07-08-2013, 05:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2013, 05:22 PM by Adonai One.)
(07-08-2013, 05:12 PM)TheEternal Wrote: Yes, that is what I am saying, and I do not mean it in any regard beyond my own personal choices of perception and biases of distortion. I have made choices in my life that have caused me to gain a view in which both individual and collective are united, but the whole point is to stop bickering about whether or not anything is better or worse and the way I see it, that can only happen from a collective attempt from many individuals. So, are many individuals better than one? Of course not.Beautiful words, my friend.
However, two, or three, can accomplish what may be very difficult for one. It is not about any sort of superiority or negation of the individual and really I think that kind of perception can come from a very deep yellow ray blockage feeling of unworthiness and insignificance of the self. It is not about making anything more important than anything else, but the realization that there is a choice.
Will you choose your own, individual will over the will of the collective will? Will you live only to fulfill your fleshly desires and ignore the callings of sorrow from millions or billions? How can one live with themselves as an individual when the masses are suffering? I do not say this to you, I say this to all, I question this to all.
This world and the creatures on it are my children, our children, we created this beautiful garden, but how many think of the planet itself as being alive and conscious? How many know that the trees whisper and talk, and love? How many know that the rocks love to cuddle and that's why they squeeze so tight together?
This is magic, this is life, this is the spirit that enlivens everything, and is everything. The fact that a lead will one day be gold does not negate the experience and purpose of the lead, but in truth the lead only becomes gold because that is its deepest and most primal impulse, to transform and transcend. This is not done to avoid being lead, but to experience also the joys of being gold and every stage in between. You see, transcendence is actually just the mechanism of the evolution of the cosmic self. It is as natural of a process as a plant sprouting or an egg hatching.
My only real concern is this: When we deny the ego, the self completely, service becomes quite impossible.
I will not accept slavery, I will not accept or put anything above myself in this regard.
I attest we are of the best service when we have all of our freewill. When we sell it over to the spook known as the collective, we become absorbed only by the ones with freewill and chances are that they do not wish to be of postive service.
Anyways, I see this argument is just a Hegel vs. Stirner debate.