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Old 10-08-2008, 08:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Lightworkers, Love, & Evil. (Using Love as self-defense)

This is an extension of something I replied to in a different post about lightworkers and darkworkers.

In the simplest terms I can think of, a darkworker views himself as separate from everyone/everything else.
Darkworker = He/She AGAINST Everything That Is Not Him/Her

The lightworker views himself as a part of a greater chain, that everything is tied to everything else, there is harmony and balance. When someone says a darkworker wants to help himself and a lightworker wants to help others, it's missing the key point that the lightworker wants to help others because they believe that is the same as helping themself. Therefore,
Lightworker = He/She FOR Everything That Is

The lightworker loves also the serial killer or rapist because they believe that they are the same, made of the same stuff, and also capable of the same things, the only thing that separates them is perhaps the circumstances or series of events that led them to behave in good or bad ways.

Now, I'm not saying that if a lightworker was raped they should/would love their rapist, however, I don't necessarily believe a true fully developed empowered and enlightened lightworker CAN be raped, because they wouldn't allow fear to overcome them and lose sight of love. Being love gives courage and therefore they are strong and unable to be controlled. Fear weakens and allows them to be controlled. I think a true fully developed lightworker, even if she/he was suddenly assaulted or pointed with a gun would behave in a way that did not show fear but uses the power of love to defend themselves. In this way they would be able to get out of that situation by intimidation through the strongest, most powerful source there is, LOVE.

I want to see if other people agree with me on this and if others think love is a good tactic. Love doesn't mean smiling and saying "I love you" while staring a gun in the face. Love means the opposite of fear. Using love as a tactic means perhaps rationalizing with the assailant for their reasons for attack or etc. Love as a tactic could even mean saying, "Look, I think you're a good person despite what you're doing right now, but I don't think you'll be happy using this strategy of acquiring what you want. I am willing to give you want you want but not through this manner."

The way I see it, a lightworker is empathic and the darkworker is not.
Being empathic they can feel and understand others feelings, this gives them an edge to be able to relate and therefore putting them at equal ground to everyone despite the wishes of certain power hungry people.

Obviously, it is extremely hard to operate ONLY on Love 100% of the time, even during times of extreme animosity which is why I believe acquiring that level of Love is the ultimate strength. If you love everything, you are completely powerful and have nothing in the world to fear.

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Old 10-08-2008, 08:34 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Love I don't think is really effective as a self defense tool.

For the simple reason that polarized darkworkers as mentioned don't have emotional empathy. Thus, they may logically understand that the other person is not reacting and must love them... but this doesn't have any emotional effect on them.

In this same vain, I think that a truly polarized lightworker would still be able to love their rapist... for the simple reason that they would be able to empathize with the above situation and realize that the dark worker simply can't feel the pain that they're causing in the other person.

I agree that empathy is a huge asset for lightworkers, however, something I've noticed is that darkworkers seem to have a very good intellectual understanding of drives and emotions... much more than highly developed lightworkers, because they can rely simply on their emotional understanding.

Additionally, if a lightworker is not highly polarized, they'll find it very hard to use negative emotions to create change in somebody, even if they think it is in everybody's best interest. Even a moderately polarized darkworker will have no trouble using negative emotions for personal gain.

In this case, I think I the best self defense method would be kick the assailant in the balls and run... while still having empathy and understanding they have a reason for doing what they did .
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That's an interesting point, however, you're inferring that all people who commit crimes must be polarized darkworkers but I don't think that's true. I think there are a lot of greyworkers and even lightworkers that can commit violent crime without realizing what they're really doing, and surely all could experience empathy at some point.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by your quote "if a lightworker is not highly polarized, they'll find it very hard to use negative emotions to create change in somebody, even if they think it is in everybody's best interest. Even a moderately polarized darkworker will have no trouble using negative emotions for personal gain."

I don't understand, are you saying that a lightworker could not conquer over the negative emotions of someone else? I think a lightworker could definitely use positive emotions to conquer over negative ones, it all depends on perspective.

Anyways, though you bring up a good point, what I'm trying to say is, even if a darkworker has no empathy, if they were able to be shown through logic and rationality that their means of serving their self-interest would be wholly detrimental to them in the long run, then wouldn't they choose to conduct themselves in a manner which would be most beneficial to them, and therefore cease conducting through those means?
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