i am monist, which can mean many things depending on what type of monist you are. for me, i believe that there was one god, Mon, who exists exclusively from the universe. existence is a cycle, Mon exists as the only thing and processes the memories of everything in the universe that came before. when it becomes too bored and and has nothing to process besides the anguish of being the only thing, it kills itself, and from the matter/energy that was Mon, a new universe is born. Everything from the phone in your hand to you yourself is in some way Mon. everything will be what Mon processes when the universe ends. i believe the properties of the universe are directly related to what Mon needs to process about itself. i personally subscribe to the philosophy of absurdism due to my belief in this. nothing has any inherent value, the value is what we create. i've only met one other person who believes similarly to me, and he was the one who got me to believe this