(02-14-2018, 05:12 AM)777 Wrote: My only source of income at this time is a competitive form of financial trading where every dollar I make is somebody else's loss. It is legal, but unethical from my perspective. It adds nothing of value to the world. I have no other options to make a living because of my circumstances. I do not find it possible to be positively polarized while doing this, and I am only capable of consistently winning and sustaining myself through the mentality that I am out to take as much as possible.
It only adds nothing of value if you do nothing positive with the money you make. That is completely your choice, however. The exchange of money is totally voluntary. Nothing is being stolen. You can choose to donate portions of money to good things like charity, or create a business that employs people to do something useful for the world. Again, completely your choice. There is good and bad in everything. Even robin-hood did good when he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. So I have to chuckle when people say a given thing adds no value to the world. It is just simply not true. You create the value, and you dis-create it when you assume it has no intrinsic value. It is just way of not taking responsibility for creating value. The universe is infinitely resourceful. Even the waste that falls from our bodies is recycled. It is true for everything else too.
There is a difference between developing self for selfish reasons, and developing self to better help others down the line. That is the charge of polarity. But again, it is totally your choice. I don't say any of this to make you feel bad, just to empower real choice. There is good and bad in everything. No polarity is being forced upon you.