How Do STS's View Other Selves?

[anagogy]

To me evil, at least within the way it is commonly understood, is a term that contains confusion more than adepthood. Evil seems to be what negative beings want to be perceived as, and this as a mean to not receive love and compassion from others. It is a mask that hides scars, vulnerability and broken innocence. It is a shell put upon the true self to lose sight of it, because that becomes the way of least resistance.

In some ways I would agree. But to me, evil is just a word, just like negative polarity is just words. Both mean, at least to me, a kind of exaltation of the negative pole -- the pole of the egoic and carnal self. And the same goes for the opposite polarity of good/STO: they exalt the northern pole, which is selflessness.

Not too long ago I pondered with a friend how STS came to be, and we both seemed to feel deeply within ourselves that it was the result of martyrhood. That some did not fit within systems they were a part of, and that they denied themselves for others, that they repressed themselves without acceptance of how they were, valorizing how others were before themselves, that this created great distortions over time and built up ressentment for all that is and shifted selflessness into it's opposite.

I'm sure that is how some people turn to STS, but I doubt it is by any means representative of the negative polarity as a whole. But i'm sure that resentment certainly plays a strong role in polarizing towards the southern pole, as well as anger, frustration and a whole host of other negative mental/emotive expressions.

To quote Ra, "Some love light, and some love darkness."

I cannot look at another's selfishness without thinking that there is a greater underlying selflessness. You can try to convince me to perceive otherwise, but I am quite sure that this will fail.

I think what you said here is interesting because I think a lot of people who think they idolize negative polarization fall into this trap of mistakenly confusing their truly desired polarity with its complete opposite. I think this is exactly why so many teens and young adults are so enamored with being a "bad ass" and keeping up their "street cred" and basically putting on a quasi STS image, smoking cigs, doing drugs, stealing, and basically flirting with the more shallow aspects or fringes of the negative polarity because they "think its cool" or they think that is what they want (in reality they are just seeking group approval). The fact is, most of those people eventually get burned by an actual somewhat darkly polarized STS being (who really does enjoy the horrors of negativity) which scares them into seeking what they were truly desiring but looking for in all the wrong places: STO love.

In otherwords, the ones that are seeking negative polarity because they are hurt and confused are not truly STS, they are just lost and looking to get their sense of power back. I think that is what you imagine when you think of STS folks. But basically, I think if you had a multitude of real interactions with really polarized STS types you would see my point very clearly (I know you probably believe you already have, but I guess we are both entitled to our differing opinions). You are free to perceive as you like, I have little desire to change you. I just like to speak my mind every now and then.