User:UsagiYojimbo

Usagi is a nomad who has devoted his life to humanism, skepticism and compassionate rationality. He, sadly, was not always this way.

Ten years ago Usagi was a credulous, semi-spiritual teen with a bent toward conspiracy theorizing and a tendency to drone on and on about the things he likes even if no one was listening. Oddly, he identified as a scientifically minded person, but avidly railed against skepticism. This is no more unusual (but certainly less obnoxious) than his tendency to shout at women about how feminist he was.

Needless to say, Usagi had a lot of growing up to do.

Usagi's rat's nest of a belief structure began to unravel at the end of high-school when he began to treat science as a verb rather than a noun. More and more he had to abandon ideas he'd defined himself by, but he didn't always have a new better idea to replace them with. When he'd ground his beliefs down to a nub and had to resort to pure, unfiltered relativism to discuss literally every subject he encountered a wise and surly friend gave him the last push he needed.

"Some ideas are better than others. And you don't get to say which ones, you get to guess. Unless you do science, then you get to know."

Usagi studies religion, particularly early Christianity, and life science, particularly biology and ecology. He loves math, but can't do algebra worth a damn. He cares deeply about identity politics, but being a white man, he isn't always capable of productively discussing them. He fears nothing but the deep ocean and the possibility of having nothing to show for all of his efforts.