Quote:42.4 Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

Charles Upton' Wrote:[W]hen Love takes the field, it meets no opponent... Love is not the
opposite of hate and the enemy of it; where Love is, there can be no enemy.

(02-04-2017, 04:18 PM)Nicholas Wrote: My favourite articulation of love comes from Eckhert Tolle in his book The Power of Now. He says "Love has no opposite". If we look at the balancing exercises recommended by Ra, they suggest that every emotional experience has an opposite aspect. 

Take a coin toss for example, that instead of having a head and a tail, has the letters STO and STS engraved on each face. Somebody says "pick a side", and so you choose STO.  Love to me is the full acknowledgement that although you prefer STO, the opposite side, STS is an equally valid preference. To take it further, you recognise the STS within your own being. You are the coin itself.

Love is more a feeling than it is an emotion (a definite semantic issue, I admit), which has no antithesis in my view (which I share with Eckhert).

I am going to point to a perceived nuance from 42.4 and highlight a point I would like to address.

Quote:42.4 Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

So the nuance I am referring to is that although Ra affirmed Dons query, they omitted the word "emotional" from their answer. I really don't think that was an arbitrary or accidental thing. 

I would say that judgement is more a distortion of love than it is it's opposite, and the conventional wisdom is that this distortion is valid and necessary. I think that that is more a consequence of a moral social codification though. When judgement is expressed in a personal relationship however, I think Jade has it right in her metaphysical diagnosis. 

Also, I think it is worth pointing out a difference between judging somebody and discriminating against somebody. To judge is to reject certain portions of ourselves and project them onto others, while to discriminate is to evaluate whether or not another can be trusted or not, which is more about the subtleties of reading body language and habitual behaviour, and nothing to do with the worthiness of another persons chosen form of expression.

I hope you are okay, glow. I am going to dedicate one of my favourite songs to you over on the music thread just to let you know that you are loved unconditionally, even if you are unable to wrap your physical arms around the sentiment, I would love to give you a brotherly squeeze.

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(02-04-2017, 04:31 PM)Nía Wrote:

Charles Upton' Wrote:[W]hen Love takes the field, it meets no opponent... Love is not the
opposite of hate and the enemy of it; where Love is, there can be no enemy.

Quo Wrote:Let us speak about the fingerprint on the window that is called fear. In effect each fingerprint could be labeled fear because fear is the opposite of love.

(02-04-2017, 05:20 PM)Nía Wrote:

Quo Wrote:Let us speak about the fingerprint on the window that is called fear. In effect each fingerprint could be labeled fear because fear is the opposite of love.

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(02-04-2017, 10:55 AM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Judgement is just the negative pole of discernment, I don't think it's inherently bad in itself nor the opposite of love. I think the opposite of love would be "rejection".

I think fear is the initial reaction (red ray), which then moves into negative judgement, which can turn into hate and anger. Just my opinion in slightly altered semantics.