Why I am not an existentialist

Existentialism says, "we are what we think, what we say and how we act, we identify with all those things, it is not the other way around, nature does not force us to act in any particular way."

I believe just the opposite. Nature in fact causes us to behave in a certain way, and our minds are part of nature. Does this place essence before existence? When nature is defined as essence they are the same thing. The biological origin of social behavior co-evolves with the minds and cultures it first activates.

Then there is the material activation within life, in every cell of the body, which I call Tirips, activating life to materially evolve eventually to ascending levels of Godhood, which is also the zenith of success in survival and reproduction, shaped by natural outside evolution. This too is part of nature, and not spiritual, although it is the source of future religion.

This takes some of the so-called freedom away, which was never there in the first place, but we should not lament it, because getting in harmony with what we really are and where we are really going within nature is a sacred thing---we still have freedom and choice within determined paths.

This is theological materialism.