Starting with the untruth, freedom is getting what one wants. A conservative would say the opposite—that freedom is not getting what one wants.

It's neither of the above. Freedom is on a different planet from that mind frame.

It's necessary to beat around the bush in developing a context. The first thing to consider is the primary influence that enslaves anyone, which of course is sin. It would be easy enough to say freedom is the absence of sin; but there's a lot more to it than that.

The manner in which sin enslaves is by producing forces. There are always victims of sin, and most persons feel threatened by it. So opposing forces are created, and they are a primary significance of sin.

Nothing makes sin slavery more than the assumption that the opposing forces can be countered. It's like trying to push a rock up a hill. It's impossible to succeed in defeating the counterforces to sin; but that realization never goes with the sin. Otherwise the sin would end.

Infact, sin ends whenever a corrupt person realizes he is not winning at it. Sin is carried to different extremes depending on when the perpetrators realize that they are not succeeding.

Another major element of the problem is an obsession with being cause and not effect. The starting point of sin is a desire to be cause over someone else. Therefore, all that follows, which gets extremely developed and complex, reinforces the original purpose of being cause rather than effect, and it results in very dogmatic determination to succeed at it.

The problem with that mentality is that someone has to be effect whenever someone else is cause. Therefore, that motive puts all corrupt persons in contest with everyone else to see who can prevail. Often, they don't even know what they are fighting over; they only know that they must prevail regardless of why.

So trying to be cause turns existence into a barroom brawl. The persons involved do not have the choice of quitting, because they have enemies at their throats. For these reasons, they do not acquire anything resembling freedom by trying to be cause rather than effect.

Then there is the assumption that the alternatives don't work. The alternatives include the creation of laws and development of moral standards. Those impositions supposedly enslave. Do traffic signs enslave people or free them? Constructive laws and moral standards create the operating space in which free and subjective choices can be made.

So here's what the other planet looks like. There are two mediums for existence. One is a medium of realities, and the other is a medium of forces. Those are conflicting mediums, and a person can only exist in one or the other.

The medium of forces was already described, so now we'll consider the medium of realities.

Reality is the configuration of any substance. It determines the characteristics of all things and the relationships between all things. Therefore, all significant realities are linked together by their relationships creating a unified reality, which is the size of the universe—spiritual and material.

What this means is, unified reality doesn't bend, persons bend. Yet all sin includes the assumption that the universe is going to bend around someone's motives. It's like jumping into the ocean to convert it into something else.

Freedom, therefore, is a compatible relationship to the universe which defines all of existence. To acquire this state, one must relate to the universe as a set of realities, because that is what it is made of.

What it adds up to is that a person must exist in the medium of realities rather than the medium of forces to acquire freedom. This state requires an absence of forces, which requires an absence of sin. But existence must be more than an absence of something.

There are complexities involved in relating to the universe. One must determine what objective realities are in relation to concerns at hand, which are usually problems that need to be solved. If there is any lack of objectivity, one gets false realities, which are in conflict with the universe.

The primary cause of lack of objectivity is motives stemming from sin. They create a filter through which reality is acquired causing it to look different than it actually is.

Sin thereby causes the process to break down at the starting point because of a lack of honesty in acquiring reality the way it actually exists.

Beyond the starting point, a universe of complexity creates freedom, because it is an invincible protector from the forces which oppose it.

Unified reality is infinitely large, while forces are small things created by persons. So the universe always wins in any contest. And an individual wins when he is on the side of the universe.

Force needs to be defined, but the only definition that seems to work is that it is that which opposes realities. It seems to be more in the will of persons than in anything objective.

False realities create forces, but only to the extent that they have the power of persons behind them to create an enforcing influence.

This is where truth comes in. (Enter truth.) (I guess this isn't Shakespeare.) Truth is the communicated representation of unified reality.

When a person "creates" truth, he is attaching to the power of the universe. Truth has the universe behind it, because all elements of unified reality are interrelated.

What does a person actually do with truth? Does he create it, establish it, convey it, or what?

Here's the answer. A person develops truth and attaches to it by communicating it.

Basically, truth is invincible, because it has the universe behind it. However, it can be weak and unestablished, so it needs to be developed.

Truth is developed through the process of reason. Reason is making relationships between realities.

One of the most significant things about reason is that it does not require anyone to buy into someone's else's version of reality. It automatically generates truth. Sounds like a dreamland, I'll bet.

Here's how reason works: When realities are conveyed, with a focus on their relationships to other realities, the consistent relationships become more apparent and are strengthened, while the inconsistent relationships show their conflicts and are weakened.

The result of promoting consistent relationships through reason is that realities get related to unified reality. The ones that relate consistently to unified reality are truth.

This process is extremely effective. When applied significantly, the relationships cannot be denied; and when a lot of persons are involved, to that extent, truth is established.

For this reason, promoting corruption requires a breakdown of the reasoning process. Sometimes, the primary tactic is one-way communication, which works when authority is involved. Concealment and misrepresentation are of course standard means to the same end.

Applying those tactics is fraud. Fraud is not being wrong, it is operating by standards which prevent truth from being produced.

Once reason occurs, corruption is reduced, because neither false realities nor decadent standards can persist in the light of truth.

An example of how this process works is often demonstrated with television news magazines. Even the threat of cameras on the scene often results in standards being changed and sometimes laws being created. (However, this effect is often confused with invasion of privacy. One must be aware of the difference between social realities and personal realities.)

corrupt persons cannot defy truth when it is established through the interaction of realities, because truth is perpetual and invincible, to the extent that it gets established.