[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by The Cloud

Why is there no third category for somebody that won't serve himself by taking from others, but won't serve others by taking from himself? Maybe I'm confused about the definitions of Lightworkers/Darkworkers, but both of them seem flawed to me, because both of them are primarily concerned with other people.

I think they are flawed too.

Lightworkers try to help others, often at the expense of themselves. Fundamentally this philosophy seems flawed. How does a Lightworker decide how much personal sacrifice is enough? There are so many people to help in the world that giving everything and more would not be enough. So the ideal, if truly followed, results in death. Not very ideal, if you ask me.

Steve calls this lightworker's syndrome. Which is to say there's an out of balance in giving to others and forgetting about yourself. And then this very idea of a syndrome makes lightworking ideas flawed. Because to not be a syndromed lightworker you have to turn on some DW to give to yourself. I would say, LW involved giving to one's self as well as others. And that doesn't seem to be part of Steve's definition. His definition is the LW gives to others to the point of almost going broke. But then Steve will say you can't go too far in giving or you have the out of balance syndrome - which is another way of saying, imho, not focusing on everyone else exclusively of yourself.

So any middle ground between service to yourself and to others would be arbitrary, which certainly doesn't lend itself to what is supposed to be a self-consistent polarization.

Darkworkers, on the other hand, are willing to take from others if it benefits them. Thus, they must attribute the same right to others. This necessarily leads to a life of fear, spent trying to secure themselves and their belongings against a greedy horde. That doesn't sound like happiness to me, spending your time trying to squeeze as much as you can from the people around you while giving as little as possible in return, and always fighting everybody lest you be bested. Because to be elite is to be better than everyone, which means everyone else sets the bar for your life. You have little control, because you've given it over to all the people that might be better than you.

when DW is described this way - it just sounds like ego dominate behavior.