...when properly done, it is not giving up, leaving unfinished business, neglecting one's duties or destiny, but rather transcending a rigged game and finding or constructing a superior alternative.

That expresses a thought I couldnt express yesterday.  I was thinking that myths are, in a way, windows through which one can walk out of the rigged games.  But there is the risk of getting mired in the drama of them, or taking them literally--in which case the myths become opaque and unpassable.

No doubt.  Timing (implying patience) and study.  Better to pick a battle you know you're prepared for than to fight because of a gut reflex.  For instance, the more I reflect on the issue of publishing information or not (another thread) on the Mormon church, the more I see that I simply cannot meet them on their level.  I could deliver a few stings at most.  And so, for now, that's all I'm even considering.

"You have to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run."

Sometimes it all just breaks down into timing. I've witnessed and been in many situations when all that was required for vastly improved options was a bit more time and/or information. Please note that one of the best strategies for 4D STS is to control, directly or through proxy, the two primary options that they can see. Remember that inaction is an option, since the better thing to do when confronted with important choices is to see if someone else is holding both ends of the rope who then expects you to jump.

As long as you don't let yourself be tricked into immobility and all will work out at least as well as it can. Trust your intuition! 

-3G

The STO way would be to choose from a position of internal balance to maximize external balance: battling or walking away, whichever leads to greater balance (freewill optimization) on the whole. So yeah, it is about choosing battles wisely and sometimes walking away is the only way to win. Wisely is the keyword, which calls for thinking, intuition, and discernment warmed by love.

The STS way would be to let matrix influences (lower ego, social and religious programming, animalistic or demonic impulses) make the decision. Then because of  false motives and reckless execution, battling or walking away would only create further imbalance. Practically speaking, the best battles to walk away from are ones that provoke only the ego and limit the rewards of victory to same, that serve no higher purpose of winning, that simply cannot be won. Obvious stuff.

In mythology, I think the self-sacrifice of Christ is an example of walking away. Before it was his time to go, he fought the system with passion because battle was effective for the sake of balance. But in the end, walking away from the physical plane was the greater balancing choice. A more recent example that comes to mind is the movie Hero which ended with a lesson about walking away. And as far as battle goes, The Wizard of Oz is interesting because Dorothy defeated the Witch but not in the STS sense of battle. The Cassiopaeans advised to "act for, not against" which goes back to the idea of acting towards a constructive alternative instead of going down in flames with the old.

Wild tangent: why are most myths about dramatic conflicts between darkness and light? Why the myths about the Great Fall, the corruption of the Golden Age? Maybe because our current timeline is the end product of hyperdimensional conflicts originating in the future, a temporary iteration of the timeloop spawned because of conflict and therefore saturated with that theme.

And, yes, it makes sense that there is no myth for walking away because walking away undercuts drama.  Without conflict there is no drama, there is no story.  Walking away is a non-story.

It also occurs to now, reading over these posts, that myths are programs.  They are programs, maybe, because they aren't about us.  If we're all connected, then okay, they're somewhat about us.  But what I'm getting at is: the myth of Buddha's enlightenment can only cause at best a psychological rush in you.  The story can't enlighten you; it can only prime you for such a manuver yourself.  The energy of stories, of archetypes, may stir the spark in us--make it jiggle, but that's it.   

Myths/archetypes are ideas about reality, they are not reality--therefore they're programs (?)   

Walking away, maybe, is rarely pictured in stories because it's a doing.  There's nothing intellectual about it.  There's nothing to discuss or say about it.  It is the end of discussion, of solving and battling.  ...It is the warrior's sword turned to gold--a thing no longer fit for hacking.

Or, if you aren't really into the whole "we are all one" thing, then just hold the realization that it (life) can't mean all that much if it's only temporary.

"Be passersby." -- Jesus  {Nag Hammadi - Gospel of Thomas - Verse #42 ¹}

¹ Which, by the way, is "The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" according to Douglas Adams. 

As far as myths go, I've been thinking for the last little while that as the grand cycle completes and moves up to the next level the myths we hold dear now have a chance to be rewritten.  Preconceived subjective notions of what's "right" and "wrong" are dying away as victim mentality is steadily being replaced by self-responsibility in those that seek to shed that which holds them down and attracts more and more of what they don't want in their life.  Seeing the reality we have created and are creating for what it is through seeing the oneness and it's manifestations of duality is objectivity, "seeing" with the heart because true love is the objective love of the "creator", both mother and father caring for their "child" (individuated conciousness).

Every time we feel sleighted, offended, abused, etc.. we are giving our power away and choosing to live within the illusion rather than with it, instead of using it for it's intended purpose....a playground for the fragments of god (once "separated") to wake up and realize that they actually contain the potential to reunite with all of the other fragments and in the process become again that which they once were and will be again.

Once again, thanks to everyone for this thread.  Even though deep down we all know the truth and are simply remembering it as we go along, sometimes we need a little re-mind-er to keep us on track.

Not so easy to do as to say! because the seeing has to come before any doing and it gets triggered... and defenses and counter-defenses automatically come into play

I have been wondering recently if the whole mideast political problem is not merely intended to defeat "us" by provoking that investment that leads to reaction and entanglement.

If we could let it be what is (the inevitable result of personal/global ignorance) with out getting so emotional about it,
it might still go down, but in some way we don't go down with it.

Leaving our own energy circuits left intact to observe at perhaps the crucial moment.
As Hendrix said in... If 6 were 9
"go ahead and fall world, just don't fall on me"

Okay, geez, I guess I worded what I said wrong. Maybe Ishoudnt have used the word "flight".

No worries....... even if it was a miscommunication or miswording of some sort, a good point still come out of it.    It's a point worth considering, the idea of fighting or fleeing based on emotional caring, versus having no investment whatsoever in the conflict and walking away.  One of my goals over the past year and a half or so has been to be able to "see through the illusion" in the sense of realizing that so much of what I would have cared about or gotten riled up about in the past actually doesn't matter and isn't worth it.  So instead of trying to squelch that caring down, and suppress it, it becomes a case of not feeling it in the first place due to seeing through it all.

Treehugger... the thing is, walking away isn't really a "fight or flight" thing, as walking away is not "flight" by a long shot.  Flight requires investment in the confrontation in order to attempt to avoid it, just as fighting requires investment to engage in it.  But walking away is a lack of investment in that path; it cuts off fight-or-flight at its source.  It's an important distinction to make.

???Okaaaaay.