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Originally Posted by Mariana Trench  As someone who's seriously considered becoming a subsistence farmer who lives off the grid, here's my answer: because it won't do any good. Isolating yourself from the world so that you, personally, don't contribute to certain injustices on a systematic scale is completely disempowering. One will do much more good by actually fighting for those injustices to stop--which involves being in society, and yes, relying on society to keep you alive, even if that means you're part of it. Being in the world and of it, as a transformative force, actually gives one a chance of accomplishing things that will actually make a difference, actually contribute to a greater good, instead of simply warding off that dang karma. |
You make a good point there.
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Originally Posted by Cado I take issue with people who say they're operating on a win-win intention when they fail to acknowledge the machinations of the modern world. |
Well, you bringing that topic up really threw me for a loop, and I needed to take a day off to contemplate how that state of affairs fits into my own personal system of ethics. Thanks for that.
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Originally Posted by Cado I don't think they should go off-grid (to be blunt, I think it's stupid) but it would be necessary in order for them to be wholly congruent with what they're saying. |
Hmm. You yourself often say that altruistic actions are necessary at times for a darkworker to achieve their long-term goals. It sounded to me like Mariana was describing the mirror image of that situation amongst lightworkers.
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Originally Posted by Cado There's nothing wrong with standing in the middle, but if you want to become a force within the world (and if you grow enough you will be one way or another) you'll need to anchor your focus somehow and exploit that for all its worth. That doesn't even mean polarity is the way to do it, I just like this paradigm because I can see clear real-world parallels, and there are robust systems already built around it that I can plug into and utilize for my purposes. |
Fair enough.
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Originally Posted by Cado I just have a major hard-on for historical knowledge and analytical thinking.  |
Well, I have a major hard-on for doing other things beside discussing darkworking/lightworking, so I'm going to make like Darius III and abandon the field. Have fun.
