07-09-2011, 11:17 AM
Hey, Oldern! Great to see that you found this thread, and your experiences definitely add to the conversation. It seems you have hit a major point that can often go overlooked in these conversations; whether one is gaming against another human, or a computer-generated avatar.
The arguments seem to remain that there are two effects. One is the conscious will to kill/obliterate something that exists in any form. Step aside from the literal aspect of your pixels wiping out another set of pixels. Look at it a step before and think about the power of your intention to cause harm to another "thing".
Personally, I feel if a human is at the other end, this matter becomes even more complex, because as you stated, emotions can pass through the communications and the gaming process such that you know that hate or anger is coming at you.
In Reiki healing, those who are familiar with distance healing knows that there is a "Law of Proxy". And it is activated by simply using your will to substitute another object as another being. So I could be sending love to my friend, and the small act of declaring that my friend IS the little stuffed bear that I am holding (as a token or symbol), means that energetically, that IS my friend in my hand! Notice that is also is very similar to Voodooism, where it is often a black magic practice to create a doll with physical pieces of the human attached to it (like hair or finger nail clippings) in order to inflict energetic harm.
This is why I personally argue that through intention alone, it doesn't matter that it's only an avatar that the gamer is killing. Through the Law of Proxy, two energies are using two avatars to attack each other (when playing combat or offensive/defensive games).
Your comments about the guys hugging each other at the end is an interesting observation. Like all of our experiences in life, we have them because Earth is a school. It doesn't mean that gaming is an exception to that. Gaming in itself can be the school. And for the "adept gamer", perhaps he/she chose a life of having gaming experiences in order to learn how to experience intense anger through the catalyst of virtual combat, only to work on ways in which the same person can show compassion, graciousness, and good spirits at the end of such a competition. If an individual chose something like that, then gaming (for that person) might be a form of self-mastery, with video games being an intense catalyst towards helping the gamer to learn how to make emotional choices that are useful towards his/her spiritual development.
Steve
The arguments seem to remain that there are two effects. One is the conscious will to kill/obliterate something that exists in any form. Step aside from the literal aspect of your pixels wiping out another set of pixels. Look at it a step before and think about the power of your intention to cause harm to another "thing".
Personally, I feel if a human is at the other end, this matter becomes even more complex, because as you stated, emotions can pass through the communications and the gaming process such that you know that hate or anger is coming at you.
In Reiki healing, those who are familiar with distance healing knows that there is a "Law of Proxy". And it is activated by simply using your will to substitute another object as another being. So I could be sending love to my friend, and the small act of declaring that my friend IS the little stuffed bear that I am holding (as a token or symbol), means that energetically, that IS my friend in my hand! Notice that is also is very similar to Voodooism, where it is often a black magic practice to create a doll with physical pieces of the human attached to it (like hair or finger nail clippings) in order to inflict energetic harm.
This is why I personally argue that through intention alone, it doesn't matter that it's only an avatar that the gamer is killing. Through the Law of Proxy, two energies are using two avatars to attack each other (when playing combat or offensive/defensive games).
Your comments about the guys hugging each other at the end is an interesting observation. Like all of our experiences in life, we have them because Earth is a school. It doesn't mean that gaming is an exception to that. Gaming in itself can be the school. And for the "adept gamer", perhaps he/she chose a life of having gaming experiences in order to learn how to experience intense anger through the catalyst of virtual combat, only to work on ways in which the same person can show compassion, graciousness, and good spirits at the end of such a competition. If an individual chose something like that, then gaming (for that person) might be a form of self-mastery, with video games being an intense catalyst towards helping the gamer to learn how to make emotional choices that are useful towards his/her spiritual development.
Steve