[seeker5]

Personally, I have a lot of problems with the terms lightworker vs. darkworkers. While Steve does mention that although he himself prefers being a lightworkers, he does state either one are fine. However, the problem comes that lightworkers with the Star Wars analogy are the good guys, and darkworkers are the bad guys. Many people who haven't read everything and thought about it in details will assume that just as well that darkworkers are the bad guys while lightworkers are the good guys.

However, it seems to me that there are many instances of people who could try a lightworker approach and end up hurting a lot of people, whereas the darkworker ends up doing the exact opposite and helps a lot of people. There can be instances where people wanting to stop darkworkers believing they are hurting people, when in fact the darkworker would end up helping a lot of people.

For example, someone who seek to be a lightworker and seeking to help others can:
- Rob the rich to help the poor, ala socialist and communist style system.
- believe that because they have the general welfare in mind, they are willing to treat a few people very badly, for the good of all.
- force people to follow a specific policy because they wrongly believe it will help (a number of government policies, some of which are dangerous)

On the other hand, darkworkers can be very generous and very helpful toward others because they know it helps them a lot. For example (and I do consider myself leaning toward darkworker orientation), I'm getting straight A's in my classes because I fear failing in my classes. Some of my classmates are asking for my help, and I willingly help them study for their tests because I know it'll help me learn the material, and I make friends out of it. My classmates end up benefiting as I do by my selfish intention and my fears.

Other examples of darkworkers benefiting society is their knowledge that if they lie, cheat, rob others, treat others unfairly, it will bite them hard. Thus they can be more ethical then a lightworker-leaning person who does not have such ethics and will do whatever it takes to help people.

Like Ayn Rand says, having someone being very selfish can turn out to help so many people out there. In fact not allowing people to be selfish can do tremendous harm society as a whole, i.e. communism again, and the restriction of innovations and new development and new enterprises.

While Steve knows all of this, these light vs. darkworkers terms cause confusion, and can be dangerous if carried to the extreme.

There are other reasons too these terms may not be the best - with the fear-based approach of being a darkworker, you only experience the fear at the initial outset or when you falter. Most of the time, you experience a sense of power, of achievement, of being driven while you're moving toward your goals. So while it is fear-based, it is not a fear-lived life (let me know if I'm wrong on this point).

So I'd just like to propose some terms that may better suit the purpose of explaining the different between the outflow and inflow model:

- Loveworker vs selfworker (love flows out, self flows inward).

Isn't this a more accurate and more intuitive description of what's going on? This avoids all of the long explanation that no, darkworker doesn't mean someone is evil, and you can easier help people get a grasp of what's going on. It also helps darkworker-oriented people accept that no they themselves aren't evil, and that simply being a lightworker doesn't mean you're a good person - you also have to act with integrity and the correct principles for you to help out people.

Maybe those aren't good enough? Are there other possible terms?