Service vs Disservice

[bunny foo foo]

I'm sorry I'm not meaning to lash out it just sounds like he and others are excusing abusing children...

Hi bunny foo foo. I love your "handle" here.

I understand how you feel. This subject matter is complicated here on B4 for many reasons.

There are many theories about free will, and interpretations of what that means derived from the Ra Material. The idea that "you are the other" is another source of complication. I personally don't have to view myself and my actions that way at all—just being compassionate for all beings is enough. I don't have to feel I have to be compassionate toward others for my own sake, or karma, or because what I do will come back to me.

Perhaps I can untangle a bit of the confusion here by presenting a scenario. I am walking down an alley and I see a big, mean man beating a child. What is my goal here? My goal is to be of service to the child. So I do what I need to do to help the child. If I have to talk down the man, call the police, whatever, I do it, then I help the child. The entire goal here is to help the child. Feeling revenge, or disgust, or hatred for the attacker will never assist me in helping the child. In this way, I completely bypass any enmeshment with the attacker. And the attacker is left with all of his actions to deal with himself, with his own judgments about himself, not mine—because I have directed all my energy to being of service to the child.

One of our moderators, Jade, provided a beautiful example of being of service without judgment. She, and a group of animal activists, go to a slaughterhouse when they bring in a truckload of lambs, and they sing to the lambs while they are transported in to be killed. (I hope you don't mind, Jade, that I am citing this as an example.) I love this example because it involves no judgment, no infringement of free will, just a compassionate, loving service to those terrified lambs.

it gets muddy when talking about horrible crimes and groups of people who do things such as human trafficking. But if you keep the end goal in mind, such as freeing the trafficked children/women/men, and have that as your priority, the whole energy around the endeavor to stop it is in service to the humans who are "victims" rather than revenge and punishment for the perpetrators.

Finally, I would like to see prisons as places of healing instead of punishment.This is not to be dismissive of "victims" as they need healing as well. But as I see it, healing would help on both sides of the equation.

When it comes to the handful (compared to the population here) of truly devoted so-called STS beings, I still don't want to punish them. I just want to encourage the masses to wake up and stop following the leaders. Thinking for one's self (and thereby empowering one's self), in my view, is the first major step in breaking down the system of predator/victim.

OMG! I totally agree with you 100% Well if this is what Ra was talking about I whole heartedly agree. I was concerned we were being groomed to accept criminal behavior so the bad guys could do as they wish without consequence....it's still a possibility but your interpretation makes so much sense. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. When I first learned about the Law of One I knew instictively that the message was beautiful and right, I'm just really cautious. I agree, and I would never advocate abusing a perpetrator. In an ideal world I would have prison systems reconfigured to help the prisoners embark on a journey of healing and to be around those they most resemble. I would also utilize virtual reality to help them experience their crime from the victim's perspective. I would have programs in place for the victim to visit the perpetrator and confront them and hold them accountable it really works in the healing process and I think it could help the perp also. I would train them in cognitive empathy and give them truly effective therapy and psycho-education. I would develop a system where they could graduate to levels of incarceration that would ultimately help them to truly transform themselves so that if they ever get out they come out a better human being than when they come in. That is how I would do a prison system to protect society and to have true compassion towards the criminal. I would also like them to come out with work skills, coping skills and graduated reentry. If someone has the type of character to rape or kill, I don't have a problem with them being killed while they are in the act of doing their crime, that's self defense and the laws of nature.

OMG, I so love this answer.......you so made sense, thank you