Ketone Cop
Jedi Council Member
Posting this while being a few pages behind, but no more time today.
That is questionable. Being "good" may be one thing to learn, but sooner or later people need to learn other lessons as well. And among those are learning to think for yourself and to understand responsibility for your actions even if you're following orders. "I was just following orders" is a crappy excuse, if you ask me, because it's just a different way of saying "I refuse to accept any responsibility for what I do as long as there's someone else I can blame".
And if we've learned anything from this mess, we've learned that unless people get punched in the face with full force, literally or metaphorically, they don't learn much of anything. So it could very well be that they do need to be 'wrongly' accused and pay the price, if that's what it takes to understand that just doing what they're told and thinking they have no responsibility and can avoid the consequences doesn't really create the best world for everyone.
In fact, I would say that learning to accept personal responsibility may be one of the most important lessons there are. What good is the excuse that "they're basically good people" when their actions cause suffering not just individually but on the level of the whole society? These are the people who create fascism. It takes one douche at the top and millions who go along with it for it to work. Hitler could do no harm if nobody listened to him. It is exactly these people who create such systems. The fact that they don't do it intentionally is of little value when they do it over and over and the results are disastrous.
Children are understood to bear limited responsibility because they're learning the basics, but they will become adults, and somewhere in between they need to learn more about this responsibility. And some hard lessons are needed for them to grow up. And it's the same with the people you are talking about. This year has shown that these people are unable to learn their lessons just by thinking and listening to people who are telling them what's going on and where it's going to lead (like us). So they'll have to learn their lessons some other way. And I'm sure the universe will give them exactly the lessons they need, sooner or later.
Yes, all of that may very well happen. Why have we learned certain lessons while they haven't? Could it be because such of things have happened to us in the past?
Yes, but everything has a reason. Do you think people are given lessons they don't need, or don't deserve, or can't possibly handle?
Now, I don't disagree with anything you said, and I started writing this response as I was reading yours, paragraph by paragraph, and your post then took a bit different turn. So this isn't really aimed at you. It's just a different perspective on the things you've described. And this perspective may be useful for us if we don't want to be crushed by what we might soon see.
Whatever will happen has its purpose. Everything has a reason, everything has a meaning. New things can only arise out of destruction of old things. Destruction just tends to be a bit messy.
Thanks MI, I always appreciate your perspective. You are quite good at sitting back and looking at situations logically, without letting emotions cloud your view. I agree, everyone has their lessons to learn. I guess I just have a lot of empathy and compassion for people who are following orders due to their programming, because I was once in their shoes until I awakened. I see where they are going, and that they are clueless victims of those who they followed like lemmings because they were raised to trust authority instead of learning to question for themselves.
I mean, I see examples of this every day at work, and trying to point out things to them is useless. They will need to fall before they can stand on their own. It's just hard to see this and know what's going to happen to them. That's where I need to do some serious work around practicing "strategic enclosure" of my own feelings. I don't want to be brought down because I took responsibility for THEIR feelings.
But your statement: "Do you think people are given lessons they don't need, or don't deserve, or can't possibly handle?"
I guess that depends on how reality really works. Are those born here only allowed to come in if they know in advance what is going to happen? Do some come in with certain soul lessons to learn, but then something happened in this reality to make it a much different ballgame from what they expected, and they then became clueless victims in a much larger game not of their soul's doing?
I guess what I'm wondering about this Earthly plane we now inhabit: what is the original intention of this place? Was it to learn simple lessons about love and life and 3D existence, and something went wrong and alien influences saw this place as an ideal harvesting ground due to the presence of inhabitants who were clueless about the existence of evil? How many have been trapped here for eons of time, when their original "contract" called for them to only be here for a short series of lifetimes?
We can't really know any of this from our current level of understanding. And, all there are, are lessons. I just wonder how many here have been subjected to far more lessons than they ever signed up for in the first place over the last few hundred thousand years; and if "us from the future" had to come back here in order to help set things right because those who are trapped here didn't have enough knowledge to be able to do it by themselves.
Ah, now I'm having stirrings of remembrances from C's sessions that had much of this information. Time to do some more reading. If only my memory wasn't made of Swiss cheese...
EDIT: almost called you "IM" again. Sigh.
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