04-29-2018, 07:58 AM
(04-29-2018, 05:28 AM)Sprout Wrote: Well, when does it become sophisticated enough that makes you wonder if it has a soul or not?
Windows 95? Or perhaps is it XP?
What about a calculator?
A car?
If you mean to ask if there's any liveliness to material and the energy that goes through it, then perhaps. You might want to consider one of the very first passages in TLOO regarding this.
Quote:3.8 Questioner: How were the blocks moved?
Ra: I am Ra. You must picture the activity within all that is created. The energy is, though finite, quite large compared to the understanding/distortion of your peoples. This is an obvious point well known to your peoples, but little considered.
This energy is intelligent. It is hierarchical. Much as your mind/body/spirit complex dwells within an hierarchy of vehicles and retains, therefore, the shell, or shape, or field, and the intelligence of each ascendingly intelligent or balanced body, so does each atom of such a material as rock. When one can speak to that intelligence, the finite energy of the physical, or chemical, rock/body is put into contact with that infinite power which is resident in the more well-tuned bodies, be they human or rock.
With this connection made, a request may be given. The intelligence of infinite rock-ness communicates to its physical vehicle and that splitting and moving which is desired is then carried out through the displacement of the energy field of rock-ness from finity to a dimension which we may conveniently call, simply, infinity.
In this way, that which is required is accomplished due to the cooperation of the infinite understanding of the Creator indwelling in the living rock. This is, of course, the mechanism by which many things are accomplished which are not subject to your present means of physical analysis of action at a distance.
So these gadgets and computers don't have "souls" per se, but DO have intelligent life? So am I enslaving an entity by using a comouter or a cell phone or a TV or a calculator? Does using proprietary software make do something unethical to these liiving things? Would using Linux make it better? What about when a friend builds a comouter with proprietary format? Or a gadget or robot? Are they unknowingly creating robot slaves and enslaving an entity like elsru suggested on that thread? Is there some sort of karmic imbalance being created? I know younguys say not to worry and stuff and tend to disapprove of fear, it I am new to this whole Law of One thing and can't help but find this all disconcerting. BTW, I only just recently started readingnthe Law of One.
So are there any karmic imbalances I should be worried about? Any ethical issues?