This is a kinda long read.. I wrote this a few months ago as a personal guideline type thing, but in a manner in which I could share it with others if they ever got curious as to what I "believe." Read if ya want. :)
Emancipationism
"Anything and everything for the self."
By no means is this philosophy telling you how to live. In fact, I created it for myself, and only documented it for the souls out there who wish to live the same way as I seek to. I am going to make every attempt at citing my influences, the three most dominant of which are the Church of Satan, Priscilla Gibson, and Poh Huai Bin of Sixthseal.com.
The first question everyone needs to ask themself is this:
"How can I make myself happy?"
At first, I could not answer this myself. What I did know was that I was unhappy - So I decided to first point out what I was dissatisfied with in my life. I suggest you start with making a list... Here's mine:
I want to experience raging human emotions - adrenaline and ecstacy ... But I'm not skydiving, and I'm not doing MDMA.... WHY NOT? Because of laws? Because of fear?
I want more sex. Why am I not getting it? What changes can I make to achieve this goal?
I am a vegetarian, yet I want to eat meat. Why am I not eating it? Morality? Fear of inflicting pain?
I want to be living on my own, with my bachelor's degree. At the time of writing this, I am seventeen years of age. This is simply a matter of patience.
I doubt myself. How can I stop doubting myself? Is there an easy way?
I am unhappy with my appearance. What steps can I make to look the way I want?
I am living with depression. How can I minimize this problem?
So from what I listed above, it would seem emancipationism is all about skydiving, doing drugs, having sex with countless sluts, eating whatever unhealthy diet you wish, making a shitload of cash, having self confidence, and looking good all at the same time. Well, first of all, some of those things inherently conflict with each other. How can I become as happy as possible?
Do EVERYTHING you desire, as long as it advances your happiness more than it will EVENTUALY decline it. Take EVERYTHING into consideration... Don't break the law, for example, unless the advances in your happiness outweigh the eventual decline, should you be apprehended.
This concept may seem selfish. It is, really. Is being selfish a bad thing? Human nature inherently inflicts suffering upon others. Think about it, you have a girlfriend. You break up. Even though you most likely never intended to inflict any emotional pain, you did anyway. Priscilla once asked me a philosophical question - What if every other "living" being is a robot, and you are the only "real" living being... And when we die, we are to find out everything we did in life to benefit others was an entire waste because the only one who was really alive was yourself? I mulled it over. Again, and again, I thought about this. To me, it made sense... To you, it may seem completely ridiculous. Like I said, this philosophy is not for everyone.
Let's go through my list and examine the steps I am taking to make myself happy.. Your steps will differ, of course, so let mine only be an example. YOU will have to fine tailor YOUR OWN steps towards happiness. First, I want to experience the full extent of the human emotions... But at the same time, I don't really want to be a junky. My solution? Go on the freefalling rides. I have plans to go skydiving with my best friend when I graduate. I smoke, and I drink, but only occasionaly. I am open minded towards recreational substances, though I have only tried a few. I will indubiously try more. This may not be for you... Like I said, do what you want as long as the benefit outweighs the negatives.. For me, this holds true for drug use. For you it may not.
I want more sex. How can I get more? Well first of all, actions need to be taken to make yourself more unique and desirable to the opposite sex. This is all up to you... I am not writing a book on attraction, nor am I claiming to be a pimp. It's just something that you will have to practice. One thing I will say though, is stop fearing rejection. Fuck rejection. If somebody blows off an emancipationist, they don't deserve to experience being with one.
I am a vegetarian. I'm still working on eating meat again. I stopped because of humanitarian issues, but since becoming more selfish, I really couldn't care less. While I don't want to inflict suffering on others, the enjoyment of not holding back when it comes to food will outweigh the guilt I'd feel.
I want to be living on my own with a bachelor's in computer science. Since I'm still in high school, I did the only thing I can to bring my closer to this goal - I'm sitting in during a precalculus class. Sometimes you have to practice patience. Don't let this drive you to madness. ;)
Sometimes I doubt myself. This, like attracting the opposite sex, can be a struggle to overcome. Another thing these two problems have in common is fear. Fear of rejection, fear of what people would think of you for doing something you want to do. Fuck them. Like I said, they could all be robots. I am unhappy with my appearance. I am still working on my own style - but I'm not sitting around doing nothing about it. I am taking steps to look how I want to look.
Finaly, I do live with depression. After living without, starting, and stopping medication, I realized there is only one solution - taking your pills. You may disagree... Again, the philosophy is open to personal interpretation. Do what pleases you the most.
The final note - Do as you please, so long as it makes you happier than it will eventualy disable you through the duration of the consequences. The answers to your problems, EVEN IF THEY ARE THE SAME AS MINE, may be entire different. You may want to shoot up heroin every weekend. Go for it, so long as shooting up heroin makes your happier than it will ever make you unhappy through the reprocussions. Enjoy your life.
