Quantum, thank you for speaking up! You have made many important points that I agree wholeheartedly with.
I think many of us are so concerned with being loving that we might sometimes get wishy-washy.
Religious people often tend to believe in absolute truth and some even take it to the degree of shunning what we call political correctness. In our efforts to distance ourselves from such rigid and judgmental thinking, perhaps we have indeed gone too far in the other direction, and have lost conviction about those things that are truly heinous and clearly of the STS path.
I am reminded of the high school students who were discussing Hitler and said "Well I personally don't agree with what he did, but who am I to say he was wrong?" or, to put it more bluntly "Maybe killing others is right for some people."
Say, what?
I think it's important to remember that, even though, ultimately, we ARE all ONE, at this juncture our task is to define our path...to clearly state "I am this, not that." Even Q'uo has stated "We are not those...we are of the radiant path."
Did anyone notice that? Here is Q'UO saying "We are not those." How can this be, when Q'uo IS those? Isn't this a contradiction? (Ah, but the Law of One is all about the resolution of paradox, eh?) If we are all One, then we are ALL 'those,' right?
Yes and no.
Yes, in the true sense.
Yes, in the sense of recognizing how we all mirror to one another.
Yes, in terms of loving other-selves, even those of the dark and bloody path.
But NO, in terms of the purpose of this incarnation: The Choice.
For while in 3-D, our task is to choose.
In order to choose, we must be 'not that'...at least temporarily.
Why try to gloss over the obvious?
Why try so hard to be ONE that we forget about THE CHOICE?
And yet, here is the paradox:
The very act of choosing the STO path, which entails being 'NOT' STS, stipulates that we see STS as ourselves, as catalyst. And love them. Thus, recognize our Oneness.
But...not identify with them in the sense of our choice of path.
Because, for the time being anyway, we are 'not that.' In order to choose something, there must be something else that we are not choosing, and therefore are rejecting. That is inherent to choice.
So no, it's not ok to be a mass murderer. Not for those on the STO path, anyway. I think it's not only ok, but important to look at that mass murderer, and unabashedly affirm that no, I am not that...while simultaneously and paradoxically realizing that the darkness in that entity mirrors a darkness in ourselves, even if it's only a tiny sliver...and love and embrace that tiny sliver until it is transformed into glorious LIGHT...this is the paradox...we must love that darkness, for that is the only way to shine light into it and thus dispel the darkness...for isn't that the whole point? Isn't that how the darkness serves the Creator, by giving us an opportunity to love? What a gift! And yet, we must do this, while remaining firm in our conviction that, though we are One with that and mirrored by that, we do not choose that.. we are 'not that.' We are not of that bloody path but of the radiant path.
Please forgive the rambling. I'm not sure if I've managed to convey what I'm trying to say here.
I think many of us are so concerned with being loving that we might sometimes get wishy-washy.
Religious people often tend to believe in absolute truth and some even take it to the degree of shunning what we call political correctness. In our efforts to distance ourselves from such rigid and judgmental thinking, perhaps we have indeed gone too far in the other direction, and have lost conviction about those things that are truly heinous and clearly of the STS path.
I am reminded of the high school students who were discussing Hitler and said "Well I personally don't agree with what he did, but who am I to say he was wrong?" or, to put it more bluntly "Maybe killing others is right for some people."
Say, what?
I think it's important to remember that, even though, ultimately, we ARE all ONE, at this juncture our task is to define our path...to clearly state "I am this, not that." Even Q'uo has stated "We are not those...we are of the radiant path."
Did anyone notice that? Here is Q'UO saying "We are not those." How can this be, when Q'uo IS those? Isn't this a contradiction? (Ah, but the Law of One is all about the resolution of paradox, eh?) If we are all One, then we are ALL 'those,' right?
Yes and no.
Yes, in the true sense.
Yes, in the sense of recognizing how we all mirror to one another.
Yes, in terms of loving other-selves, even those of the dark and bloody path.
But NO, in terms of the purpose of this incarnation: The Choice.
For while in 3-D, our task is to choose.
In order to choose, we must be 'not that'...at least temporarily.
Why try to gloss over the obvious?
Why try so hard to be ONE that we forget about THE CHOICE?
And yet, here is the paradox:
The very act of choosing the STO path, which entails being 'NOT' STS, stipulates that we see STS as ourselves, as catalyst. And love them. Thus, recognize our Oneness.
But...not identify with them in the sense of our choice of path.
Because, for the time being anyway, we are 'not that.' In order to choose something, there must be something else that we are not choosing, and therefore are rejecting. That is inherent to choice.
So no, it's not ok to be a mass murderer. Not for those on the STO path, anyway. I think it's not only ok, but important to look at that mass murderer, and unabashedly affirm that no, I am not that...while simultaneously and paradoxically realizing that the darkness in that entity mirrors a darkness in ourselves, even if it's only a tiny sliver...and love and embrace that tiny sliver until it is transformed into glorious LIGHT...this is the paradox...we must love that darkness, for that is the only way to shine light into it and thus dispel the darkness...for isn't that the whole point? Isn't that how the darkness serves the Creator, by giving us an opportunity to love? What a gift! And yet, we must do this, while remaining firm in our conviction that, though we are One with that and mirrored by that, we do not choose that.. we are 'not that.' We are not of that bloody path but of the radiant path.
Please forgive the rambling. I'm not sure if I've managed to convey what I'm trying to say here.