That's fair - but I think that the cozyness you're referring to is more a product of someone building their entire world view off of a core "truth" that cannot

That's fair - but I think that the cozyness you're referring to is more a product of someone building their entire world view off of a core "truth" that cannot be undermined. That kind of thing is pretty common among religious people (Edit: I think that a lot of modern materialists have the same problem); however, if you're willing to engage with non-empirical philosophy in general, there's a lot of interesting stuff in texts that you might otherwise dismiss as religious dogma. Not the stuff that is promoted by organized churches/gurus/etc for consumption by their followers, but writings from people who seem to have been genuinely trying to figure out WTF this whole existence thing is about. In my experience, a lot of Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist writings are in this genre (at least they are no worse than modern, western philosophy in this regard). A lot of very deep thinkers from the ancient world have been relegated to the pile of "religion", but if you give them a shot, you might find something interesting. If you engage with practically any text written more than a thousand years ago, you'll find things that seem silly from a modern perspective, but if you grant them some leeway re: how their cultural context influenced their thought, there are some real gems. (Edit: as a relevant example from Buddhism, check out the Diamond Sutra)