A proposal

[Glow]

All philosophy is a justification of action, for good or for ill.

And all actions mirror your own potential to feel, with or without a sense of justification.

The feeling then just becomes another justification, whether or not there is a sense of it. The bland fact is that people care about their desires more than anything else.

I'd say desires/feelings are the cause of action, justification comes into play when you feel like you owe to justify your current conditions either to yourself because of your own lack of understanding and compassion for yourself, or to others because of their own lack understanding and compassion for you.

If we take Jade's expression of desire for power and control over this thread or forum based on her vision of what it should be and for which kind of other-selves she has compassion for and resonate, in that statement I saw wounds manifesting a negative distortion. And this is basically what I'm ever sharing on this forum, STS is hurt love. It's nothing very abstract or out of reach of understanding, it is actually quite simple and if one has distastes for that which is STS then what one has distastes for what one can become through being hurt. It is easy to see yourself as above others in the choices you make, but you are never above others, you stand at their side from the same Source and what has created negative distortions within you would have created negative distortions within all others, and what has created positive distortions within you would have created positive distortions within all others, there's never otherwise and there's none better nor lesser.

Acceptance gravitates toward being unconditional and all-encompassing as one's own point of view grows, and then it wouldn't aim at keeping different states of being and expressions of the same beingness as apart. Say GentleReckoning truly has a shitload of negativity within, should he be told to f*** off with his karma away? Like hey douchelord, there's much less hurt souls than your own here, so how about you f*** off away with your wounds so deep all other members of the forum put together might not even amount to. If you're hurt so badly that you became negative, maybe you should just die in a hole or something. (exaggeration intended to make a point)

There are plenty of other places to be negative, very few that foster camaraderie and nurturing. This forum was after all created to be that refuge for wanderers. It is the responsibility of Jade the other moderators and even us forum members to protect the energy here. I can think of a few wanderers we have lost due to not being gentle enough or compassionate enough.

I will say the original post I thought was tongue in cheek so wasn't worried but really if one wants to be nasty or have someone be nasty to them why bring it here?

There are forums meant for self abuse. Reddit's roastme comes to mind, I bet there are dozens of places but I don't go looking for that.