07-08-2012, 02:13 PM
(07-08-2012, 12:29 PM)Pickle Wrote:(07-08-2012, 12:20 PM)ShinAr Wrote: I wonder how long your addiction will last?
Another 47 years or so. My "stagnation" has changed this body to the point where the natural span would extend another 90 years if left to live. I have certain purposes to fulfill while here, taking care of them one by one. And I am loving it in the meantime.
Of course, I wouldn't mind experiencing other physical forms as well.
well at least when you're ready you will have much to look forward to.
(07-08-2012, 12:31 PM)Oldern Wrote: Shin'Ar, the problem with generalizations is that they are always wrong.
See what I did there?
Here is the thing, according to my beliefs. Addiction is something that one instinctively does without thinking about it, be it a physiological or any other kind of addiction. Habitually eating, smoking and drinking stuff is a conscious choice, however, no matter how you wrap it up. The thing is: nature is designed around movement and change. If you have a habit, sooner or later you will have to face the "fact" that you might not be able to enjoy it. Be it a body imbalance, a disease, money situations, anything.
Whether you are able to let it go is irrelevant. The experience one gets when facing such and addiction (and I think I am not gravely mistaken when I say all of us has faced this in our lives at one point, or we will) is what's important. There is no danger in the "addicted to humanity". Astral realms are specifically designed around letting our body/mind/spirit complexes outlive certain desires until they no longer entertain us enough so we can move on to the "next" incarnations (or the previous ones.).
My problem with the "humanity is like the cocaine for the higher souls" approach is this: "as in Up, so is down. as in the heavens, so are here". Fractallic, holographic designs, BY DESIGN do not allow something "to be true on all levels - EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE! No. There cannot be exceptions like this. It is like saying "everything in existence is eternal -except for things that are not." Nope. Therefore, you cannot embrace and love this existence fully and at the same time wish to run from it cause it is something that is a dangerous, sinful experience. It either is, and then all existence is just that, or it, by definition, cannot be that place.
This world and density is here for us to enjoy, learn from, evolve and grow. It is not here to remain forever caught up in. This one tiny aspect of Creation is One with the All but it is not in itself the All.
The All awaits our growth into it.
growth does not occur if one chooses to remain retarded in development.
One can choose to remain in grade school their entire life just because they like the gymnasium. But in so doing their existence becomes one of stagnation and limitations. They do not develop. They do not move on to college. They do not learn anything other than what is taught in grade school.
The danger is not in the enjoyment of the school, the danger is in enjoying it so much that you never graduate. In never graduating you never experience the rest of what creation has to offer.
Some birds flutter from branch to branch of the same tree never going to another tree.
Other birds soar through the treetops and into the mountains, and travel into other lands.
What more becomes available to the soaring bird that the flutterer can not even begin to imagine?