OFFEND - DEFEND Homer: > Maybe Christians want people to 'turn the other cheek' >because the Christians want to continue with their wars of conversion against >the others without having them complain or fight back. I hate Christians WAY too much :) For the record, ridging against others who would destroy one's creations, is refusing to take responsibility for them being in your dream. We are taught that life is precious, in particular our wives and children and neighbors and friends are precious, so we are perhaps willing to turn the cheek when the villans slap us, but not when he slaps them. This gets us deeper into the soup, as each overt/motivator pair continue to make things more and more solid, more and more dangerous. People can't conceive of wasting themselves or their friends and truely becoming free as an OT who has nothing left to lose because he can simply recreate it, or could care less about it. So we hold onto our posessions and loved one's and then DEFEND them against those that would OFFEND against them. DEFEND - OFFEND makes up one of THE major dicoms that keeps space/time going and solid. If you try to go OT and lose the defend/offend dramatization, people will try to crucify you. They don't want people hanging around who don't care or who can be both the villan and the victim at the same time and find it beautiful and a good story etc. Many people are trying to go clear and OT in order to be MORE ABLE to defend against the offenders, but they are just tying themselves to a stone. Running the DEFEND/OFFEND dichotomy goes a long ways towards getting to OT. Even an OT CAN DEFEND himself, but its more on the order of disengaging the offender from his dream rather than taking aim at actions or identities the being is mocking up in his dream. Homer -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com