Hello Quantum,
Well written my friend. I enjoyed your narrative from start to finish, and were we conversing together over coffee, you would see me nodding vigorously at times and joining you in lighthearted chuckles at others. Well spoken indeed! Due to my vast agreement I have but only a few areas to comment upon:
It doesn't make much sense to me either, although I suppose to some there is likely the excitement factor that goes along with this idea that is found to be attractive. Yet perhaps not fully thought through? Many more may feel this also coupled with the "get out of jail free" card for their lives which they deem difficult. Though I may be too presumptuous. At any rate I have wondered what will be the response from these individuals on Dec 22nd 2012, the day after "the day". I sincerely hope that it won't be taken too hard when the sun rises and people go about their work a day life much like any other day. And I especially sincerely hope that none are so desperate to then voluntarily end their own lives for fear that they have somehow missed the harvest, done something wrong, or some other such thing (by no means do I have anyone on this forum in mind). Were that to happen it would be a great loss of that individual, and I might theorize that TLOO works might fall in to the category of cult material in the mainstream public's view should a news agency decide that it, the LOO, was the cause of the suicide. In itself this is not detrimental but that it might turn others away from the material in the future. (Now of course- no discussion about 2012 would be complete without my disclaimer that I do not know for certain that the world will not implode on the magic 2012 date- it's just my hunch that it will not)
I feel this is so, definitely. A similar conversation arose a while back in what thread I cannot remember nor with which forum user, but the dialog came to money and how it was this persons' conviction that the whole of our financial system was STS in design and of disadvantage to your common person. My response at the time, and still is today, is that money in and of itself is a completely neutral device. Any action which comes as a result of it's use is not because of the money, or because of our financial landscape. It is completely due to the person or persons behind that money. It can be put to works of pure charity, loving compassion and goodwill. Yet this is never focused upon? To call out money as evil would necessitate also calling out rocks as evil. For you see, they were the enabler for primitive human kind to murder one another easily. Or how about fire? How many more entities need to be roasted alive before we call out this villainous traitor who seems to delight in consuming all it can touch? Nay, nay my friend, they are but tools and are inherently inert from a polarity point of view. It's what you do with the rock (bash a head, or build a house?), or do with the fire (roast a friend, or roast some food?). At any rate, to make a long paragraph short, I agree.
L&L, ~Lavazza
Well written my friend. I enjoyed your narrative from start to finish, and were we conversing together over coffee, you would see me nodding vigorously at times and joining you in lighthearted chuckles at others. Well spoken indeed! Due to my vast agreement I have but only a few areas to comment upon:
Quote: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?
It doesn't make much sense to me either, although I suppose to some there is likely the excitement factor that goes along with this idea that is found to be attractive. Yet perhaps not fully thought through? Many more may feel this also coupled with the "get out of jail free" card for their lives which they deem difficult. Though I may be too presumptuous. At any rate I have wondered what will be the response from these individuals on Dec 22nd 2012, the day after "the day". I sincerely hope that it won't be taken too hard when the sun rises and people go about their work a day life much like any other day. And I especially sincerely hope that none are so desperate to then voluntarily end their own lives for fear that they have somehow missed the harvest, done something wrong, or some other such thing (by no means do I have anyone on this forum in mind). Were that to happen it would be a great loss of that individual, and I might theorize that TLOO works might fall in to the category of cult material in the mainstream public's view should a news agency decide that it, the LOO, was the cause of the suicide. In itself this is not detrimental but that it might turn others away from the material in the future. (Now of course- no discussion about 2012 would be complete without my disclaimer that I do not know for certain that the world will not implode on the magic 2012 date- it's just my hunch that it will not)
Quote: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.
I feel this is so, definitely. A similar conversation arose a while back in what thread I cannot remember nor with which forum user, but the dialog came to money and how it was this persons' conviction that the whole of our financial system was STS in design and of disadvantage to your common person. My response at the time, and still is today, is that money in and of itself is a completely neutral device. Any action which comes as a result of it's use is not because of the money, or because of our financial landscape. It is completely due to the person or persons behind that money. It can be put to works of pure charity, loving compassion and goodwill. Yet this is never focused upon? To call out money as evil would necessitate also calling out rocks as evil. For you see, they were the enabler for primitive human kind to murder one another easily. Or how about fire? How many more entities need to be roasted alive before we call out this villainous traitor who seems to delight in consuming all it can touch? Nay, nay my friend, they are but tools and are inherently inert from a polarity point of view. It's what you do with the rock (bash a head, or build a house?), or do with the fire (roast a friend, or roast some food?). At any rate, to make a long paragraph short, I agree.
L&L, ~Lavazza