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Originally Posted by Apollia

So, lightworkers don't have to be concerned with ethics in order to be lightworkers?

Well, it's kind of irrelevant - ethics is irrelevant with being a lightworker. Now, ethics is important to dealing with people, and the human race, and that's not to say that a lightworker is unethical. However, being a lightworker isn't about being ethical. Being a lighworker is about this energy flowing out of you - this love energy flowing out of you and guiding your action to contribute and support other people. At least as I understand it.

Thus, my question about competition isn't about ethics.

Hmm, maybe I can answer my own question. It's a fictional example, but, I guess Robin Hood (who steals because he believes it's justified since he's stealing from the rich and giving to the poor) might count as a lightworker despite doing something as unethical as stealing, because he thinks it's for the greater good.

Heh, I have a hard time seeing Robin Hood as a lightworker, but that may be my bias against unethical actions .

Well, I can see how a person full of unconditional love would have a much easier time being ethical, and non-vengeful/merciful to wrongdoers, etc. than someone motivated by anger against injustice/selfishness/etc.

Probably. However, in my case, before deciding to be a lightworker, I've felt I was quite ethical, by my inner standards. (one of the problems I feel with ethics is that sometimes, it's an external standard imposed, not an internal standard that emerges, and thus, what some may see as ethical isn't something I feel is ethical). However, now that I'm aiming to be a lightworker, I can see that some action I previously felt would have been unethical can now be justified and acceptable. Something I'd have completely rejected out of hand before...I find myself thinking if it's for the good of all, it's ok. I realize the possible dangerous slope this line of thinking can go on, so I'm being very careful in how monitoring how I think about this.

So, I do think unconditional love is important.

Originally Posted by Trezker

A lightworker doesn't compete against others, he competes _with_ others. There's are lots of statistics you can compare and be proud about in cooperative work.

Hmmm, yeah, when it comes to a work environment, I am much more comfortable competing against another company, as a "us vs them" then competing with anyone inside the company. I feel in a company, that I'm here to work with everyone else. Yet, I wonder still, if it fits the lightworker mode to compete against another company to beat them...vs competeting in the marketplace in order to produce the best product that can help your customer's life.

Thinking on this, I can come up with a comparison with Steve's new book. Steve's book hit the top 100 books on amazon.com for a little bit. Steve encouraged the book to rank higher by blogging about it, sending a newsletter about it, and he was excited about how high it ranked. In a way, you can see this as competition, he wanted his book to be ranked higher then others. However, my guess is he didn't see it that way, his goal wasn't to beat other authors and other books - his goal and his energy was flowing in a way that he wanted maximum exposure for his book so that the most number of people will be helped. So, it's a completely different energy to compete as Steve did in order to expose a life-changing product to as many people as possible, compared to competing so that you can have the fun of beating someone else.

Hmmm, another example I see is that Steve does compete another way in the pagerank - he aims to have his articles ranked as high as possible in google. However he does this not to beat other sites, but so that his articles get the maximum exposure from searches so they can help as many people as possible.

Originally Posted by Brutha

You don't have to play games to win.

I personally play go. While there are player to play to win there are also player that play to have a good game.

I haven't played go before, but it's true, you don't have to play games to win, you can simply pay for the fun of it. I realize people do that. However, for me, playing a game for the fun of it.....is nowhere as fun as playing a game to win . And I have much more fun getting beat in a very challenging game where I aimed to win....then winning in a game I just play for the fun of it.