Your Motives for Reading

You should only read this book if you are the kind of person who searches for truth without care for the unpleasantness of its flavor. This book is not intentionally exclusionary, it is unintentionally exclusionary. Those who cannot afford its ideas will exclude themselves. If you still believe issues like abortion and stem cell research are controversial, you might not want to read on. We will talk about topics that are taboo to talk about. We will consider things that might make you look at yourself differently in the mirror. And once you see "it", you can never go back to not seeing "it". We will question the very foundations of why we do the the things we do. We will question the things we take for granted. We will firmly grip sanity with one hand and flirt with madness with the our other. We will analyze, meta-analyze, meta-meta-analyze, ad infinitum. We will look beyond good and evil, beyond the meaning of life, beyond three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. Instead of looking at evolution in the context of religion, we will examine religion in the context of evolution. We will talk about Bayes' Theorem and apply it shamelessly to racism and sexism. We will strive for correctness and throw away all political correctness. And if you can stomach the darkest machinations of this existence then we can move on to talk about how to find peace and happiness in it.

But we must first move into dangerous territory, so dangerous that the masses can only conclude that anyone who agrees with this lunatic of an author has lost his or her mind as well. Only a small fraction of readers will understand this book in its entirety. In all likelihood, you--yes, you reading this sentence right now--are not ready for this book. People love thinking they are the one exception [Is the author is being hypocritical?]. Over 70% of people think they are above average [I read this somewhere]. People also love to see the fall of the righteous. Are you a naysayer whose purpose in reading this is book is to find a fault with me so that you might take this megalomaniac down a notch? Know that you are being tested as you read through this text. Know that you have already been tested many times. And what if I said that I will intentionally mislead you in my writing for the sake of making a point later in the book? Can you suspend your pride and become a means to my end as I become a means to yours? Can you work diligently at unraveling my cryptic remarks to get to the core of my meaning? And having discovered that meaning, will you be able to see that there was nothing cryptic about it to begin with?

Now you are beginning to see the fuck-all, face-all tone of this book. Have I deterred you from reading this book yet?