This thread and Steve's post on the matter really interested me.
My personal view is based on a sense of oneness as opposed to a sense of duality. Therefore surely the terms light and dark only serve to divide and are perhaps only part of a reality that is not 'one'.
It's easy to say that you dedicate your being to helping others as a light worker, yet surely there is no such a thing as a true altruistic act as to do any such act is to be motivated by wanting to feel good, or if something outwardly adverse taskwise then you do such so it sits better with your conscience.... both of which are selfish and indicative of dark working. What I am trying to say is that working to the benefit of the world rather than yourself is something that in doing, makes you feel better about yourself; a paradox as this resulting feeling and motivation is selfish.
Therefore to be a lightworker is to be a dark worker still, and to be a dark worker is to remain a dark worker. In the sense of 'oneness' there is only 'dark'.... and that darkness is light and dark combined. It's hugely paradoxical but then so is this thing we call life.
Anyway that's my few cents worth, though strictly speaking cents should read pounds being that I'm in the UK.
Peace, Vipa
PS....
Originally Posted by dibrisim Well said, but residues of “absolute truths” and measurements of our “relative truths” against them (towards insignificance of the later) still remain.
I have even better question. Could anyone, PLEASE, let me know a single “absolute truth” that will remain unchanged for ever? (Physicists, modern version of priesthood, have tried with “universal” constants but they are falling apart on almost daily basis.)
I would say causality and infinitely expanding circles, existance in it's own right.