- The X Pillars -
I. The Declaration
The Gnōx rejects any religious authority placed above reason, criticism and human freedom.
He rejects allah as fiction, moamed as an untouchable moral authority, and islamism as a political project of religious submission.
The three-finger F-sign symbol carries this declaration:
No god above reason: fuck allah.
No prophet above criticism: fuck moamed.
No submission to religious ideology: fuck islamism.
Against supposedly divine laws, we choose a human work,
with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its foundation.
Dignity before dogma.
Freedom of conscience before obedience.
Equality before the law before religious law.
When a divine command conflicts with fundamental human rights, the divine command must yield.
We worship neither god nor man.
GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core
No god, prophet or religious command may be placed above reason, individual freedom and fundamental human rights.
II. The Coherence
Money gives power to what it supports.
A Gnōx should therefore seek, whenever reasonably possible, to understand which structures his spending helps sustain. He should consciously avoid supporting certifications, institutions or economic systems that strengthen religious authority, coercion or proselytism he fundamentally opposes.
This is not a pursuit of impossible economic purity. It is a refusal to knowingly finance what one claims to reject.
GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core
A Gnōxist must not knowingly use their economic power to strengthen religious authority, coercion or proselytism they fundamentally oppose.
III. The Unforgivable
Rape, pedophilia, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation are granted no cultural, religious or circumstantial excuse.
The Gnōxist Brotherhood must maintain confidential means for reporting abuse and clear procedures for protecting those involved.
When abuse is established, membership in the Brotherhood must offer no protection to the perpetrator. Expulsion is immediate.
Loyalty to the Brotherhood can never require silence in the presence of a predator.
GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core
Sexual abuse, rape and the sexual exploitation of any human being are absolute red lines and must never be excused, concealed or protected within the Brotherhood.
IV. The mark
Gnōxism accepts a visible identity.
Its symbols, colours, aesthetic and certain practices allow Gnōxists to recognise one another and openly express their belonging.
None of these elements is sacred.
The pig, particularly pork as food, symbolises the refusal to allow ancient religious prescriptions to govern ordinary life or decide what a person may eat.
For a Gnōx, pork is simply food.
GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core
Gnōxism must remain openly recognisable through its symbols, lifestyle and practices, while rejecting the authority of religious purity laws over ordinary life and food.
V. The bond
Belonging to the Brotherhood creates responsibility toward other members.
The annual membership fee helps sustain common structures and mechanisms of solidarity, including those intended to support the next generation.
But solidarity cannot be reduced to money.
Whenever circumstances allow, a Gnōx also contributes time, skills, knowledge or practical assistance. A durable community depends on what its members are genuinely capable of providing for one another.
GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core
Membership must create both a financial and personal duty of solidarity toward The Gnōxist Brotherhood and its members.
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poem
- one second -
1914–1917
Deep in the earth,
buried like seeds beneath foreign soil.
Deep.
Deeper.
Always deeper.
Here, the rays of the sun
have long since lost their way in the mist.
Here, darkness reigns.
Do not be deceived
by a sudden gleam in the sky—
for what looks like light for a moment
may, one second later,
become your final hope.
A flash.
A blast.
A crater.
And nothing more.
Here, you learn quickly
that a man is only a man.
No races in the mud.
No classes under shellfire.
No noble blood.
No pure blood.
Only skin.
Bones.
Breath.
Blood.
And however far apart
our cradles may have stood,
death does not know where we were born.
It recognises only one colour:
the red
of each other’s blood.
Look at us.
Deep in the trench.
Row after row.
Shoulder to shoulder.
Gas masks over our faces.
No mouths anymore.
No names anymore.
No faces anymore.
As though one and the same mother
had given birth to all of us at once
and then abandoned us down here,
beneath the earth.
The mud has taken our boots.
The mud has taken our letters.
The mud has taken our dead.
And somewhere along the way,
the mud swallowed God as well.
Above us hangs the gas.
Yellow.
Green.
Invisible.
An acid kiss in the throat
for a single moment of carelessness.
Breathe in.
Not too deeply.
Breathe out.
Not too late.
Breathe.
Breathe.
Breathe—
Today, chance is the judge.
No law.
No reason.
No merit.
Chance.
A centimetre too high.
Half a step too far.
One second too early.
One second too late.
That is all.
Here, the boundary is that narrow
between being
and being no more.
Millions of lives
rest upon things this small.
A stone.
A hole.
A rifle that jams.
An officer who raises his hand
one moment later.
A bullet turned aside
by the rain.
A shell that fails to explode.
Chance.
Chance.
Chance.
Today, we call that life.
Tomorrow,
we call it a name carved into stone.
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THE 30-YEAR REVIEW & THE GIC
The Ten Pillars are the constitutional foundation of Gnōxism.
Every thirty years, their wording, structure and practical application may be reviewed in light of new knowledge, experience and changing conditions.
But the core of each Pillar cannot be rewritten.
That protected core is called the GIC — Gnōxist Immutable Core.
A revision may clarify, improve or modernise a Pillar.
It may never reverse, remove or neutralise its central purpose.
If a revision changes the meaning of the GIC, it is not an evolution of Gnōxism.
It is a break with it.
Improve the article. Protect the core.