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Originally Posted by historycircus
Maybe the trick with our species is finding alignment betwee self-interest and public interest - between "service to self" and "service to others" philosophies?
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well there is the crux right there
it appears that we NEED to move from STS to STO or at least a quid pro quo mentality just to keep the species from extinction. Is it ETs, ascended masters, or angels trying to get us to open our eyes and see how we are effecting our sustainability, or are they demons trying to remove us from the path of the righteous?
Its seems we cannot keep going the way the western world has been going. Well we could but at great cost and an ever increasing negative effect towards the earths ability to keep giving and giving without being replenished as well as being polluted and stripped of the things we take till there is no more. Or is this happening at all? Lies to lead us in fear to a path they think we wont take ourselves because we are not "illuminated" like they are?
It is a difficult thing unless we use technology such as free energy, Terra-forming, and a one world mentality. yet we cannot graduate to that level while remaining STS because the mis-use of such powerful tools could be not only catastrophic to ourselves but perhaps other species living in the same space on different frequencies or dimensions.
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Originally Posted by historycircus
But what substantive contributions did they give us? For all the idealism and revolutionary sentiment of their "movements," they accomplished very little. The Civil Rights Movement was successful, but it wasn't hippies out there getting attacked by the dogs - it was preachers, regular African-Americans, and a handful of Euro-American college kids - who went on to get their MBAs. They didn't stop the Vietnam War. They didn't save the environment. They partied - sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. I'm not poo-pooing any of those three, they all have their place in our experience. I'm just saying that rather than anything idealistic or substantive, the Baby Boomers merely loosened the cultural restraints tightened by the previous generation who had lived through the Great Depression and the bloodiest world war in recorded history. Their contribution is a double edged sword; cultural freedom in exchange for a decline in collective morality.
The "New Age" movement of the 1960s was just as much an act of rebellion against the traditional dominant religious paradigms as it was motivated by a desire for truth. Spiritual movements born out of negative intent may be influenced by things that feed off of such negativity.
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ah the 60s
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Originally Posted by Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
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Even though he was unaware of the 60s, I still think it applies perfectly. There were many paths revealed in those days, and many we are still walking. If there is indeed an approaching horizon come 2012 then we will know by then who are the wise, and who are the foolish.
peace