12-11-2020, 05:03 PM
One of the answers to your questions is: free will. 
I'm curious, what is the average age of the users here and how is that relevant?
What a younger person, or someone less experienced in life, may not know is that you can't enlighten people. You can't tell them the(your) truth and have them just understand it, change, and follow your understandings. Everyone must find and understand truth for themselves. By being who you are, you extend your understandings to others, and that is much as you can do in that regard in my opinion.
That said, there are other purposes for discussing matters that have to do with but lay beyond this 3D reality (my way of saying "spiritual" things). It is a way to stretch one's wings, to talk about things that matter, to rub up against others who may align in one area but not in another. I first posted here in part just to hone my communication skills as a writer (which seems really selfish) but in doing so I also expressed my unique views (as does everyone).
It's true that most people don't like getting out of their comfort zones. This can be a way of controlling the utter vastness of the unknown and even current reality, which can be very scary or overwhelming. Certain personality types are more prone to jumping into that vastness.
As far as semantics, I will take the subject of religions. A person who believes in a certain religion, let's say Christianity, may be walking a path toward the same unity as any other STO path. But that does not negate the fact that the Christian bible is full of violence and negative practices, and that organized religion is controlling. This is just a fact in my opinion (rather an oxymoron I know). My point is that for anyone who cares about others—humans and indeed all life on this planet—the consideration of world monotheistic religions is of concern. And while one may understand that transient 3D human matters will unfold as they will, one may still wish for evolution of consciousness out of the negative influences of institutions such as organized religion. So perhaps a discussion exists here on the forums regarding that arises.
Anyway, I agree that open-mindedness and the allowance of the bigger picture into one's consciousness is preferable to beliefs that limit. But everyone is in a different place, and dynamically so, so it's not possible really to judge who is where in a linear way.
There is that tricky balance between STO and free will. It creates detachment eventually.
I'm curious, what is the average age of the users here and how is that relevant?
What a younger person, or someone less experienced in life, may not know is that you can't enlighten people. You can't tell them the(your) truth and have them just understand it, change, and follow your understandings. Everyone must find and understand truth for themselves. By being who you are, you extend your understandings to others, and that is much as you can do in that regard in my opinion.
That said, there are other purposes for discussing matters that have to do with but lay beyond this 3D reality (my way of saying "spiritual" things). It is a way to stretch one's wings, to talk about things that matter, to rub up against others who may align in one area but not in another. I first posted here in part just to hone my communication skills as a writer (which seems really selfish) but in doing so I also expressed my unique views (as does everyone).
It's true that most people don't like getting out of their comfort zones. This can be a way of controlling the utter vastness of the unknown and even current reality, which can be very scary or overwhelming. Certain personality types are more prone to jumping into that vastness.
As far as semantics, I will take the subject of religions. A person who believes in a certain religion, let's say Christianity, may be walking a path toward the same unity as any other STO path. But that does not negate the fact that the Christian bible is full of violence and negative practices, and that organized religion is controlling. This is just a fact in my opinion (rather an oxymoron I know). My point is that for anyone who cares about others—humans and indeed all life on this planet—the consideration of world monotheistic religions is of concern. And while one may understand that transient 3D human matters will unfold as they will, one may still wish for evolution of consciousness out of the negative influences of institutions such as organized religion. So perhaps a discussion exists here on the forums regarding that arises.
Anyway, I agree that open-mindedness and the allowance of the bigger picture into one's consciousness is preferable to beliefs that limit. But everyone is in a different place, and dynamically so, so it's not possible really to judge who is where in a linear way.
There is that tricky balance between STO and free will. It creates detachment eventually.
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Ra: I am Ra. ...It is also to be noted that an adept is one which has freed itself more and more from the constraints of the thoughts, opinions, and bonds of other-selves. Whether this is done for service to others or service to self, it is a necessary part of the awakening of the adept. This freedom is seen by those not free as what you would call evil or black. The magic is recognized; the nature is often not.
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