Obligatory introduction. I've come here, because I want to increase my certainty of my own environment. Philosophy isn't necessarily an interest mine, as anything that isn't directly gratifying to me is not of my direct interest. Nonetheless, I spring existential questions on random acquaintances I have online (as I cannot say I have any real 'friends') constantly parse and analyze things, and feel with great certainty that there is no God. I approach each with a half-cocked understanding of what logic is, and rely on what I believe to be my strongest gut feeling all of the time.

I'm a skeptic, and I can give you ample reasoning for my lack of belief in a creator (that's a subject I can toss around endlessly, as it does interest me a lot, more so than the bookish aspects of philosophy).

I have experienced a lot of pain in the past struggling with these questions, and I have experienced a lot of depression in general. My outlook is optimistic and bleak simultaneously, but I am deeply misanthropic and see people as mainly selfish beasts (and indeed selfishly altruistic at times).