What exactly do you believe in?

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What do YOU believe in? What's your moral code?

For me it's

1. Nature is scared. Though there are no such things as nature spirits and such natural life still deserves our worship and reverence. One may take things from Nature as long as one gives back. (Cut down a tree and you have to plant two saplings, kill a deer for food but leave the stuff you cannot eat for scavengers)

2. Knowledge is Holy. Knowing is the greatest gift you can give or receive. Man above all else must strive to know everything it can. Therefore censorship and book burnings are treasonous enough to be worthy of the death penalty. Therefore science and the scientific method are holy. Those who spite those with knowledge are worthless fools.

3. Fluidness. Nothing is universe permanent. Anything and everything can be changed.

4. Elevation Of self: You are your own God. You contain all the answers you need.

5. Respect for Sentient Life. All life that is sentient is equal. Taking the life of a sentient lifeform is the most grievous of offenses.

I just act according to my nature and instincts, and think things out when I have the time to reach the most logical conclusion. As for my religious beliefs, I believe that all that matters is what is undisputably real and what has an impact on me, and how I interact with that.

Society - whats best for myself while whats best for everyone

Religion - None, nothing past spirituality

Moral code? I tend to believe in the following:

1. Rule of law is important. Society cannot function without ground rules laid down in order to prevent dangerous clashing interests and to punish those who violate the wills of others. Punishment though, is for the purpose of preventing future crimes in some matter, and/or to recompensate for damages. This means that individuals should tend to follow their word and their contracts as such things are important for a functioning society.

2. Personal responsibility is important. For an individual to act freely it must be acknowledged that he belongs to himself, which means that he has a right to his own action, any other argument tends towards a more totalitarian society and possible issues of incentives. Because individuals are free to make their decisions they must also bear the burdens of their own decisions, for society to act otherwise leads to an issue of public cost and private gain. People are meant to be free to choose but must always bear the costs of their choice.

3. Knowledge is important. Censorship of information prevents accurate appraisals of situations which prevents individuals from reaching proper conclusions. This in turn stunts intellectual growth and prevents greater goods from happening. Collection of knowledge is an important goal by humanity. Logic and data are methods used to obtain knowledge. Certain knowledge is more important than others.

4. Human interests are important. *Man lives for the sake of himself and human society exists for the sake of the men inside of them. Nature is subservient to man given that man is the decider of human action and that human society was created for man. Humanity and human progress trumps all else in this earth.

5. Strength is important. I do not mean physical strength when I mention this but rather some degree of power is important in protecting one's interests and furthering them. A person without strength quickly becomes subservient to those who do, and all politics is decided through the barrel of a gun, therefore it is important for individuals to possess the mental and emotional strength such that they don't get suckered into Nigerian scams and so that they can live their own lives as well it is important for nations to have the strength to protect their people from threats inside and out.

*Note, any use of men is meant to be taken in the gender neutral stance. I just felt like using that term because the monosyllabic nature made it sound much stronger in my head.

EDIT: Flagg, you might want to edit your first moral rule. "Nature is scared", despite the fact it is quite humorous to think of, really is not what you aim for. I only point it out because I think it is a funny typo as opposed to a mundane one like the ones I think I have.

Really, some of the ideas looked at by your question on morality can be seen from a few internet tests.

www.moral-politics.com

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testi ... 8632784807

http://okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=12 ... 9400178928

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testi ... 4195483221

Most of these tests have a political base to them and this is for a reason. It can be noted that morality is linked with one's political ideas. Flagg's moral ideas lead to environmentalism(nature is important) and animal rights legislation(sentient life is important). My moral ideas tend to lead towards conservatism or conservative libertarianism based upon how one chooses to interpret personal responsibility or the value of strength.

The universe is composed of three tiers. The first tier is the one we all live on. When you die you go to a purgatory-like tier. It's really more of a time-out zone. There is a gate in it you pass through, you can make a conscious choice to protect those back on the lower plain and prove you are a good person, or hope that you really are. If you are a good person you make it on to the third tier, the heavenly plane, if not, you are cast out of existence, you don't go to a hell you are just gone forever.

That is the simplest explanation.

Good and bad are totally subjective. I see it as more efficient and less efficient for the benefit of human progress. Some would say this is just playing semantics, but there is quite a difference in the meaning behind the notions. I try my best not to judge and so this is what seems to work for me.

I am a transcendentalist meaning I observe, thiink through thuroughly and then remove erroneous concepts that are a detriment to myself and those that I interact with. Everything starts with a notion and so I try to keep my notions clear towards the goal of uniting my fellow companions in a state of blissful understanding.

I think that any way of understanding that which cannot be known is but a reflection of a reflection. Just like a copy of a copy it is obscure and faded through. Whatever book of logic and creativity you wish to follow is just fine by me. As long as it does not lead to destructive means, however, through chaos comes order and from order...

God, Britain and Mince Pies