What is so grand about independance?
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In my view, as someone looking into the US-centric culture from the outside... I think a lot of it isn`t necessarily brain washing, but laziness. Yes - laziness.\nPeople don`t want to be troubled by other people - so make everyone be independent. People don`t want to have to put too much effort into raising their children - let`s push them to be independent before they hit their first birthday. \nAll of this breeds more selfishness, which in turn increases the push to make everyone independent.
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Basically, the story of freedom is still an unfinished story, it isn't a single event, but a series of steps taken and yet to be taken to continue to try and acheive this ideal.  You could even make an arguement that we have regressed at times and may even be doing so now...
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Ever heard the phrase "Power of One"?  If each one of us voices are opinion strong enough to be heard either voicing it in public, on-line etc... if each of us would come together and work as a single unit a team and all of us stands together we would have a chance to turn the tables.  \nRemember if United We Stand, the reverse is also true, United we can Fall too.
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Independence day is the day we celebrate USA's self-government.\n\n"On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution provides the legal and governmental framework for the United States..."
426664
Thank you for sharing your epiphany with modern day politics.  I once had the highest regard for our political powers based on what I learned from the history of our founding fathers as we all have learned and I have come to the same conclusion.  The reality of the matter is that politics is everything whether we like it or not. The stroke of a pen from a leader represents a decision for the masses even if the paperwork does not represent our thoughts and beliefs to the fullest extent. That is why we must stay on top of the game and elect our leaders as skillfully as possible.  Knowing your political roots and being able to distinguish between the issues is a self taught philosophy that your social standing forces you to entertain.  Be patient.  Be informed.  Inform others.  We shall overcome!!
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when all thoughts have subsided and the mind is dissolved in the self (the source) the mind expands instantaneously covering the whole of creation then all is known even the unknowable,you realize your identification with the supreme self and that's there is only oneness everywhere,nothing else to see,hear,learn its the goal of existence.its difficult to describe the indescribable it has to be directly experienced by ones self
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Our greatness lies in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence that ALL men are created equal and deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness. Our leaders forgot that concept in the need to forge power for themselves and this nation. Other nations were sold out to brutal puppet governments for the sake of our prosperity and security, but in the end, they sold our security for greed, for power, for corporate interests, because people everywhere will fight for their freedom against all odds and all costs no matter how horrible. We are living now in the "reckoning". Continued hypocricy will destroy us. When America wakes up, we will save ourselves, and in that saving, will again be a great nation based on the enlightnement of our founders.
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It is an issue in the past.  It was involved in the circumstances and political climate of its day, and there does not appear to be any sabotage intended.  It simply happened, in the open, up front.  There was nothing underhanded in that it was not ratified.
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LoL\nI just asked this question, but haven't received a good answer yet.\n\nI don't see what's so great about it either.
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One answer appears in the Book "I am Me I am Free" By David Icke..\nthe short version is:\nIt is a Pyramid of Manipulation where only a few "Elite" are at the control tower (so to speak) and manipulate things so as to stay in control..we the people are at the bottom and will never rise to the top because they have forces not to be reckoned with..\nIt's really fasinating and I recommend it for anyone who wants to try and escape the Matrix (so to speak)\nAnyone who doesn't believe that is delusional.\nNote to the elite: Only educating not trying to overthrow you...please don't kill me I am harmless really!
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She's cool!!! She helps girls to be independant!!! Thats very important for us girls at this time because boys always play us!!! In her songs she says that its very important to be independant!
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Basically, it represents freedom. The freedom to think and act according to one's own beliefs without the interference of a Federal Government. We can see more clearly every decade how these freedoms have been lost since the War Between the States. You can't even spank your own kids in your own home now without drawing the attention of the Federal Government. You lost much when you crushed the 'rebellion'. I wonder how long it will take before you see it?
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When a person rises to absolute power position he can dominate others.But there is a insecurity feeling arises\nin him that whether other person will occupy his position and he will be turned in to slave.Freedom is the primary thing which motivates a person to  rise to absolute power.But he fails to realize that others also have the same feeling.Hence to maintain his position\nhe find out all ways either corruption,deception,arrogant ways which leads them as a monster.\n2.They get identified with their position.\n3.Society encourages such things that one should become as a  president etc...How many persons can become a president\nwhen millions are striving?So to attain to the position naturally they have to suppress others\n4.Not only personal freedom but there more choice to\n  enjoy physical pleasures and sex .\n5.There are much possibilities to take revenge on persons\n  who gave trouble earlier in life
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Both.  Ghandi picked the perfect time to start his independence movement.  Empires around the world were crumbling after WW2 and the British empire was no exception.
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it is everything that you said. the way that America was set up made it so that it could last through the times with only slight changes. if you look at the constitution you can see that they have only made clarifications with all of the amendments but as a whole it hasn't changed for the 200+ years that it has been in place. we also offer many basic freedoms that many countries take away from people.  when you think about it when this country was formed with the government and all there had to be someone behind all of the process some God like being behind it all trying to help it all form correctly and to be able to run smoothly.
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Kind of assumes that every Scot wants independence which is not the case.  Wales is similar and Ireland is waaaaay more complicated due to its history.\n\nIndependence isn't simply signing a letter or changing politics there is a massive social and economic shift that needs to take place which may prove impractical (if not impossible) to ever put in place.  \n\nThis is not an occupation other than in the minds of a very very few people who harp back to before the Union of the Crowns.  I can only talk for what I know of the Scottish people, we are generally secure in our identity and the way we live our lives.  There is as much bitching about the Scottish Parliament as there is about the one in Westminster :-)
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dba_gregg is right - its in the Declaration:\nWe hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.