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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

This piece evaluates suicide as an option for those in despair. In the descentist perspective depression is an acute side-effect of being lost and living without purpose, but suicide is not a viable option because it is an asymmetrical disengagement from life. Descentism instead encourages those who are suicidal to seek existential alignment and a symmetrical disengagement.… Continue reading Symmetrical disengagement

Science is, first and foremost, the decision to participate in an external decison-making process. You must decide that all of the productions outside of you are of less value and reality than the internal science. You must make the decision that you exist as an observer of an external world. The descentist will turn inward… Continue reading But what about science?

I rejected the Christian characterization of God early in life because of its close association with organized religion, which I viewed as a negative force in world history. Aside from that, I didn’t have any direct experience of the concept, and descriptions were vague, arbitrary, contradictory, and difficult to apply to my modern life. I… Continue reading What is God? A practical answer

The fundamental question one would need to ask himself to determine if he is ascentist or descentist is the following: Is there value in preserving and extending life? Is there a shared external truth? Descentism is not the opposite of religion or science. Religion, science, and spirituality are all ascentist because they embrace productions and… Continue reading Where descentism fits

When we think of our “purpose” we can define professional achievements, performance, personal or spiritual achievements. Most of my adult life, I had two distinct sets of goals: build a successful company, and live a spiritual life.   Until I took a break after high-school, I imagined life as a series of professional goals and material… Continue reading The anatomy of an aligned existence

After years of trying to make sense of life, it was learnings from my professional career that actually served a cross-over purpose and gave me the philosophical framework I needed to make progress on a theory of everything. As a software engineer I had been looking for a pattern as a basis for a data structure.… Continue reading The anatomy of a production

MOVED TO GOOGLE DOCS 07.02.2020 In this piece I outline the Existential Framework in terms of its two constituent models in an easy-to-understand format. This work is not intended to give a full account of the subject matter, but rather a condensed summary highlighting key concepts. Sections are regularly updated to include relevant links to additional… Continue reading The existential framework: a summary

In this piece I examine the act of suicide in terms of the Existential Framework. Suicide is a sensitive subject, so please read the Descentist Disclaimer prior to reading this work. In The Existential Creator Model: A System Analysis, I examine my life in terms of the fundamental and recurring pattern called productions. But what exists before I engaged… Continue reading Why some people don’t want to live