"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[YinYang]

I feel exactly the same as you, I also wouldn't keep a bird in a cage or a fish in an aquarium, and our dog is definitely never chained, he doesn't even have a leash. He sleeps in the bed, and thinks he's a human. He's a tiny little Maltese who doesn't shed any hair, and you can take him anywhere. And I love the wild visitor to your yard! :-)

I've raised some doves, they're easy to raise if you know what you're doing, just AVI Plus down their throats every four hours with a syringe, and then as soon as you have them on seeds you can let them go, but last year a wagtail fell out of the nest, and they're carnivores, so I had to dig in the garden for earthworms. (see the irony here? Killing one to save another...) He loved those, but then I think I made a fatal mistake. I gave him a dead fly which was floating in the pond, and it was late at night just before bed time. The next morning when I went to check up on him, he was at death's door, and he died in my hands just a little later. It must have been that fly, because he went from hopping around the house to not being able to lift his head overnight :-(

I do wonder about this "ethically sourced" business though, because the supermarket I mentioned before in this thread where I bought my meat, who claims their meat is "ethically sourced", have lied. It's all smoke and mirrors...

[sjel]

If we've been artificially held back, intentionally spiritually stunted and enslaved as seems to be the case, then it's not a matter of whether we're too weak to stand on our own, it's that our feet are kicked out from under us every time we try. Our natural evolution has been subverted.

I keep coming back to your whole post, but especially this part. I also feel like a lot of the enlightened guys sort of have this attitude of, "You silly humans, continuing to choose darkness and ignorance!" But they seem to not address how freakin' heavy the resistance is.

This guy Osho definitely addresses how much we have working against us. He is rare among the spiritual teachers I think.




What is there even to do?? Passive endurance??? Third density is confusing enough as it is, AND we have these gigantic ancient forces working against whatever evolution we do achieve? Seems pret-ty ridiculous to me. But what can I do, I have no comparison, this spiritually withering world is all I know.

[Infinite Unity]

Polarity seems to be a thermometer of the interest of The Creator....

[unity100]

You can never have total freedom, and yet have societies, or even any kind of organized structure.

Can you sh*t in your neighbor's backyard? Can you sh*t in the middle of the road in your neighborhood?

Does any cell in your body have total freedom?

.....

[DungBeetle]

From here

This mirrors a thought I've been having for a while. It seems almost as if humans are a failed experiment. We have been granted thousands upon thousands of years, indeed some entities were given two extra master cycles to attempt to achieve their evolutionary goals. So now, finally, the universe around us steps in and lends us the hand we've been begging for for too long.

Are we indeed a failure? Inherently too weak to stand on our own? Or is it as the unbudging father, watching his child helplessly struggle for far too long, yet not lending his hand until the sheer brutalness of the situation compels him to? And all because he somehow believes that it is to make the child stronger?

We've had free will for all our time on this Earth, and we have utterly failed to use it to evolve - why else would the greater beings step in all of a sudden? In fact, the ending of quarantine indicates that the higher evolved actually have no hope that we will ever - independently - achieve unity as a species. I am conflicted. At once I am grateful for the hand being extended from the heavens, and am ashamed that we require such a blatant form of intervention in order to even survive! I mean, we would have blown ourselves to pieces had not the greater Council intervened!

If the evil people at the top didn't hoard knowledge and control us, we probably would have been fine. I don't see it as being our fault since we have been manipulated since forever. And how do you know this quarantine has been lifted? And when are they gonna come and help? All I see is evil taking over so far.