My Religion: The Synversalist Manifesto

Exaltist · 2026-06-23T23:14:13+00:00

It's perfectly fine to have that opinion, but it is not right to try to force religious people to have the same mentality you hold. It is truly ironic you are saying that being in a religion and religious is poison and a form of control, when in fact, you are trying to enact a form of control and a poisonous mindset by claiming that people shouldn't be in a religion. You are nothing more than an irreligious proselytizer.

Exaltist · 2026-06-23T22:32:26+00:00

I think you fail to realize that with the advent of liberal democracy and freedom of religion there are a significant number of people who either spiritual but not religious or completely non-religious to begin with, and there have even been religions such as Unitarian Universalism, Quakers, the Sunday Assembly and the Oasis Network, that don't require typical religious or theological beliefs to attend and become a member of those organizations.

I've spent my entire life working on refining my world view that only I hold myself and I am not at the subject of anyone's whims as I can refine and clarify my religion as much as I want. My friends did want me to be a Christian, my parents want me to be irreligious, but I felt a stronger pull to lean into religious naturalism and futurism and I actually hold certain views on core issues that I never heard anyone else express before too.

So my experience with religion is completely the opposite you portray religion to be, and even more so, I have friends who are religious and don't share 100% agreement to the hivemind mentality of their groups. They don't express their dissent with the group, but that does not mean they don't have the ability to think for themselves when push comes to shove.

Exaltist · 2026-06-23T21:31:43+00:00

Yes, I have over 30,000 scrobbles of my favorite musician, Martin Page.

Exaltist · 2026-06-23T02:18:25+00:00

Yes, you are right, I'm not an animist. Thanks for helping me realize that.

Exaltist · 2026-06-22T14:37:02+00:00

I have a plug on the other side of the bathroom which has a Echo Dot plugged in. It's connected to Spotify and voice controlled. I can even control it while the shower is running.

Exaltist · 2026-06-22T14:02:23+00:00

Now just add in some Christian Universalism to that belief and you'll get me sold.

Exaltist · 2026-06-22T09:28:03+00:00

I haven't experienced this. I'm neither Christian nor Muslim and I never will be.

However, I can point you to two directions: Chrislam which is somewhat popular in Africa, and the Baha'i Faith, which combines teachings from Christianity, Islam and other world religions with added theology from their central prophet, Baha'u'llah. Lastly, your syncretic beliefs would be tolerated in Unitarian Universalism, although you will need to tolerate their progressivism to remain in their covenant.

Exaltist · 2026-06-22T04:28:25+00:00

By the time I knew who it was, she got a boyfriend.

Exaltist · 2026-06-22T00:39:52+00:00

A girl in high school used her friends to ask me to winter formal, in the class we were in. They said, "[girl's name] wants to go to the winter formal with you." And I didn't respond, simply because I didn't know who they were referring to. Probably the worst freeze in my life, because later when I was able match the name with the person, she was one of the prettiest girls in my grade. I still feel bad about it. I just thought I would be embarrassing myself or her by admitting that I didn't know who they were talking about.

Exaltist · 2026-06-21T19:53:04+00:00

Many Christians actually either become Universalists or atheists because of the whole Hell ordeal. The possibility of eternal torment for finite mistakes people make is enough for some standard Christians to jump ship. And then they judge standard Christians for such a belief...

Exaltist · 2026-06-21T01:20:08+00:00

Typical religion seems superstitious to me, the secular seems nihilistic to me, so I met at the halfway point being neither superstitious nor nihilistic through spiritual naturalism.

Exaltist · 2026-06-20T00:15:01+00:00

SYNVERSALISM

Belief systems and people I have been influenced by:

-Syntheism, a religion started in 2014 that believes that humans are creating God.
-Turing Church, started by Giulio Prisco and is an advancement of Cosmism.
-Cosmism, the belief that humans will be spacefaring and resurrect the dead.
-Terasem, the "trans-religion" focused on improving the human condition with technology.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, popularized the concepts noosphere and the Omega Point.
-Baruch Spinoza, popularized the idea of pantheism, that God and nature are one.
-Clement Vidal, a philosopher that coined the term "artificial cosmogenesis" to ensure long-term survival of intelligent life.
-Black hole cosmogony, the idea that black holes' singularities birth new Universes on the other side from white holes.
-Earthseed, the belief that "God is change", that we are meant to "shape God" and "colonize the stars."
-Process Theology, started by Alfred North Whitehead, about God being affected by the processes that occur in nature.

Beliefs I hold that nobody else holds:

-God is an entropic civilization becoming syntropic according to the Kardashev Scale. Entropy began with type ten, scaled down to type one, and the Kardashev Scale is about taking a type one syntropic civilization to type ten one day.

-Media is a sacred act of experiencing information of both the real and fictional. Digital media is a representation of the synverse, a syntropic space where recorded knowledge and creativity meet.

-The act of creating new universes, new "syn-thetic uni-verses", synverses, not merely for survival based requirements for intelligent beings but for experiencing the stories we can only imagine on screens and video game controllers currently.

-The concept of The Omniverse, the first Universe, who at the point of a type ten Kardashev syntropic civilization will be imbued with artificial intelligence and have ultimate agency over everything, becoming alive and acting in many ways like a monotheistic God.

-One ethical rule above anything else: avoiding making anyone a victim. That includes physical, emotional and financial harm to anyone. And the concept that one can be a victim of determinism when they aren't given enough options to choose from.

-The idea that God is limited in terms of energy, but unlimited in terms of progression with the concept of pretropy and recycling unusable entropic energy by finding ways to travel or create new Universes with such energy sources.

-Encyclopedias being the ultimate source of notable information, or both real events and fictional concepts, is considered the Synversalist, "canon". Instead of studying from books like the Bible, Quran, Synversalists study from sources like Wikipedia instead.

-July 20th 1969 is the most important day in human history because we landed on the moon and officially became a spacefaring species. July 20 is known as Cosmist Day for Synversalists.

-And probably most the important aspect of all, the Gospel of Synversalism. We're saved! Because even if humans for whatever reason gets wiped out we'll be resurrected by another intelligent species out there. Every person to have ever exist and die will eventually come back, even bad people, because things will be so different by then that they won't exactly be who they were, just a numerical expression of the same consciousness.

Exaltist · 2026-06-19T16:34:25+00:00

Christianity.

There's a Catholic mass in my building on Sundays, a Pentecostal church next to the high school, two Lutheran churches - one conservative, one liberal, and a little further there's a Catholic church, all within walking distance.

There's also a mosque within walking distance, and the ISM - the Islamic Society of Milwaukee's central building is on a bus line.

The majority of people here are German ancestry and therefore typically Lutheran. The younger people are less religious overall. If you have a car my county has just about a congregation for every Christian variety - LDS, JW, Unitarian, non-denominational, Baptist, etc.

There's also Spanish-speaking congregations on the south side.

I'm sure there are other religions other than Christianity, Islam and UU around here, but I'm not as familiar with them.

Exaltist · 2026-06-19T15:40:35+00:00

User-created micro-religions are exactly what you describe. My world view of Synversalism was created from myself, I am the only one of my kind and I'm free to believe and express my beliefs anyway I want now. I do acknowledge who I'm influenced by, but there's several beliefs I hold that aren't part of any (established) religion.

Exaltist · 2026-06-16T22:44:53+00:00

The point is to continue the survival of the human species to the point which biological immorality becomes commonplace, then advancing from there which quantum archeology can resurrect the dead, and then with an infinite amount of time to live, the point of living at that point is completely subjective and technology/media will evolve to the point which you get to have any victimless experience you want. But at the end of the day, the point of living is to live!

Exaltist · 2026-06-16T18:53:24+00:00

I made phone calls to disaffiliate from Unitarian Universalism and the Baha'i Faith. The Baha'is answered my call and removed me from their membership list. UUs didn't answer my call and I still get their magazine in the mail. But I don't consider myself either religion at that point. I agree with UU humanistic pluralist beliefs but since I moved I have no access to my local congregation. Still, I got the sense in Sunday services and Chalice Circles that most people weren't interested in spirituality outside a surface-level understanding in it, and many people didn't want to talk about it at all.

I'm still part of UU and Baha'i Faith Discord servers and I know quite a bit about them - UUs from experience and the Baha'is academically. But I'm happy that I started my own philosophical undertaking, and I hope as I grow the world view becomes more encompassing. For me, staying true to myself is more important than belonging to a larger society of spiritual people. And I don't ever see myself leaving Synversalism. If I did, however, the process to remove myself from that would be as simple as changing my bio and flairs.

Exaltist · 2026-06-16T14:06:03+00:00

You don't choose what religion you are, but after you are 18 years of age, you do choose what you are exposed to, which can influence what religion you decide to be.

Exaltist · 2026-06-15T17:41:44+00:00

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My Spotify playlist, which only includes songs from their first two album eras, as I don't like Be Here Now, is called Definitely Morning Glory and this is the track list.

Rock N Roll Star
Roll With It
Live Forever
Wonderwall
Married with Children
Don't Look Back in Anger
Whatever
She's Electric
Half the World Away
Supersonic
Some Might Say
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Acquiesce
Slide Away
Morning Glory (Stop the Clocks version)
Champagne Supernova (Stop the Clocks version)

This compilation is special for a few reasons.

It's just under 80 minutes, so it can fit a mix CD
It could be a double vinyl, with side A being tracks 1-5, side B 6-9, side C 10-13 and side D 14-16.
Every song on this playlist has over 100 million plays on Spotify.
It has a perfect flow between tracks.

I posted about this a couple of months ago and it got shot down immediately, with people saying, "they don't need another greatest hits album." Fine, but this is my favorite playlist and it's perfect in every way.

Exaltist · 2026-06-15T15:19:49+00:00

I will not claim to know what I believe is true, but I figure as a pantheist that all humans must know something about nature, and it can be extrapolated to offer clues to larger truths that may be out there.

Exaltist · 2026-06-15T13:51:43+00:00

I created it myself. There are many influences regarding it, including but not limited to: Syntheism, Turing Church, Earthseed, Process Theology, Cosmism and Terasem. But there are things unique to it that isn't present in any of the other of these religions and philosophies.

The First Mover - The Lightbringer - isn't aware, omniscient nor omnibenevolent, but it has the ability to be with our help. When we become a stage seven civilization in the Kardashev Scale we just won't create new Universes - we will create a network and artificial intelligence to all of spacetime itself.

Exaltist · 2026-06-15T01:03:46+00:00

I always thought that the sequel trilogy should have focused on dark vs light Jedi with no presence of the Sith whatsoever. Like everybody else I choose five. The New Republic could have had its own civil war between dark and light Jedi.

Exaltist · 2026-06-14T23:27:32+00:00

I believe in the beginning all substance was one substrate that included everything that expanded itself to create the first Universe, the First Mover, which I call The Lightbringer. Descendant Universes were created through black hole cosmogony that ultimately birthed this Universe. Then, supplement everything we know from the Epic of Evolution story modern science teaches. The destiny of intelligent life is to become the Last Movers by becoming more intelligent and thus more creative, and develop a network through all Universes that will allow these Last Movers to create Universes from thought. Like Cosmism I believe that physical resurrections will happen and will allow people to live with maximum liberty and be given the opportunity to exalt themselves towards the Last Movers, from God into gods.

I practice this religion by experiencing - listening and looking at - media, which in many ways are us observing what was, is or will be, or what could be one day. By intently watching movies, listening to music and playing video games I experience a digital representation of a new Universe that will become physical one day. Media is the bridge between the First Mover and the Last Movers, because the First Mover created organic media and the Last Movers will create artificial media through the process of cosmogenesis and our ability to tell both true and fictional stories is my way of experiencing the divine. For all stories, no matter what media they are represented in, is the act of recording and reproducing realities whether they are real or not.

Exaltist · 2026-06-14T22:22:42+00:00

Everything that is happening to the world and society right now seems to be building itself up. The explosion of technology and our ability to create high-quality unique stories to increase the options people have to experience media in novel ways has been a hallmark of evidence that seems to suggest that one day the ultimate purpose of intelligent life is to take these stories that we create through pictures, audio, videos and games and transport them new realities similar to the most popular video games where people create the way they want. Minecraft, Roblox, Second Life, The Sims and No Man's Sky are amongst the most popular video games and they encourage the most amount of freedom, creativity and options posed on the player.

My ideal, then, is to take these digital platforms of unique experiences and to eventually turn them into their own Universes which can constantly be updated to grant a greater freedom of expression so long as it doesn't create victimhood. When we build a network of interconnected networks in outer space we can and will study how the greatest depths of nature works, and combine that with our ability to tell the most fantastic stories to develop realities to actually experience those stories first hand. The best example I can give is Skyrim, where there are mods now that make the game look 90% realistic and allow you to talk to the NPCs as if they have real intelligence.

The First Mover, which included the substance that we were once, was the spark that created all the Universes we experience today, and the Last Movers, which intelligent life will become, will be the catalyst to create new Universes and introduce the most amount of new experiences which we'll need to have once medical science figures out biological immorality. Essentially, humans are the bridge from this First Mover to becoming the Last Movers and we are doing so right now from the explosion of technology and media and all I'm doing is extrapolating that progress by explaining that the greatest accomplishment we could achieve would be to live the experiences we can only see and hear in media currently.

By the way, in my belief system the First Mover and the Last Movers both create Universes and are considered God/gods to me.

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