Unnecesary division

[Ray711]

How many times does the idea of sts and hell keeps popping up in this forum, like some punishment or a low, isn't it starting to somewhat become like those religious ideologies that plant fear of eternal suffering if you're not in certain ways? Where is the free will in that, the compassion and understanding? I'm sorry for saying all this, I don't know what I'm saying, I'm very much selfish myself.

I want to focus on the bold. Christian representations of hell tend to entail a violation of free will, indeed (ironically showing the huge component of negativity that this religion has). It's based on the repression of certain aspects of the self, in creating enemies, taking sides, us vs them. The fear of eternal damnation is itself a tool used by the negative polarity in order to make the peoples submit to an authority.

There are big differences between this and the concept of STS or negative polarity. There is indeed much suffering in the STS path, but the good thing is that we can check that for ourselves in our own experience, without having to believe an "authority" in regards to whatever may happen in a life after this one. Worry, fear, anger, hate, the desire to control everything and everyone around oneself... We've all experienced these things to one extent or another. We know these things feel like poison to the self, to the mind, to the body. It's not a matter of creating enemies (although, as others have said above, it's good to be mindful of what these entities could do to us), nor is it a matter of degrading those who choose the life that is based on these things. They have full free will to choose that, if they so desire. It's about having the knowledge that there is an alternative, and that although it is understandable to be in such states due to the infinite nature of the self, we have a choice to move to the more harmonious mental states that characterize the positive polarity.

The desire to see STS entities with compassion and in unity with us is admirable, but it must be said that these are entities that have already chosen to live in extreme separation from us. Not separation as in "I like to spend time alone", but the kind of separation that involves them feeling superior over everybody else and seeing us as cattle. I feel that to keep this information in mind is important before deciding what exact kind of love we can give to these entities. If they are more powerful in the negative polarity than we are on the positive polarity, we may risk acting in a manner that, although coming from love, might result in a kind of martyrdom that only ends up destroying the self without having accomplished anything for the other entity.