Miscellaneous Thoughts on Discontinuation
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[edit] Sinking Ship
The Homo Sapiens species is and always was a sinking ship, headed for inevitable destruction of everyone onboard. My plan for ending our species is merely an attempt to cause the inevitable to happen sooner, but with fewer drowning victims (so to speak).
If we end the species now, as opposed to waiting for it to come to an end 5, 500, 5,000, or however many years from now, we will save billions of humans from ever being brought into this meaningless death trap. The voluntary extinction scenario is far less violent than all the other possible doomsday scenarios (asteroid hitting the earth; ice age; volcanic eruption changes earth's climate; WW3 nuclear attack).
So, to sum up: all rational atheist scientists agree that the Homo Sapiens species will someday end. My plan is more humane than any other doomsday event, and it saves billions of humans by preventing them from being brought onto this sinking death trap.
[edit] Smart, compassionate, and damaged
In order to be a Discontinuist, I think there are three personality traits one must have.
- Smart: it takes an intelligent, educated, and truth-seeking person to be an Atheist; to see through the lies of religion and supernaturalism. And only an Atheist can be a Discontinuist.
- Compassionate: even if a person knows the truth about the world, they have to have a strong compassion for humans if they are to be a Discontinuist. Only if you care about preventing suffering, death, and Metaphysical Angst can you be convinced that Discontinuing our species is the most humane thing to do.
- Damaged: it's only when someone feels pain in his or her life that that he/she can understand the Suffering Majority in the world instead of merely being part of the Diverted Minority. And when you understand and sympathize with the pain of the Suffering Majority, you see the logic behind Discontinuation.
I (Andrew Truelove) fulfill all three of these requirements. Do you?
[edit] The loneliness and sadness of the last Messiah
I believe that I fit the description of the last Messiah that Zapffe predicted would one day do what I'm doing. As such, I am a man with sight in a world full of blind people, and that is a very lonely, sad feeling. The world hates me and resents my message, and will probably kill me for proclaiming it, as Zapffe predicted.
It's frightening to think that, of all the great scientific and technological geniuses in human history, past and present (Newton, Einstein, Hawking, Dawkins, Harris), few to none of them were 'awake' in the way that I am. As Ozodi Thomas Osuji says, "It would be nice to tell you to seek solace in science and technology. But experience shows that scientists and technologists are normal human beings; folks who are like sheep and cattle and are not yet aware of the utter foolishness of the world they live in." That is the ultimate sign of hopelessness in this world- that all the great minds that most people find consolation in are in fact as blind and sheep-like as those who find solace in them. All of these great minds rejected the simple nihilistic truth of reality in favor of consolatory delusions of varying degrees.
Being one of the only 'awake' people in human history (see History of Discontinuation), and only one of two 'awake' people in the world today that I know of (Thomas Ligotti being the other one) makes me feel sad about the hopelessness of our species, as well as alone and outnumbered in a world that rejects my truth. I live in a world of pod people, and I'm the only uninfected human left; the salvation of the world rests solely upon me, yet in the end I will not succeed, and the pod people will continue on in my absence, just like in the movie.
My hope is that I can meet with one of these current aforementioned scientific geniuses and 'wake them up' so that I will not be so alone.
[edit] We succeeded where others failed
Almost every existentialist philosopher (and almost everyone who ever realized existentialism) from the author of Ecclesiastes to modern existentialists like Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Kirkegaard, and Kafke ended up copping out in the end and deluding themselves in order to get by in life. Basically, they all said 'even though life is meaningless, there is no god, no hope/salvation, and no afterlife, I can get by by occupying myself with meaningless activities and simply pretending I don't want those aformentioned things because I know they don't exist.'
But three men, Schopenhauer, Zapffe, and Andrew Truelove (see History of Discontinuation), succeeded where those men failed. Unlike them, we chose to not delude ourselves by pretending not to be Metaphysical Cancer Patients. We were not afraid to take existentialist thought to the logical conclusion: 'I can never be happy, because there is no god, no hope, and no afterlife; therefore, I admit that I'm screwed, and I choose to not procreate, thus bringing another human into this trap.' We three men remained honest, choosing not to delude ourselves out of desparation, and thus we, unlike the men in the preceding paragraph, didn't later make the tragic mistake of procreating.
