Principle of Free Thinking

Principle of Free Thinking
We think for ourselves as individuals. There is no area of thought that we are unwilling to explore, challenge, question or doubt. We feel free to inquire and then to agree or disagree with any given claim. We are unwilling to follow a doctrine or adopt a set of beliefs or values that does not convince us personally. We take responsibility for our decisions and beliefs. Through unrestricted spirit of free inquiry, new knowledge and new ways of looking at ourselves and the world can be acquired. Without it, we are left in ignorance and are unable to improve our condition.

Man as an Animal
Humanity as a society, cling to the idea that each of us is unique and beautiful in our own way. We believe that each of us has infinite value and that every human life is sacred. From the time we are born, to the time we die, we are force fed this twisted philosophy. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are not unique and beautiful creatures of god. We are not the lords of all creation. Human life is not sacred, there is no infinite value to life, there is only life. All we are is an evolved member of the primate family. We are the same decaying organic matter as everything else in the world. We are merely just another species of mammals that coexist, in a symbiotic relationship, with the Earth. Man is nothing more than an animal.

The Meaning of Life
Man has long sought after the answer to a question which has somehow alluded him for centuries. This question is the meaning of life. Man has sought this answer, through the ages in the form of god and or gods, but has never received an answer from these mysterious deities. Too often christian dogma leads man to believe that each of us has a distinct meaning or purpose that will be laid out to us in all due time by god. This is only a brazen fabrication to keep from answering a question that they feel they cannot answer. In truth, there is no particular fixed meaning to life, there is only life itself. It is up to each of us to determine the coarse of our own lives. Furthermore, it is each persons responsibility to attach their own unique meaning to life. It should be finally said that the sole reason we are here, given life, is because our parents reproduced, whether by accident or by design.

What is the Meaning of Life
The meaning of life is to survive, reproduce, and die. It cannot be stressed enough that this is the absolute most basic purpose for humans. This is a hard to debate point, because humans are animals. The most basic drives for all animals are survival and reproduction. It is only logical that the most basic purpose for humans is also to survive, reproduce, and die.
By far, this is not our only purpose or goal. As modern humans in this culture and in most technologically advanced societies, there is a lot that goes into the raising, and thereby ensuring the survival, of offspring. For the most part, to provide a good life for your children, a job is required. To get a job you enjoy, an education is required. This means that to ensure a good life for you and your future family, you have to begin preparing, even if that is not your expressed goal at the time, from the time you are old enough to drop out of high school. To choose to stay in school and pursue an education is choosing to prepare for, sometime many, many years from now, a future family and children.
This is the ultimate purpose to life, to survive, reproduce, and ensure the survival of your offspring.

Reality
What is real? How do you define real? If what you define as real is what you can see, hear, taste, touch and smell, then reality is defined by electrical impulses interpreted by your brain. If this is true then anything you can imagine is also real. Reality is then defined as the minds perception of sensory input and imagination. What we perceive exists. What we do not perceive, does not exist to us, it is not real. An individual thing only comes into existence in one of two ways. The first way is what we experience, through our senses, ourselves. The other way is what concepts or things that are passed on to us through different media, which we then perceive. Reality is then defined in two different states, partial reality and actual reality. If you can perceive or imagine anything, in your mind, then it is real, but only partially real; it only exists for you as a mental reality. If you bring it out for other people then it becomes a reality for them as well. Through either a concentrated effort through
many people or by oneself that mental reality can become a physical reality. A physical reality is anything you can perceive through sensory experience. An example of how a partial reality can become a physical reality is space travel. Once, space travel was just science fiction and now space travel is a reality. It must be said in light of all this that anything is possible.

Responsibilities
As individual people who are aware of our own nature and our relationship to the world at large, we have an inevitable obligation or responsibility. First, we have an obligation to the world of which we are a part of to participate as efficiently as we possibly can in its endeavor for greater levels of development, higher life forms. Second, we have an obligation to our race as its vehicle of progress. Nature has refined and honed the qualities that are embodied in our race so we are better equipped to fulfill the particular role assigned to us. Even though nature has developed other competing forms of life, including other races of man, we have a special obligation to our own race: to ensure its survival, to protect its unique characteristics and to improve its quality. Third, we have an obligation to those members of our race who are the most conscious of their own obligations and the most active in meeting them. Thus, there is a brotherhood between us and those who are also working to meet the same cause.
Finally, we have a responsibility to ourselves to be the best and strongest individuals that we can be.

Argument for Personal Freedom
The principle being that all are free to do as they please, so long as they are not interfering with the business of other people.

• Each of us is intimately familiar with our own individual wants and needs, each of us is uniquely placed to pursue those wants and needs effectively.
• We know the desires and needs of other people only imperfectly, and we are not well situated to pursue them.
• It is reasonable to believe that if we set out to be "Our brothers keeper" we would often bungle the job and end up doing more harm than good.
• The policy of "looking out for others" is an offensive intrusion into other peoples privacy; it is essentially a policy of minding other peoples business.
• In a rush to save others from themselves, people forget one basic idea; maybe that person is willing to except any risks involved, even death.
• Making people the object of ones charity is degrading to them, it robes them of their individual dignity and self respect. The offer of charity is, in effect, a message that they are not competent to care for themselves.
• People have the right to do things that harm themselves.
• No one has the right to force their opinions on other people.

Argument Against Religion, #1

We humans like all other things, must rely upon ourselves, upon one another and upon nature. There is no evidence that we receive support or guidance from any immortal power whom we might imagine we commune.
As history has progressed, the role of gods has decreased as understanding has replaced supernatural explanations for natural events. If there is no god, then one would think it likely that in our stage of evolution, the hypothetical god would only be responsible for those things which we do not currently understand. In other words, the remaining god or gods in our modern society will only be necessary for the possibly supernatural parts of existence.
If there is a god, how did it come into existence? If god always existed as some people claim, then why can't the reverse be true. Why can't the universe have always existed instead of god.
There are thousands of differing religious belief structures which are more or less mutually exclusive and for the uncritical mind equally believable. Some of these belief structures do not involve deities. The major point being which one and why one, if any? Isn't it likely that all of them have it wrong.
Much of the work of religion seems to be based on guesswork or pure fantasy. The age of the Earth, the age of man, history as it happened over thousands of years seem to differ from religion to religion, these also differ radically from the findings of Biologists, Geologists and Archeologists.
Too often in the past religion has been used as on excuse for the great evils of human beings. Kings have promised the subjects that they rule by divine right or that they themselves are descended from gods, or are gods themselves. Toture, genocide, invasions, mass rape and war have all been justified under this divine authorization. This brings to light that religion is used by a selective elite as a tool for power.
Religious bibles have hundreds of inconsistencies, falsehoods and contradictions. Bibles are written in a confusing manner, which makes them hazy and hard to clearly distinguish.
There has never been any trustworthy, firsthand account of humans interacting with god or gods. All accounts so far, have been made by people who were sleepy, happened when they were asleep, or in some unclear state of mind, was experienced when the person was on drugs, in need of self convincing or an all out hoax.

Argument Against Religion, #2

• Religious Power
• Every religion has a promise of eternal paradise and or heaven.
• Every religion condems those who sin without attonment or those who do not follow their particular faith to hell.
• There are many different religions, with many different faiths.
• If every religion says that the followers of all other religions are going to hell, then one way or another, by one standard or the next, we are all going to hell.
• If we are all going to hell, then there can be no eternal paradise or heaven.
• If there can be no heaven then every religion is lying to us, or is wrong.
• If all religions lie, or are wrong about heaven then hell cannot exist either.