(04-18-2015, 02:09 AM)APeacefulWarrior Wrote: A good teacher tailors the lesson to the student. Since Adonai was rejecting/mocking anything related to the LOO, interconnection, love, etc, I saw very little point in making speeches on those subjects. So I spoke to him using his language and his logic, specifically to illustrate the failings of that mode of thought.
The first step towards change is wanting to change. I was attempting to induce that want, by showing his current thought patterns were insufficient and contradictory to many of his expressed purposes. If he recognized this disharmony in any way, it would likely motivate him and/or provide catalyst that would help push him out of the solipistic/nihilistic/reflexively self-justifying mindset he'd gotten himself into.
To be honest, I didn't even care all that much whether he catalyzed it as positive or negative. I'd prefer positive, but I'd still consider further negative development to be better than being trapped in a total philosophical quagmire, in the grand scheme.
I find that sometimes negative energies cannot be directly "converted" to positive, and that they have to be treated more like a flowing river. Redirect the river towards a useful purpose, and it helps to bring positivity out of the negativity. Likewise, if anyone came along and saw in Adonai a warning against falling into such thought-patterns themselves, that would be another way that negative energies could be redirected towards positive purpose.
That's good, I didn't mean to imply that it was good or bad. I was just curious to know why so many people who say they want to polarize positively give in to negativity so easily. 3D being 3D I guess.