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Metaphysical Exile — 98 episodes

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Behind the scenes of life...

2

The day my dog died

3

Ephemerality; or, The Life of an Insect

4

Creutzfeldt-Jakob

5

Prosperity Gospel: the fifth column of dumbism

6

The sad ‘pathologization’ of pessimism

7

The Dark Dharma

8

Sad Life Chronicle

9

Zapffe, Nietzsche, and the Tragic

10

The dancing God

11

Misanthropy and Compassion

12

A UFO in Curitiba! (ufology is hilarious)

13

The Solution to Life, the Universe, and Everything

14

What I fear the most in other people

15

In Defense of Euthanasia: The Case of Célia Maria Cassiano

16

There is no light. There is no hope.

17

Why I am a Buddhist (even though I'm not)

18

Why I'm not a Buddhist (even though I am)

19

Parents as the (literal) murderers of their children

20

Baal and Molech: my obligatory take on Epstein

21

Carcasses

22

The poor dog

23

Adversus optimismus: against optimism

24

If it harms my existence

25

The chronicle of a daring species

26

Pessimism, Quietism, and Impotence

27

Antinatalism and Eugenics

28

We don't owe the past a future

29

Martyrs of Reality

30

We have to talk about antinatalism... again

31

Thanatosphere

32

The Catastrophe of Birth

33

Extinctionists x Longtermists

34

The Angel of Death

35

The God of Carnage

36

Why Are We Born?

37

Christians That Hate Christ

38

Woke Jesus: a brief philosophical analysis based on Schopenhauer

39

The Mistake of Roko's Basilisk

40

The Fall into Time

41

Darkness

42

The evil God

43

The metaphysical exile

44

Decadence

45

Nature's Unluckiest Children

46

The Vastness

47

Toxic Positivity

48

Excess Lucidity

49

Crushed; or: The Sweet Illusion

50

A los muchachos de Colombia

51

The gluttonous God

52

The root of all evil

53

Floods, Madonnas and Demons

54

Congratulations on being sincere, Eliezer! (or: On the selfishness of having children)

55

Essay about giving up

56

Pessimism and politics

57

We are nothing

58

Infants are not martyrs (enough is enough, part II)

59

Enough is enough: we merrily give birth on death camps, expecting applause for our unwarranted hope

60

It's best we don't spread our misery to the stars

61

The confirmation of life elsewhere in the universe would be regrettable

62

One does not procreate on Patmos

63

Miracle Killers

64

Sleight of Hand

65

Cosmic Loneliness: A.I., life on other planets, and our yearning for meaning and companionship

66

Malcontents

67

Work viewed as a curse

68

The role of conflict (or: the preference for non-existence)

69

Evangelical-Military Republic

70

Soldiers of a cruel God

71

Christians will destroy Brazil

72

Fermi Paradox: the antinatalist hypothesis

73

God the Sadist

74

God is not good all the time

75

The era of batshit crazy: why we should shun conspiracy theorists & nut jobs

76

I want to break free! (from this flesh prison and conscious existence)

77

QAnon and the Blood Libel

78

Life is very bad and never worth starting

79

Be very afraid

80

Nietzsche's Dionysian pessimism and the denial of the Will in Schopenhauer

81

A brief commentary on prisons of flesh

82

The reflection in the mirror

83

Suffering & Death Everywhere

84

Repetition and Decomposition

85

Better to remain in potentiality

86

Avoidable Blood

87

Men and Cockroaches

88

Fascism and Nazism were not left-wing "socialist" ideologies

89

Jesus' Chloroquine: a reflection on Brazil's historical injustices, part II

90

Slavery and the coronavirus: a reflection on Brazil's historical injustices, part I

91

Roger Penrose, the Cyclical Universe and Philosophical

92

Going nowhere: Nihilism, Pessimism and Antinatalism

93

Eviscerated

94

Misotheism: The Hatred of God (new recording)

95

The Dragon: Nick Bostrom's “Dragon-Tyrant Fable”, Transhumanism, Immortality and Cosmic Pessimism

96

Emil Cioran, the philosophy of despair and its ethical implications

97

Pessimism and Antinatalism in South America: Benatar's Asymmetry, Machado de Assis and Julio Cabrera

98

We have to talk about antinatalism