Unofficial Traditions, Setup, and Guidelines for Freedom Fellowship

The invitation letter is the founder’s prayer to humanity; embrace individual rights, accept objective reality as is, you own your mind, reason is the correct guide to a moral life, only voluntary interaction between humans is moral, decentralized authority is best, give back in your own way, love is conditional and important to be moral, and finally, the only starting place for correct morality is reason based selfishness. Freedom Fellowship’s founder did not see a group in the world that they completely agreed with, so they created one. The founder wanted there to be only 1 goal for the group, “individual rights for every human.” The founder did not want the group to be dogmatic, but you do have to have some moral principles otherwise the group would end up like “Lord of the Flies.” The founder wanted to have as many principles as needed to be reason based and moral, but as few principles as possible. Human nature is individually based and everyone is unique, which is why humans like the “custom build” options in video games. The founder came up with 8 principles that they think are needed to be reason based and moral but allowed for as much individuality as possible within those principles. Each principle defines itself but is worded as loosely as possible to allow for personal interpretation. The founder is not telling other people how to live their life. The founder is saying that if you want to be reason based and moral, then you need to live within the boundaries of these 8 principles. People are free to live outside the boundaries of the 8 principles, but that would be irrational and lead to immorality, which is always followed with suffering. The fundamental law of morality is “Irrationality always leads to immorality.” The founder identified irrational views that people have to help prevent others from making those mistakes. Freedom Fellowship’s only official statement is the 2-page invitation letter written from one Earthling to another Earthling. The founder did not include their name because this ideology is not about them. Freedom Fellowship is for the benefit of all individual humans. Freedom Fellowship is NOT about the personal glory of any individual. Members are encouraged to create their own versions beyond the invitation letter, but they need to stay within the boundaries of the 8 principles and overall goal. Also, all versions beyond the letter that people create, are considered unofficial and personal interpretation. Unofficial and personal interpretation does not mean wrong in any way, it just has to be set up that way in order to respect every member of the community. When a person says that they are a member of Freedom Fellowship, that only means that they agree with the invitation letter 95% or more. They are not saying anything about the personal versions beyond the letter that other members have created. If you want to know what a member thinks about a particular version beyond the letter, then they need to specifically ask the person what they think about that version. Freedom Fellowship’s founder created this ideological group because they wanted people to take philosophy and morals more seriously. Every member is expected to spend some time thinking about their values and applying them to reality. Each member is expected to come up with their own moral playbook that goes beyond the basics of the invitation letter. Members are not expected to share it with the public, but they are asked to share it with at least 2 people who they trust to get feedback on. They can turn to a leader for help, but that is not a requirement. Leaders/Preachers are expected to share some of their moral playbook with the public. They do not have to share everything though, because the world is at war right now and it’s not smart to give enemies all the information. Freedom Fellowship is very new so there are hardly any versions out there right now. In a thousand years there will be multiple versions to choose from, because there will be a lot of time to think about life through a reason-based and moral lens. People in a thousand years are expected to think about this stuff on their own though and develop their thoughts independently. It is likely that there will be a version that is very close to whatever conclusions they come to. They can join that version or they can still create their own. Every member carves up their own path in Freedom Fellowship, whether that is today, 1,000 years from now, or 1 billion years from now. Everyone in Freedom Fellowship is expected to take moral values and principles in a serious way.