My New Book: Goodbye Mormonism, Hello World

I've never felt less happy about the New Year. My country is almost certainly about to enter its darkest hour since the Civil War for no reason except that a majority of its voting citizens have no principles and are easier to brainwash than first graders. At this point, I sincerely believe the best-case scenario would be a bird flu pandemic disrupting President Musk's government and naturally selecting a big chunk of stupid out of the population. I'd rather not have a pandemic every five years, but oh well, at least I already have a remote job this time.

On the plus side, I beat the odds by living long enough to experience my country's death by suicide in the first place.

I published my new book on the last day of last year. I don't know how long I'll keep up publishing a book every year, but two is two more than I had two years ago. I could say a lot about this book, but there's no point because it's all in the introduction that you can read in the free sample.

Cover art by Sarah Nicholson

Amazon Kindle link

Barnes & Noble link

(I just replaced the initial sketch of the cover with this one. If it isn't showing up on the sites yet, come back in a few hours.)

Even though this book is about me, I wrote it to help others, and I think it's more important than ever with the dark times we're heading into. By "we" I mean Americans but also everyone else who will be negatively impacted by the Rapist-in-Chief and his cabal of lunatics. I don't claim to be super spiritual or know everything, but I think I'm kind of spiritual and know some stuff, and the journey to get to that point hurt like hell, so I've got to make it worthwhile by sharing it. I have more missionary zeal than I ever did as a Mormon, perhaps because what I have to offer now is based on evidence and logic, not feelings.

Again, I'm not claiming to be right about everything, which is one reason I'm only publishing the book digitally at this time so I can update it easily. I don't care if people end up agreeing with all my beliefs or not. I'm humble about them. I will correct misinformation, though. Just today I corrected someone on Facebook who claimed that near-death experiences are caused by "the brain switch[ing] to a dream state to deal with it coming to an end." I was polite, but that's nonsense. When was the last time you had a "dream" that felt more real than reality, even after you woke up from it? Never, that's when. Also, there's no plausible explanation for how the brain could have evolved an adaptation like this. A pleasant death does zilch to improve anyone's odds of passing their genes on. I explained this, and then some guy who wrongly thinks being an atheist makes him smart laugh reacted to me and didn't say anything. Anyway, I explain all this in the book.

​Of course, I have enough integrity to correct misinformation about my former religion too. Today on Instagram I saw someone claim with total confidence that Mormons can't eat chocolate. Sheesh.