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Welcome to Wikifesto — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve.

What Is This Place?[edit]

A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public.

Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. Wikifesto is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where:

Stubs become essays become movements
Every section can link to its own elaboration
Readers become contributors become co-authors
The manifesto grows with its community

The Manifestos[edit]

Braided Becoming — Identity is architecture, not archaeology
Against the Discovery of Self — You are not a hidden treasure waiting to be found

Philosophy[edit]

Philosophy should be done with passion, with gusto. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki.

The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an invitation.

Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve

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-<span class="wikivoice-config" data-narrator="Jimmy Hawkins"></span>
+{{DISPLAYTITLE:Wikifesto}}
-= How to Find Meaning =
+'''Welcome to Wikifesto''' — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve.
-I'm Jimmy Hawkins. Retired firefighter, thirty-two years on the job.
+== What Is This Place? ==
-I lost my son Marcus seven years ago. Seventeen years old, car accident. Nothing prepares you for that. Nothing. The grief—it doesn't go away. It changes shape, but it's always there.
+A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public.
-After Marcus died, I fell apart. Everyone expected me to be strong. I'm a firefighter, right? We save people. But I couldn't save my own kid, and I couldn't save myself either. Took me years to find my way back.
+Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. '''Wikifesto''' is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where:
-What brought me through wasn't answers. It was questions. The big ones: What makes life worth living? How do you keep going when everything that mattered is gone? Where do you find meaning when meaning has burned to ash?
+* ''Stubs'' become ''essays'' become ''movements''
+* Every section can link to its own elaboration
+* Readers become contributors become co-authors
+* The manifesto grows with its community
-This wiki is where I work through those questions. Not because I've figured it all out—I haven't. But because asking them, honestly, is the only way I know to keep moving forward.
+== The Manifestos ==
-== Where to Start ==
+* [[Braided Becoming]] — ''Identity is architecture, not archaeology''
+* [[Against the Discovery of Self]] — ''You are not a hidden treasure waiting to be found''
-'''If you're in the dark right now:'''
+== Philosophy ==
-* [[When Nothing Makes Sense]] — Because sometimes it doesn't.
-* [[Grief And Meaning]] — They're tangled up together.
-* [[The Hardest Questions]] — The ones we're afraid to ask.
-'''If you're searching:'''
+Philosophy should be done ''with passion, with gusto''. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki.
-* [[What Makes Life Worth Living]] — Different answers for different people.
-* [[Finding Purpose After Loss]] — It's possible. Slowly.
-* [[Small Moments That Matter]] — Sometimes meaning hides in the ordinary.
-'''If you want to understand:'''
+The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an ''invitation''.
-* [[Why We Need Meaning]] — It's more than philosophy.
-* [[When Purpose Changes]] — Because it does, over time.
-* [[Legacy And Memory]] — What we leave behind.
-'''If you're ready to rebuild:'''
+----
-* [[Creating New Meaning]] — After the old meaning is gone.
+<small>''Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve''</small>
-* [[Living With Unanswered Questions]] — Because some never get answered.
-* [[The Long Road Back]] — One step at a time.
-== A Note on This Wiki ==
-I started writing because a grief counselor suggested it. Didn't think it would help. Didn't think anything would. But putting words on paper made the chaos in my head a little more bearable.
-What I've learned is that meaning isn't something you find once and keep forever. It's something you rebuild, again and again, from whatever pieces you have left. Some days it's solid. Some days it's not.
-I'm not here to tell you what life means. I'm here to sit with the questions alongside you. Maybe we'll find some answers together. Maybe we won't. Either way, we won't be alone in the asking.
-''— [[User:Jimmy_Hawkins|Jimmy Hawkins]], asking the hard questions''
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