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Originally Posted by impaul99

I absolutely agree with you. The point that I'm trying to make is that we both take martial arts. According to your polarization explanations, I would consider myself a Greyworker, and as such I would live my life MOSTLY polarized towards the LIGHT and as such never ATTACK anyone.

However, if someone attacked me or tried to attack my family, I WOULD defend myself. Applying Subjective Reality and LoA into the equation, since I am not sending out the fear of that, chances are it will never happen anyways, but IF it did, I would see defending myself as a valid action for a Greyworker.

My question is, would it be valid for a lightworker like yourself to use your martial arts training IF someone attacked you with the intent of killing you. Would it be in alignment with your lightworker ways to do that? If not, then why bother practicing martial arts? I mean, there are other benefits like fitness, discipline etc., but those can be learned in other ways besides martial arts. Or do you practice martial arts knowing that if the day came that you did have to use them, you would stop yourself and not use them anyways even if you could because you're now a lightworker.

I'm trying to understand what is meant by lightworker. Some on here have hinted to things that I would interpret as that you would still DEFEND yourself (which could very well require you to inflict pain on someone to subdue them) but you would do it with a loving intention in your mind while doing it.

If that is the case, then it is what your intention in your head (or in your spirit, whichever you believe) that determines whether you are a lightworker or a darkworker, not what you DO.

Is that correct? Because if so, then I can see how being a lightworker could work.

I think a pragmatic approach is essentially the wise approach.

You're goal is to provide the maximum service to humanity, and so letting some cruel person kill you or people around you is not helping that goal. Martyrdom and pacifism is wise in some cases but unwise in others. The fact that you might do violence is unrelated to your love based intentions and your honest desire to serve.