Godless Knowledge is Power

The longer I'm alive, the more I read, and the more injustice and ignorance I see around me, the less I buy into any form of religion or the deity/deitys/human sheeple who run them. George Carlin is the closest man to God I'd worship. However, being open about it is still at times more stigmatic than many think, especially because my personal context is Islamic. I furthermore support equality on all fronts for GLBT persons, as well as abortion, euthanasia, secular education, secular/uncensored libraries, an individual's right not to marry or have children, and a whole host of other extremely leftist, rather humanist, notions. I'm totally a skunk at a garden party and the pressure not to be open about it is so mind-numbingly painful sometimes. My profession? A bilingual translator and bibliophile who has the dangerous power (that I'd love to flex) to bring more free thinkers like myself into wider circulation through books, without getting burned alive or beheaded or tortured to death.

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Free thinker?

Jul 29, 2015 at 11:57pm

Dude, if you are still even remotely buying that religion of any kind is anything more than fairy tales about some mythical guy in the sky directing things and then deciding if you have everlasting life then you are more thinking-free.

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DdDd

Jul 30, 2015 at 12:53am

Welcome to the dark side, glad you saw the light- so to speak!

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O RLY?

Jul 30, 2015 at 1:32am

Interesting how your views are basically chapter-and-verse lefty views---if you were really a freethinker, don't you think you'd have come to different conclusions on one or more of those issues? Here is a tip: when your views are being fronted on mainstream TV, they are probably canned garbage that no thinking person could countenance. This is especially true if you cannot see a counterpoint, and _especially_ true if you cannot see that your values, no matter what they are, are a product of your upbringing and genetics, not some contact with some sort of necessary set of values.

Why do you believe in injustice? Justice is just a Roman deity...I doubt you are half the 'free thinker' that you think you are =]

Cool but careful

Jul 30, 2015 at 5:34am

Yeah that's really great, just suggest you be careful about those conversions. Many people require a belief to cope with life. Rid them of that and they may do fine for a while, but many later flounder, or turn to a sexy/a-la-mode spirituality to fill the gap. Wrecking people's secure beliefs may make you feel right or strong, but many can't really handle that kind of plunge. Try to spot people who seem really prudent in life or slow to change, and maybe think twice about flexin' dat brain.

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True Dat

Jul 30, 2015 at 6:19am

I knew the roughly 4,200 religions in the world were a result of ignorance before I turned 10.

Ever stop to think that someone following one of those 4,200 religions thinks the people following the other 4,199 are all delusional and following a religion that isnt true? lol

Meanwhile the educated people know they are all fiction.

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Oh my!

Jul 30, 2015 at 6:55am

I can't believe you are getting thumbs down for this post. and people challenging you on it. lol oh this silly world!
Good for you for being you and not a sheeple. I get scared when i'm around people who have these crazy beliefs. It means they don't think for themselves which is scary. re-911

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Your eyes are opening

Jul 30, 2015 at 7:10am

I hope you continue to explore this avenue.

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hm

Jul 30, 2015 at 10:32am

Have you considered that you're being sucked into another religion called progressivism (or the religion of the "extreme left" as you put it)? Try broadening your horizons a little. If you can't see the flaws in your side of the argument on various issues, you're not really objective, you're dogmatic.

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to the OP

Jul 30, 2015 at 12:52pm

What are your thoughts on positive thinking, visualizations, meditation, etc. Is this more effective or just more like another religion?

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@True Dat

Jul 30, 2015 at 2:55pm

Well, the problem with that is that if religious is fiction, so is its little brother morality---so there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. trying to explain this to lefties with dogmatic views about conduct is pretty funny---"so we can't...hit on women in the workplace because...that's your religious belief? Oh, it's not a religious belief? Really? Are you sure? Oh, OK, so now you're going to have a fit. How cute!"

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