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Crusader
Something built into every person on Earth, something everyone has attention on and has an opinion on is HELPING OTHERS. Using current computer slang, it seems to be hard wired into nearly all of us. It seems like at the center of out core, there is a command "HELP OTHERS!"
Hubbard came up with "SURVIVE!" as the one thing which life is doing but this command applies mainly to biological life. If life is separated into biological and spiritual components (some will deny this), the spiritual aspect has no choice but to Survive so the command works in essence only when applied to biological life. The command "HELP OTHERS!" applies both to spiritual and biological life and therefore would seem to be senior to and an undercut of the command, Survive.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS THREAD - Examining the command, "HELP OTHERS!" and looking at it critically and not just blindly accepting it as part of our hard wiring is my goal for starting this thread. Detachment is the key here. Detach from the concept that it is unquestionably correct to help others. Life can be conceived as existing without that command being a core value in the innermost essence of every spiritual being. Every human life seems to start out without that command present in the infancy phase. babies do not have any urging whatever to help others. In some toddlers, the desire to help others shows up early, in others it does not and some people never cultivate that concept, though they are in a minority.
Helping others, seems to have agreement in society as being noble and exalted. In nearly all religions, it is looked upon as holy and sacred. Often when the meaning of life is sought after, after a long search, the concept of Helping Others is given as the ultimate purpose of life. When one helps others, a very good sense of well being envelopes most people - their case, or in normal terms, their worries and cares seem to move out and away from them and they feel good about themselves. IT IS THIS SENSE OF FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF THAT CONVINCES MANY THAT HELPING OTHERS IS THE HIGHEST CALLING IN LIFE.
WHERE THE IDEA OF HAVING A GAME COMES IN
I came up with a different way of looking at it. If life had no meaning other than to help others than life is actually rendered meaningless. Helping others would really have very little to no real meaning if there was not something higher to aspire to. Helping just for the sake of helping is insufficient to justify a worthwhile Game. A Game has to lead somewhere and to have a worthwhile goal, otherwise helping others is just like helping someone to run on a treadmill, you are not really doing them a favor that leads anywhere.
TWO EXTREME LOOKS AT "HELPING OTHERS"
At the one extreme, there is the consideration that helping others is noble, exalted, holy and sacred and at the other extreme there are those who say that it is just an implant we have all been given or it is just someone's case in restimulation. I do not know first hand but I have heard that DM believes that being kind to people is a case phenemena and by extrapolation that would mean that he considers Helping Others is just case and is not really being effective. Certainly, Helping Others could just be an implanted item into every being perpetrated by the author or authors of this Universe. You are to just keep everyone on a treadmill and they keep you on it thus ensuring the universe is kept created.
I think there is more to it than just being an implant. Most beings want to help and derive a sense of worth by doing so. We do not need to be implanted to do what we would natuarlly want to do anyway. That is how I see it but then again, that may just be me, sipping the Kool Aid and buying into somebody else's implant and thinking it is really my own natural impulse.
So there it is! Why do most of us have a great impulse to help? Is attaining a full understanding of the help concept possible for beings on Earth and if helping others is not the highest calling in this universe then what other items are there which are higher?
Lakey
Hubbard came up with "SURVIVE!" as the one thing which life is doing but this command applies mainly to biological life. If life is separated into biological and spiritual components (some will deny this), the spiritual aspect has no choice but to Survive so the command works in essence only when applied to biological life. The command "HELP OTHERS!" applies both to spiritual and biological life and therefore would seem to be senior to and an undercut of the command, Survive.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS THREAD - Examining the command, "HELP OTHERS!" and looking at it critically and not just blindly accepting it as part of our hard wiring is my goal for starting this thread. Detachment is the key here. Detach from the concept that it is unquestionably correct to help others. Life can be conceived as existing without that command being a core value in the innermost essence of every spiritual being. Every human life seems to start out without that command present in the infancy phase. babies do not have any urging whatever to help others. In some toddlers, the desire to help others shows up early, in others it does not and some people never cultivate that concept, though they are in a minority.
Helping others, seems to have agreement in society as being noble and exalted. In nearly all religions, it is looked upon as holy and sacred. Often when the meaning of life is sought after, after a long search, the concept of Helping Others is given as the ultimate purpose of life. When one helps others, a very good sense of well being envelopes most people - their case, or in normal terms, their worries and cares seem to move out and away from them and they feel good about themselves. IT IS THIS SENSE OF FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF THAT CONVINCES MANY THAT HELPING OTHERS IS THE HIGHEST CALLING IN LIFE.
WHERE THE IDEA OF HAVING A GAME COMES IN
I came up with a different way of looking at it. If life had no meaning other than to help others than life is actually rendered meaningless. Helping others would really have very little to no real meaning if there was not something higher to aspire to. Helping just for the sake of helping is insufficient to justify a worthwhile Game. A Game has to lead somewhere and to have a worthwhile goal, otherwise helping others is just like helping someone to run on a treadmill, you are not really doing them a favor that leads anywhere.
TWO EXTREME LOOKS AT "HELPING OTHERS"
At the one extreme, there is the consideration that helping others is noble, exalted, holy and sacred and at the other extreme there are those who say that it is just an implant we have all been given or it is just someone's case in restimulation. I do not know first hand but I have heard that DM believes that being kind to people is a case phenemena and by extrapolation that would mean that he considers Helping Others is just case and is not really being effective. Certainly, Helping Others could just be an implanted item into every being perpetrated by the author or authors of this Universe. You are to just keep everyone on a treadmill and they keep you on it thus ensuring the universe is kept created.
I think there is more to it than just being an implant. Most beings want to help and derive a sense of worth by doing so. We do not need to be implanted to do what we would natuarlly want to do anyway. That is how I see it but then again, that may just be me, sipping the Kool Aid and buying into somebody else's implant and thinking it is really my own natural impulse.
So there it is! Why do most of us have a great impulse to help? Is attaining a full understanding of the help concept possible for beings on Earth and if helping others is not the highest calling in this universe then what other items are there which are higher?
Lakey