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An Allegory : Emotion

An Allegory : Emotion

A man traveled down a mountain path and came to a farm. On the porch were a farmer and his dog. The man walked up to the porch to talk to the farmer. The dog looked up from his slumber, then looked to his master and then went back to sleep.

―That is a quiet dog,‖ said the man. The farmer smiled as he looked at the dog.

―Yes. I have had him from a puppy. He is well trained.‖

After a short visit and a refill of his stores, the man continued on his journey through the

mountains. Deep in the wilderness he heard a wolf howl. Concerned he headed to a small wisp of smoke he saw rising from the trees ahead. There he found a camp with a man of the mountain sleeping by a fire. Resting her head on his lap was a wolf.

The wolf raised her head and stared at the visitor, glaring at him as he approached. The Mountain Man‘s hand slid from where it rested on the wolf‘s rump slowly up to her ears where he rubbed them, calming her without opening his eyes.

―That is a well trained dog,‖ said the man.

The mountain man answered without opening his eyes. ―She is a wolf, and she ain‘t trained.‖

―Didn‘t she obey you when you told her to calm?‖ asked the man astonished.

―Obey? No,‖ the Mountain Man chuckled at the thought. ―She‘s wild … but she can be agreeable if you know how to ask.‖

Three People

Originally posted by Virtu

*Disclaimer* Do not scroll down to the bottom stick to what I have written step by step or you will gain nothing from this Lesson.

Get out a blank sheet of paper and write a list of three people who you admire most in your life. Then after their names I want you to write down the three traits about them that you really admire. Next I want you to make a list of the three people in your life that you disrespect or hate the most. Finally I want you to write down the three traits about those people that you disrespect or dislike or hate the most.

The Exercise that you have just done is a projection exercise. Psychological projection is a defense mechanism that us humans use in which one projects unwanted personal attributes unto another as a way to deny having the traits themselves. What I‘d like to suggest is that when you wrote down the three traits you admire you unconsciously projected three traits about yourself unto that other person. I‘d also like to suggest that the three traits you suggested are your own strengths that you don‘t lead and develop enough. I‘d also like to suggest when you wrote down the three traits you dislike you once again went into your self and projected three things about yourself unto that person. I‘d also like to suggest these three aspects about yourself are your own weaknesses that you do not acknowledge and are holding you back in your own life to a large extend.

How does this fit into Sithism?

Firstly I believe that this exercise if done and acted upon will help you develop yourself into a stronger person and concordantly, user of the Darkside. At a deeper level I believe such tools and knowledge meditated upon will help one have a better understanding about themselves and there own Darkside cultivating it to higher levels.

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The Dark Morality

The Dark Morality

In this text I use the term 'morality' in its descriptive sence, to refer to a code of conduct put foward by a society; The society: any group that practices any branch of Dark Philosophy.

A Dark Society (Sith, Krath, ect.) will have a morality that takes accepting the traditions and customs of the specified society; Including: accepting secrecy, loyalty to the group , and progression; as more important than avoiding and preventing harm. In addition to conflicts concerning 'right

and/or wrong', this account of morality that is viewed as 'wrong' in the eyes of other groups. Also, this account of morality can claim that if one acts out of loyalty to the group, it is moraly acceptable to cause significant harm or death to others that are not in the individuals group. So, acting altruisticly, with regards to those in the group, is equated with acting moraly.

Even in these different societies (forums), distinctions are made among morality, etiquette, law, religion. For me 'morality', does not refer to every code of conduct put foward by a society, but the one I am a part of.

Morality is often distinguished from etiquette, law, and religion, all of which are, or involve, codes of conduct put forward by a society.

Etiquette is sometimes included as a part of morality, but it is assigned to norms that are considered less serious than the kinds of normal behavior that are a part of morality. Small morals are defined as how one should conduct themself before other people. The large morals are the qualities of mankind that tell how one should live in peace and/or unity with his fellow

man(By fellow man, I mean those that are in the likeness of the person, but there are those who believe in unity through diversity.)

Law is differentiated from morality by having explicit written rules, with penalties, and officials who interpret the laws and apply the penalties.

Although there is an overlap in the conduct of a society governed by law and that governed by morality, being as how laws are often interpreted on moral grounds. A law may be ammended if moral criticism supports the change. Justice is not a definable rule, but an ability to judge and live among rules in their multiplicity and incongruity.

Religion differs from morality in that it includes stories, usually about

divine beings/spirits, that are used to explain or justify/excuse thebehaviors that are prohibited and required. There is an overlap in the

conduct prohibited or required by religion and those by morality, but religion always prohibits or requires more than is prohibited or required by guides to behavior that are moral guides. Sometimes morality is regarded as the code of conduct that is putfoward by religion, and even though it may not be needed, morality is thought by many to need some religios justification, hence the Sith Religion. However, just as with law,

some religious practices and rules are criticized on moral grounds, such as discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation. Morality is only a guide to conduct, whereas religion is always more that this.

One other important characteristic of morality- the lessining of evil or harm as its goal- is controversial.

Fact: is Evil and/or Harmful to one or more people and should be discouraged or eliminated.

Such written linguistic sentences are used to promote understanding of its subject. A fact simply exists, independent of our judgements of'true and/or false'. An opinion can be 'true

and/or false'. So when no judgements have been made, then there is nothing of which 'true and/or false' can be observed. Which is why it has been said to never judge a book by its cover, because of its likelyness of being 'false'. And there are actions and things where there is no 'right'(good or perfect) option available to choose from and so the action or thing is inherently wrong or evil.

In conclusion, when it comes to judgements do not allow others to do it for you. You are in control of your self and your choices; It is your

responsability to decide what the choices are, how to go about them, and

why you chose a certain one. It is therefore imporant for you, as a Dark Adept, to not only explore yourself and the world with rationality based on logic; but also with a rationality based on passion and emotion.

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The Nature of Fear..

To understand fear, its nature, its purpose, and ultimately how to usel it you must understand where fear begins. Fear is a lower brain function, it is primal, an instinctual awareness to danger that the human body need not converse with the higher brain to understand. The only of two fight or flight responses, the other being anger. These are the first emotions any living thing on this planet has, a childs first emotion is fear, this fear rules most of the infants early life and is ony offset by relative comfort. Its first instinct is

survival, fear leads the infant(in human or animal form) to the passion of and for survival.

Its sole instinct and purpose is to continue its own survival, its only companion to fuel that passion at first, is fear.

You need not be smart to possess the capacity for fear, and only a fool would try to gain control over such an instinctual gift. Like a deer who knows the hunters around but cannot see them, a human can sense danger long before it is percieved by refining his or her perception of there fear. Fear can overwhelm, it can gain tremendous control over an individual, certainly there are those who have never gotten past there fear since there early infant years. Fear can cloud ones judgement and faculties, if you so choose to let it. Only fools, and cowards let there fear control them. Fear can turn into terror if you let it. Once this happens it transforms from a usefull emotion to a debillitating one. This is a pitfall to any emotion, the line where it is usefull and where it becomes debillitating.

However while you cannot control an instinct, certainly not one as old and as powerful as fear, you can refine your peception of it. As a Sith, and a martial artist, a warrior, I have spent much time and practice on refining this powerful emotion, to let my perception of it allow its instinctive impulses to let me take advantage of all that fear has to offer. Fear offers adreniline and endorphins, this is what allows animals to escape predators, this is what allows mothers to lift cars off of children. Adreniline grants you greater physical strength, it heightens your senses, and reflexes, fear grants you greater mental acuity as well, endorphins are natural pain killers and stimulate other parts of the brain. Though

many are too consumed by there fear to use this emotion well, or at all, or to even be properly aware of this great alchemical change within them. This is mostly do to lack of understanding of emotion through lack of training...

Fear is also dangerous and extremely volitile in another way. Because we have higher brain functions, it interferes and warps our lower brain instincts. Intelligence and imagination are our greatest gifts to evolve, and also our greates hindrence. People create irrational fears, monsters of the mind as I refer to them. These illusions are just that, illusions, and yet they have the power to cripple a person spiritualy,mentaly and physicly. People actually create fears, irrational phobias that grow into debilitating situations that one often times cannot overcome. All people of all aspects or spiritual paths seek to rid themselves of these irrational monsters of the mind, these illusions we entertain throughout our lives. These illusions must be overcome, not only for the sake of spiritual growth but also so that you can utilize your fear for what it was intended to be used for,a primitive,yet powerful emotive response of heightened awareness and survival instinct.

Sith use emotions, They are both fuel for, and fueled by our passion, Sith are not puppets to there passion or emotions, we control them not the other way around. Emotions are powerful motivators, any Sith that has a full understanding, and grip upon there emotions are limited only by there imagination in what they can accomplish. Fear is a Siths best weapon in his or her emotional arsenal, and once focused properly through the lens of the will and is refined through proper alignment of perception fear becomes much more than an instinctual impulse to a threat of danger, it becomes a channeled focused beam of passion and emotion, capable of much power and motivation and awareness.

Use this knowledge wisely and responibly Khaos

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The Room

You are in a room, you have known this room your whole life. It is well lit, and well defined, it almost so bright as to be uncomfortable to your eyes. You know every detail to its four walls, and though you may have reshaped it every now and again, you know, moved the furniture to fit your current tastes and mindset it is still the same well lit room, with its well defined angles.

You know the limits of this room intimitely. You have explored its expanse in great detail, nothing is hidden, nothing is unknown. You know where everything is so well you could walk it with your eyes closed it is so familiar. You find a certain melancholy peace in this, that nothing in this room can suprise you. All the books are well lighted, so you can clearly see the titles, and you have read them so many times you could most likely recite them line for line. It is the same with the music too, it is all that you have heard before, things you like, or elaborations of things you like....

Even the shadows that this room casts are not unknown to you, though not as brightly lit they give a warming contrast and you have changed the room around so much that you realize any shadow is simply a shaded perspective of that whch is already known. An elaboration that gives overall presence to the well lit room. And even the shadows are not unexplored, for although they are darker then on the surfaces of where the light shines brightly they are not altogether uncomfortable, or unexplorable. Simply a shifting of the light will banish, or illuminate the shadow enough for you to see its form and depth...

As always however as your gaze takes in the room you notice the door on the far wall. It is not the door you entered in, that door disappeared the moment you entered this room.

Perhaps you will see it again, but for now you gaze rests on the door in front of you across the hall. You know this door well, its expanse is not unknown to you its been here since you came here, it is a simple white door with a brass knob. Nothing special about it, and yet your heart pounds in excitement just looking at it.

You get up, as you always do, and cross your well lit room to the door, your breathing comes louder and your heart beats faster..You stand in front of the door and your hand of its own volitation comes to rest on the cold brass knob and without thinking you turn it and open wide the door to...

Nothing...???

The other side of the door is black, and the intererior of the room is....black? No, black indicates color, this room is void, no light from your well lit room casts into this next one, it doesnt even penetrate on inch, You are sweating now and your heart is like a triphammer in your chest, your breathing has become louder and although you are for some unknown reason you are afraid, you are also....excited...curious...

You have done this many times before, and in the beginning you would just close the door and walk away, but you have grown braver over the years and your other hand paws at the inside of the room against where the wall should be, seeking a switch so to cast light into this void, so you can feel the relief of knowing....Except there isnt a switch...for some reason you cant even feel a wall on which a switch should be. Growing slightly more bold you lean forward into this inky indefinable blackness, this void without seeming shape or form. You almost take a step in and feel a slight wave of vertigo as your foot comes in contact with....nothing. In a panicked moment you realize there is no floor as well and you almost fall in. Stepping back and righting yourself you breathe deeply before grasping the walls of your own well lit room and leaning out into the void.

Then you begin to hear, or is it just your mind playin tricks on you? You think you here...things moving out in the void, of course you cant be certain as you cant see

anything, and is it really things moving out there or is it just some strange music that you are only interpreting as something diffrent.... You take one of your hands off the wall and lean farther out, and stretching your hand out into the void, you search blindly to discover anything about this darkness beyond darkness, this place without direction, or seeming limits....Something brushes your hand, or did your hand brush something? It matters not for your nerve breaks and you tear yourself back into your well lit room, slamming the door.

You are drenched in sweat and fear and excitement pour off of you in waves....

You sit in a chair chair and your breathing relaxes, you stop sweating and you grow calm once again. Your room gives you comfort because even in your terror you knew where your chair would be and sat down without even looking, everything is where it should be, as it

should be. And for a moment you simply bask in your knowing...

However you eyes wayward of your will steal back to the door, and a curious longing wells up within you. You want to know what lies beyond this door, and yet to do that means leaving the comfort of knowing. That next room(if it can be called a room) requires a great sacrifice from you, to sacrifice your comfort. Comfort of knowing, of seeing,of limits... for there is no light in the room beyond this one. Discovery is done through feeling,

hearing,tasting intuition, PASSION.

There will be pain, and suffering there will be despair, and yet what great expeditions in history have not been without these things...Once these things become known to you, they will have no power over you, and you joy, compassion, and love will soar higher more defined by the contrast of the others(pain,suffering,despair) And of course there ae the

There will be pain, and suffering there will be despair, and yet what great expeditions in history have not been without these things...Once these things become known to you, they will have no power over you, and you joy, compassion, and love will soar higher more defined by the contrast of the others(pain,suffering,despair) And of course there ae the