Shows
Metaphysical ExileThe poor dogText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/the-poor-dog.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2026-02-0717 min
Metaphysical ExileAdversus optimismus: against optimismText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/adversus-optimismus-against-optimism.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2026-02-0225 min
Metaphysical ExileIf it harms my existenceText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/01/if-it-harms-my-existence.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2026-01-1215 min
Metaphysical ExileThe chronicle of a daring speciesText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/12/the-chronicle-of-daring-species.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-12-3029 min
Metaphysical ExilePessimism, Quietism, and ImpotenceText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/12/pessimism-quietism-and-impotence.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-12-1115 min
Metaphysical ExileAntinatalism and EugenicsText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/09/antinatalism-and-eugenics.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-09-1416 min
Metaphysical ExileWe don't owe the past a futuretext: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/09/we-dont-owe-past-future.htmlmusic by REPULSIVE
2025-09-0818 min
Metaphysical ExileMartyrs of RealityText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/07/martyrs-of-reality.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-07-1817 min
Metaphysical ExileWe have to talk about antinatalism... againText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/07/we-have-to-talk-about-antinatalism-again.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-07-0943 min
Metaphysical ExileThanatosphereText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/thanatoshere.htmlMusic by Scott Buckley
2025-06-3023 min
Metaphysical ExileThe Catastrophe of BirthText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/the-catastrophe-of-birth.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-06-2226 min
Metaphysical ExileExtinctionists x LongtermistsText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/extinctionists-x-longtermists.htmlMusic by Scott Buckley
2025-06-0511 min
Metaphysical ExileThe Angel of DeathText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/05/the-angel-of-death.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-05-0623 min
Metaphysical ExileThe God of CarnageText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/04/the-god-of-carnage.htmlMusic by Scott Buckley
2025-04-0824 min
Metaphysical ExileWhy Are We Born?Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/03/why-are-we-born.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-03-2016 min
Metaphysical ExileChristians That Hate ChristText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/02/christians-that-hate-christ.htmlMusic by REPULSIVE
2025-02-2814 min
Metaphysical ExileWoke Jesus: a brief philosophical analysis based on SchopenhauerText:https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/02/woke-jesus-brief-philosophical-analysis.htmlMusic by Scott Buckley
2025-02-0924 min
Metaphysical ExileThe Mistake of Roko's BasiliskText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-mistake-of-rokos-basilisk.html
Music by Scott Buckley
2025-02-0324 min
Metaphysical ExileThe Fall into TimeText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-fall-into-time.html
Music by REPULSIVE and Scott Buckley
2025-01-0928 min
Metaphysical ExileDarknessText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/12/darkness.html
Music by Scott Buckley
2024-12-3018 min
Metaphysical ExileThe evil GodFixed and updated version.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/the-evil-god.html
Music by Scott Buckley
2024-12-2516 min
Metaphysical ExileThe metaphysical exileText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/12/the-metaphysical-exile.html
Music by Scott Buckley
2024-12-0115 min
Metaphysical ExileDecadenceText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/11/decadence.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-12-0107 min
Metaphysical ExileNature's Unluckiest ChildrenText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/natures-unluckiest-children.html
Music by Scott Buckley
2024-10-2322 min
Metaphysical ExileThe VastnessText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/the-vastness.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-10-1611 min
Metaphysical ExileToxic PositivityText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/toxic-positivity.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-10-1617 min
Metaphysical ExileExcess LucidityText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/09/excess-lucidity.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-09-1726 min
Metaphysical ExileCrushed; or: The Sweet IllusionText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/08/crushed-or-sweet-illusion.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-08-2712 min
Metaphysical ExileA los muchachos de ColombiaText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/07/a-los-muchachos-de-colombia.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-07-1209 min
Metaphysical ExileThe gluttonous GodText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/06/the-gluttonous-god.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-07-0312 min
Metaphysical ExileThe root of all evilText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/06/the-root-of-all-evil.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-07-0311 min
Metaphysical ExileFloods, Madonnas and DemonsText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/05/floods-madonnas-and-demons.html
Music by CO.AG
2024-07-0308 min
Metaphysical ExileCongratulations on being sincere, Eliezer! (or: On the selfishness of having children)Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/05/congratulations-on-being-sincere.html
Music by CO.AG
2024-07-0306 min
Metaphysical ExileEssay about giving upText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/05/essay-about-giving-up.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-07-0311 min
Metaphysical ExilePessimism and politicsText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/03/pessimism-and-politics.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-07-0313 min
Metaphysical ExileWe are nothingHow long do you suppose the cosmos will preserve traces of our existence?
Essay: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/12/we-are-nothing.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2024-03-1412 min
Metaphysical ExileInfants are not martyrs (enough is enough, part II)Hesiod, in Works and Days, treated the human condition of toil and suffering as a curse. To make matters worse, we still find ourselves encouraged to bring new accursed to this world to serve as cannon fodder in our causes and in our wars, be them fair or not. Enough is enough. Let us leave the world silent after us, closing the door to this hell while we exit.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/11/enough-is-enough-part-ii-infants-are.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2023-11-1109 min
Metaphysical ExileEnough is enough: we merrily give birth on death camps, expecting applause for our unwarranted hopeWe are chasing the end of a rainbow, the carrot at the end of the stick, knowing full well there's nothing to it. Embracing the absurd isn't the courageous affirmation of life that we once thought it was. It is folly. We are sinking and creating more victims to make us company while we drown.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/10/enough-is-enough.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2023-11-0312 min
Metaphysical ExileIt's best we don't spread our misery to the starsIt's best that we don't spread our misery to the stars, even those we could maybe reach one day.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/10/its-best-we-dont-spread-our-misery-to.html
Music by CO.AG
2023-11-0307 min
Metaphysical ExileThe confirmation of life elsewhere in the universe would be regrettableText: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/09/confirmation-of-life-elsewhere-in.html
Music by REPULSIVE.
2023-09-2004 min
Metaphysical ExileOne does not procreate on PatmosPatmos is the Greek island where John wrote the book of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. There, while waiting for the end of the world, the disciple of Jesus remained isolated, without producing any descendants. Even if we do not agree with the thesis of cosmic pessimism that states that sentient life itself is a constant flight from negative states to fleeting and illusory positive states, we live under the threat of climate catastrophe and, although the Cold War is over, we still live with the possibility of destruction by nuclear war. For all intents and...
2023-08-1407 min
Metaphysical ExileMiracle KillersIn memory of my cousin, Juliana (1977 - 2023)
There are conditions with such horrifying prognoses that it's easier to find people claiming to have been “cured” of them by taking highly dubious dietary supplements than to find reports of cures through faith. It's as if even God doesn't want to get near these diseases, and all that's left are the lowest forms of charlatanism.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2023/07/miracle-killers.html
Music by REPULSIVE
2023-07-2013 min
Metaphysical ExileSleight of Hand
When weird things began appearing in the skies and stories of new US government investigations begun circulating, compatriots of mine rightly pointed out how those things were just another distraction from real, more pressing issues—another deception the rich and powerful were more than welcome to promote. However, from a certain perspective, even our day to day lives, with all of its seriousness, can be seen as an enormous deception, a theater play we all participate in order to stave off a horrible reality, as was pointed out by Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe.
Es...
2023-04-2514 min
Minuto Escola SabatinaAudiobook 🎧 O Grande Conflito 🎧 Capítulo 4 - A coragemCréditos:
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Coordenação Editorial: Diogo Cavalcanti e Vinícius Mendes
Editoração: Neila Oliveira, Fernando Dias,
Lucas Diemer de Lemos e Vinícius Mendes
Revisão: Adriana Seratto
Edição de Arte: Thiago Lobo
Projeto Gráfico: Al...
2023-04-1820 min
Metaphysical ExileCosmic Loneliness: A.I., life on other planets, and our yearning for meaning and companionshipIn this essay, I discuss the possibility that our yearning for things such as artificial general intelligence and intelligent extraterrestrials come from a need we have to not be the only beings endowed—or cursed—with deep consciousness. I also briefly discuss "longtermism", the newest philosophical fad in the first world.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com
Music: http://www.twinmusicom.org
2023-04-1219 min
Minuto Escola SabatinaAudiobook 🎧 O Grande Conflito 🎧 Capítulo 3 - A escuridãoCréditos:
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E-mail: white@cpb.com.br
Coordenação Editorial: Diogo Cavalcanti e Vinícius Mendes
Editoração: Neila Oliveira, Fernando Dias,
Lucas Diemer de Lemos e Vinícius Mendes
Revisão: Adriana Seratto
Edição de Arte: Thiago Lobo
Projeto Gráfico: Al...
2023-04-1117 min
Minuto Escola SabatinaAudiobook 🎧 O Grande Conflito 🎧 Capítulo 2 - A perseguiçãoCréditos:
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Site: cpb.com.br
E-mail: white@cpb.com.br
Coordenação Editorial: Diogo Cavalcanti e Vinícius Mendes
Editoração: Neila Oliveira, Fernando Dias,
Lucas Diemer de Lemos e Vinícius Mendes
Revisão: Adriana Seratto
Edição de Arte: Thiago Lobo
Projeto Gráfico: Al...
2023-04-0310 min
Minuto Escola SabatinaAudiobook 🎧 O Grande Conflito 🎧 Capítulo 1 - A DestruiçãoCréditos:
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Site: cpb.com.br
E-mail: white@cpb.com.br
Coordenação Editorial: Diogo Cavalcanti e Vinícius Mendes
Editoração: Neila Oliveira, Fernando Dias,
Lucas Diemer de Lemos e Vinícius Mendes
Revisão: Adriana Seratto
Edição de Arte: Thiago Lobo
Projeto Gráfico: Al...
2023-04-0221 min
Minuto Escola SabatinaAudiobook 🎧 O Grande Conflito 🎧 O FuturoCréditos:
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Site: cpb.com.br
E-mail: white@cpb.com.br
Coordenação Editorial: Diogo Cavalcanti e Vinícius Mendes
Editoração: Neila Oliveira, Fernando Dias,
Lucas Diemer de Lemos e Vinícius Mendes
Revisão: Adriana Seratto
Edição de Arte: Thiago Lobo
Projeto Gráfico: Al...
2023-04-0116 min
Metaphysical ExileMalcontentsIn this essay, I discuss how almost everyone is dissatisfied with the world of becoming. Religious optimists, religious ascetics, unbelievers who create their own meaning, unbelievers who reject the illusion and existence: they all started their careers realizing that there was something wrong or strange with reality.
Essay: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202...
Music by REPULSIVE
2023-02-1922 min
Metaphysical ExileWork viewed as a curseIn this essay, I discuss how work was viewed as a curse during most of the last 2,500 years. It was only in the last few centuries that work came to be considered an activity that ennobles men. This aura of nobility regarding work became the object of dispute between antagonistic political movements. However, from the perspective of philosophical pessimism, the modern conception of work is somewhat fantastical. Within this perspective, the medieval and ancient peoples were closer to the truth: work is akin to a curse.
Essay (with references): https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202...
Music by RE...
2023-01-1821 min
Metaphysical ExileThe role of conflict (or: the preference for non-existence)In this essay, I start by commenting on a heated political argument that occurred among Brazilian musicians during an episode of famous podcast in order to discuss the idea that conflict is inherent not only to human societies but to existence itself. Utilizing the perspective of negative or pessimist philosophies, I argue that, given the intrinsic role conflict has in existence, we humans can either accept or reject existence, be it in an explicit or implicit way, and that it is not possible to truly be neutral in regards to becoming: you either approve the world of becoming with...
2023-01-0217 min
Metaphysical ExileEvangelical-Military RepublicIn this essay, published in April 4, 2021, I despair about how Brazil tends to become a militarized banana republic with a theocratic flair. While in the 1960's the religion of most anti-democratic reactionaries was Catholicism, today this role is played by neopentecostal churches—churches that had an absurd growth in the last 5 decades, especially since the incentive given by the military dictatorship starting in 1964.
Essay: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202...
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...
2022-11-1114 min
Metaphysical ExileSoldiers of a cruel GodIn this essay, I talk about how the unsuccessful attempt to unite the creator deity with the savior deity in the first centuries of the Christian era ended up producing a sea of violent fanatics throughout the centuries — fanatics who are willing to murder people so they can be saved, an attitude divorced from logic that could only be brought about by a belief in a God that is, at the same time and contradictorily, entirely good AND capable of committing the worst atrocities.
Essay (published Dec. 28, 2020): https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202...
Music by REPULSIVE
2022-11-1110 min
Metaphysical ExileChristians will destroy BrazilReading of an essay published on December 16, 2020, about the dangers that theocratic and reactionary Christian tendencies represent in contemporary Brazil.
Essay: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/202...
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...
2022-11-1120 min
Metaphysical ExileFermi Paradox: the antinatalist hypothesisIn this essay, I discuss the antinatalist hypothesis as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. Maybe intelligent enough species choose to peacefully come to an end via non-reproduction after realizing the cosmic pointlessness of it all; that is, after seeing how the struggle and suffering they endure through the ages amount to little or even less. But, by the end of the essay, I discard the possibility, since if other intelligent species do exist on other solar systems, they will have evolved much in the same manner as we did, and likely will have a plethora of justifications, myths...
2022-11-1107 min
Metaphysical ExileGod the SadistIn this essay I discuss divine wickedness once again and add that, if He existed, God would also be a sadistic cosmic abuser, since He not only makes us suffer but also requires us to kneel down and give thanks for the suffering.
Text on my blog: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2022/05/god-sadist.html
Music by REPULSIVE: https://www.youtube.com/c/REPULSIVEMUSIC
2022-06-0619 min
Metaphysical ExileGod is not good all the timeIn this essay, I deal with the common belief that God is good all the time. Assuming that our existence was in fact created by the Christian God average people believe in, then he can't be considered to be a benevolent deity all the time. In the Bible, God himself unequivocally states that he is the creator of both good and evil, light and darkness, peace and pain (Isaiah 45:5-7). In this context, I point out that those who say that they are God-fearing men are more correct than those who say that God is good all the time...
2022-03-1614 min
Metaphysical ExileThe era of batshit crazy: why we should shun conspiracy theorists & nut jobsWe live in the era of batshit crazy. While philosophical pessimism and ascribing a negative value to birth (i.e. antinatalism) are minority views, they have been around for thousands of years: one can find them in the Bible, in Buddhist scriptures, in Greek tragedy, and in Philosophy. Those ideas have been discussed normally by people holding opposing views for a long time. This isn't what happens today with batshit lunatics that promote far out conspiracy theories, such as covid deniers, antivaxxers, flat-earthers, QAnon followers and others. To them, the discussion is always rigged in favor of obscure agents...
2022-02-0911 min
Metaphysical ExileI want to break free! (from this flesh prison and conscious existence)In this essay I discuss how — even though we might yearn for freedom and fulfillment in personal, social and political ways, and even though many of those longings are perfectly justified and worth fighting for — we (that is, sentient, conscious beings) will never be truly satisfied. I argue that there's only one way to avoid this existential oppression and dissatisfaction: never coming into existence. Since we are already here, we can stop fueling the cycle of pain by abstaining from creating new conscious beings.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/12/i-want-to-break-free-from-this-meat.html
Music by CO.AG: http...
2022-02-0914 min
Metaphysical ExileQAnon and the Blood LibelQAnon is one of the craziest, stupidest and most dangerous far-right cults out there. In this essay, I talk a little about how it's not even creative, since it borrows heavily on old antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/11/q-and-blood-libel.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-02-0914 min
Metaphysical ExileLife is very bad and never worth startingIn this essay, I talk about how even the best lives aren't worth starting. Suffering and pain, being intrinsic to conscious existence, will always make themselves felt. By coming into conscious existence, we got an extremely bad deal. From a negative ethical standpoint, then, we shouldn't pass it forward.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/life-is-very-bad-and-never-worth-it.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-02-0912 min
Metaphysical ExileBe very afraidIt is amazing how little frightened most of us are of our circumstances. It is as if the entire business of humanity is to build a wall around reality and nature, which is violence, pain, death, decay and rebirth.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/10/be-very-afraid.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...
2022-01-2811 min
Metaphysical ExileNietzsche's Dionysian pessimism and the denial of the Will in SchopenhauerIn this essay, I discuss how Nietzsche was influenced by and eventually denied Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, favoring a life-affirming posture. Later, in the 20th century, Cioran criticizes this.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/06/nietzsches-dionysian-pessimism-and.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-2820 min
Metaphysical ExileA brief commentary on prisons of fleshUtilizing a metaphorical and poetic language, we can state that our consciousnesses are imprisoned in our bodies, our flesh. However, the reality is even worse: our consciousnesses are part of our bodies, they arise from our flesh. They themselves are a prison. Once generated and born, we cannot escape. In this essay, I discuss how we're "locked" inside our bodies, which themselves are imprisoned in a time and a place, and we never know what kind of horrors this time and place will bring us — and these external horrors exist on top of the horrors that our own bodies ar...
2022-01-1914 min
Metaphysical ExileThe reflection in the mirrorAll of us are part of nature's insidious game. If we took a good in the mirror we'd see in ourselves all the horror of the world — and if we were prudent, we'd deny the program in ourselves and refrain from making new fellow sufferers and monsters.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/05/the-reflection-in-mirror.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1918 min
Metaphysical ExileSuffering & Death EverywhereIn this essay, I discuss how existence is not only filled with suffering and death, but have suffering and death as its intrinsic features. I also discuss how, no matter the type of universe we happen to live in — one with a definitive beginning and end, or one that recycles itself and always gives rise to new suffering beings — the negative ethical imperative against the creation of new conscious beings remains the same.
Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/04/suffering-death-everywhere.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1913 min
Metaphysical ExileRepetition and DecompositionBirth, life, suffering, death, repetition — and just the right dose of dopamine to keep us from realizing how pointless this whole process is. Nature is insidious in how it makes us perpetuate ourselves. Even human events and history ends up being an endless repetition that goes nowhere.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/09/repetition-and-decomposition.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1805 min
Metaphysical ExileBetter to remain in potentialityIn this essay I go through a few reasons why it would have been better not to have been, and how not even an Utopia would change this preference.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/04/better-to-remain-in-potentiality.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1808 min
Metaphysical ExileAvoidable BloodIn this essay I emphasize the idea that while, from a pessimist standpoint, the best is not to be born and so we should abstain from creating new conscious beings, that doesn't change the fact that there are people alive today that live under immense man-made forms oppression. These are forms of oppression that could very well be remedied if only we stopped preying on each other. Telling oppressed peoples to just stop reproducing doesn't answer their predicament, since even if they ended up agreeing with a cosmic pessimist outlook and voluntarily stopped creating new conscious beings, that still...
2022-01-1812 min
Metaphysical ExileMen and CockroachesIn this essay, I talk about how many of us, to a greater or smaller degree, believe history has a purpose or direction towards the fulfillment of reason and progress, and how that belief is unwarranted. If cockroaches could reason like men, they too would believe roach history had a purpose.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/men-and-cockroaches.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1514 min
Metaphysical ExileFascism and Nazism were not left-wing "socialist" ideologiesIn this essay, I show how the idea that Fascism and Nazism were "left-wing socialist" ideologies is a complete fabrication by the contemporary right in order to distance itself from Fascism and Nazism — which is ironic, since almost all of them admire many aspects of both Fascism and Nazism, while they pretend to decry those regimes.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/fascism-and-nazism-were-not-left-wing.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-1516 min
Metaphysical ExileJesus' Chloroquine: a reflection on Brazil's historical injustices, part IIIn this essay, I continue the discussion about how slavery, racism, sadistic violence and authoritarian rule became ingrained in Brazilian society, and how the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated this. An important observation: this was first written in Portuguese on May, 2020. At that time, Brazil had a few thousand deaths related to the pandemic. As of January, 2022, the pandemic's official death toll in Brazil is 620,000 — but since Bolsonaro's far-right government does everything in its power to hide deaths from Covid-19, it is estimated that the real number is closer to a million.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/12/jesus-chloroquine-reflection-on-brazils.ht...
2022-01-1425 min
Metaphysical ExileSlavery and the coronavirus: a reflection on Brazil's historical injustices, part IIn this essay I talk about how slavery left a horrible mark in Brazilian society that is plainly felt to this day, and how many white Brazilians pretend they don't live in an extremely racist society. I also discuss how the Brazilian economic elites are incredibly callous, rude and openly treat workers as if they were disposable. An important observation: this was first written in Portuguese on April, 2020, and at that time Covid-19 had killed about 2,000 Brazilians, officially. As of January, 2022, the pandemic's official death toll in Brazil is 620,000 — but since Bolsonaro's far-right government does everything in its power to...
2022-01-1418 min
Metaphysical ExileRoger Penrose, the Cyclical Universe and PhilosophicalIn this essay I discuss sir Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclical Cosmology and how, from a philosophical pessimist point of view, it would be preferable if the universe eventually dies for good so that consciousness never arises again in the eternal future.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/02/roger-penrose-cyclical-universe-and.html
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2022-01-1419 min
Metaphysical ExileGoing nowhere: Nihilism, Pessimism and Antinatalism(This essay was 1st published in Portuguese on July, 2020) In this essay, I talk about how pessimist philosophy doesn't owe anything to political conservatism. I discuss how we might believe in political and social progress while still being aware that existence is suffering. Another thing discussed is the idea that in order for one to be an antinatalist, one doesn't have to subscribe to a strong realist meta-ethical stance — that is, one doesn't have to subscribe to the idea that morality is mind-independent. Rather, one can also adopt the stance that morality is put together by thinking agents who co...
2022-01-1418 min
Metaphysical ExileEvisceratedIn this essay, I discuss how life is capable of eviscerating sentient and conscious creatures in the most horrible ways.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/eviscerated.html
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2022-01-1408 min
Metaphysical ExileMisotheism: The Hatred of God (new recording)In this essay I talk about how if there was a God he would deserve our contempt and not our love. I also discuss the idea of evil as lack of good or as a negation (Plotinus, Irenaeus, Pelagius, Augustine) and evil as a constitutive aspect of reality (Marcionism, Gnosticism, Schopenhauer, Cioran).
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/12/misotheism.html
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2022-01-1120 min
Metaphysical ExileThe Dragon: Nick Bostrom's “Dragon-Tyrant Fable”, Transhumanism, Immortality and Cosmic PessimismIn this essay I discuss “The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant”, written by philosopher Nick Bostrom. In the fable, the men-eating dragon represents death, and the story is about the hope that humanity will one day conquer death and become immortal using technology. I argue that death is only one of the harms of existence, which is structurally problematic.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/12/the-dragon.html
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2022-01-0815 min
Metaphysical ExileEmil Cioran, the philosophy of despair and its ethical implicationsThis essay is based on a presentation I made at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, about Emil Cioran's philosophy and its ethical implications, which include a rejection of the perpetuation of life (i.e. antinatalism by another name).
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/cioran-philosophy-of-despair-and-its.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-0812 min
Metaphysical ExilePessimism and Antinatalism in South America: Benatar's Asymmetry, Machado de Assis and Julio CabreraIn this essay, I discuss philosophical pessimism and antinatalism in general, and in South American literature and philosophy. I go through David Benatar's asymmetry argument in a little more detail, and also discuss Julio Cabrera's antinatalist argument expounded in his book “Discomfort and Moral Impediment”
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/pessimism-and-antinatalism-in-south.html
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2022-01-0820 min
Metaphysical ExileWe have to talk about antinatalismIn this essay I talk generally about antinatalism, the history of the idea, from antiquity to modernity, and about some of its current proponents like David Benatar and Julio Cabrera.
Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/we-have-to-talk-about-antinatalism.html
Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA
2022-01-0818 min
Academos PodcastIntrodução ao Pessimismo Filosófico - T2 E11No episódio de número 11 do Projeto Academos, Ricardo Lavra e Fernando Olszewski fazem uma breve introdução ao pensamento pessimista no âmbito filosófico, passando pelos principais autores e desmistificando algumas pré-concepções acerca desta visão de mundo.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2021-12-0153 min
Academos PodcastNietzsche - Entre o hype e o hate - T2 E9Neste episódio, Ricardo Lavra e Fernando Olszewski conversam sobre a polêmica figura de Friedrich Nietzsche, tentando esclarecer algumas confusões acerca deste popular filósofo de maneira leve e descontraída.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2021-11-031h 01
War RoomIvermectin Wins Nobel Peace Prize For Being A “Wonder Drug”! - War Room - 2021-Sept 03, FridayThe Big Pharma mafia wants full control over the healthcare industry and your body. The attacks against holistic treatments and drugs, such as ivermectin, are the perfect example. The world is waking up to the control and tyranny Big Pharma wants to have over the planet. Nurse Erin Olszewski joins to discuss the latest discrimination against healthcare workers and patients who are unvaccinated. An Infowars audience member takes on a major endeavor and launches VaxAction.com as a public forum for people to report and discuss vaccine side effects. Mainstream media deception is wearing thin as the world is waking...
2021-09-042h 59
Academos PodcastSíndrome do impostor e charlatanismo - T2 episódio 02Neste episódio com a participação dos membros Ricardo Lavra e Fernando Olszewski é feito o debate sobre a difícil tarefa de lidar com a síndrome do impostor ao mesmo tempo em que o charlatanismo se torna um forte oponente não apenas às ciências mas à civilização como um todo.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2021-04-2046 min
Academos PodcastJanela Literária: Niilismo em Os Irmãos KaramazovNo episódio de hoje, Fernando Olszewski do Academos aborda o tema da falta de sentido, pessimismo e niilismo presente na obra mais importante da carreira do escritor russo Dostoievski, bem como uma das mais ricas da história da literatura. Viaje conosco através de mais uma Janela Literária!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2020-10-0422 min
Academos PodcastAfinal, o que é Filosofia? - Parte 2No segundo episódio do Projeto Academos, os hosts Ricardo Lavra, Heitor Isaac, Fernando Silva e Fernando Olszewski continuam a discussão do episódio anterior, dessa vez partindo para a relação entre Filosofia, Política e Ética.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2020-04-1151 minAcademos PodcastPiloto - Afinal, o que é Filosofia? - Parte 1No episódio piloto do projeto Academos, divido em duas partes, Ricardo Lavra, Fernando Silva, Fernando Olszewski e Heitor Isaac (todos graduandos em Filosofia da UNIRIO) reúnem-se para debater em caráter introdutório sobre a Filosofia, seu papel na sociedade e as diferenças com a Ciência e com outros saberes.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/academospodcast/message
2020-04-0538 min