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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan I think light and darkworking are almost the same thing. Differences in conduct don't really arise in practice. If you read my post here, you'll see some of what I mean.
Let's look at my friend 5 years in the future. At that point he'll be running a successful company. He'll have opportunities to legally crush some of his competitors. A lightworker, with a perspective of abundance, would think that there is plenty of work for everyone, and would just keep providing service. My friend, as a darkworker, would also want to stay on good terms with the competition because he would never know when he might need something from them in the future.
Microsoft (dark) and google (light) generally just buy out their competition. With the money my friend will have, he'll have the option to do this as well.
As a darkworker, he may attempt to intimidate or scare the competition into selling at a lower price through negotiation, or by skewing facts. A lightworker would also try to get the best deal they could on an acquisition, citing charity in the negotiations; getting the best deal grants a lightworker more capital to provide future services.
In our society growing and evolving a business is much more about dedication and persistance than motives. |
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Originally Posted by yossarian Darkworkers in power will use manipulation, propaganda, and panic inducing techniques to control others. Lightworkers will not try to control others.
Darkworkers will exploit informational advantages they have over others to increase their own power. Lightworkers will refuse to do this unless it's for the greater good.
Darkworkers will become military and political leaders and set up dictatorships for which they are the Emporer. They will then set out to conquer and subjugate more and more people to increase their own personal power and wealth. They will use their position to beguile, tempt, theaten and coerce those around them into doing their bidding. Darkworkers, when conquering a country, will use propaganda, deceit, terror, and torture to subjugate and pacify the populace. They will brutually crush opposition - a quick and secretive death to all who oppose their rule. No remorse will be given, mercy is only weakness. |
Good news: I think you're both right.
Really, when you come down to it, it’s all a matter of style/preference/strengths and weaknesses as well as risk/reward.
Consider this:
A darkworker can go the "ultimate power route" (as yossarian suggests), but that potentially has a high risk/reward. There is a very relevant quote from the anime series
Berserk that I’m going to paraphrase to emphasise my point:
“The brighter that one shines, the darker the shadows around him grow.”
In other words, you can choose to exploit everyone, murder, rape and pillage and be a darkworker to your hearts' content (ie. taking action only for gain and in your interest and basically ignoring others and the consequences of your actions as they relate to others), but if you do, it’s likely that you will be put at greater risk of someone (say, a another darkworker) trying to get rid of you in order to usurp your power.
On the other hand, you can go the more stable route (the one Dan.Linehan advocates), but that path has moderate risk/reward. You will not take as many risks (such as taking actions that have severe consequences on other people that may threaten your existence and decrease your chances of survival or your chances to maintain your position of power that you earned from all your selfish darkworker acts), but you will not ultimately gain as much power.
I propose an intelligent darkworker wouldn't endanger his/her ability to further contribute to him/herself unless that was his/her particular style and s/he was most effective doing that. So generally if service to self was the prime motivation of a darkworker, it probably wouldn’t be advantageous to start killing people in the quest for greater power unless that particular individual was able to garner great motivation from that act (such that it is his/her style/preference) that would provide more power (even if it is at a higher risk) then going the more steady route.
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Originally Posted by Glass Joe  One cool thing about being a greyworker is that you blend in with the crowd. Since you don't pick sides, you are free to associate with any side. |
The saying "jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind. It is my belief that your potential can only be available to you when you are congruent with your own personal style (what you want to do), your strengths/weaknesses (what you can do), your conscience (what you feel you should do), and whatever will allow you to continue to put your potential to good use (what you need to do).
Basically it's a process of optimisation. Think of your potential as flowing water, your most ingrained conditioning and particular style/preferences as a pipeline that the water (your potential) flows through, and “you” as the building that contains the pipeline (in that your particular style/preferences exist within you, but are not you, since you are able to change them freely and still be “you”). If the pipeline has many obtrusions that obstruct the flow, your potential won't flow through effectively and you won't reap the rewards, much like a car won’t run very efficiently if it isn’t getting all the petrol it needs. However, if the pipe is clear, the water (your potential) will flow through efficiently.
Likewise (this is a bit of a sloppy extension of the above analogy, but work with me), if the building (ie. you) is holding the pipeline (ie. your most ingrained conditioning, style, and preferences) in such a way that is not congruent with the particular design of the pipeline, it simply won't flow, or at least, flow very efficiently. It'd be like trying to get water to flow up a tunnel that has more obstructions when it is angled upwards and less obstructions when angled downwards. Or, as another example, it’d be like someone who prefers painting over programming. You don’t put a painter in a programmers job -- their potential won’t flow through since the medium of expression (the pipeline) is not conductive to their potential.
If the pipeline (your most ingrained conditioning, style, and preferences) you are currently using within your building (you) is angled downwards (ie. the angle the water -- your potential -- will flow most efficiently), the water will be able to flow at full blast (see figure 1 below). But if your pipeline provides resistance to the water flow when angled a certain way, it makes sense to angle the way that the water will flow efficiently, or replace it with another pipe (see figure 2 below). It may take time to replace the pipe (condition a new style, preferences, and turn your weaknesses into strengths), but if it allows the water (your potential) to flow more efficiently, it will be worth it. So, in other words, if you want your potential to flow freely, it must be in relative harmony with your style, preferences, strengths and weaknesses.
Figure 1. A pipe that would flow more efficiently when angled downwards:
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Figure 2. A pipe that would flow more efficiently when angled upwards:
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Now if all of that makes no sense to you, here’s another analogy that doesn’t try to blend in with the water/pipe analogy:
Think of a car trying to roll down the following surfaces, and lets assume the surfaces are angled downwards.
Figure 1. Surface 1
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Figure 2. Surface 2
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It should become clear that a car would roll down surface one more efficiently then surface 2, as surface 2 would provide more resistance and may even manage to stop the car. Surface one would be far from optimal, but hopefully now you understand my point -- your potential must “drive” over or “flow” through a surface or tunnel that is conductive to the flow, not one that hinders it. (If that still makes no sense, just call it a bad analogy and I’ll try to do better next time.)
So you can dabble as a “greyworker”, but basically what Steve is saying is that for the Law of Attraction to work effectively, the energy flow must be polarised one way or another. You still have all the same options available to you on either polarised side, it's just that the motivation and intention behind such actions would be different.
Eg. A lightworker would create a business to somehow contribute outside of him/herself, while a darkworker would create a business to contribute to him/herself. Both may end up taking the same actions, but there would be very different reasons each individual would take those actions.
So, bringing all of back to your original point, what I’m saying that if you don’t bring the Law of Attraction into this, yes, what you say would be accurate. However, if you
do bring in the LoA, taking actions from each polarity would cancel each other out and you’d end up with a mess, or at least, no progress. To make efficient progress, Steve suggests that one must pick a polarity and stick with it. Of course, if you/anyone else are not so much concerned with the benefits polarisation provides you, being a greyworker is a relevant option, but if what Steve says about the Law of Attraction is accurate, it's far from the most optimal if you want to make any serious accomplishments.
If after all this I still make little sense (which is quite likely, since I’m not able to put as much time into this post as I would like but thought posting would be better then not posting), read (or re-read) Steve’s blog
Polarity blog post as it explains all about everything using much better analogies then what I used in this post.