Metaphysical Exile

Reading of an essay published on December 16, 2020, about the dangers that theocratic and reactionary Christian tendencies represent in contemporary Brazil. 

Essay: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202... 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...

In this essay, I discuss the antinatalist hypothesis as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. Maybe intelligent enough species choose to peacefully come to an end via non-reproduction after realizing the cosmic pointlessness of it all; that is, after seeing how the struggle and suffering they endure through the ages amount to little or even less. But, by the end of the essay, I discard the possibility, since if other intelligent species do exist on other solar systems, they will have evolved much in the same manner as we did, and likely will have a plethora of justifications, myths and meanings to keep the ball rolling indefinitely — that is, until some inevitable and involuntary catastrophe end their run.  

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202... 

Music by REPULSIVE

In this essay I discuss divine wickedness once again and add that, if He existed, God would also be a sadistic cosmic abuser, since He not only makes us suffer but also requires us to kneel down and give thanks for the suffering. 

Text on my blog: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2022/05/god-sadist.html

Music by REPULSIVE: https://www.youtube.com/c/REPULSIVEMUSIC

In this essay, I deal with the common belief that God is good all the time. Assuming that our existence was in fact created by the Christian God average people believe in, then he can't be considered to be a benevolent deity all the time. In the Bible, God himself unequivocally states that he is the creator of both good and evil, light and darkness, peace and pain (Isaiah 45:5-7). In this context, I point out that those who say that they are God-fearing men are more correct than those who say that God is good all the time: the God of the Bible is much closer to a Lovecraftian entity—like Cthulhu, Azathoth and Yog-Sothot—than to a pal who's willing to help us when we need it.

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2022/01/god-is-not-good-all-time.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

We live in the era of batshit crazy. While philosophical pessimism and ascribing a negative value to birth (i.e. antinatalism) are minority views, they have been around for thousands of years: one can find them in the Bible, in Buddhist scriptures, in Greek tragedy, and in Philosophy. Those ideas have been discussed normally by people holding opposing views for a long time. This isn't what happens today with batshit lunatics that promote far out conspiracy theories, such as covid deniers, antivaxxers, flat-earthers, QAnon followers and others. To them, the discussion is always rigged in favor of obscure agents, such as the "globalist elite" or some other made up idiocy. They aren't interested in debating anything, and lie when they say they are. January 6th, 2021 in the US, and September 7th, 2021 in Brazil show that what they want is to overthrow the established order so they can impose an authoritarian rule based on their far out conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, antinatalism sometimes attracts nut jobs such as those, but it shouldn't — and responsible antinatalists should shun them.

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/12/the-era-of-batshit-crazy-how.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay I discuss how — even though we might yearn for freedom and fulfillment in personal, social and political ways, and even though many of those longings are perfectly justified and worth fighting for — we (that is, sentient, conscious beings) will never be truly satisfied. I argue that there's only one way to avoid this existential oppression and dissatisfaction: never coming into existence. Since we are already here, we can stop fueling the cycle of pain by abstaining from creating new conscious beings.

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/12/i-want-to-break-free-from-this-meat.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

QAnon is one of the craziest, stupidest and most dangerous far-right cults out there. In this essay, I talk a little about how it's not even creative, since it borrows heavily on old antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/11/q-and-blood-libel.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay, I talk about how even the best lives aren't worth starting. Suffering and pain, being intrinsic to conscious existence, will always make themselves felt. By coming into conscious existence, we got an extremely bad deal. From a negative ethical standpoint, then, we shouldn't pass it forward. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/life-is-very-bad-and-never-worth-it.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

It is amazing how little frightened most of us are of our circumstances. It is as if the entire business of humanity is to build a wall around reality and nature, which is violence, pain, death, decay and rebirth. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/10/be-very-afraid.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...

In this essay, I discuss how Nietzsche was influenced by and eventually denied Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, favoring a life-affirming posture. Later, in the 20th century, Cioran criticizes this. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/06/nietzsches-dionysian-pessimism-and.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA