Onward! Ever, onward...
"One of our boys works at a little internet startup called ebay. He is a high school graduate by the skin of his teeth. From the time he was fourteen, he drove us crazy by wrecking our computers in a myriad of ways. Now he gets to dress as an adult and go to a responsibly paying job. His earring sets off his five day growth of beard (how he keeps it at five days growth is beyond me). His shirts are all message shirts - such as "beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore!" go well with his shorts - even in winter. Caterpillar is the brand name on his high top steel toed work boots. His job at ebay is to bring ebay down. He's QA - Quality Assurance. Before ebay, he worked for the CIA at a front company, Apple, and a couple other places. His pay is adequate, mid six figure. Not bad for a high school grad. He's an alpha geek. He also skis backwards off a double black diamond cornice while filming his wife, son, and sister following him. Definitely not a nerd. Not introverted."
Say, does he have a single older brother for Heidrun or me, or Twinny? We like snow sports!
LOL!
O.K., so our looky-loo readership stats are up, but poster quality remains high, which is more important, in my humble op... Lakey, thanks for the recognition, but you deserve much credit for being encouraged and going forward when I encouraged you...we could have fizzled out, and yet here we are rolling merrily along with mental/emotional/spiritual prosperity!
I thank Leon and Roger for their comments. Yes, lack of awareness or being awake=hypnotized or brainwashed, pretty much the same effect in someone's life and attitudes...
My point is that most of us, those without organic brain damage, dysfunction or disability, are capable of all sorts of acts and attitudes, the Milgram experiment and all of the history of the world's atrocities carried out by otherwise seemingly "normal" people shows this. I just don't want us to point a finger at "those awful whomevers" (Christians, Muslims, Jews, Nazi's, Commies, Scientologists, you name it). There but for the grace of God (and my personal determinism) go I. Seek not to learn for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee...is all I'm sayin'. We all need to be aware of this, as fully as possible. Many of us here are capable of waking others up! A worthy endeavor.
Being pro-survival for yourself, your family or your group is a choice. One you make constantly, over and over throughout your existence. The ability to make choices that cause ripples of actions and events that move out beyond one's self, it the definition of a change agent, or a "big being", if you want to put it in those terms. We are all capable of being big in this determinism.
The question to ask yourself in each successive moment is: am I co-creating good or evil, or if you don't like the moral judgement angle of it (a nod to my atheistic friends), am I creating beneficial or harmful results with my thoughts, speech, intention, theta and actions?
I think the key is that some people are aware of how powerful their choices are, and others aren't. Speaking as a teacher, I would say this is is the key area where most are asleep, unaware, or hypnotized...what say you all?
