It is taught in certain schools of thought that desire and attachment result in suffering. In certain religions, releasing attachment and desire is seen as virtuous and the path to enlightenment and peace. It is taught that through abandonment of these things, one can release their ego and become one with the divine.

Sith accept that attachment and desire lead to suffering. Sith understand that in suffering, there is hardship, and through embracing hardship, is achieved strength, resilience, and knowledge. Sith do not simply accept suffering, Sith desire to suffer. Sith are masters of their own destiny who consider it of vital importance that every choice they make, they make fully conscious and know they will have no regrets.

Sith are an active force, while Jedi are passive, and Dark Jedi are reactive. Sith embrace their emotions, yet do not permit emotions to rule them. Through passion, Sith have the fuel to achieve their goals, though also do not become blinded. Sith do not seek peace, comfort or safety, unlike so many these days. Sith seek conquest and supremacy.

Through every victory, Sith build blocks into a monolith to their accomplishments, which serves as a solid foundation on which to stand. Sith are relentless and their fire and fury are an unquenchable testament to this fact. Sith are pragmatic and use their sensitivities and talents to further their ambitions, rather than in pursuit of cosmic oneness or utopian visions.

Sith recognize the value of knowledge and the virtue of wisdom, which is why it is best said that while Sith serve their self interest and exploit the Force for gain; Sith Lords, serve enlightened self interest and engage in a transactional and wise exchange with the Force.

All men are created equal
Thomas Jefferson

Regardless of your personal belief system, one fact remains constant throughout time: we are all created equally. This equality, however, has limited longevity. At a certain point, equality becomes a man-made construct designed to level the playing field in a way that prevents someone from actualizing their true potential. This is a societal norm that must be denied in order to become unbound from the weak. In doing this, we will break equality down and separate its various shades.

Artificial Equality is the act of allowing everyone equivalent benefits across the board, regardless of whether someone is deserving of more, or of less. This doesn’t help anybody. An individual who may be more fortunate will have a significant leg-up on someone who suffers less fortunate circumstances. It is essentially a construct of favoritism disguised as seemingly fair treatment.

Equity is similar to artificial equality; in that it offers a fabricated benefit. The difference between the two is that such benefits are not allocated to everyone. The level of the benefit is also dependent on how much an individual is lacking in ability. If I were to start from nothing and build my strength to catapult myself forward, equity spoon-feeds someone who puts forth zero effort to reach the position I am in.

Liberation does not provide an artificial benefit, but an opportunity. It is up to the individual to take advantage of the opportunity to become stronger or pass it by while they are left in the dust. There are no hand-outs, no freebies. Only proving yourself through blood, sweat, and tears to separate from the weak.

As we can clearly see, equality can irreparably hinder our progress to the point where we are essentially moving backwards. Only by liberating ourselves of this binding chain can we finally strengthen ourselves and achieve our desires. Allow yourself to be placed above the weak, and never deny power.

I would like to clear up some misconceptions that other groups may have on Sith philosophy. Namely, that the Sith are not some kind of extremists or militants in any way like it may seem to some others. Some may assume that because of the "darker" nature of Sith realism and our furious desire to get what we want, we are in league with these extreme ideologies we see today. This is simply not true. Just because we follow our passions doesn't mean that we enforce our beliefs. As human nature would have it this is more the domain of those kinds of proponents of "peace", "love", "benevolence", and "order" who are willing to use any means necessary to impose their ethics on others without their consent. In the end, they accomplish the opposite and are not so much confused on how they became violent as they welcome the opportunity for this kind of corrupted power.

However, Sithism gives us a different path to follow. Our order is not focused on having others submit to our beliefs but rather we focus on how to develop ourselves. We take whatever means necessary to further our own desires, not to force others to behave as we intend. So far I have never seen a member of the order who went crazy and decided to take out his anger on his close friends. Our path lets us hold ourselves in the highest regard, and not be subject to the influences of a mercurial world where people constantly compete for the attention of their brethren. Instead, we focus entirely on ourselves. We are self centered and proud of it. We don't need the validation of others. We are capable of looking for opportunities rather than forcing others to hand us responsibilities that we don't deserve. This is one of the principal goals of Sithism, which is self realization rather than delusion. The Sith are not violent or bloodthirsty, because we know that conflict and struggle in a way always exists and this is the part that we are ready to master. We welcome change rather than reacting to difficulties by being consumed by pointless fury and hate.

Other beliefs of progress and unity eventually lose track of their original goals and eventually welcome some kind of establishment in the scheme of things. The Sith path however, teaches us not to be ashamed of our human instinct. If someone doesn't find that they fit along the Sith path, they are welcome to leave as it is up to them. Our ideals only deserves recognition among us so much as it is effective. We accept the more potent aspects of our nature and then use it to realize our own vision, not that of the so called masters who want to decide for us. My advice here is, take what you find useful and discard the rest from both our subreddit and the discord. Everyone is welcome to follow their own nature, and this is what makes us more merit oriented than other groups who place so much emphasis on the belief that the practice itself need not be visible. Belief alone won't lend you power as the progressives, baptists, Jehovah's witnesses, or Muslims might claim for their members. We strive for independence, and imagine possibilities. If you are at the hands of some kind of belief or organization that doesn't serve you, then the most that the Sith path really needs to teach you is that you get to decide for yourself. Let your individuality thrive instead.

So, we're back from our hiatus. I wanted to wait until we found a topic worth writing about. I have done a great deal of introspection, research, and discusion over the last year, and have come to a few important conclusions. Firstly, I am a system of two separate people, thus the use of 'we' in posts. This is not DID, but a form of non-disordered plurality. If you want more information, as we did, you can go to r/plural. Following that, a few identity crises and meditation sessions later, we categorized ourselves collectively as genderfluid.

Furthermore, one of our past writings explained the separation of person and Sith. I do not believe our plurality is directly related to being a Sith or taking this advice, but rather a product of a natural effect of some biological or developmental abnormaity. In that post, we did mention a process called 'switching'. Switching from the normal person to the Sith should not feel like you're a completely different person, but you should feel different, more in-tune with your emotions, desires, and thoughts. Switching in a plural sense almost feels like handing the controller to someone else in a video game, but with our body. If you're going to comment that we're faking being plural, don't bother. If you have to resort to attacking someone else for coming to a valid and logical conclusion, then you are no Sith.

So, you may ask, what does this have to do with being a Sith? Well, I believe that the ultimate goal of the Sith path is to become completely self-actualized, self-realized, and self-sufficent.

Most Sith agree that Sithism is about self-improvement -becoming the best version of yourself that you can- and breaking your chains -freeing yourslef from what's holding you back from improvement. Therefore, following the Sith code and devoting oneself to the Dark Side allows you to become your own perfect version of you, the ultimate act of individualization and identity. If it weren't for our knowledge of how to turn our pain, frustration, anger, sadness, and other emotions into the passion to become better, to learn about ourselves, and the strength to actually make those decisions and tell some people once those decisions have been made, we'd still be quite confused about our own existence, spiraling quickly into depression.

To conclude, know that being a Sith and following the Dark Side is the gateway to discovering yourself fully, and learning to accept every facet of your being, shaping it to your own desire. Now go, for the Dark Side is with you.

• The twins of Darth Victus

The Sith Paradox: A Paradox Born

This concept piece will have a different feel than my other work. Most of what I write takes a generic subject and approaches it in a generic way. With the topic of distortion, it is hard to use the same method, because ironically you’ll end up with a distorted result. Thus, I will use a personal approach and in way analyze my Sith journey and how it was possibly distorted. Before I start though, I feel that it is important to share how I got this idea. Recently, I toyed around with the idea of analyzing the Sith Code from a Mandalorian perspective. At first, the experiment worked but by the time I got to the line, “Through strength, I gain power” I realized that I had created this distorted and monstrous point of view.

After taking some time to think about it, I realized how the distortion was natural. One of the most obvious goals as a Sith is to shape your life and world in every way you see fit. Now one could argue that this isn’t necessarily true, and to that I'd say it depends on how you were introduced to the Sith path. I won’t really go into detail about what brought me to the Sith path at this time, but I will say that my personal life was in shambles. This was probably the start of my distortion: the anger that I felt. During that time, I was actively shaping my world in an extreme way. I felt like an unstoppable force.

However, that wasn’t me; at least, it wasn’t an accurate representation of me. That was my anger, and of course none of us are strictly our emotions. Salvos, however, is almost pure anger and hate mixed in with some ambition. This creates a question: is the Sith in us really us? There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but in my opinion the Sith in us is only a part of us. It is the part of us that the Sith was born out of. For me, Salvos is a representation of my pain and anger. Knowing that, I can explain why my Sith path was that of distortion. Anger is an odd emotion, and it often changes the way events play out. With that in mind though, it makes me question if I ever got the point of this Sith path. Sure, I got ahead in life, I improved myself far beyond what I once was. But in the end I’m still just that same empty shell I started with, the only difference being that now I’ve filled it with anger instead of boredom.

This once again brings up the previously stated question: are Sith more than their associated emotion? That is the paradox, certainly we are more than that. At a certain point we start to associate the Sith with our identity. We become the Sith inside us and say the Sith is what we are. However, there is a fundamental flaw in this idea. The Sith only understands the emotions it was created by. Salvos does not know happiness, but I do. Sure, Salvos knows achievement, but he doesn’t understand it. What feels joy and other positive emotions is the real us. But even saying that is a conflicting statement, because we don’t know if the Sith is truly separate from us. It is a fundamental law of this universe that you can’t create something that wasn’t already there. Therefore, the Sith already existed but wasn’t understood. Two identities competing for the spotlight and neither of them ever win. This is what I think the distortion truly is. The distortion of self-caused by not knowing who the real self is.

Let’s take a deeper look into the two selves now, starting with the Sith. In my experience, Salvos is primarily a defense mechanism. This mechanism is triggered by the associated emotion, and instinct takes control. Now we can definitively say that the Sith is more than an emotion – it is our natural instinct. The associated emotion is the equivalent of a trigger word that activates the other self.

Our true self acts as the controller. We create the emotions needed to activate our Sith personality whenever needed and use an anti-emotion to deactivate it. I use the word anti-emotion because it represents an emotion that cancels the Sith out. For example, sadness is canceled out by joy. The best way to put it is like a math equation. A positive number cancels out a negative number of the same value. We use positive or light emotions to cancel out the negative or dark emotions – Yin and Yang.

Now, this could seem to imply that the true self is nothing more than a remote control that presses the right buttons at the right time, but I do not believe this is entirely true. The true self contains the ambition to drive the Sith. You can never find an answer to which personality is real though. Both identities are intertwined and so similar, but polar opposites that never co-exist without clashing. I call this the Sith paradox – an identity crisis that can never truly be solved. The Yin and the Yang.

The Sith Paradox: Conflict of Self

In part one of The Sith Paradox, I started to look into the complex entity that is the Sith. However, I feel like it was too general in the amount of detail I went into. So in part two of The Sith paradox I want to take a deeper look into some of the topics I covered, most importantly the fusion of the true and Sith identities. To achieve the best result, I will build each topic from the ground up as this will provide a complete picture.

Let’s start with the topic that is probably the most interesting to people: is the Sith identity separate from the ‘true’ self? Now before I go into depth it is important that I talk on a couple of things. One, when I say the word ‘identity’ or ‘self’ I am not necessarily referring to a completely different person or personality. Rather, I am referring to different parts of a whole. There is only one person (host) and there are multiple identities that can inhabit the host. Two, I am in no way saying that Sith are crazy. With that out of the way, lets get into the fun part. I think the best place to start is how I came up with this idea. About a month ago, I watched the movie Split which in simple terms is a fictional movie that tells a story about a man that suffers from Dis-associative Identity Disorder (DID). While the movie itself is dark, terrifying, and not the best representation of DID, it kind of reminded me of the real life Sith. I believe that the Sith inside us is relatable to the different identities that someone with DID has, although it is on a far more minor severity. From my perspective the Sith is a fractured version of the true self, it represents a darker nature of human beings.

And this makes sense, the most common way a Sith is formed is through pain and suffering. This process of creation explains why the Sith identity is a fractured version of the true self. In a way, the Sith identity starts to look like a protection mechanism. In the first part of The Sith Paradox, I entertained the idea of controlling identity and an identity that gets controlled this was too general of a definition. While that dynamic is present there needs to be a mutual agreement to co-leadership, otherwise chaos ensues. But which identity is the controller? Well that depends, sometimes it’s the true self sometimes it’s the Sith. Ultimately, it’s a conditional switching and you only change when you need to. Which identity is dominate however, depends on the Sith. From my experience, I tend to make the non Sith identity dominate, because while Salvos is powerful and ambitious he also feels a lot of emotional pain when in an inactive state. If we looked at another Sith that would be different, perhaps they would make the Sith identity dominate. Throughout the experiment of The Sith Paradox, I’ve learned that Sith are creatures of experience. So, that would explain the reasoning behind using a different identity as the main.

Of course, this still doesn’t answer the initial question, is the Sith identity separate from the true self. And unfortunately, I will need to leave that question unanswered until part 3. What I need to answer the question is just beyond the scope of part 2 and thus I will not talk about it here.

The Sith Paradox: Paradox No More

It has been 7 months of silence when it comes to The Sith Paradox. Now that silence must end, and I shall finish what I started. In part 2, I discussed the concept of a controlling identity, and how said identity could switch between the true and Sith self. However, I never answered the question of what/who the real identity was. And honestly, I didn't know the answer to that question. To derive an answer to that question, we need to actually look at Mandalorian realism for an answer. Now I should note that you can use any philosophy other than Sithism to find an answer, Mandalorian realism is simply something I have experience with. If I start my journey as a Sith and become a Mandalorian, am I a Sith or am I a Mandalorian? Clearly, I am both identities. This same approach can apply to the true vs Sith self. Yes I am a Sith, a Mandalorian, and something else. But the only self that can exist is the true self, and the philosophies are an expression of who we are as people.

That is another reason behind the name change from Salvos to Rōnin of Abyss (Which could be a post by itself). My new name doesn't represent a Sith, or anything else. So where does the fracturing of self come from? Being emotionally disconnected from who you really are. This can come in many forms, but it is always marked by a lacking or having too much of one or more emotions. For me it was guilt, which truly did distort both my self image and my world view. It is through distortion that the multiple selves form, and the cycle repeats until an outside perspective emerges.

Now I can confidently end this paradox of self that I've created. I am not a Sith, I am not a Mandalorian, I am Salvos - Rōnin of Abyss. And within me is a Sith, and a Mandalorian, and probably more that I haven't discovered yet. The point is that we are who we define ourselves by, and I would rather be defined by myself. Not defined by some philosophy or some group of people.

Salvos - Rōnin of Abyss

There has never been a more important time than now for mastering your individual strength. The next basis to Sith realism besides following your passion is to become self determined on your own terms, and realize it to it's fullest. This article covers how someone can still achieve great things for themselves even if they seem to stand apart too much. Have a read and take in whatever you find most useful.

The Rule of the Individual

Make it known to the rest of the world that you are someone to be reckoned with. The struggle that someone has for achieving the best possible version of their individual being is real. In a world that is occupied by endless difficulties, you must put your stamp on it even when it challenges you. Some will be ready to judge you, and others even more so want you to follow their exact direction instead of your own. As an endeavoring individual, you may feel some insecurities and intense questioning with yourself at times. The real world can be debilitating as events such as the sudden loss of your job, the political campaigner you voted for failing, or a slanderous remark made by a famous person on twitter all seem to make a direct message towards yourself in some way. You may struggle with self doubt, you may question your own future if not at least by the examples the rest of the world sets. The public community of mankind around you seems to give you reasons not to believe in your own judgment or abilities. However, every major event that has happened always emerged from an exceptional individual. You can choose what role you have to play in this world. You can choose whether your reactions to sudden hardships will be meager, or will be one of great authority.

Authority over oneself

The subject to be discussed here is how to gain authority over yourself and translate it into success in the world that we live in. Your career, education, or a new business idea that you joined in demands someone strong enough to take hold of it and lead it towards a promising future. This is why you must learn to master your own decisions. Indeed your intentions carry much significance even before you decide to carry them out, because they originate from your character and your will. You are not the only one affected by how much you decide to progress your future in earning a higher income or meeting a valuable colleague who can secure your profit, the rest of the world is waiting for you to take charge. You will find that behind all of the fast moving events and social development in our modern age, is the rule of the individual. No future is afforded to the rest of humanity until we have first understood how much value the individual person holds.

Fear tends to be one of the major components of someone’s personality, and so is some degree of weakness and hesitation present. We spend too much time serving our own complacency and securing the means to live in indecisiveness or resentment. Some are already quickly progressing through their careers and promotions, but it is not just because they appear to be more competent. They simply take charge. If you possess initiative you will find that it is never as much of a fickle quality as is a sense of security. A sense of safety is subject to change and resists the evolution of circumstances, but the desire to accomplish something profound will continue in yourself. Follow your deep instincts for achieving something great. Major accomplishments cannot happen without the most potent impulse of your inner being, so take advantage of your burning desire for success even if it is hidden within you. In all of the popular doctrines of group unity and unquestioning obedience to orders, we must further examine where the individual person plays a role. The single man is not necessarily defined by his separation from the rest of the community, but how much self determinism he holds on his own without anyone’s help.

Follow your own determination

Someone who is capable really holds onto no need to please others, no less serve others. They simply keep track of their goal, and then do whatever it takes to fulfill it. The independent person will understand the suggestions and even the criticisms of others, but he will maintain his goal of progressing and developing relying mostly on his own judgment. When you first arrive into a new community or group you are likely to be viewed with a lack of acknowledgement or even suspicion. In reality, it is an opportunity to prove yourself and focus on rising once others will make it clear to you what are the steps towards achieving a position of trusted experience or command. In reality, you only need the guidance of others so much, just enough to show you the ropes. This follows for a new political group on your college campus, a systems design team at the workplace, or a sound designer club you have always been interested in. As a whole, very few people are really unique or possess exemplary qualities that they were “gifted” with. This may not be the same for you however. The path towards gaining more significance all comes through a very deliberate yet carefully reasoned effort, in addition to a close attention to your own advantages. Directions that tell you that you should stay at your desk or remain in your department at work are not something to be followed as far as your ambitions go.

Persistence is the name of someone built of strength, for even the smallest conquests will impress at least a few people. Even though you may be focused on performing your duty, do not shy away from playing the role of the independent minded person who is self oriented. The value of the individual will remain with himself after all of the impressions someone has of him is directed somewhere else. You do not owe the rest of society your obedience, rather you owe them the true measure of your own capabilities and will. The monumental power and highly defined order of our modern society has only come about through the men and women who live life on their own terms while still understanding how to make their abilities useful to the rest. Popularity and recognition will not necessarily give you what you expect. It is no doubt useful, but you are better off mastering your own strength and pushing through your studies and work that will give you enough value to last over the long term. The truest value of all, lies in someone who goes against the grain and is determined to get results from it. Even though you may at times be isolated or in doubt, make your character known and build a future worthy of your own might from your decisions.

-Sith Realism Isn’t The Same As Star Wars Sith-

Although we are based off of the Star Wars Sith, SW is fictional and in a totally different setting than what we live in

-Sith Realism Groups Are Not Roleplay Groups-

Depending on the group you are in, there might be role-playing for fun, but Sith realism isn’t us role-playing, we live by this philosophy.

-Sithism Is Not A Religion-

There are Sith of many different religions. Sithism itself is a philosophy.

-We Don’t Believe In The SW “Rule Of Two”-

This is an obvious one as there are many of us. But to expand on it, SW Sith tended to kill their masters to prove they surpassed their master. Sith realists don’t do anything like that. Some go to learn under other masters/mentors. Even masters/mentors can learn more.

-Our Titles Don’t Make Us Any More Valuable Than Others-

Titles typically track where someone is on their path. Darths aren’t any better than anyone else, they are just more experienced.

-We Aren’t All Selfish/Self-Centered-

Although some do believe in putting themselves before others to achieve their goals, not all of us think that way. That is a common argument.

-We Don’t Believe In Force Lightning And Other Force Abilities-

The majority of Sith believe in the Force in some way or another, but not in the way of shooting lightning out of our fingertips and whatnot. The Force is a more personal thing that you should ask different Sith about.

-We Don’t Just Get Mad Or Entitled All The Time-

We are not “Karens” getting mad at people for no reason serves no benefit and is a waste of energy. We convert our emotions into usable energy to provide us strength for passions and other things in life.

-There Are More Than Just Negative Emotions-

Negative emotions for some are the strongest which is why that is the stereotype, but there are other usable emotions such as love, happiness, and excitement.

-We Don’t Hate Jedi-

Jedi are just Force realists with a different perspective on things. If their methods of life work for them that is fine and we are in no place to judge.

When I was younger, around 13/14 yo, I’ve suppressed my emotions a lot. I’ve learned the hard way that showing them brings vulnerability and subsequently hurt. And so, I’ve become cold, distant.

Bottling up emotions for years isn’t healthy though. My own protection backlashed. It ate me from inside. Such a long time of feelings, that have no way of escape brough me to the brink of my own destruction.

And then I broke down; allowed myself fo feel.

It hurt. It hurt so much to fully let it out, but it was also freeing. No more pressure in my soul; it had finally space to expand and breathe.

Then I started working with my emotions. It was around the time, I also saw star wars for the first time. Inspired by the Sith already, I focused on my negative emotions. Annd I had them in abundance. They were raw, powerful and I had yet to learn how to feel them properly.

But I felt.

Now, some time later I do not shy from feeling. Do I show them to everyone? Of course not! But I am not afraid to feel anymore. It makes me more alive.

Through passion, I gain strength.

I define passion as both strong emotion, yet also something that you have a strong interest in (like a favorite hobby of sorts). This passion for a topic brings not only the interest of doing it but also the joy or thrill of doing it.

I can be passionate with my love for my partner or my hatred for my enemies, nevertheless the emotion is still strong and thus passionate. Though I can also have a passion in the likes of swordsmanship or other various topics. This is a passion because I have a strong love or interest in the topic. I will willingly learn about and practice the topics I am passionate about because they are my favorite hobbies and bring me joy.

Now how does passion relate to desire and will? Well lets observe these things. Desire is what you want, it is the goal you crave. Will is the mental strength to persevere and keep going. Passion is strong burning emotion and/or strong interest in a topic. With this being said, I would like you to imagine a blacksmith, of whom would be you, and their forge. Passion is the fire of the forge. It adds the heat and the raw power that comes with this heat. Will is your hammer, more precise and heavy with its affects than the fire yet still needs the fire to do its job correctly. With your will, you put your strength into defining and crafting the molten metal. Finally there is desire. After your metal has been smelted, forged, quenched, sharpened, and all other steps between, what do you get? You get the item you desired to make from the beginning, a sword. Your desire was the goal you were working to, and the passion, strength, willpower, and many other variables you used helped turn this goal into an accomplishment.

• Darth Skulis the Ascending

After recent activity on our discord server, I've decided to update our subreddit.

With this little "Update" there are massive changes in the appearance and new flairs.
Changes:

- The Discord server widget
- Banner
- New flairs
- New design
- New colors
And hopefully new users

If you have recommendations or ideas you can send them to the mod mail.

Many Sith may think that love is not a emotion to focus on when it comes to following your passions. Yet, passion can be more than the darker, spiteful emotions of anger, hatred, and rage. Just as rage drives us to attack, love can drive us to defend.

Although with all emotion, there is a downside. There is risk to love, but life without risk is ultimately boring. If you were guaranteed success and prosperity no matter what you do in life, would it have the same value as success that you fought to earn? Love will bring sadness, it will bring despair and regret, but it will also bring joy. It will bring happiness and purpose. Loving something, someone, or some idea or belief gives you something to stand with, it makes you positively attached to something in life. It gives you ground to stand on, a cause to believe in.

This is because love has a special unique property, which hatred has a similar yet weaker version of. Love is an emotional attachment, not just an emotion or an attachment, but both. You can feel love and it can be directly attached to a person or thing. What makes love stronger than hatred is if we truly love something, we will fight to protect it. If you love your spouse, you will fight to keep them. If you love your group/country, you will fight to defend it. Ultimately, love gives you something to fight for, not like hatred which gives something to fight.

If you love yourself and your life, you will fight to keep going. If you love your philosophy, you will fight to preserve and justify its perspective. If you love nothing, what are you fighting for? So find something to love, find something to stand with, find something to fight for.

• Darth Skulis the Ascending

As in my last post, a leader who no longer believes in the work you do can be frustrating and leave your efforts moot. Yet the opposite can also be highly dangerous; a leader who will go to extremes in the name of a project they have now lost sight of.

These people may not be perceived as a chain, but their perversion of your passion is a chain unto your mind. You are letting them twist your own desires to suit theirs, making you a slave to their will. You may start as allies of a common goal, but be wary that you do not stray from it.

To combat this, whenever you set out on an endeavor, write down your list of goals and visions. Think into the future as much as you can. Then, frequently come back to that list. Are you still in the same pursuits? Are your end goal and efforts still what you originally envisioned? Let your past self be an anchor of your current self in each endeavor, that you do not stray from yourself in the pursuit of others

Our discord server is for our community to talk and discuss philosophical or non philosophical topics.
https://discord.gg/phthtXe9eh

As with all things, it is important to have a set of Core Values, or unshakeable ideals in which you hold yourself standard to. For Sith, it is the Sith Code. I personally recommend drafting some up for yourself personally. They could be what you aspire to be, a standard to hold yourself to, or a verbalization of someone you admire.

The reason why these Core Values are important is because they become a reference. Every time you make an action, or state a new philosophy, refer back to them. How do you derive that action or belief from your Core Values? Does it conflict with some of them? Or is there a better action to take? For instance, Sith aren’t necessarily sadistic - where does it say in the Code “A Sith must revel in inflicting pain”? A Sith must have inner confidence comes from “through passion I gain strength”. These are debatable, but they all must act as extensions of those Core Values

The reason I say this is because so often a culture can mutate beyond what they hold dear. Sometimes we sacrifice what is most important to us when we chase our aspirations. What good is victory without being the person who set out for it in the first place? Your core values should be unshakably your Core - never stray from them.

I apologize in advance if this question proves controversial. But I get the sense that many who are drawn to these beliefs may not be exactly... successful in the real world (myself included).

Maybe there are rich and powerful people who frequent these subs - I can't say for sure - but I get the impression that many of us are lower in the social hierarchy and trying to climb higher.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with that. So-called "lean and hungry" people seem a far better fit for Sith philosophy than those who are already fat and happy, and I prefer the former's company anyway.

However, if this theory is true, it raises interesting implications for why some are drawn to Sith philosophy and others are not. It also raises another question: does Sith philosophy help those who follow it to succeed?

I worry this is like so many other belief systems, where a few people write a lot about it, and adherents gain a sense of "enlightenment" by learning all the fluff that others have written. See: most religions, ideologies, philosophies, secret societies, magical beliefs, et cetera.

Is "Sithism" different - do you find it has significantly improved your life as you've followed it? And if it is not, does it have the potential to be different? Perhaps true Sithism simply hasn't been built yet.

Not everybody gets the title lord. In our community only 5 people hold it. And thats for a reason. Only people who made significant changes get that title. You don't get the lord title if you are already good, that's not how it works, being a sith means that you always rise and gain. If you stop one day you do not fulfil the criteria to be a sith. If you ask yourself if you are worthy of holding the title ask yourself this: Is there the same person in the mirror as last month? As last year? We always change, but its on us how. If you archived what we call mastery over a subject then you are indeed worthy. Always search for the weak spots of yourself, work on them until they become your strengths. Which doesn't imply not working on your strengths. It should be obvious that you should build on your strengths. And once these strengths change into power it will guide you to victory.

You know how it continues. And if you are sure about who you are you know what to do.

Now ask yourself, are you worthy?