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Negative vs Positive Path
- Thread starter Fool
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If you decide to be a service to others, others will help you on this path. If you decide to only service yourself, you are on your own. 
If you decide to be a service to others, others will help you on this path. If you decide to only service yourself, you are on your own.
OK, but which form would be the more likely path to accomplish a goal?
depends on what the goal is.
a person wishes to change the world, how would a negative path attempt to do this vs a positive path?
Sorry, but that depends on what change one wants to see in the world.
this is true and why there are two paths, the dark force, or the light force. again which is easiest to accomplish? i'm not disputing that it's what one wishes to accomplish. but is it easier to create something like adolph hitler, or more like siddhartha gautama?
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psychoslice
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Please give an example of a negative path.
genghis khan, adolph hitler, pol pot,
the negative is externalized and accomplished through fear and misinformation.
the positive is internalized and accomplished through insight and love
psychoslice
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Thank you, why would anyone want the negative, then again when you think about it much of religion is negative, though many will only tell you about the positive side.
The easiest path to follow is the one everyone can agree on.
You can't even be of worthwhile service to others unless you first are of service to self, so there's really only one choice that doesn't require self delusion.
vainglory, self aggrandizing, narcissistic personality disorder.
service to other as self doesn't exclude self. service to self excludes other as self creating hierarchies, powers, dominions, principalities, etc.
I don't think I understand...
I go with option C, a balanced service of self and others. Service of self because you deserve services as much as others do, a service to others because they deserve service as much as you do. 'You can't help others without helping yourself,' etc etc.
Service to another as self would seem to be the easier.
Fixt