[impaul99]

Originally Posted by 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.

So far you're agreeing with everything I said as well, so I agree 100%

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!

Kind of lost you there from the point of view that why couldn't I eliminate all selfishness and need for approval at the same time? In other words, why couldn't I work on accepting myself and the world unconditionally AT THE SAME TIME? Why do I have to pick only one?

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

Well, considering the only real example of someone "enlightened" that I can think of is like Jesus and Buddha and both of them were alive a LONG time ago, it's hard to make a call. Were they polarized? Perhaps. Even if they were though, does it mean that it is THE ONLY PATH? Who says that the way they accomplished enlightenment is the only way possible? Perhaps due to Jesus, he might have paved the way for other paths? Who knows. I don't think the fact that one must polarize in order to become enlightened has been proven at all. If fact, my inuition is completely against the idea, and in my life experience it has usually been right.

My point is, you can work on improving yourself (Darkworker), or you can work on improving the world (Lightworker).

Why can't you do both again?

If you're not doing one of those two things, you suck at life, and Steve declares you a “useless drone.”

What if you're doing both really well? Like what if I'm as good at Darkworking and Lightworking at the same time as most people are doing just one? If I have the energy within me, why can't I do both if I like it?

So should we change Yin and Yang to Gray Blob?

So what you're saying is that we should polarize because the Yin/Yang symbol has black and white, and trying to do both would make it a grey blob?

If that's your line of thinking then what about this point of view: The Yin/Yang symbol was created to symbolize duality in everything, including the individual. The light side and the dark side of us. If you notice, the sides are in perfect balance. If I looked to the Yin/Yang symbol for wisdom on this topic it would say to me "BALANCE PAUL, BALANCE!" It clearly shows that the whole (the person) is made up of two parts, a light side and a dark side in perfect balance. The Yin/Yang symbol is not just a WHITE circle or a BLACK circle, it's both black/white at the same time in perfect balance. So if anything, the Yin/Yang symbol even more symbolizes my theory that the path towards enlightenment is the path of balance, not polarization towards one side.