Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:Throughout your whole life you have had to settle on doing things 'one way', that is until you find a better or more successful way, right? If so, then you settle on that way, for a time being, also, am I right?
I just don’t think it’s that simple. After reading your latest reply, I’ve now gotten the impression that you are mainly focused on the treatment of children and people. Is this correct?
Yes it is correct that the treatment of each other, especially children, is what I am mainly focused on. The way we each behave or misbehave, which ends up inevitably towards each other, is about the only thing that we, human beings, actually have control of and over. Everything else is just a part of the larger perfection that you talk about, which human beings certainly have no control over.
Lacewing wrote:If so, there is not one way that I treat everyone. Different people and different situations seem to require varying treatment as seems appropriate. It is an art, not a routine.
What you personally do is fair enough, and I am pretty sure the way you treat everyone is pretty much the exact same way all people treat each other, that is each human beings treat different people and different situations to varying degrees. However, if there was one way, let us just say that way was DO NOT ABUSE, under any circumstances, and, every person agreed with that way, then could you now agree that there might just be one way, which is (far) better than another way?
Or, do you still strongly believe that there is not one way?
Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:ONLY what everyone agrees with IS the right, or more appropriate, or better, WAY.
What happens if everyone is delusional?
If every is delusional, then everyone is delusional. That is just 'what is'. No one is going to know any difference or be any wiser so it does not really matter at all.
Lacewing wrote: Do you think that agreement alone indicates some sort of “better” awareness?
Based on the fact that the more people that are aware that could be in agreement, then the more 'better' awareness could be.
For example we know of cases where one person can be in agreement with their own thoughts and thinking, but those thoughts and thinking can be and are completely delusional. This kind of agreed upon knowledge of what is actually delusional, can exist with any number of people, but surely with the amount of completely varying situations with greater larger numbers of people, and how many varying different experiences and thus views are exponentially gained from those greater numbers of people, then surely those commonly held and shared views, which are actually in agreement with everyone, then the less chances those views would be, right?
Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:Lacewing wrote: An inability to see perfection does not mean it doesn’t exist.
How do we explain to a child who is being abused that this is just 'what is' and it is perfection?
For the record, I find it difficult to follow a logical path of discussion when you do these apparent “shifts” in focus.
Also for the record, I also thought the same thing when you wrote that inability to see perfection sentence. I was not sure how nor why your shift in focus went to, "An inability to see perfection does not mean it doesn't exist". I certainly never mentioned anything like that nor about that prior, and I certainly would never even think opposing that. An inability to see ANYTHING does not mean it does not exist. Just like the ability to see SOMETHING does not mean it does exist. That is what 'delusion' actually refers to and if truthful we have ALL been guilty of that at some point in our lives. So, not really sure why you shifted to that point.
But anyway, maybe the reason we both make shifts in focus could be due to the fact that it is extremely hard to gain a perspective of where the other is actually coming from if we are just making assumptions and not actually asking for clarification, and in return clarifying in a completely open and honest way with each other. Obviously, asking open-ended, clarifying questions first, before making assumptions, really helps in this regard.
Lacewing wrote: To me it has appeared that you’ve been speaking in general, broad terms –- more on the universal level -– and so I have responded in that way, but now suddenly you’re talking about effects on children and talking to children. Very different scope and purpose, from my view.
From my view the only ones who have any fuller understanding of and on the Universal level is human beings. Where do human beings begin to gain knowledge and understand? Whilst as children. So, the effects on children, by the way we, adults, talk to, at, and about them I think is very, very important, and far, far more important than human beings actually realize yet. The things we, adults, actually say and do has a far greater effect on children and what they learn than is fully realized and understood yet.
To Me, absolutely EVERY thing is a just part of the Universal and on the same One Universal level, including human beings and also the younger human beings, that is, the children. No thing is separate, different, above, nor beyond the Universe. We, Everything, are ALL on the same level.
Lacewing wrote:Many, many, many children go through horrendous things. There may be no one to love or protect them. It is part of the dense human world.
What are you actually saying here, that this is okay and all right, or are you saying some thing else?
When you witness a child being abused is there not one part of your whole being that says this is not the right way?
Do you just accept the abuse of children as this is just 'what is'?
I can also say what horrendous things adults do to children and explain it as this is just what happens but that does not mean I accept it nor agree with it in any way, shape, nor form. I KNOW from my childhood there is a better way.
Lacewing wrote: They came here... they are EQUAL spirit beings (or whatever it is that we all are)... and they have their dense human experience. It makes the most sense to me that these beings are fully equipped to take this journey in all its horror. They accept it. They experience it. For however long it lasts. Just like an animal. I think the advantage that children have is that their minds are freer – they don’t have expectations and demands built-up. They arrive and start exploring. They learn how to navigate. Little children who are dying of cancer seem to be the most brave little warriors of all.
Every part of that is all true to Me also, except the last sentence, which I will always question when I hear things like that; How exactly are they the most brave?
Is not every human being dying?
How, exactly, is it brave to, (or
want to), stay alive, while the body is still breathing and pumping blood?
Lacewing wrote: They’re not taking it in the same way that adults do. Adults are the ones who seem to have perfected the art of suffering: they seem tortured more by their own developed minds than by any externally-applied torture. A child doesn’t seem to take things as seriously. Either they’re here or they’re not. They don’t cling. They don’t regret. They belong and are connected WAY BEYOND the physical experience. That’s how it seems to me.
And, to Me, they are all great points, which form great questions, for YOU to answer. So, WHY is this so?
WHY do YOU as an adult suffer more, are tortured more, take things more seriously, cling, regret, and do not belong and are not connected WAY BEYOND the physical experience?
The true and right answer to each and everyone of these, which I am fully aware you believe does not exist, ARE really freeing.
Lacewing wrote:You might ask, “Are you saying, Lacewing, that we should do nothing to love and help children?” My answer is: Of course I’m NOT saying such a thing. I’m focused, for the purpose of this discussion, on perspective. For me, perspective and understanding are a starting point for maintaining clarity and love and acceptance... and therefore, effectiveness.
Fair enough, but what exactly is the perspective WE should be focusing on? And, perspective and understanding of what exactly are a starting point for maintaining clarity and love and acceptance, and therefore, effectiveness.
To Me, the starting point for maintaining clarity, love, and acceptance for effectiveness, to make change so that NO child is abused, which to Me is a better way than we, human beings, are heading now IS to ALWAYS REMAIN OPEN. That way there is the instinctual knowing and drive to question everything, instead of just assuming and guessing that "I know right". This is the perspective and focus I am on.
Lacewing wrote:If one becomes too mired in the physical drama, it can be difficult to see anything beyond it. Then one simply wrestles with it and struggles to be heard above the noise. My focus is on what we might be able to transform from a clearer “frequency” so-to-speak. Seeing and communicating outside of the drama. Not being intoxicated by the drama. I think children operate more on that frequency too. I think there is clarity and acceptance and love there.
I think that exactly also. In fact it was children who taught what the actual frequency IS. And, by the way, the younger the child the greater teacher they are.
Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:Lacewing wrote:Nothing is ultimately keeping any individual awareness from seeing beyond the various veils and levels that filter one’s experience.
To Me there is. The things that keep any individual's awareness from seeing beyond the various veils and levels that filter one's experience.... are;
beliefs, and,
assumptions.
I don't consider beliefs and assumptions as an
ultimate barrier; they are simply of a denser perspective. They can be changed and risen above.
Yes true they can be very quickly, simply, and easily changed and risen above, once you know-HOW. But until the veils are lifted one is mired in their own beliefs and assumptions.
I did not mean that those veils and levels that filter one's experience can never be ultimately removed and discarded completely. I meant that while they are there, they are an ultimate barrier, ultimately keeping awareness mired and locked behind closed doors.
Also, and I ask this quite frequently but never get a response, WHY make assumptions and keep beliefs, if they can be changed and risen above anyway. If they can be changed and risen above, then that means they are NOT right, so WHY have them, let alone maintain them, in the first place?
Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:Lacewing wrote:There is not even a “goal”... there is just magnificent ongoing creation and expansion, within which limitless experiences are possible.
Where do you think/imagine the ongoing creation is heading towards?
I don’t think that way. There is no destination... there is no goal... there is only ongoing creation and destruction. And THAT is naturally beautiful and complete.
So, if human beings move in the direction that they seem to be heading in now, that is, they could bomb and pollute each other till there is none or at least not many left, then THAT is naturally beautiful and complete, to you?
Also, you seem so adamant that there is
no destination, and that there is
no goal, like that is an ultimate answer or truth, yet you have also expressed that there is NO point to ultimate answers nor truths.
You have expressed;
"The problem can come when we try to apply our own experience onto some ultimate template of truth for all, right? There are so many variations. This is why I cannot agree with the way theism is typically superimposed over all else. It is not truth for a lot of people. There is so much more than any particular theism. I wish particularized theists could accept/acknowledge that, but I realize that would go against their whole particular theist foundation/identity of "having THE ultimate answer/truth that applies to all". It just seems so absurd to believe."
Now, if we change just one or two words here let us see if this will reflect back on to you about what you are actually doing yourse,lf in the exact same way. If the word 'theism' can refer to
religious ideologies and the beliefs surrounding
religious ideologies, and 'theist' can refer to people who believe (in), follow, preach or try to teach
religious ideologies, as an ultimate answer or truth, then let us change these two words because any religious overtones is no reflection at all of what you are doing, and really quite the opposite of what you are wanting to do and trying to achieve, am I right?
If so, if we change the word 'theism' (the-ism) to 'thisism' (this-ism) to reflect
any ideology, and, 'theist' (the-ist) to 'thisist' (this-ist) to reflect
any person who is a believer, follower or teacher of
any ideology, as an ultimate answer or truth, then let us see how this effects what you, yourself, have written;
"There is no destination... there is no goal... there is only ongoing creation and destruction. And THAT is naturally beautiful and complete."
Writing, There is NO destination, and, there is NO goal... there is ONLY... in that kind of way, sounds like a pretty fixed "ultimate truth" expressed "for all", which is totally irrefutable.
Does this sound like some one trying to apply their own experience onto some ultimate template of truth for all?
Does this allow for any of the other of the so many variations?
Does it appear this thisism is being typically superimposed over all else?
Does there appear to be any more than this particular thisism?
Do you or some people wish particularized thisists could accept/acknowledge that there is so much more than any particular thisism?
Do you or some people realize that if particularized thisists could or would accept/acknowledge that there is so much more than
any particular thisism, then that would go against their whole particular thisist foundation/identity of "having THE ultimate answer/truth that applies to all"?
Does this just seem so absurd to believe?
Does any of this sound familiar or look like a reflection of 'you' because this is what you expressly wrote (with
the two words changed);
"The problem can come when we try to apply our own experience onto some ultimate template of truth for all, right? There are so many variations. This is why I cannot agree with the way thisism is typically superimposed over all else. It is not truth for a lot of people. There is so much more than any particular thisism. I wish particularized thisists could accept/acknowledge that, but I realize that would go against their whole particular theist foundation/identity of "having THE ultimate answer/truth that applies to all". It just seems so absurd to believe."
By the way expressing 'thoughts', from within, as though they are an ultimate of truth for all, is a completely natural thing to do because 'thoughts', literally, ARE the individual 'YOU', inside every individual human body.
You also expressed;
"I consider the vastness of the universe and
think: How could there possibly only be one appropriate way to do or perceive ANYTHING??? Our efforts to pin down specific answers/views seem only for our own temporary stabilizing comfort... because otherwise, our obsession with limited conclusions doesn't truthfully represent the potential of a seemingly limitless universe that we only perceive a tiny fraction of (if even that)."
Yet by also expressing;
"There is NO destination and there is NO goal, there is ONLY...." IS also
trying to superimpose, an ultimate template of truth for all, over all else.
Again, there is nothing wrong with doing that when it is done completely unconsciously. But once knowing how to stay completely OPEN always, then ALL the veils are lifted, and then awareness (or consciousness) comes to the forefront and ALL things become much clearer. From a completely OPEN viewpoint there is absolutely no density at all. ALL of 'what IS' can been seen and understood for what IT really IS.
Lacewing wrote:ken wrote:Does it really not make to sense to you to want to create a better 'world', which is done just by a way of living, than it does to make a worse world? Do you not agree that we would be better of if all of us adults changed our behaviors for the better, so that all of us could live in a better place, that is, less wars, less pollution, and less greed...
Of course I want to help transform the world for the "better"! But it makes sense to me that our greatest transformation/potential occurs on a less-dense level -- one of broader acceptance and understanding -- rather than wrestling in and with the density of it. (What we resist persists.)
I agree totally and wholeheartedly, that is why I have been trying to express the importance of OPENNESS. From a completely OPEN viewpoint there is no dense. There is only love, acceptance, and understanding with and for ALL.
I am not resisting anything. I do this by asking truly open-ended, inquisitive and clarifying questions from a truly completely OPEN viewpoint.
I am just learning how to better express, so that 'I' can be better accepted and understood for who 'I' truly am. There is absolutely nothing to resist from this advantage point.
Lacewing wrote: Imagine that you’re in a mud pit, thrashing around to try to clean up the mud. It’s difficult when you’re immersed in it, as it coats everything you see, think, and attempt to do. Now imagine that you levitate out of the mud pit...

...and from the aerial view you realize there is simply a valve off to the side, that will drain the mud pit -– you just couldn’t see it from where you were operating before. (Seeking clarity vs. seeking control.) Then a transformation becomes possible. Then you are more empowered and can communicate broader potential and accessibility to others.
I still find it amazing that when I write replies sometimes I do it quote by quote or sentence by sentence before I read the next one, and how you somehow provide Me with answers to what I am looking for, in the very next quote.
Lacewing wrote:I don’t think this communication only happens on a physcial level... I think it can be picked up on a mental and spiritual network we are all plugged into. The more people who stop wrestling in the mud pit, the more clearly and broadly more people will see beyond that. I also don't think this is about achieving anything specific or going “anywhere” though.
What about achieving that mental and Spiritual communication that you just talked about is the specific thing we ALL need to achieve, that will lead us to "somewhere" better.
You also have to admit that you also want to transform this physical world into a better one, not necessarily for us two personally but for our species as a whole, and, just maybe the best way, (and dare I say it
only way) is for us to learn how to communicate far better on the Spiritual level?
By the way I never thought ANY OF THIS, besides the outcome, was about the physical level anyway.
Lacewing wrote: (Some people apparently came here to experience mud wrestling.)
That is very obvious, and very understandable also considering the past experiences they have endured.
Lacewing wrote: I think a linear path is an illusion. Rather, it seems to me that there are vast realities that can be experienced and shared from a single point.
Where and
what that single point is exactly is what I have been alluding to all along.
How to get there is very simple, quick, and easily, once you have the know-HOW, and with know-HOW, or, in other words, once you know-HOW to.
Why there is a single point can be easily understood.
When we reach that single point is
when we ALL get there as One, and
when that is IS
when we are ALL in agreement.