It is from a perhaps an odd angle that i approach what i have on my mind when writing these words. I was actually watching an episode of Stargate SG1 (More specific season 10 episode 3) where i got to really feel something worth writing about.

In the episode, SG1 (as the team is named) is battling the Ori and have taken the journey to the Pegasus galaxy to seek answers in how to defeat these power mad ascended beings as they are. (for those who haven’t watched the show, well i really don’t care and i don’t intend to go into more detail. If you want more you’ll have to go somewhere else like tv.com)
One of these ancients take the form of a hologram to help the team just a little, in order to help them defeat the Ori. (they are both parties ascended beings, but the Ori use their interference on the lower plane unlike the ascended ancients)
Anyway, being bitter enemies as they are they want to destroy each other. The Ancients are the good guys but they are willing to forgo entire galaxies just to not interfere on the lower plane. The reason for this is simply that they want people to reach ascension (and become an ascended being) on their own. The Ori want to zap the lower beings power and not help anyone ascend either, basically gaining power while killing of the galaxy)
Now because the Ori gain this power, they are more powerful than the others and can thusly in time kill them.

But what amazes me is how they are willing to help the lower plane do the little things which in the end can fail at any time (of course it doesn’t cause that would end the show) but not help them actually deal with them there once and for all. Survival i believe is an integral part of anyone regardless of who or what you are (suicide victims being the obvious exception to the rule, but ascended are not suicidal in that fashion)
I can understand why they won’t interfere with the evolution of lesser beings, but i can’t get why they won’t help the lesser beings with a threat that started with them and that affects them just as much as the lower beings. Especially since one part is cheating and actually helping (the Ori empowers their priest with godlike powers which actually is a cheat since no ascended should be able to interfere)

What makes someone choose to forgo their own existence and by extension those beneath them when they are all affected by the very same enemy that does everything they can to defeat them?
What cause can be great enough to refrain from interfering with lesser beings in any form simply cause they don’t have the understanding of the universe just yet?

I won’t pretend i have all the answers, but don’t the lesser beings have any say in this?
Don’t they get the right to a fair chance to live on their own terms?
What gives the higher beings the right to act all holier-than-thou and not care about anyone else beneath them?

I have for a longer time now believed in the thought of ascending. Perhaps not in the same way as in this show, but in one form or another that our race can one day become beings of a higher order, with a higher respect of not only each other but also a just as great respect for that beneath us. Just because someone gains a greater understanding and power over something while others are left in the dark doesn’t make them better than the rest. it only makes them different and it also gives them the duty to help those less fortunate to achieve their level.
It is not like a god that sits upon a throne and looks down and its neither something that we should hold from each other.

i believe with all of my being that if we are to rise forth in this universe we have to stand together. Plato said that we are all personas sitting in a cave watching shadows on the wall in front of us rather than turning around to face the glorious light from outside the cave to see what is hidden there.

I am hoping that more will come with me outside the cave and see how wonderous the world is and much mroe respect it deserves compared to what we have shown it.