08-30-2010, 11:49 PM
Lavazza Wrote:Hey Quantum, welcome back!
It's been a while, I'm glad to hear your time away has been fruitful.... I wanted to express how directly on the head you have hit the nail in (your) quoted text. I have often wondered if I have not just been lucky in this incarnation in that I love and enjoy so much that is around me. The world of nature, the people I meet, the work that I do, and the humor that shows itself in the oddest places. I say lucky because so often I hear people complaining about their lives, the world around them, and other people especially. Maybe we are unique in this perspective among the population of earth in general, maybe we aren't, I can't say for sure. But I must say, this is a pretty special place in which we live, in good ol' third density. As below, so above? I will presume so.
Hello dear Lavazza. It is nice to hear from you. Thank you for the warm welcome. I needed to pull back for more than one reason, namely involving business, but as well for a personal stick-point wherein I encountered "flypaper" so to speak. I have been lurking from time to time though and have been following your posts which are interesting as always.
Its nice to be understood with respect to my quote that you cited above in your previous post in which I mean no judgment as much as an observation with respect to the humorous conflict I see in claiming oneself/hoping oneself to be STO, yet while in the same breath proclaiming adamantly, if not wishing dearly, for a quick end to the entire planet and all of its inhabitants with it?
Given we may have presumably exhausted all that may be said with respect to the "Power Days" thread (unless others have more to add) I will as a result purposely derail my thread to respond to your wonderful response. Life is indeed good. I want to believe that we are not so much the lucky ones or even the oddballs, but that the vast majority of those that feel the same are more inclined to simply live than to report how wonderful they feel. Much as the Ra quote suggests that the planet only appears negative more as a result of the overly positive populace looking on in quiet horror, I believe that the same logic may hold as regards the happy ones as well. Yes we are lucky indeed. So too are many others.
Recently while visiting the Philippines I read an article in Newsweek on my flight as if by divine providence. It was entitled "The Happiness Quotient." Oddly it was a very old edition of several years, and yet there it was for me on my way to the very country that was its star as the report. In it was the evidence I sought as though lead to it. The Philippines and India were cited as two of the very poorest countries in the world with average annual incomes of only $2,000 per year for the Philippines, and less than $1,000 per year in India. Yet they rank as the happiest in the world. And guess where the United States as the wealthiest nation in the world stood? A very sad ranking indeed. What do you suppose this says about Americans in general? I was charmed every single morning by the fact that the children literally woke the roosters with their laughter in the streets of the barrios.
I have attempted before to suggest much the same in my commentaries of the past as a means of perhaps gently shining a mirror onto the subject that statements of wishing for a quick demise of the planet seem to be the antithesis of STO love. Children and roosters go the same way as do grandmothers and grandfathers with this inverted thinking. "I love the LOO so much that I can hardly wait for 2012 and the end of all life" is surely inverted thinking that says more about its believers than it does the truth or falsity of such 2012 beliefs. Notions such as these are in many ways the quintessence and epitome of ones own selfish desire towards the hope to be rid of all the problematic trifles such as money, politics and the what nots of STS we came here to polarize against in the first place. Although it surely lurks there and thrives there, many are too quick to name money and politic as STS too often. Sometimes not being able to make a buck is more a problem of the individual than it is the STS who certainly will not feed you. This inverted thinking is in many ways more than sweet irony. Mind you, it hurts as much as it causes a satirical wry smile to note in posts elsewhere as here. There are even self proclaimed gurus of the LOO who tragically are followed closely on this very point proclaiming the end of life is near.
Life is indeed good and is indeed for the living. "Let the dead bury the dead" as a wiser soul once shared 2000 years ago. Life is for the living. It seems to me that the LOO path is one more in keeping with hoping and believing for the gentler road for the benefit of all than is one hoping for such travesty? What in the world might one argue as an LOO approach where mayhem, destruction and death for all on the planet is supported as the path to peace, love, and transition? I have in the past, as you know, been befuddled with this from the beginning in various posts. I see a looming conflict in support of love and care for ones brother while yet awaiting and even hoping for such wide spread destruction for all in the same breath. Mind you, I believe this is done as a result of blind spots and naivete for most without thinking it all the way through. But for widely written authors to proclaim this while professing to be LOO authorities is another matter.
So yes brother, I believe we are not alone in our happiness, and that indeed there are many. Keep on believing Lavazza, and perhaps also send out gentle reminders here and there to those that are still new (or old) to the information and who have yet to sort out the horror of what I perceive to be a one sided 2012 information promulgated as perhaps an antithesis to the STO path. There is indeed another side to all this. Sadly many were led to the LOO, and even Bring 4th as a result of the fear message some have spread. Perhaps we may allay this message and give hope by mitigating it in degrees?
Be well my friend. As 3D stated in his previous post, the last words spoken each evening and morning are "I love you." Indeed, what more may be offered to the world at large than this? As you said, "I must say, this is a pretty special place in which we live, in good ol' third density. As below, so above? I will presume so."
What a wonderful presumption to live a life by...
Q