Oh, I'm gonna have to give my 2 cents here.
Isn't the whole point of being in this "earthly" experience as the egyptians called it, to have these emotions, to experience the ego? I wouldn't denounce any part of the human that makes him thrive or aspire, and the ego/super ego/subconcious/higher mind none of that is right or wrong.
I'm glad you want to be happy and helpful to your fellow mate, but don't you think that is your own personal ego pushing you twards that belief?
sure, be true to one another, but don't discard the gifts we have been given wile we are stuck in this plane of existence, if we didn't try to one-up anyone, how would we grow? nothing would happen!
but on the same coin, the one-up attitude...knock it off, amiright??
see, balance in every form, there is no true good or true evil, because you need both to prosper. Indigo child crystal blah blah who cares what you want to label yourself as! be free!! A brilliant philosopher once said "know thyself" and a label will not grant you that my friends, only exploration! enjoy yourself, one another, and come together to bring our collective conscious to greater heights, either through debate or agreement, either or works ^_^
Thanks for your comments, Rageypoo. I appreciate the irony.
The fact that you took umbridge at my post is most curious and may say more about you than it does about me - so examine your own motivations, my friend, and you take your own advice and 'be free'.
But you misjudge me and presume too much about me. I have no malice, and I have not played any one-upmanship game. But sometimes I like to address the elephant in the room, especially if it's making a stink and mess on the carpet and I have to breathe it in. Someone has to clean it up...And I'm not talking about moderating, here, either, just responding to a post.
Labels are labels, yes. People are people... yes...Thanks for the observation , perhaps some of us hadn't noticed that, lol!
Seriously, we know; we're just exploring. That's what this thread is all about. It should have been a lot more fun but, well... Egos, one-upmanship, you know...What can I say?
Ego...We speak the same words but perhaps a different language? My version, in this context, is a kind of fear-based awareness that locks us into 3D, that refuses to acknowledge a greater spiritual
reality. It's not so clever, really, as the dimensions are merging, and eventually there will be no 3D here.
One-upmanship is an ego game of malice, no less, with lots of baggage behind it, that probably stems from childhood; not one which could ever make us grow beyond ego/fear, but one that locks us into the very fabric of it - and not in a fun way, either, because it tends to remain unchallenged, like when we get hit in the face unexpectedly and are too shocked to respond coherently. Instead it creates conflict. If you believe conflict is the only way to grow, then you are entitled to that belief, but I don't share it, but if you were to say contrast, then that is what this 3D game format has been all about. But I am tired of watching the boxing match all the time. That meme is on its way out, anyway, and has no place in our future.
Ancient Egyptians..Sirians, Annunaki...Yes..This is what I know. Or believe I know..Some were the ruling elite that helped form the royal bloodlines and engineered the ego/3D-bound slave race that the majorty of us are to this day; some were spiritual and magickal adepts that tried to free us in their own way; others talked a lot of **** like everyone else, and we believed them and worshipped them like gods. Then throughout history, stareeds/revolutionaries/mystics visited occasionally, kicked up a fuss for a while, suggested this might all be an illusion, that it was all a kind of sick game, and then after usually murdering them or they managed to die first, we worshipped their effigies and remains. Now look where it has got us. Still ego-bound slaves believing we are free, yet through mindless propaganda, extolling the virtues of mindless slavery and the triumphs of the ego, such as war and defending yourself to the death against an
idea on internet forums. Kind of an oxymoron, don't you think?
Take it easy. Namaste.