The Tools of Distraction and Sleep

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Certainly these activities can be used to sleep and avoid life and to perhaps polarize negatively, but I see nothing in Ra's analysis nor in life that suggests this is a rule, so long as we are keen to open and balance the heart with these experiences.

hiya Jerome! thanks for your thoughts again, and the effort invested in elucidating them. Always welcome.

umm. I think it best to look at passage 34.12 in full. It comes in two parts ostensibly. Part one points to the 'dulling' effects of 'many' of our gadgets ... and the second paragraph points to the more 'experimental' and possibly activating aspects of certain gadgets. Nothing is absolutely cut and dried in the sense that 'all gadgets are bad' and create a dependency; rather the general thrust of the three quotes I posted suggests that it is all in 'how we use things' that determine their effect.

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re: WoW, yes the whole end-game raiding and associated guild-management (personality management, skill management) I've heard has extreme possibility for developing social management skills; which are applicable and transferrable to the 'what they say' real-world.

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re: less competitive games ... yah, that sounds like board games doesn't it? (and ironically 'bored games' lol). Games you play when you are bored lol.

perhaps I was a little too harsh in presenting the overall theme (that of sleep and distraction), and should have emphasised, instead, the individual utility of such gadgets. (like I did in another post)

in general, though, Ra is making observations as to the current (1980's current) overall trend of unawakened and unengaged humans ... and ... "note the symptomology of a societal complex seemingly dedicated to the most intransigent desire for the distortions of distraction, anonymity, and sleep" which leads to the low harvest ratio, and the non-perception of the manifold opportunities for progress, self-development, and, to be honest, enlightenment in the moment.

it is also a keen case of self-reflection to see how one has used one's time in the past (perhaps unwisely?) and offer forgiveness for the missed opportunities, and the ignored catalyst that we ourselves have engaged in.

as always, my posts are more comments on my general, on-the-spot frame of mind, rather than any direct attack or commentary on others or society

peace brother; we seek in very similiar ways Jerome. Thanks for the springboard for my thoughts.

blessings.