STS, trying to understand

[Ali Quadir]

Thanks B for the information.

Funny comment, AQ, about the breakfast cereal. What gave you the impression that graduation was a kind of party favor?

Not a party favor, a right of birth. How hard is it for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly? That's basically been my position for the past few years, maybe the whole trip from the edge of 2d to the edge of 4d can be considered hard and difficult. But I don't really feel very taxed.

I oppose the notion that being good is hard. It's not. Causality tends to put more on your path of what you put on it. So that means if you deliver a service to others. Then you're going to be commended for it, thanked, encouraged, helped, and when you need the service there will be someone there to take care of it for you. If you choose to commit a service to self. Then others are going to dislike you for it, they will accuse you, oppose you and when you need a service they'll only push you under.

I exaggerate slightly but the principle exists.

Here's the full quote including the question by the way.

Questioner: Why is the negative path so much more difficult to attain harvestability upon than the positive?

Ra: I am Ra. This is due to a distortion of the Law of One which indicates that the gateway to intelligent infinity be a gateway at the end of a straight and narrow path as you may call it. To attain fifty-one percent dedication to the welfare of other-selves is as difficult as attaining a grade of five percent dedication to otherselves. The, shall we say, sinkhole of indifference is between those two.

The questioner assumes that the negative path is harde, and Ra does not contradict! Instead he answers from that premise. Although I can't figure out exactly what he's saying.

Apparently it's easier to go STO than to go STS. Which is absolutely logical if you look at what happens in the world if you close your heart. It's basically like trying to navigate unfamiliar surroundings with your eyes closed. You tend to bump into things you do not see.

I get the feeling that the STS crowd is considered a different crows because Ra states "To attain fifty-one percent dedication to the welfare of other-selves is as difficult as attaining a grade of five percent dedication to otherselves" Which seems to contradict itself. Unless the missing hyphen means anything... It's like saying running 20 kilometers per hour is as hard as running 5. Unless he means that 5% is as hard for the STS guys as 51% is to STO oriented guys.

I still don't get this. Like I said I'm no expert on the Ra material. Even though I learned a tremendous amount from it. So maybe I should just sit back and let the grown ups talk. It's just my thoughts on the subject.