[Seth]

See how you guys like this, adapted from impaul99’s brilliant clarification:

People can act out of Love or Fear. All actions are vector sums of Love, Fear, and other components. Love moves you up the scale of consciousness. Fear moves you down. The other components don’t move you at all.

Therefore, the only way to move up the scale is through Love. There are exactly two forms of Love: self-love and world-love.

Self-love is to work on improving YOURSELF first. By loving yourself you will raise your level of consciousness, and be able to make a positive change in the world. Do not confuse this with selfishness (darkworker’s syndrome), which is a form of fear, and moves you down the scale.

World-love is to work on improving THE WORLD first. By loving others you will raise your level of consciousness, and be able to make a positive change in your own life. Do not confuse this with selflessness, called “approval-seeking” in the seduction community (lightworker’s syndrome), which is a form of fear, and moves you down the scale.

Now we have a useful definition of Love! Love is working to improve yourself or others. If you are working to improve a girl’s life, congratulations, you love her. “Unconditional” vs. “conditional” love is simply the spectrum from world-love to approval-seeking. Now Steve can stop throwing in after every sentence, “I’m talking about unconditional love, not the emotion of love.” Isn’t all love an emotion? He’s just trying to make the point that he’s not talking about approval-seekers who “love” a girl. True, buying her a drink is technically working to improve her life, but you're a loser so leave her alone.

You can only reach enlightenment by polarizing. If you eliminate all need for approval, and therefore love the world unconditionally, you polarize "Light." If you eliminate all selfishness, and therefore love yourself unconditionally, you polarize "Dark." God can become you, or you can become God. Your choice. Either way, it's the same!

Does anyone still want to argue that polarization isn’t necessary? Can you think of anyone who's enlightened and not polarized?

My point is, you can work on improving yourself (Darkworker), or you can work on improving the world (Lightworker). If you're not doing one of those two things, you suck at life, and Steve declares you a “useless drone.” Is the circle of Love not apparent? Yin and Yang? Self-love is DARK. World-love is LIGHT. There’s no need to cry and rename everything because Darth Vader gives you nightmares. Dark and Light are older and more powerful than you. The idea is to use the force, not change the names. Additionally, there’s that little dot of selfishness in self-love, and a dot of approval-seeking in world-love. Are you afraid that polarizing Light or Dark would upset the balance? Do the math: if you polarize Dark, you gobble up the black dot, and spit out the white dot. The balance remains. By they way, as you grow more powerfully Dark, someone else is growing more powerfully Light. Yin and Yang is a zero-sum symbol. Ever wonder why Jesus supposedly died to save us? What good did that do? It released his Light energy back into the world. Plus it's cool to get killed when you're enlightened because you come back "more powerful than you can imagine." Still want to argue that polarization is bunk because all love is the same? So should we change Yin and Yang to Gray Blob?

Yossarian, thank you for telling me about the Social and Relationships forum. I just ignored all the other ones and only read Steve’s. You might be right that they try to apply Steve’s stuff to relationships and seduction, but I just read some of the subject lines and threw up a little in my mouth. Anyways, I don’t want to learn about seduction from the vast majority of contributors here. They are not experts, so their advice is mostly misleading and useless. I am here on Steve’s Forum to learn about life. I respect all of you who post here and believe I am in the right place to discuss Life.