Okay so we all lose. Now what?
Positive zero sum realities are set up so that distribution is consensual and doesn’t bother people TOO much! That’s what your referring to as a balanced reality.
Are we currently fucked?! Hell yes we are!
There is not one being in existence who is currently not in some form of hell. People find this offensive because they think (religiously) that the highest state of consciousness sees everything as perfect!
I know enough about the spirit world (please don’t roll your eyes) that if the souls came together to create a positive NON zero sum reality for all of us, it’d be done.
I’m an activist, but I’m also waiting on the sidelines.
Life isn’t a zero-sum transaction for anyone who can enjoy any aspect of it. Maybe it seems that way to you because your empathy for the suffering prevents you from enjoying the goods life offers you.
Why should it be any other way? When I detect any consent violation, I know I’m being threatened.
Empathy has a dark side.
Felix,
And I was dark as it gets. I tried to destroy existence!
Not something I’d recommend to anyone! (Empathy wise). It takes a lot to destroy even one soul, can you imagine trying to destroy an infinite number and all of them?!?!
Sometimes it is impossible to destroy something but you can change its location.
According to some type of Jediism, love should be avoided and replaced by the will to help everyone equally instead of playing favorites.
I was reminded of that when i read your post.
Will has a dark side too. The pursuit of wholeness, it seems to me, is a quest for balance.
Power transcends light and dark because power can turn a negative into a positive or a positive into a negative.
Power means balance can be exerted at the cost of abundant energy.
Power transcends balance.
Power is potency. Not to be mistaken for political power.
Political power is vile.
Animal power, the power to exist and live, is a form of strength, too.
Strength is health.
Something to think about.
“Power” is ambiguous. You narrowed it down slightly by excluding political power. But, all political power isn’t vile either. Political power has done things like feed the poor.
This is because you have a different idea about what power is and what political is.
When i refer to political power, the vile kind,
i mean, everybody obeying an individual.
The more people you control, the more power you gain.
Charity and government can cause one another.
I never said good and government can’t mix.
I tried to describe power by referring it to animal power.
It is that which can secure your life and make your will manifest in the world.
The definitions of my words are my own a little bit.
Power is often used as a synonym for energy. In classical mythology there are different kinds of power typified by the gods and the heroes. There’s a power of Zeus’s Thunderbolts. The power of Heracles’ strength. The power of Aphrodite’s beauty. Embodied power is easier to understand. Of course now we have the impersonal power of the nuclear warhead.
Theists pray to God the almighty and all-powerful thus making power a divine attribute which can never be left out because it makes God God. If power is the indispensable divine quality why not to use it affirmatively for humanity and the world?
Asclepius and Jesus had the power of healing. There is a need for healing today if our sick and broken souls are going to approach anything like wholeness.
“The supreme good is like water.”
“The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities.”
Tao Te Ching
“Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life” (John iv.13, 14).
The experience of Wholeness is a matter of staying open to the source, the ground and abyss of being.
The supreme good contains infinite elements of every basic kind.
Water is a good one, but there is an unlimited amount of good-ones.
It’s a simile. How is the ultimate good like water? I suppose all those elements of which you speak are contained in it and it is contained in the Tao. Where are we in this picture? Within the water of infinite possibilities what constraints do we imagine our selves/egos/brains/bodies limit us to? Here are three possibilities from cognitive science:
1 thought is mostly unconscious
2 abstract concepts(like the ones above) are largely metaphorical
3 the mind is inherently embodied
Individuation, the actualization of wholeness, focuses on experiences of meaning. On these occasions one becomes aware of a sense of meaning inherent in the universe. The nihilists say it’s projected meaning. But perhaps the meaning is there all the time, our minds are just too dull to notice it.
At these moments, peak experiences Maslow called them, our consciousness widens. We see the world as it is–full of meaning.
Religion tries to codify, ritualize and institutionalize these experiences. In them God speaks to us. But that expression is merely a metaphor for what is actually ineffable. Some atheists have these experiences too.
These experiences take us beyond the subject-object split. They intimate that our belief in our insignificance–that we have very little control over our lives and destinies and that we can’t win, is a fallacy. They suggest that instead of broken mechanisms we are sleeping gods.
“When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest Hell.”
William Blake
The modern emphasis on the individual’s insignificance results in a growing resentment towards the anonymous power that controls our lives. In some cases this resentment reaches homicidal levels as the need to release and assert one’s being becomes urgent.
Cute. Love doesn’t even have a hell. Nobody in hell is thinking “thank you love for sending me here for no reason just so you can save me so that I know you’re the boss”
You’ll get no argument from me on that point.
Hold on to the center.