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| = How to Accept Myself =
| | '''Welcome to Wikifesto''' — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve. |
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| My name is Roger Jackson. I'm sixty-three years old, and I wasted forty of those years wishing I was someone else.
| | == What Is This Place? == |
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| I was an alcoholic from twenty-two to forty-eight. Twenty-six years of blackouts, broken promises, and bridges burned. I lost two marriages, three jobs, and more friendships than I can count. I spent those years hating myself—which, ironically, gave me a great excuse to keep drinking.
| | A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public. |
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| Sobriety didn't fix everything. I expected to get sober and suddenly like myself. That's not how it works. The drinking stopped, but the person in the mirror was still the same guy who'd done all those things. Accepting him—accepting myself—that was a different journey entirely.
| | Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. '''Wikifesto''' is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where: |
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| It's been fifteen years since my last drink. In that time, I've worked with hundreds of people in recovery, and here's what I've noticed: the ones who make it aren't the ones who become someone new. They're the ones who finally accept who they've always been.
| | * ''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 |
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| This wiki is about that. Not changing yourself into someone acceptable. Accepting the self you already are—including the parts you wish were different.
| | == The Manifestos == |
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| == 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'' |
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| '''If you're struggling to accept yourself:'''
| | == Philosophy == |
| * [[The Things We Can't Accept]] — Start by naming them.
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| * [[Why Self-Acceptance Feels Like Giving Up]] — It isn't. Here's why.
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| * [[The Paradox of Acceptance]] — You change most by accepting what is.
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| '''If you've made mistakes:''' | | 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. |
| * [[Accepting Your Past]] — You can't change it. Now what?
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| * [[When You're The Problem]] — Sometimes we are. That's still okay.
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| * [[Living With What You Did]] — Not denial. Not punishment. Something in between.
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| '''If you're fighting yourself:'''
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| * [[The War Inside]] — Why we turn against ourselves.
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| * [[The Inner Critic]] — That voice isn't helping. Here's how to quiet it.
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| * [[Befriending Your Flaws]] — They're part of the package.
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| '''If you want peace:'''
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| * [[What Self-Acceptance Actually Looks Like]] — It's not what you think.
| | <small>''Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve''</small> |
| * [[The Serenity of Acceptance]] — The thing they talk about in meetings.
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| * [[Growing While Accepting]] — You can do both.
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| == A Note on This Wiki ==
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| I didn't come to self-acceptance through therapy or meditation or some spiritual breakthrough. I came to it through exhaustion. I got tired of hating myself. Tired of running. Tired of pretending to be someone I wasn't.
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| The relief when I finally stopped fighting—I can't describe it. It wasn't happiness exactly. It was more like setting down a weight I'd been carrying for decades.
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| This wiki is for people who are carrying that weight. Who are tired of the war. Who want to know if there's another way.
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| There is. It's not easy. But it's simpler than you'd think.
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| ''— [[User:Roger_Jackson|Roger Jackson]], finally at peace with the man in the mirror''
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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]
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
