That about sums it up. I will just say what I like about it.
I'm a problem-solver. That's my personality. INTJ (introversion intuition thought judgement). Whenever a problem arises I immediately start researching solutions to the problem and fixing it. That's how I graduated from high school, got into a top school, and went on to other successful things. I even found a way to end racism in America, through a book called, appropriately, The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza. But sometimes in life there are problems that seem completely unsolvable. The main one for me was: people. The world is filled with wastes of space, beggars, parasites, wastrels, and cruel and obnoxious people. Sexism was the worst but really cruelty in general. There was no way to solve it. I found myself constantly resentful and annoyed. I wanted to go live in the woods, even away from other misanthropes. Many people would say "forgive, let it go, learn to love yourself, give, heal, grow, share." These people might be the most irritating. I knew that healy new age claptrap was completely out of the question and was for Christian spaniels. Rather than sitting around feeling sorry for myself, I decided to implement this polarity theory. When you are completely self-interested, you stop worrying about the world of cruel people. You also stop helping these cruel people which makes you feel satisfied. The cruel people freed me. They freed me from the moral obligation to help them. Self-sacrifice and martyrdom are not honorable. They are for fools.
Darkworking makes you feel focused on the present moment rather than excessively worried about others or thinking about something irritating involving them. It is perfectly suited for my value system that includes objectivism, libertarianism, and social Darwinism, as well as my religion of (LaVeyan) Satanism.
It gives you more energy, it makes you more useful, and it makes you more hopeful.
Now I don't say "I can succeed in spite of people." I say "I can and probably will succeed BECAUSE of people." Did I create a reality where people are irritating? Who knows, but either way, it comes in handy.
Last edited by CroMagna; 04-26-2009 at 07:34 PM.
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