11-28-2010, 02:25 AM
I have to say I'm enjoying the resurrection of this topic here, as it was about a year ago in my 'Argh!' thead. Enjoying because I am learning quite a bit, but I would please, please ask that before anyone posts again he or she take a deep breath and remember that we are One in the same, and what that One is is Love itself made manifest. Topics like these can lead to anger in a hurry and raise our gentle mind/body/spirit complexes' blood pressure. Just saying... Lets feel some love for each other first and foremost. 
Unity, I'm really enjoying your points, but I have to agree with Seejay that this is a pretty bad analogy. Downloading copyrighted material is just too far off from stealing potatoes to feed a starving family for me to make sense of. If you could make another analogy that is closer in comparison I could follow you more closely. But as it is now it doesn't work.
And what of the average Joe seeking to increase his salary from $40k/year to $45k/year? Both sums are viewed as weath beyond imagining to some of the poorest people in the world- the same as how you are viewing the millionaire. With your reasoning Joe would be on the sts path as well as just about everyone. I think that's unsound logic.
Anyways, I don't see resolve to the debate here as I eventually realized it wouldn't happen in my old thread. The best course of action I feel is to follow what you believe is the right thing to do in your heart while at least attempting understanding if not achieving it for those around you who disagree. Much LOVE,
~Lavazza
(11-27-2010, 10:00 PM)unity100 Wrote: i wonder what you would do in 1785 france, you and your family hungry, and the lord not sharing anything from the fields .... with your logic, you would to a very fine subservient serf. die in place, if you are not given food.
Unity, I'm really enjoying your points, but I have to agree with Seejay that this is a pretty bad analogy. Downloading copyrighted material is just too far off from stealing potatoes to feed a starving family for me to make sense of. If you could make another analogy that is closer in comparison I could follow you more closely. But as it is now it doesn't work.
(11-27-2010, 10:00 PM)unity100 Wrote: how is having millions, but wanting to have tens of millions, is not a sts act in itself ?
And what of the average Joe seeking to increase his salary from $40k/year to $45k/year? Both sums are viewed as weath beyond imagining to some of the poorest people in the world- the same as how you are viewing the millionaire. With your reasoning Joe would be on the sts path as well as just about everyone. I think that's unsound logic.
Anyways, I don't see resolve to the debate here as I eventually realized it wouldn't happen in my old thread. The best course of action I feel is to follow what you believe is the right thing to do in your heart while at least attempting understanding if not achieving it for those around you who disagree. Much LOVE,
~Lavazza