What is innocence?

Innocence is inexperience

To be innocent of something is to have had no part in, to not have been influenced by, and to have had no affect on that something. To never even have considered its possibility.
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oh innocence...

i believe innocence is the lack of knowledge/experience. and not just about 'bad things'... about everything.

22% Voted for by star girl13, sca.

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Immaculate mind

I think innocence is a stage regarding a person's behavior towards society. I suppose most people would define it as the lack of guilt regarding any situation. I mean, a child (given the "innocent" status) is not aware of what his/her acts will affect his enviroment...

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innocence=ignorance?

A lot of time innocence ifs referred to as not having done wrong, or maybe not knowing about all the bad things in the world. If that's the case, I am definately not innocent.

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Maintenance.

Ah, my favorite Jewel Kiltcher song: Innocence Maintained. In this song, she said that Innocence can't be lost, it just needs to be maintained.

I guess innocence is in the eye of the beholder. You're only innocent if you believe you are. People will always debate as to weather or not you are. It's your choice, but the choice of your peers which matter in the end.

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innocence

(this is one of those everyone has their own opinion, and thats cool, this is just what i think kinds of ?s)
it seems to be that most people imagine innocence something pure and clean, or just oblivion. but id say its not fully oblivion, just the ignorance to a secondary meaning/consequence... something along those lines, or knowing and just not caring, (not so much in an apathetic sort of way) just not caring about that ulterior ideology.

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oblivion

It is a reflection upon the time when the individual did not yet consider himself part of the world into which he was born. If you will, it is the all purpose word to describe the infanitle and juvenile stages of Freudian development. Man then extrapolates this into his theories of tabula rasa and chivalry, while he is in fact defending his own childhood and the effect his childhood has had upon him. So, it has its uses.

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nanrek
August 28, 2006
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innocence
Innocence = ignorance!
minniemouse
September 7, 2006
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Some people believe you are innocent untill you have lost your virginity.. which goes back to the egyptians, they considered it as coming out of childhood into adulthood and so you were not innocent and could take responsibilty for your actions as you were considered an adult.But anyway i just thought that was quite interesting lol but i think .. that there is no such thing as innocence, just like there is no such thing as perfection.
hirbie
October 18, 2006
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Hmm...
I think what you might be referring to is nostalgia
- TeChNoWC
  October 20, 2006
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  Occam would hate you. You love assuming. Anti-belief police. I guess that makes me the anti-anti-belief police. Belief is freedom. It is escape. For each belief we create, we lose a shard of freedom, and with each belief we deny, we gain such freedom that only angst follows, as freedom to see and observe what is apart from what is wanted is angst inducing. Belief destroys the viscious cycle, but this time, make sure you direct yourself towards the correct belief. Stop referring to conscious deliberation and realise that belief is intrinsic to experience and the sub-conscious mind. This is what we call 'views'. You have a 'view' that "With each thought we accept as true, we lose shard of freedom, and create a belief." This is a belief. You have just forfeited your ability to become consciously aware of it is all, and so no deliberation follows. Now the mind simply creates its own beliefs, and imposes it on the entity. With no self analysis, you fail to flourish, because without views or judgement, one cannot distinguish between a mere murmour or a brilliantly displayed, ten page thesis. This is why your views sound so lax, when you relate your experience to us. Did you like those assumptions?
- - hirbie
    October 21, 2006
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  - - TeChNoWC
      October 21, 2006
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      Let's start with love care share, before we start using such big words. It serves as a good starting point to mould your views to. I, rather hypocritically have come across to you as quite the opposite of this so far in our dealings, but one does not become a 'spiritual soldier' overnight. Start with the basics, and work your way up. The one who admits their problems and woes (and you must have them, or their is no necessity in holding to your current view, if any), and can do so as if to come to terms with defeat has 'humbled' oneself. This is the opening for God to intervene. For God does not wish to intervene when you put such destructive barriers between yourself and His intervention (which He generally likes to do via love and compassion, rather than brain control).
    - - hirbie
        October 29, 2006
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        as much fun as it sounds to start over, I think I'm going to stick with what I've got. thanks for the tips
Auxiliar
October 18, 2006
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By my understanding, nostalgia has more to do with one's individuality and individuality at large than with one's own time with innocence. It has to do with the incorporation into the world rather than the world's incorporation into the self or, furthermore, its accommodation towards the self. Also, without boundaries, without borderline for what has been set upon the individual, how does one know that one has the ability to change the world that surrounds them as opposed to living in the world as it has been and will forever be? This sense of boundlessness I will call freedom, but I will not call it innocence. Innocence may be boundless, but the bounds may simply stay in the same place as one matures, and as one becomes less innocent, one then has the capacity to push against it. The sublime quality of boundlessness has its parallels between innocence and that which one surpassed and now remembers as nostalgia, but little else is in between the two.
hirbie
October 19, 2006
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TeChNoWC
October 20, 2006
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*"why push against them when you can walk through them as if they did not exist?"* Yeah, its called belief. *"what good does it serve? it serves to define good."* It serves to define EVERYTHING. Because that is the very nature of knowledge.