One of my dearest friends told me that I needed a creed, a formal statement of beliefs and principles that guide someone or someones; something to express my core convictions, a declaration of what I fight for and believe in. The following is my creed.
I believe in the chaos of change.
I reject the broken foundation of a broken system.
I stand for the dismantling of power.
The unraveling of greed.
The challenge to those who profit off suffering.
I believe in direct action–
Not in idle words or empty promises.
I refuse to be silent, to be complacent.
I believe in shaking the world awake,
in stirring discomfort,
in fighting for liberation.
I choose disruption over conformity,
Because to be still is to be complicit.
I will use every tool at my disposal–
Words, memes, action, chaos–
To challenge, to disrupt, to overthrow.
I reject the myth of “life” as an inherent gift.
I believe in the right to never be born,
To spare the world more suffering.
I stand against more suffering.
I stand against the perpetuation of pain,
And I refuse to glorify procreation in a broken world
I am not here to appease the powerful.
I am here to tear down their structures,
And build something new, something free.
This is my creed.
This is my fight.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
Its a good idea to have a creed, in my opinion. I shall have to think about one for myself. Because, at the moment, I just have a few hardcore beliefs that are largely humanistic in kind. I suppose one reason why I haven’t had one up to now is that I’ve always thought of creeds as a kind of religious thing. But I suppose it doesn’t really have to be in the same way that people can have a sense of morality without a religion to frame it in.
I would probably agree with most of your statements, K. You could divide yours into groups to some extent.
Action
Critique
Gentility
Authenticity
A good group, I think.
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I’d absolutely love to read/know what your creed is. My friend asked mine and I had to think about it for a minute. I remember being in church and first hearing the word “creed” there. I know the creed of the Christian, but I’d never thought of one for myself until my friend asked me to think about it.
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I’ve had to think about it quite a lot, actually. Instead of giving a quick comment here I think I’ll respond with a blog instead. I always have thought of creeds as religious, like you. But they don’t have to be, I suppose.
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When I was a kid I used to fantasise about building rockets, time machines and cure-all fixes out of stuff I found lying around the house. The things I invented usually were for the benefit of humanity, with me winning a few Nobel prises on the way. I had a child’s view of the world and despite what happened to me later in life I still have that nagging desire to see a better world. These days though I’d also like to see it and the people who run it, in particular, burn. No one should ever give me the ability to end it all because I could not be trusted with the shiny red button.
Suffering is the currency of wealth, suffering and corruption is how it’s paid for and architecture, languages change but nothing else does. I agree with a lot of your creed, it’s to the point and human.
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See, I’m torn between wanting a better world and wanting to see it burn myself. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a better world, though. People are too selfish, self-absorbed, and greedy. The bottom line is money. That’s what everyone cares about and it doesn’t help that Apartheid Clyde is the richest person in the world, and he’s the one pulling all the strings. I know you can’t be president of the U.S. unless you’re a natural born citizen, but he might as fucking well be.
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I think the problem is that we have both a conscience and a long way to go evolution wise, we like to think we are good but we are also selfish, needy and angry.
It staggers me that they gave a foreigner the keys to the USA and no one is protesting that Apartheid Clyde or trying to get rid of him. Maybe they think he actually is Tony Stark?
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“It staggers me that they gave a foreigner the keys to the USA”
Yeah, but he’s a white foreigner so that makes all the difference. In America white people: good. Every other race: bad.
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