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Old 04-21-2008, 10:34 PM
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The nature of proper service is to serve the exact wants and needs of some other entity if serving in that way aligns with your own true self.
if in order to do service it has to be something you want to do anyway, or feel is right, I'd question how much is service and how much is just you gratifying your own sense of ego/accomplishment.

Not that I have anything against that, at all - but making it something its not (i.e. pure selflessness) - isn't entirely correct.

If someone needs you to do something and its something you personally dislike, but you do it, that's definitely not selfish (unless you are doing it for other reasons, like gonig to heaven).

I could argue, based on the quote above, that a lot of darkworkers are engaging in proper service because they are engaging in service that benefits others but that aligns with their own self. My losing weight benefits others (I'm eating less food; taking up less space;costing less to the shared health system). If I do it out of 'darkworker' reasons (because I want to be hot and get sex) that's selfish; if I do it out of 'lightworker' reasons (because I want to consume less, want to cost less to the system) but I am actually motivated by an agenda (want to feel good that I'm doing the right thing for ther planet; want to think I'm improving the lives of others which makes me feel good) then I'm doing it for just as selfish a reason - to make me feel good aboout myself. The end result is the same to the collective, and both are selfish.

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because killing people is not a service I'm willing to give
Wow -so if someone desperately needed to die for a reason that was very important TO THEM but not important enough TO YOU - you wouldn't do it?

Very selfish, you darkworker!
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