Ruth said:
I've posted in the past, many times, some of my thoughts on Ops. They have been constantly dismissed as "being the product of faulty reasoning". I'm not sure how this works, because it seems that nobody can really "prove" anything let alone "see" anything about this subject unless they are using faulty reasoning themselves.
Woah, Ruth - you just sounded a lot like Rumsfeld - what was it he said? Oh, yeah, "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence". In other words, you are - without question - using faulty reasoning in this statement - it's even circular faulty reasoning - congrats on that one - doesn't happen (from a normie) very often. ;)
Ruth said:
I suppose an example of a 'fundamental disagreement' would be to say that Ops are actually 'garden variety psychopaths'. They are not, they are simply OPs.
Nope, I think you are confusing the idea that 'psychopaths are failed OPs' with something all together different. I would find it fascinating to find out that all your protestations come down to you misunderstanding a very fundamental point like this. No one has suggested that OPs are, by definition, psychopaths - even the 'garden variety type'. Do OPs lack higher centers - yes - it appears they do - but that does not make them psychopaths.
Ruth said:
One could almost assume that some people are looking for a way to blame the machinations of STS on OPs.... I think the main blame for that, goes to those so-called 'souled' individuals who 'fell' (was it 300000 years ago?), or who switched from the STO to STS orientation.
I've no idea where you got that idea - at no point was that ever even suggested. First of all - we are ALL STS - if we are 'here' we are STS - because here IS STS - so OPs (if they exist) are simply a part of this STS reality.
Ruth said:
ps are no more to blame for that than my cat or my pot plant! Having said that, they can now can play an 'important' role in keeping STS folkes centered on materiality due to their mechanicalism and physical focus. That is IF 50% of all humans are OPs....
Well, I'm really glad starsailor asked you that question, because your perception of the QFS understanding of (hypothetical) OPs is really quite far from the truth. OPs can't keep anyone centered on anything - they simply 'are'. Granted, with 50% of humanity possibly being an organic portal there is a lot of 'peer pressure' going on and a lot of muddying the signal - a lot of 'lowest common experiential denominator', as it were - but it was never about OPs consciously 'keeping' anyone anywhere. Can they be used as vectors? Absolutely, but so can a human being with a seed of a soul, if they are asleep and reactionary.
Ruth said:
There (I think) are quite different ways that OPs process energy from people who have access to higher centers (non-OPs). This doesn't automatically make OPs BAD, just less able to do what the 'souped up' human can.
When and where did anyone say OPs were 'bad'? Seriously? Understanding the difference and the residual affect on society as a whole by this difference does not make anyone 'bad'. I've personally never heard Laura say - even once - that OPs are 'bad'.
Ruth said:
There seem to me to be fundamental differences in the way each type of human uses 'programming' too.
Could you provide data to back this statement up? Of course you can't - yet you don't question your understanding, Ruth - and this not questioning is quite distrubing considering that you don't even understand the QFS take on the subject.
Ruth said:
This would not make it a case of 'one size fits all'. To an OP 'programming' is called 'socialisation'.
How could you possibly know such a thing?
Ruth said:
To a non-OP programming produces an entirely different - usually emotionally negative reaction. That has been my observations on the two types of people so far.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Did you miss the point that the foundation of most programming is extremely 'pleasant' - thus it's efficacy. It is the moving toward 'feels good' and the moving away from 'feels bad' that is the core kernel of programming - of course there are exceptions - but they are very rare.
Ruth said:
I don't see any fundamental conflict between the two, non that can't be laid squarely at the door of STS. :D
Well, thanks for clarifying your understanding. All I can say at this point is that you really are quite far off the mark not only on the QFS take on 'OPs' - if they exist - but also on the whole programming phenomenon.
Can you consider that you might have misunderstood something along the way? I'm sure you can, since you're still here - but consider that what you perceived as being 'bad' is simply being 'not in control' in any way, shape or form of one's thoughts, actions or reactions - which makes one an easily used 'instrument'.
It really is as simple as that. If hypothetical OPs exist - then they are as natural a part of this world as humans with a seed of a soul (utilized and developed or not) or as cats or dogs - they are not, by any means, 'bad' - they simply can only go 'so far' in their understanding and application of certain concepts since they lack the hardware to go further.
Perhaps your perception of 'bad' comes from the energetic draining that occurs between an OP and a potentially souled individual. I would understand that you might see it this way, but again, as potentially 'damaging' as this is - it is still a 'natural' part of our STS existence here. After all, this world IS feeding - the crux seems to be understanding and recognizing when it is happening, in order to limit it and grow one's coat of 'awareness'. Does that make OPs bad? Nope - just makes them OPs. I hope this clarified things a little for you - recognizing and understanding the reality of one's environment and the inherent dangers of such does not make the environment or the dangers 'bad' - it just defines them.