[Suzerain of Sheol]

1. What religions do you find to be strange?

In the sense that religion is merely the most visible self-deception of the human mind to blind ourselves from the brutality of the universe we exist in, none. Religion is a perfectly natural outgrowth of the mind's tendency to sequester itself from the more troubling aspects of being self-aware. Far from being unique in this regard, though, religion is merely the most dramatic externalization of the sort of lies we all tell ourselves to get through the day, from the micro- to the macrocosmic. Even the act of writing this post is a willing act of self-deluding distraction on my own part, for instance, from the fact that I am the imaginary, vestigial projection of the bio-electrical processes of a chunk of cerebral meat over which I have no control, taking post-hoc credit for the (non-)decisions it makes, all in a cosmos of decaying molecules undergoing a Godlike process of non-consensual suicide.

2. What religion (if any) do you conform to and why?

I am as hard-line an atheist as you can possibly get. I am also a helpless pessimist and an avowed Antinatalist. I hold the position that the evolution of human self-awareness was the single most atrocious thing to ever happen in the history of the universe, and that it is a crime beyond reckoning to willfully create new sentient beings. (And I do feel the need to stress here, the distinction between being pro-nonexistence and pro-death, I am in favor of minimizing the suffering and maximizing the joy of every person currently burdened with being alive, and extending those lives as long as possible, I simply reject the proposition that creating new humans does anyone any good, least of all the person created. While having no wish to die (due to the cocktail of neuroses and reptile instincts evolution has imprinted on me), I very much wish I had never been born in the first place, if the distinction is at all clear.)

3. Do you believe that there is a true path?

To paraphrase someone smarter than myself, "The only inalienable right any human is born with is the right to die, not necessarily at a time of their choosing". The only "truth" is that we're all dancing at the blind machinations of our subconscious to perpetuate the greatest, most meaningless tragedy the cosmos has ever seen. We're a living museum to the paradox of evolution: by defeating and transcending nature, we've become enemies of nature, but we're hopelessly tethered to a natural existence we can never escape. We're the victims of a useless mutation which serves only the produce the greatest possible sum of suffering, and the more we fight our wretched state of being, the worse it hurts.

4. What is different from the religion in question one and your own religion?

An irrelevant question.

5. Do you have any interest in learning about religions? Why or why not?

As a distraction, it's as valid an avenue as any other. I'd venture I know more about most religions than is average, but it's not something I hold any particular fondness for studying (as much as one can hold the illusion of fondness under the constant pressure of the Thanatos-instinct...)


But that's just, like, my opinion.

(Oh, and in terms of fringe philosophies, I'm well aware this is quite possibly the most alienating mindset one can possibly put forth. I've never had any interest in trying to convince anyone to believe the same.)