My reasons for being a Discontinuist
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The following is a list of my personal reasons for being a Discontinuist.
The first three are the first three items on the list on the main page. 4 through 8 are more personal reasons:
- Death nullifies life and causes angst, so I want to save humans from that
- Life is pain, so I want to save humans from that
- Much of our species and actions are evil and bad- thus, I both love humans (#1 and 2) and hate some aspects of humans.
- I myself have felt much pain in life, so that pain adds to reason #2 and 3 above: it gives me more desire to a.) prevent others from feeling that pain and b.) end the shitty world that contains so much pain.
- I feel guilt over things I've done in the past, so #1 and 2 are bolstered by my desire to make up for pain I’ve caused (by preventing pain)
- I myself can’t enjoy life b/c I’m a TCHB; therefore, that metaphysical bitterness adds to #1 and #3 above
- I don’t want to see Beautiful Dolls thrown into a furnace, even if they themselves aren’t hurt by that reality. Thus, this adds to my conviction for #1
- Being Discontinuist allows you to not feel shame for the past or dissapointment for the present or yearning for future; it means you don't have to run the selfish rat race that is capitalist society. It's kind of like in Buddhism, where the Buddhists stop caring about life because suffering is caused by desire. I mean, the things we desire after in life cause us to suffer, and yet these things are ultimately worthless.
Basically, my motives can be summarized thus: 'Partly for the Puppets, partly for the Pain.' I partly want to Discontinue the human race because I care about the other puppets (people don't have free will, therefore they are Puppets) in the tragic puppet show of human existence. But I also want to do it in order to get revenge against human existence, which has now trapped me in it and forces me to die some day.
How can one 'get revenge' in this case? I can't hate my parents for having me, because they are just puppets with no free will. I can't hate the Singularity for creating the universe and indirectly leading to human existence, because it also has no free will. So I can't be mad at anyone for my existence, merely mad about my existence.
