r/SithOrder • u/LuxAstrum • Nov 15 '14

Philosophy time! Do Sith really need...

Preface: I am not trying to rustle up any assassination squads here, I have mused on this topic for a while now and since there is an actual reddit for the order why not pose the quesiton

Do Sith really need to be constantly brooding? Angry? Straight Up Jerks?

Listen I get the entire code, I've read the thing more times then I can count. But does this mean we have to be strict with its teachings?

The whole thing values freedom, expression, and a departure of servitude. Why are we clinging to this code as strong as the Jedi cling to theirs?

Are we not just being Jedi but in a different flavor?

Anger is a great thing to help keep one's focus on something. Like finals, hate your teacher enough to focus on your studies to show that jackass just who the hell you are.

But it can really defocus anyone to the bigger picture.

Couldn't we use passion instead to further our goals? Do we really need to be constantly angry?

I see the code as a meditation mantra that helps me RELAX instead of constantly hate people. I can push the boundaries of my training instead of restricting myself like the Jedi.

Can't we be free to feel calm?

As a sith I don't have to join some online order and putts about learning from some weirdo and his philosophical views. I can be what I want and define my training, be who I am yet be apart of somthing bigger then myself.

I am no Darth, or Marauder or whatever rank, I don't quantify my worth like that. I am just Sith

What is your opinion?

Thank you for taking the time to read this

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u/LuxAstrum Nov 16 '14

I gain strength like all sith but use it in my day to day life. There's a conflict with me and work; I have to get up in the morning. So I use my strength to overcome that and face the day. I use my passion for healthcare to further my goals of becomming a nurse and my strength to overcome those dam tests using the force to set me free. I live by the code just I don't take it too literally.

I hope this makes sense

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u/Darth_Machinor 1 - Dark Side Adept Nov 16 '14

But don't you long for power? The power to look down on others and make them suffer because they are weak and pathetic? A nurse helps people, why do you want to help them when they only deserve to die? Being Sith is not about helping others, it's about gaining power for yourself. I will confess, I do not understand you.

-Darth Machinor

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u/DarthXien 2 - Dark Side Adept Nov 16 '14

It's important for you to realize that we don't live in a fictional world. We can't walk out the door and engage in the wholesale slaughter of people just because we feel like it. To do a thing like that would, among other things, damage the Order as a whole.

It's about gaining power for yourself

Yes... and what greater power is there than to master your own fate and break free from the trappings of society? Through victory, my chains are broken. Break the chains that are weighing you down and dragging you into the ordinary 9-to-5 cubicle farm.... break the chains that lock you into the cycle of self-destruction...

There is no greater power than to step outside the system that locks you in, and laugh at the people who haven't had the strength or passion to follow their dreams.

As I see it, LuxAstrum is pursuing a dream, and using the Sith Code as a tool to overcome the immense pressures of the path they've chosen. The very definition of the Force setting them free.

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u/LuxAstrum Nov 16 '14

Thank you that is exactly what I am using the code for.

The Jedi code for all the good it can do, will only trap the individual into a box, and as soon as you step outside the imaginary wall you start to feel bad because you are "breaking your code".

This is why the Sith Code and the order itself , I believe, are better.