Ra's Statements About 2D Entities

[Monica]

Monica, I'm curious: do you think it's negative when animals eat other animals?

Did you mean negative as in polarizing for the perpetrator, or cruel to the victim?

First, let's define negative.

In Law of One terminology, I'd define negative as being in opposition to one's chosen path of polarity. What is inappropriate, counterproductive, and depolarizing to an STO-oriented entity might be entirely appropriate, productive and polarizing to an STS-oriented entity. But this only pertains to 3D+.

These concepts have No application for 2D entities, whose primary objective is to develop sentience, thus reaching harvestability to 3D.

Yet, we are seeing more and more cases of higher 2D entities showing awareness of other-selves, to the point even of consideration, compassion and love. Not just dogs protecting their humans through pack instinct, but bears rescuing birds, swans feeding fish, rats sacrificing their own comfort to aid other rats, cows setting other cows free, and myriad other examples.

So this shows, unmistakably, that these virtues exist in 2D, even though they aren't yet required, just as higher love and wisdom exists among 3D entities, beyond the point of the bare minimum threshold.

So it stands to reason that this could go in either direction; ie., just as the bear showed compassion for the bird, so too might a cat torture a mouse just for fun, and delight in the other's suffering. Therein lie the seeds of their future polarity, perhaps.

But, for the most part, I'd say No, hunting and killing other animals aren't negative when done by animals. Why? For the simple reason that they are doing it for survival. The lion in the wild must kill the impala to survive. A domesticated cat, well-fed on store-bought kibble by a caring human, doesn't need to kill that mouse, but still retains the instinct to do so. So even then, even when it isn't necessary, I don't think it's reasonable to expect the cat to be at the level of comprehension to consciously choose to torture that mouse vs set him free. That's some pretty advanced stuff even for many 3D humans.

From the perspective of the victim, it's all the same. The deer being torn apart in the forest by wolves wants to live just as much as the cow waiting in line for slaughter. They both bleed just the same, they both feel pain just the same. We can only speculate as to why the Logos designed the system of wild animals feeding on one another. The most likely explanation, in my opinion, is that it was intended to be a system for weeding out the weak and injured, thus sparing them an even longer, more agonizing death.

At any rate, we aren't animals living in the wild, dependent upon hunting prey to survive. (Most of us anyway.) We can endeavor to raise the vibration of this planet, and move forwards and upwards, rather than backwards and downwards.

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