> From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I wonder if unattached would be a better word than independent, even though
> they are essentially the same thing.
I don't think they mean the same thing. You can feel unattached to the food you
eat, but none of us are independent of food.
Did you mean "don't care" or did you mean "don't need?"
Bill Gates may claim to be "unattached" to his material goods. A tribe of
indigenous natives may well be independent of them.
My interpretation was that you were advocating a subsistence life-style!
> On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>
>> But this one goes in my quotes database, Bob: "freedom is a state of being
>> independent of material goods."
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:::: Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Lazarus Long
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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