Author: sonsot

January 19, 2021 I know that I know.  I am born every time I wake, and I die every time I sleep. Sleep is where I am Son, God; life is where I am Sot, Marc. My existence is a continuous death and rebirth, and I am here until I remember who I am. Descent… Continue reading What I know

January 3, 2021 I completed a WIK before I went to bed last night / early morning, but when I woke up and started journaling, I approached from another direction that deserves its own. So here’s another What I Know. Sonsotism is the latest name I’m giving the philosophy. This will replace descentism, which was… Continue reading What I know

January 3, 2021 It has only been a little over 3 weeks since I’ve done a What I Know. But I feel an emergent clarity since I revisited my original prayer from a year ago. As much as this world wants to convince me that nothing is certain, certainty does exist. I know these things… Continue reading What I know

I know now that ‘I’ am not just the person ‘M’. ‘I’ am two selves with different voices: the Self of Now (SON), and the Self of Time (SOT). My condition is the result of the interplay between these two selves. SOT is the ascentist who desires, aspires, relates, and acts, furthering this existence. SON… Continue reading What I know

What do I know? I’d approach this differently than I did just last month. A lot has changed in this past month. So now, what do I know? I know that I exist “here”. But where exactly is here? The fact that I don’t know where I am tells me I’m lost. Being lost, I seek… Continue reading What I know

I remember many times losing interest in something I once enjoyed. Playing with plastic figures, toy cars, and building blocks. Collecting and trading baseball cards. Roller-blading, bicycling, and wiffle ball. Inventing fantasy worlds and characters. Playing board games, video games, and RPGs. Creating my own games and programming. None of these activities figured into any… Continue reading Depression means it’s time to level up

In this piece I explain the purpose and limits of the descentist perspective.  Descentism is a self-centric, practical theory of life written in a way that makes sense to me. Though it shares characteristics with solipsistic philosophies and others, it differs in ways which may become apparent with time and understanding. The primary difference is… Continue reading The descentist disclaimer

This piece contends that if we embrace our depression as a valid worldview, rather than a mental illness, we’d realize that we have a voice that needs to be heard, not medicated and suppressed. As an adult I came to learn that half of my family experiences severe depression. I didn’t even realize I “had… Continue reading Depression as a worldview

This piece provides practical guidance to integrating the principles of descentism into one’s life. Given that the author is the first and only “descentist”, this page will continue to be a work-in-progress as new challenges and solutions emerge in his life that are relevant to this topic. Note that this was never completed. The desire… Continue reading Practical disengagement

I asked friends, family, and an increasingly broad number of people what they thought life was and why they were here. They answered, some more enthusiastically than others. Everyone had an answer of some sort, but many hesitated and even crumbled when I asked for clarification. I wasn’t confrontational or contrary, just seeking inspiration. The… Continue reading Everyone I know is lost