07-19-2020, 01:50 PM
(07-19-2020, 11:41 AM)unity100 Wrote: People only believe these things and get outraged like you thanks to incessant, uncontested, decades-long propaganda.
I won't get much into what may be propaganda or what is fact, because at the end of the day, history (very much like science) is based on trust. We trust historians or scientists to have used evidence and an unbiased study in order to bring us facts that few of us are even capable or directly checking for ourselves. Just like most of us have never seen what a gene looks like or how they work exactly, we have not experienced life in certain countries at certain points in history, and even if we had, we still wouldn't have been privy to the intentions and actions of those people in power who no doubt conspired for some purposes or others.
All I can say is that the information that we have gives me little doubt that the USSR was every bit as imperialistic and totalitarian as the US, if not more so. The thing about war, whether it's a conventional war or a cold one, is that it takes two to tango. Both the US and the USSR craved to be top dog and to impose their respective philosophy on everyone at a worldwide level, "for their own good". Thus we see the decades long dick measuring contest, the interventionism on other sovereign countries in an effort to further push one's ideology while simultaneously attempting to eradicate the opposite one.
But let's put aside historical facts for one moment. You seem to know more about communism than me, so correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, one of the very premises of communism is that in order for it to truly work it has to operate on a worldwide level. Such a premise betrays the totalitarian and imperialistic notions behind the ideal of communism.
Ra themselves said it. Session 65.7:
Quote:The ideal of freedom from the so-called invading force of either the controlled fascism or the equally controlled social common ownership of all things would stimulate great quantities of contemplation upon the great polarization implicit in the contrast between freedom and control.
Further elaborated here (session 34.9):
Quote:There are some few whose desires to aid society are of a green-ray nature or above. These entities, however, are few due to the understanding, may we say, of fourth ray that universal love freely given is more to be desired than principalities or even the rearrangement of peoples or political structures.
So, when you claim that seeing the other-self as the self under the framework of socialism is the same as doing it under the framework of positive polarity, you are incorrect. An important part of choosing the positive polarity is to refrain from demanding others to be "good". It is the choice either to embody what one believes in, being a living example of it to others, or to demand the world to become how one wishes it to be. The recognition of free will in the positive polarity is so strong, that pure positivity very much entails giving others the freedom to be "evil", let alone selfish. Ra says this here:
Quote:71.14 Questioner: You have made the statement that pure negativity acts as a gravity well pulling all into it. I was wondering first if pure positivity has precisely the same effect? Could you answer that please?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. Positivity has a much weaker effect due to the strong element of recognition of free will in any positivity approaching purity. Thus although the negatively oriented entity may find it difficult to polarize negatively in the midst of such resounding harmony it will not find it impossible.
True love and true sharing happen joyfully, organically and out of people's own free will. This kind of sharing is indeed rare in our society, but the kind of enforced sharing that communism and socialism entail, as convenient and comfortable as it might be from our vantage point, is of no spiritual significance whatsoever. There is never an expectation of any return when one acts from the positive polarity, as it is stated many, many times throughout the Ra material.