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 * Sam)(ael**


 * __Assignment__: Write at least 2 paragraphs on your future hopes for these Sithism Courses. What do you think will happen as you take these courses? Why do you think you are ready to become a Sith? What experiences can you bring to the Sithism Curriculum of the OoA? Please explain your answers in detail.**

I hope that these courses will provide at least a basic education and understanding of sith ways and it's application to our world. My long term hopes for this course are that It will be able to provide superior Education on Sith ways and their application. I believe that in taking these courses I will be able to get new views into Sithism. I am Currently taking my Knight Trials at the Sith Order so added insight could be very valuable. Often the things you learn after knighthood are the most valuable and insightful. I know I am ready to become a Sith. The first part is to abandon beliefs that do not serve you. Many people truely do not believe in some of the things that they think they do. I am not complete in this area but the major work has begun. In addition Sithism usually has a driving motivation though in ethics and beliefs they are often left to the student to define. I have the drive. Finally passion. I have that as well. I have experienced 20 years of life. I have been a force user for half of that time and accomplished quite a lot inside and outside of the internet. I have saved two lives using my medical skills, loved and lost, trained two Padawans and failed some. I have been a leader and a teacher for most of the last ten years in my religion (I am LDS [christian]) so my ability to comfort, strengthen, and instruct has been regularly tested with others and with myself. All in all, though I have credentials and experience I am becoming intensly aware of how much incredible value comes AFTER that achievement. Truely a person carefully observing can learn from anything, and at a place with good teachings this can work even better so I am here to learn at your feet. Master, Leader, friend, I will always be a student.


 * Enli**

Hello Sam)(ael,

I'd like to first congratulate you on your steps to becoming a Dark Graduate. You have begun a journey that will follow you the rest of your life, making your life easier and more understandable.

I really enjoyed reading your answers. They were well written and very thought provoking.

I found that you have hope as a student. This is something that many students lack: a sense of a brighter future. You aren't stagnant in your journey, which will benefit you as you progress.

I find that you mention your Knighting a few times. Understand that the only true leader is a true servant. If your unable to serve, you cannot lead.

What are some of the belief's you've had to give up that weren't beneficial for you? Can these beliefs be beneficial for other's?

Sithism is about the progression of the Individual. Do you believe that as you progress, and become the leader you wish to be, you'll be able to progress others?

Just a reminder, every Monday, you'll get the new password for the next lesson. This week, we will be working on your first lesson.


 * Sam)(ael**


 * What are some of the belief's you've had to give up that weren't beneficial for you? Can these beliefs be beneficial for other's?

Sithism is about the progression of the Individual. Do you believe that as you progress, and become the leader you wish to be, you'll be able to progress others?**

A lot of preconceptions religion makes. I grew up in church and some of my ideas about what it takes to be a good person were untrue. I had a really bad breakup and basically all of my church friends seemed to vanish except one (and we were both kind or sore ribs for a while anyway). My friends that helped me survive were people who would get smashed-silly drunk and cussed up a storm. Obviously the fact that my church friends were members did not automatically make them good. Even though they ARE very good people, it didn't make them right, and it didn't put them in the right place at the right time. I learned that being what everyone expects of a member of the church is a lie. Meeting or failing that standard you choose who you are. So I stopped caring, I stopped trying, and all of that effort went to more important things.

I am sure these beliefs can benefit others. It takes a strong individual to go off the clearly marked roads and still arrive at their destination. For me however, I never fit the description of normal because I could have cared less.

Progressing others is mandatory. If you wish to become something worth being you have to be a part of something larger than yourself so that when you fail and are broken the cause will reincarnate you with a second life. This is how Sith are reborn. All things die. Like a phoenix we rise from the ashes with less of our failings. I am a part of something far larger than myself. I cannot die, and I cannot be destroyed because I am greater than any enemy and my cause is the greatest.


 * Enli**

Hello Sam)(ael,

Again, very insightful answers.

Religion is a very sensitive subject to most. Whenever I speak about religion, I do not protect it, nor do I attack it. I'm not religious, either. I'm here to help you understand yourself. Please take no offense when I ask questions.

When you decided that religion wasn't important, why did you view its followers to judge it? What parts of religion can be beneficial? What parts aren't beneficial?

What do you define as a "Normal Person"? How has you choosing not to be "normal" affected your life? Spiritually? Emotionally? Socially?

Congratulations!

Master EnLi
 * Sam)(ael**

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