Ra's Adventures in Wonderland

[Tenet Nosce]

It's funny, the different things we notice.

Fascinating, isn't it?

I guess I don't really pay attention to arguments like the one you spoofed/paraphrased earlier, but I do notice a lot of people seemingly tripping themselves up about what does it mean to be of service in the context of the Law of One with arguments like (paraphrased) "if we are all one, then serving others is the same as serving the self so it doesn't really matter if I try to serve others" and "if it makes me feel good to serve others then that must be service to self."

Right. So maybe it would be more instructive to leave self/other out of the equation for the time being and focus on asking: What is service?

Otherwise, perhaps you and I would begin discussing the above paraphrases, but having a different concept of what constitutes service.

To me, serving others is arithmetic; trying to figure out how it works in the context of the Law of One is calculus.

I think I know what you mean. It has always come rather natural to me as well. However, in my experience I have encountered many difficulties in serving others. Quite often, I have found that the difficulty was sourced in my own distortion. Thus, when I attended to the lessening of my distortion (serving myself), I often found that I was more empowered to serve others. Occasionally, I have observed others having spontaneous breakthroughs in their own development, without me ever having to say a word, after doing some inner work.