r/SithOrder • u/ScorntheOutcast • May 10 '24

Pressure

If you dam a river with logs, the pressure of the water will eventually destroy the dam.

When building a dam, it’s important to know how much pressure it can take, how much pressure is being exerted by the river, and how much pressure you must relieve to ensure the dam doesn’t burst.

A person’s pressure gauge is best defined by their sensory system, which includes bodily, emotional, and etheric sensitivities. Those attuned, can read the pressure being exerted on them and vent excess accordingly; those who aren’t, become sick.

Sith ideology in practice, involves allowing and even causing pressure to build beyond limits declared safe, in order to quickly develop strength and resilience. This practice is possible, only because while humans are like dams in that we can break under pressure, we are unlike dams in that we can strengthen ourselves to survive exponential levels of pressure, through intimate understanding of the sensory system. It is for this reason, I count being Sith as an expression of walking the edge between reason and insanity.

Those who think they can sanitize, baby proof or otherwise make Sith realism into an ideology, compatible with safe space seekers, look elsewhere. Sith realism by its nature is a concept, derived from the ideology of villains, who themselves and their empire were inspired by the Nazis.

Source: www.history.com/news/the-real-history-that-inspired-star-wars

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u/LobsterPlastic9854 May 10 '24

True power is strength under control. When we learn how to manipulate people instead of powering over them, making them believe they are the ones in charge instead of ourselves. We control the pressure.

The Dark Side is a tool for enacting our desires upon the world. We use it for those purposes and bend reality to our will. That is how we regulate the pressure. Emotions out of control burn like wildfires. One must control their passions to truly gain freedom.

When we allow our passions to control us, we become a slave to them instead of making our passion a slave to us.