10-12-2012, 07:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2012, 08:31 PM by neutral333.)
While taking a shower (a place where I have great thoughts), it came to me that Serving one/some could be a disservice to others and even yourself.
Some examples come to mind:
-Someone who works to the point of physical detriment out of service for their family (just as Carla has).
-Helping one's business and co-workers to grow and succeed only to find that it resulted in the collapse of several other businesses and people losing their jobs.
-Caring for an ill parent while neglecting your spouse.
I always believe that I am overwhelmingly STO, at the same time I came to the realization a while back that I had to take care of (serve) my self to a certain point before I could serve others. When I lacked in helping myself, it forced others who care about me to expend their hard won energies and resources on me and I lacked the confidence that I could truly serve others.
Is it possible to set off a chain reaction of complete service to others?
Are people who are serving themselves actually serving others by showing us that as individual portions of the One Infinite Creator we are important and need to treat ourselves well?
Are slaves the most harvestable entities as their service to another or others is surely over 51%?
Lastly, it is common sense that in order to live in a world where you rely at least minutely on others, you must serve others in order that they might better serve you (for STS's out there). Why is there such a dialectic here?
Somebody straighten out my thoughts...please.
Also. I use the symbol of Yin Yang, or as in chinese the Taijitu (yin and yang are characteristics represented by a symbol of a different name), to make sense of opposing ideas. My questioning follows this symbol's suggestion that each opposing force necessarily includes its opposite within.
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Some examples come to mind:
-Someone who works to the point of physical detriment out of service for their family (just as Carla has).
-Helping one's business and co-workers to grow and succeed only to find that it resulted in the collapse of several other businesses and people losing their jobs.
-Caring for an ill parent while neglecting your spouse.
I always believe that I am overwhelmingly STO, at the same time I came to the realization a while back that I had to take care of (serve) my self to a certain point before I could serve others. When I lacked in helping myself, it forced others who care about me to expend their hard won energies and resources on me and I lacked the confidence that I could truly serve others.
Is it possible to set off a chain reaction of complete service to others?
Are people who are serving themselves actually serving others by showing us that as individual portions of the One Infinite Creator we are important and need to treat ourselves well?
Are slaves the most harvestable entities as their service to another or others is surely over 51%?
Lastly, it is common sense that in order to live in a world where you rely at least minutely on others, you must serve others in order that they might better serve you (for STS's out there). Why is there such a dialectic here?
Somebody straighten out my thoughts...please.

Also. I use the symbol of Yin Yang, or as in chinese the Taijitu (yin and yang are characteristics represented by a symbol of a different name), to make sense of opposing ideas. My questioning follows this symbol's suggestion that each opposing force necessarily includes its opposite within.