Russ
Jedi Master
I mean, to be mindful of yourself. To not run before you can walk, so to speak. To ignore what we are doing on our most simple and fundamental levels, is to bring all sorts of complexities out of the woodwork, such as scratching an eye and making it worse. You could say that it is simple to ignore what is happening, but if "by the fruits you shall know them" is true, we can see that STS usually end up making things more complex for themeselves than they need to be - an "unproductive" complexity.
Its what can get us into so much trouble, to ignore simplicity. I mean *internally*. We *start* out very simple, we are conscious, which is very simple, probably the most simple you can get, it even comes before 1+1. "Before" anything, there is simplicity.
For example, consider a lot of new age sites which have a little bit of truth which is mixed with a lot of lies. Its simple to ask if any of it is actually proven to yourself - to ask if you are believing something which has no basis in fact. Its far more complex to start believing it - to leave out the "first" and most simple stage of discernment (ie. is this TRUE?) - than to get into complex discussions/arguments with people about things which aren't necessarily true - jumping the gun into complexity, spawned from a lack of simple "inner" observation.
Its what can get us into so much trouble, to ignore simplicity. I mean *internally*. We *start* out very simple, we are conscious, which is very simple, probably the most simple you can get, it even comes before 1+1. "Before" anything, there is simplicity.
For example, consider a lot of new age sites which have a little bit of truth which is mixed with a lot of lies. Its simple to ask if any of it is actually proven to yourself - to ask if you are believing something which has no basis in fact. Its far more complex to start believing it - to leave out the "first" and most simple stage of discernment (ie. is this TRUE?) - than to get into complex discussions/arguments with people about things which aren't necessarily true - jumping the gun into complexity, spawned from a lack of simple "inner" observation.
Simple phrases don't do any good at deception when there is no threat, its the threat to themselves that causes STS to believe something, to bypass the simple question of what is true. For example there are many religious phrases which contain a threat, "Do X or Y will happen to you". Why should anyone believe that there is, for example, Hell, all we have to go on is people telling us, and how can we trust them until we see it for ourselves? Its just wrong from the get go, from the very start, a very important and simple step has been overlooked - "why should I believe this?".ScioAgapeOmnis said:Speaking of details, one way to use simplification as a tool of deception is to leave the vital "details" out.
Well, I don't think thats necessarily specific to STS or STO. They both do it, but at different levels. Its where its done which is important imo. I was talking about losing sight of what is simple - simplicity is "within" us, so to lose sight of it is to never get to the bottom of a complex problem, but just to go around in circles. Its like arguing over a fictional story, where the writer left out some details - theres no need for the argument because its never going to be proven who is right. So I think the STS thing to do would be argue until you run out of energy, but the STO thing to do would be to accept that there are many possibilities, and that arguing one over the other is pointless.Fifth Way said:"To me it seems “obvious” that it doesn’t.
I think discernment, needed to discover the simplicity inside a complex context is difficult and requires a lot of knowledge as well as experience.
But look at what lengths the lizzies go through, ie. time travelling etc. They wouldn't have to do that if their doctrine wasn't, “We rule, you obey/die!”. But more than that, if you look at the ratio of complexity to creation, and compare STS and STO, you can see that STS seems to prefer straight out complexity over creation (ie. doesnt care how much creativity there is, as long as theres complexity).Fifth Way said:It appears that the Reptilian doctrine is along the lines of: “We rule, you obey/die!” which is comparable to the Bush doctrine: “You are either with us or against us.” …not much discernment there.
Creativity requires to think original thoughts and I find this to be “obviously” more complex than mechanically following programming, void of thinking.