This covers much of the same ground as the post by SeekinTruth above, though I hope it can further explain by coming at it in a somewhat different way:
Guardian said:
Mrs. Peel said:
Yeah, what I meant is that while 2D can 'see' us, they can't think and perceive on our level.
How do we know that? Perhaps they can think and perceive on our level, and are just disgusted by us?
Animals (undomesticated ones) live in harmony with their environment. They don't take more than they need. They live simply for the sake of living, in a system of balanced interconnectedness we can only envy.
What but our egos and our own skewed perceptions make us think we are somehow more "aware" and "evolved" than the other beings we share this planet with? Even a lowly tit mouse knows not to poop in its water source, but for some reason humanity has yet to grasp this very basic concept of survival.
I think that while most people compare the intelligence (in terms of capacity) of humans and animals and conclude that humans have more of this capacity, you seem to compare the stupidity (in terms of destructiveness, particularly self-destructiveness) of humans and animals and conclude that humans have much more of this stupidity.
However, intelligence and stupidity are not necessarily opposites, and both conclusions are true. It can be thought of this way: A simple system has little capacity for error; a complex system has more capacity for error. A stone is incapable of being stupid; animals have a comparatively small capacity for stupidity; and humans have a huge capacity for stupidity. This goes along with the complexity of our systems (mainly brain functioning), and their lack of perfection means that this potential for stupidity becomes manifest; we have to Work to make it otherwise. The typical 2D STS being is a fairly complete being of its design; the typical 3D STS being is an unfinished, broken mess. Also, among us are certain pathological beings even worse, and they hold immense influence and responsibility in the self-destructive acts of humanity.
Going further, you could look on 3D STS and 4D STS much like you do on 2D STS and 3D STS; 4D STS beings have no redeeming qualities of any kind; among humanity there are at least such. Rather, they live only to feed, feed, feed on the very life of those "below" them, and they do so in a blind, self-destructive frenzy that sustains them as they grow in their nastiness to the point that they eventually contract away first from interaction with the rest of the universe, and second into themselves, collapsing completely into "dead", primal matter. Looking at this like you look at 2D and 3D, you could in much the same way say that it is the other way around, and 3D beings are really superior to 4D beings. As can be seen, the "stupidity" has grown further on the level of 4D STS, along with capacity; it becomes clear that this stupidity is a quality brought by STS evolution, and that this is the reason why 3D STS beings manifest more of it than 2D STS beings.
You can see that humans are in a state of further development compared to animals - the question is:
towards what?
And in which direction to go now?
This is where the Choice comes in; choosing one's direction - though by the time of consciously doing so, one has likely been moving toward it for some time, having a "seed" of its nature; otherwise, it is likely that the opposite choice would have been made.
Guardian said:
Just because we like to think we're superior creations to the rest of the animal kingdom...doesn't make it true.
Finally, saying that 3D is the step above 2D in evolving through the densities does not imply saying that 3D is superior; for the point of All is lessons and learning, and existence being a school, being more "aware" and "evolved" does not imply superiority. (for is a third grader superior to a second grader? no, simply further along in his studies) Judgment of superiority is separate, and an attribute of STS thinking. So simply recognizing where things are in the learning cycle need not be accompanied by conceit.
OSIT.
