What is the Character Triad?
The Character Triad is the symmetric grouping of concepts: self-respect, morality, and honour. It is an honour code and the basis for peaceful co-existence in Triunnia.
Observed use of The Character Triad facilitates development of a high-trust society and allows us to function without the expense and burden of a control and enforcement system.
The Character Triad is not a law and cannot be enforced like a law, because that enforcement would itself break The Character Triad.
It is a concept – an intellectual tool – that we can use to navigate the Laws of Nature and Scaling as they apply to human civilization.
When used, the Character Triad can help guide a society and its leadership to follow those laws and put a civilization on an ascendant path.
When ignored, the laws will be trespassed upon and their consequences realized in a society that descends and degenerates.
Life is about building a strong character – the stronger the better. Strong characters open up many opportunities and avenues in life to explore.
Strong characters get things done and are able to overcome obstacles and resistance wherever they appear.
Once a strong character has been achieved, you can continue with your development towards even further reaches yet unknown.
By contrast, a weak character cannot get anything meaningful done because they succumb to their damage.
They cannot stand up to the obstacles life throws at them and they cannot even conceive of the development they could have if they would only apply themselves.
Weak characters do not pursue life-changing opportunities and find more interest in mundane novelty items.
Weak characters are easily manipulated and used because they have no self-respect. They attack others because they have no morals and they steal from others because they have no honour.
The basic building blocks of character are self-respect, morality, and honour. All three aspects must be mastered for the character – your being – to take on any real power.
Some people may get scared at the phrasing of an honourable human being that is accountable to no one.
It is true that one who is truly honourable is also free and free to do whatever they want. But they are also free not to do whatever they do not want to do.
That means they have the freedom not to engage in immoral acts, a freedom which those who are in perdition do not have.
Symmetric
Means that if one concept in the triad is broken, the other two concepts are also automatically broken.
Self-Respect
Self-Respect are actions you take to prevent you from damaging yourself. The failure to employ self-respect necessarily results in self-betrayal and damage.
Trust Yourself
Learn when it is right to trust in a healthy way and when not to trust. Damage manifests as too much gullibility or naivety or too controlling behaviour.
Protect Yourself
Learn to secure your autonomy and not allow others to gain control over you. They will try to shame you. Damage manifests as too shameful or needy behaviour or too shameless and needless behaviour.
Own Yourself
Learn to conduct your own business and be good at it. Do not feel guilty for being successful, you earned it. Guilt trips are used to gain power over you and prevent you from owning yourself. Ownership of yourself is meant in every way, both lawful and legal. Damage manifests as excessively passive or aggressive behaviour.
Value Yourself
You have worth. Learn to value what you are, who you are, and what you have to contribute. Learn to become skilled and competent at what you can do and to value it as well. Damage manifests as inferiority and superiority complexes.
Know Yourself
Learn about yourself. How do you work, how does your body work, how does everything work? Learn to develop your identity as a consciousness, as a Human Being, as a Triune Self, and to get in touch with your true self. Damage manifests as a victim or hero mentality.
Love Yourself
Learn to love yourself. Have compassion for yourself. Things are hard and non-optimal and humanity has been in darkness for a long time. It is a long road out and you will slip up and that is okay. Learn to be authentic and honest with yourself so that you can be authentic and honest with others. Damage manifests as a lack of or excessive compassion: you care too much about others (selfless, neglecting yourself) or too much for yourself (selfish, neglecting others).
Morality
Morality are actions you take to prevent damage to and from others. The failure to employ morality destabilizes a society and causes its destruction.
Rightness
The rightness component of morality refers to your rightness part. It is not a thought. It is the part of you that knows right from wrong. It is an integral part of both yourself and this concept and is the backbone upon which morality is built. Therefore, those who have this part disabled – those who live in perdition – cannot possibly be moral and will engage in immoral behaviours. Watch out for them!.
Growth
Growth is the idea that we grow by accumulating knowledge. Its opposite is harm, which is the destruction or prevention of that knowledge by any means including physical death.
Knowledge
Since we are dealing with knowledge, we need to know right knowledge from wrong knowledge, and what is growth and what is harm, and when to act, when not to act, and how to act. Knowledge fuels the entire concept of morality. The opposite, a lack of knowledge, you should understand leads to immoral behaviour.
Action
Refers to how to act in a moral way with others, meaning how to act in a way that does not cause harm. But it also means how to act in a way to defend yourself from immoral behaviour, such as violence, and that you must act in that circumstance. Its opposite is inaction, meaning that you let someone harm you, which not only breaks morality but also breaks self-respect. The failure to act causes damage to yourself and prevents society from growing healthily by allowing the perpetrator to continue harming others when you could have stopped them.
Force
Force is the involuntary experience of some kind, usually painful or lethal, inflicted upon another against their will. Violence is the initiation of force against another. Defensive action is the response to violence by using force against the perpetrator. It is right to use defensive force against someone who is violent to you. It is wrong to use violence against another. Its opposite is passivity, which has relations to weakness and incompetence.
Honour
Honour solves the problem of preventing theft in all of its forms. It is an optimization strategy as theft of any kind in any way incurs a penalty to be repaid, which is a wasteful expense.
You want to live honourably so as not to fall into a downward spiral and be ruled by a culture of law, which causes perdition, and has been captured by lawfare.
Agreement
Implicit in every transaction is an agreement to trade one thing for another. The violation of the transaction breaks the agreement which necessarily results in dishonour. Therefore, agreements ought to be honoured because they are a transaction and we do not want to steal our promises from our business partners. Its opposite, disagreement, leads to conflict.
Valour
Sometimes called courage, valour is the willingness to confront pain, danger, and death. As it applies to honour, valour is the willingness to confront pain, danger, and death, or even social stigma, in order to fulfill an agreement. Think of a solider who agrees to defend his people at the risk of his own life. Valour's opposite, discouragement, results in a weak human being.
Honesty
Honesty is about preventing the theft of truth. It is dishonourable to lie. Truth is "that which is", referring to the overall universal reality, while a fact is "that which happened." Since the present universal reality is influenced by all past acts, all facts are also truth. It is not dishonourable to lie to save your life when it is under threat, however that situation is usually not related to a transaction. The opposite is dishonesty, which causes harm.
Compassion
Compassion is about having a certain amount of empathy for where other people are at in their lives. You might need to do business with someone who has not learned honour although they try their best. It is possible that mistakes can be made and they might need you to teach them. Its opposite is a lack of compassion, which could result in excessive revenge or punishment tactics when a simple discussion would be sufficient.
Reputation
Reputation refers to how well one is known in the community. Are they known for being trustworthy or a scoundrel? Will they do business fairly or will they rip you off? You would prefer to do business with someone who is honourable and you would want to remain honourable so that others will do business with you. Its opposite is a lack of reputation, meaning people may be cautious or wary of doing business with you.
Respectability
Some definitions of honour are that it is someone who is held in high respect. The respectability aspect comes from the sense of worth of the individual. Honourable people are valuable because they are reliable trading partners. People like to do business with those they respect. For those they do not respect, they are often looked down upon, used, and abused.
Standing
Standing refers to social standing and is perhaps one of the most important ideas here. It refers to an individual's social class, rank, or precedence in the social hierarchy. Honourable people have better standing than those without honour. Someone with no standing has no honour and someone with no honour has no standing. Without standing, one cannot gain recognition in a community of honourable peers. It goes hand-in-hand with respectability.
Duty
A duty is a mandatory action or set of actions that are owed to yourself or another. You have a duty to yourself to live fully, respect yourself, and act morally so we all can grow. You also have a duty to your business partners to fulfil the agreement or transaction and thus preserve honour, no matter the risk. Duty helps preserve your standing, respectability, and reputation, and also helps to ward off distractions.
Responsibility
To the degree that you are responsible is the same degree that you are aware of your duties. There is also a relation between responsibility and knowledge in that those who have the knowledge have the responsibility to pass on that knowledge to others so it is not lost. As well, you need knowledge of honour in order to be honourable. Responsibility is about taking care of what is yours, such as your duties, your knowledge, and your part in whatever transaction or agreement. It is also about ensuring no harm comes to what is yours or what is others'. Its opposite, irresponsibility, is about acting in a careless way that will inevitably cause harm through sheer ignorance (which is also the opposite of knowledge).
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the idea that you are the one with supreme power and authority over your affairs. It is usually only limited to heads of state due to the way states work, but it is possible to achieve your own sovereignty provided you also run your own state. Sovereignty is the highest standing possible for one who is honourable. It also accepts the greatest of responsibilities and has the greatest of duties. Sovereigns must be honourable or they risk war. Someone who is honourable must be sovereign so that they can guarantee their agreements can be met morally. The opposite of a sovereign is that of a servant, a slave, a subject, a national, or a citizen.
