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Originally Posted by Freelancer  Do you understand what indifference means?
A darkworker is simply indifferent to what happens to other people if it doesn't affect him. A darkworker won't think about the disasters that happen in the world, they don't affect him. If a person who's close to him is under attack then you'll be sure to see a retaliation by the darkworker if the positives outweigh the negatives.
There are very few occasions where hurting another person is actually benificial in the long term. Most of them backfire in dramatic ways and might even get you killed.
Personally I went into the darkworker path for a month or so and I experienced something very similar. Now I'm mostly unpolarized, mostly because I made a few mistakes in implementing darkworker mental habits. The main thing was that I didn't train my emotional control enough before hand and I had a bit of darkworker syndrome going on as well. To do so is also condescending as it presumes others are not competent to live and deal with their own life.
Can you give us the technique's you use to change your emotions? |
Without the facile polarization of "dark" vs "light" I do not believe that all the woes of humankind are necessarily my business or an area I can competently address. I leave to others addressing their own problems. I do not consider it "light" to be a busybody for the needs of everyone in the world or to be continually anguishing over every pain and lack of everyone everywhere.
If something does not affect me with a suitably broad understanding of my full values and interest, then what business do I have wasting precious time on it? If I have chosen my values well and with full heart and mind then my only business is that which furthers my values. Anything other than this is lack of commitment and focus.
I think about the disasters in the world to the extent that I think about changes in technology and people that could lessen or eliminate them and advocate and work toward those in those aspects that are in or synergistic with my personal goal set. That is not facilely "light" or "dark" but is rational and caring.
I do not think we do ourselves or the world any good by using simplistic terms like "darkworker" vs "lightworker".