I am no one special, so here is my bio from age zero to age 30-ish in 65 words:
Born in Western U.S. and raised by conservative Christian parents; I questioned my faith mid-confirmation starting with doubting prayer’s efficacy. Realized at age 13 there was no god, and took the next half-decade through high school into university to find and create meaning. Moved to Japan after college, now live and work in Western Japan– a religious and spiritual country with a 90% secular atmosphere.
Am now an anti-theist, but I am always open to conversation. My interests include discovering more about the world, learning and studying philosophy, and even consuming information on the lore of religion.
I have a disdain for theocracy, authoritarianism, hatred towards minorities, bigotry, and suppression of people based upon their ethnicity, gender, religion, or ideology.
My biggest incentive to start writing and making content online was the unignorable behemoth that is the right-wing machine consuming the worlds of America and Japan I populate. I see men influencers getting young people to become religious, to become right-wing, conservative, to hate immigrants. It saddens me.
There needs to be a no-nonsense discourse on the stupidity of religious fundamentalism. To be cool, fellow kids, is to be reasonable and logical. Religion and right-wing talking points are not reasonable and logical.
That’s the message I want to push and get discussed more often. If there is even one person who is leaving religion and feels validated or helped by what I say, or one teenager scrolling through YouTube and gets any sort of political clarity on the idea of pushing for equity amongst people of all social classes, then I feel that’s a success.
So here is to the existential nihilists alike who want to make the best of our world; I am an altruist and a humanist and want to see minorities protected and critical thinking treasured.
Forever Sophist is the title I go by because forever will I not truly “know” anything, nor do I think anyone can. We are all playing this game together and so to put ourselves on equal footing let’s acknowledge that we can always learn more.
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