What is your best reason for staying

Question: What is your best reason for staying agnostic/atheist/freethinker!?
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This about sums it up!.

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it!.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many!.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books!.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders!.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations!. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it!."

--Buddha

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I am not those things!.

I say a good reason for benig what you say is that you will still be open to learn and experience spirituality when it comes to you!.
How can anyone not believe in nothing!? Or question someone who isn't real!. Why bother wasteing time if there is nothing to believe in!.

Keep that option open!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe there are a lot of benefits if I can believe in God, but I am a slave to my logic and sanity which keeps telling me not to run after imaginary things!. Even though full faith in God can give us the inner confidence and courage to accept all events as His will and benevolent designs and thereby make us easily handle any misery or upsets in life, unfortunately I am not able to fool myself even if it means I have to suffer all alone without being able to anchor myself on some Supreme being!.!.!. as I said, my logic and sanity does not allow me to have any blind faith!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Freethinkers !? The atheist and agnostic I have know are as dogmatic in their thinking as others!.
A freethinker would be open, and objective to all school of thought until one is proved "empirically"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am a scientifically oriented person and need proof!. I cannot believe unquestioningly!. I am spiritual but not religious!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

being rational and realistic, and thinking for yourself!. Not just believing in something because someone told you to believe in it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

best reason: rationality!.
if one is truly rational, atheism is inevitable!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Us Atheist are not delusional like those religious nutters!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The best reason is that I don't have to have a reason!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

because I would need to be stupid to persue the alternativeWww@QuestionHome@Com

Simply!.!.

Because I was raised not to be!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am a freethinker because your mind can only come to correct conclusions if it looks at all the facts and considers and weighs several different points of views from various angles!.

Regarding agnosticsm!. I am only partially agnostic!. Agnostic means that I don't know!. It means you question stuff, and look for the truth!. I do not believe in the Christian view of eternal damnation of the afterlife!. Because people who experience near death experiecne almost always have a good experiecnce!. Basically what seems to happen is once you leave you body, your mindset what you choose to think about postive or negative is what you get!. also their are people who can remember past lives including their previous death and a time in the after life that is the exact same experience that people have during a near death experience!. also I believe karma affects stuff (you can either send out good or bad energy, it comes back to you)!. also the extremely rare negative near death experiences (even the hellish ones) people come out of because they choose to think positive!. So because of fairly solid evidence we can conclude afterlife and reincarlation are true!. However because of evidence to the contrary we can conclude that eternal damnation is untrue!.
In regards to the nature of the divine!. I am only agnostic in the sense that I do admit I do not know for sure the structure of diving management in the universe(s)!. I believe in some intelligent designer (the neccesarly existent one) because of intelligent design (in regards to orgin not in opposition to evolution) in reality (ie!. existence or the universe(s)!.) You look around and inside you know there is diving meaning!. You also can see that if there is any order in any place in the universe that it came forth from intelligence!.
The greatest good and truth is Love!. People should look within for truth rather than religous books (written by humans) though they may contain snipets and analagies of truth!.
The views that there is only the neccesarly existent one or there are lesser gods delegated managerial responseabilites are both possibilites!.
Most religous institutions are controlled by humans who will to controll humans!. It is important to question everything and look into your own spiritual intution to avoid being deceived!. The humans condition is not as bleek and negative as religouns make things out to be!. Humans are semi-devine and when people can really tap into their spiritual side (learn both meditation and astral projection- especially to the higher dimesions) the condition of this world will improve dramatically!. Conclusion: be a free thinker, be nice to people (don't foget to be nice to your self) and animals, don't be mean, tap in to diving nature, and learn to bring power into your life by your thoughts!.
Remember when you orgasm (you are briefly closer to the divine engery/ force in the universe!.) Have lots of good quality sex!.(you get to determine what it is, whatever floats your boat- just make sure your not unkind or deceptive, bad karma)!. Have fun, live life to the fullest, and be loving and kind!.

By being a free thinker you can excepct this type of good life!. This is the type of life you can expect if you dillegenly search for truth!. The truth will set you free!. The truth will set you free!. The truth will set you free!.

By finding the real truth you will no longer be bound in chains to the lies and manipuialtion of societial conditioning by religous instiution, by economic class warfares, and by other stuff!. you will also be free from the hopelessness of atheism!. Remeber as a human your consiousness is evolving to be more and more god like!. Tap into your creative inner god/ goddes energies and shape you life and your world!. It's high time humans get together and create this current world to be a place will peace and love permeate every attom in our world(s)!. Think freely!.

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