Life must have goals. Humans need goals. We thrive on the seeking of new horizons. But we must be careful in how we point our goals. We must be careful what horizons we seek. Christianity has spent two millennia seeking a perfect world, achieved by actually causing the end of the world. Think about this. The dominant religious world view for two thousand years have been a literal doomsday suicide death cult, and we’re all so used to it and we don’t even blink at it anymore. Try looking at the goal of Christianity from an outsider’s perspective for a moment. it claims that we are born sinful, and that our only hope for avoiding an eternity of torture comes from accepting the love a god who arranged for his own murder to die on our behalf. And that eventually our suicidal savior will return and bring an end to the world in fire in order to create a paradise. you could change the cultural markers and symbols and through this into a epic fantasy movie and people would marvel at the bizarre mythology of said fantasy world.

So where we aim our goals? What horizons should we seek? What compass should guide us? What map should we follow? How many pretentious questions can I use here?

The Tenfold Path

10. The Hero: Living entirely on the fruits of the self or the tribe.

9. The Rebel: Tirelessly opposing the expansion of the False King.

8. The Caretaker: Abstaining from unsustainable actions of behaviors.

7. The Hunter: Killing your own meat.

6. The Tribe Member: Protecting the tribe from outsiders.

5. The Path Walker: Protecting any Freepather from the Hungry Empire.

4. The Warrior: Prioritizing necessary training above distractions with no long term benefits.

3. The Seeker: Continuing to seek a more sustainable lifestyle.

2. The Learner: Seeking adulthood and pursue the path of the Warrior.

1. The Seed Sower: Defying the enslavement of the Hungry Empire.

The Tenfold path is a series of guiding rules to help the adherent set their path in accordance with the Song of Seven. The path provides guides on how to best fulfill the goals of the Song of Seven. The Ten Weaknesses show us how the Grey and its servants draw us away from the Tenfold Path and the Song of Seven.

The path is numbered in order of Priority. The First item in the path: The Seed Sower, is the most important of the Tenfold Path. Each number in the Tenfold Path builds upon the previous number. The Seed Sower defies the Hungry Empire and the False King, and thus leads to the Learner who seeks the true adulthood found in the Path of the Warrior. Seeking the Path of the Warrior, will lead the Learner to the Seeker who pursues more sustainable lifestyles. The Seeker will inevitably seek the mindset of the Warrior as they begin to prioritize important training over the diversions offered by the Hungry Empire.

As one settles into the Path of the Warrior, becoming comfortable as both a Seeker and a Learner, the Warrior will become the Path Walker, and seek to shelter and protect other Freepathers from the Hungry Empire. Such protection will draw others to the Warrior and a tribe will begin to form. And this the Path Walker becomes the Tribe Member and protects the tribe.

From here, the Tenfold oath takes the adherent deeper into the goals of Tribe and the pursuit of Sustainability. The Adherent will step further and further away from the temptations of the False King and the consumptive excess of the Hungry Empire. At the final stages, the adherent will be detached from their previous dependence upon the Hungry Empire and will be able to oppose the Empire as it seeks to consume the world in its twisted suicide pact with the False King.

The Ten Weaknesses

0. Hollow Hero, Scavenging: Not living entirely on the fruits of the self or the tribe.

9. Quisling Rebel, Ignoring: Failing to oppose the expansion of the False King.

8. Quisling Caretaker, Gorging: Willingly engaging in unsustainable actions of behaviors.

7. Squeamish Hunter, Squeamishing: Not killing your own meat.

6. Tribe Traitor, Tribe Betrayal: Betraying the tribe to anyone.

5. Path Traitor, Path Betrayal: Betraying any Freepather to the Hungry Empire

4. Lazy Warrior, Deferring: Deferring necessary training in favor of distractions with no long term benefits.

3. Parasite Caretaker, Settling: Failure to seek a more sustainable lifestyle.

2. Parasite Child, Childishness: Failure to seek adulthood and pursue the path of the Warrior.

1. Happy Slave, Acceptance: Accepting the enslavement of the Hungry Empire.

The Ten Weaknesses are the habits and compromises which the False King seeks to ingrain in the lives of all prisoners and citizens of the Hungry Empire. The Weaknesses are the inverse of the Tenfold Path. Adherence to the Ten Weaknesses is encouraged by the False King. The goal of the Hungry Empire is to consume and grow, a goal of infinite growth on a finite planet.

The False King offers a choice:

Feast with me and starve tomorrow,

Fight against me and die today.

And the False King continues to pretend that infinite growth is possible in a finite world. The False King will offer excuses as to why infinite growth must be pursued in a finite world. They will talk about justice and warn us against the consequences of ceasing to pursue infinite growth- ignoring the much worse consequences of ignoring the inevitable collapse that results from pursuing infinite growth on a finite planet.

Remember that the False King has been expanding the Hungry Empire for over ten thousand years. And we are now very much in the endgame of the Hungry Empire’s attempt to defy the immovable laws of nature. The False King will not give up until until he has consumed the world and death is the only inhabitant of the Hungry Empire and he is a ruler of an empire of dust.

And so the Defenders of the Flame oppose the Hungry Empire and the False King.

The Children of First Mother are yet alive

The Pupils of First Hero yet hold their knives

I am a child, smaller and weaker

than those warriors who came before

But I am of the free peoples

And I will stand, and I will make war

The Tenfold Path

The Ten Weaknesses

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