I always considered of myself as an atheist.

But that didn’t answer the real questions in my life: if there’s no god, what’s actually going on — and how should I live?

A family loss pushed that question from “interesting” to unavoidable. Life and death have a way of stripping away polite beliefs and leaving you with the raw facts: one minute you’re here, then the next you’re not, and the world just keeps moving on.

I started looking for a worldview I could actually agree with, but I couldn’t find one.

So I did what felt natural to me — I built my own. That became Continism.

Continism is a simple way of seeing reality and living inside it.

1) The world is neutral

The universe doesn’t have opinions.
It doesn’t reward good people or punish bad people.
Storms, disease, luck, and death don’t care who you are or what you do.
So there’s no cosmic referee keeping score.

2) Everything continues by changing

Nothing “hard deletes.”
Things don’t truly vanish — they transform.

A tree becomes soil.
A person dies, but their body returns to nature and their actions keep affecting others.
Cultures change, but they carry bits of the past forward.

Life is like one long chain: what exists now came from what came before, and it shapes what comes next.
That’s continuity. And that’s the core of Continism. What you do today affects what happens tomorrow.

3) Meaning isn’t handed down — it’s impact

Meaning isn’t a gift from the universe.
Meaning is what your actions change.
If what you do helps or harms what comes next — for your family, your community, the future — then it matters.

4) Morality is something humans invented — and it’s still real

Morality isn’t written into the universe.
Humans invented it because we need rules to live together without destroying each other.
It’s like laws, money, or language — invented, but real in its effects.

5) Everyone gets the same basic human value

Continism says every person should have the same basic right to live safely in society.
Not because the universe says so — it doesn’t.
But because without that rule, power takes over and civilisation breaks.

6) Death is the end of experience — but not the end of existence

Your conscious experience ends when your brain can’t support it anymore.
But you don’t vanish from reality.
Your matter returns to the world.
Your influence carries on through people, memories, and consequences.

In one line

Continism is a reality-first worldview that says:

The universe is neutral, everything continues through change, and what matters is what you feed into what comes next.

I didn’t build this to persuade anyone. I built it to stop lying to myself.
If it helps you, take what’s useful. If it doesn’t, leave it.
Either way, it’s out in the world now.

Thanks,
L.P.W.