Sts threads.

[Ali Quadir]

From a practical standpoint, polarity, STO, STS, positive, negative, light, dark, good, bad…they are all metaphors. Metaphors for a conscious choice on how you live your life and how you treat others.

Hear hear...

In my humble and hardly expert opinion I too believe that these metaphors serve as models for living our lives, a point of reference to check ourselves on. It's not absolute reality. STS and STO are both dependent on the distortion of unity into fragments. So they both are already a distortion of who you truly are.

As such models go they are tremendously useful instruments. But I think they should not be mistaken for life. I would suggest to try to understand how they work, try to discern their basic message. And find others in the same area. Together the models will give you a more detailed understanding than any single model ever could. There's a lot of these models, all of them are a fragment of the larger picture with for each certain emphasis added on certain phenomena and insights. Together they give a much clearer insight.

I expect Ra intended the guide to be practical more than he intended it to be the final word on the subject. At any rate we tend to get stuck if we try to reason too far from practical situations with them. So I guess that's their domain.

Basically every pragmatic metaphor has a domain. It's not downplaying Ra when we consider that the STS and STO metaphor is intended for our direct and practical challenges. He would not be a friend if he gave us information which is accurate and complete but in the end not applicable by us to our situation.