and it resulted in the downfall of each and every one of them.
It is important to remember that each person is unique, no two people are alike, and therefore no one person should expect any other person the believe or behave exactly as they do. Now, maybe you are thinking, my mom/dad/aunt/friend is such a control freak, and refuses to give you any freedom. But wait a minute–what about you? Have you been telling your friends, that something in there religion is wrong or evil and that they should become a Witch like you? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Don’t let others control your life, but don’t go around trying to control the lives of others either. Freedom for one doesn’t work unless it’s freedom for all. Don’t get caught being guilty of taken away others freedom to choose. You can state you opinions and beliefs, and they can state theirs, but neither of you should try to change the other, or try to control the thoughts and actions of the other.
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