how many free thinkers are here?

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Because it's in the Bible.

I fit your points, and others who don't disappoint me somewhat. Then again, my expectations of myself and others were always a bit high.

humans wrote the bible

Well, humans created you too, so going by that logic, your opinions are no more valid than a book's teachings.

Didn't God inspire them though, or something?

I'm going to be honest.

You sound like a pompous ass.
Not only that, but you sound like you're 14 years old and listen to My Chemical Romance on a regular basis.
You probably dress in a lot of black and/or wear tight jeans.
You probably have leopard print on you somewhere.

Now lets pick your statement apart.



Okay, go ahead.



I follow the Gael-Germanic pagan religion. I'm an animist. It's not as big as the three major world religions, but it's an established religion. Does that make it organised? We have sparse gatherings, not Church meetings, and we don't meet in a building.

I'm going to be liberal on this and say that I don't fall under this as I believe in an 'established' religion.



This is called alexithymia and it's a mental disorder. You also make it sound like if you actually agree with a liberal or conservative party, then you're not a free thinker.
(by the way, in case you're one of those as*holes that can't take a joke, the alexithymia thing was a joke, don't kill me)

I consider myself a libertarian, so there's another point against me.



Again, what if you agree with them anyway? You make it sound like if you agree with them at all then you're not a 'free thinker'.

I agree with the 'rule of 3'. I don't cause harm to people (unless it's in self defense). I agree with a decent number of social standards.

Chalk up another point against me.



Okay, Spock, if you've ever watched an episode of the original Star Trek you should know that emotion, passion, love, anger, and all of those emotions are what MOTIVATE us to do things. Emotion is our passion, our desire to do anything. Emotion is what drives the philosopher!

I do think things through with a certain Vulcanic logic, but I do have emotion and passion, which is what drives me to love and to write music.

Strike another point against me.



Well, I certainly would consider myself a free thinker, but according to your rules that you established for being a free thinker I'm not.
Maybe I should question your rules for being a free thinker so I can be one of the cool kids like you!

You fail at life, please kill yourself and start over.

What I'm going to say here is a version of a bad free thinker.

Thinking you are a 100% "free thinker" leads some people to have a god complex. This person manipulates any subject to their liking, no matter what other people's views are. Free thinkers think they are looking at everything without bias, nope it is a delusion. Their beliefs are majorly influence by arrogance, ignoring other's logic and beliefs because those people are stupidly influenced and biased by emotion, other people are inferior. This person is the ultimate cynic. This person is hated. This person is me, crap, now what.

Is dreaming of Mitch, Snake Pliskin and myself in a hot tube an example of free thinking.

Well, humans created you too, so going by that logic, your opinions are no more valid than a book's teachings.

Well I for one am mature enough to question things, I'm not the emo fag here b***h. I never made an attack on anyone here, I merely asked a simple question and half you idiots blew it out of proportion.

...but SOME emotions that drive people are bad...,

There is a right place for emotions, but not blind emotions.

If you can't challenge your impulses long enough to do the right thing to help someone out,

Well I for one am mature enough to question things, I'm not the emo fag here b***h. I never made an attack on anyone here, I merely asked a simple question and half you idiots blew it out of proportion.

yes, emotions DO drive people, but SOME emotions that drive people are bad, and they have an utter control hold over people genetically because people are impulsive. There is a right place for emotions, but not blind emotions. If you can't challenge your impulses long enough to do the right thing to help someone out, because it might mean questioning your own point of view, (this is especially true of overly religious people), well by all means you don't fit the standard, and ironically you call me immature? Because I can think for myself and not give a f**k one way or the other what the partyline opinion is?

Screw your stupid f***ing libertarian party. For what it's worth, the border problem isn't about race, women CAN be sexist, and do have a mating advantage over men, blacks and ethnic minorities CAN be racist against whites, your childish theories of "political correctness" spell out SOCIOPATH. I'll bet your one of these idiots who defends convicted and proven murderers going on death row on the grounds that "theyr black, so if you execute him your racist".

I also think it's kinda dumb in my opinion to get all your ideas from one book, and societal interpretations of that book. I mean any ideology, be it political, religious, sociological, I seriously doubt if anyone thought about it for themselves they would agree with everything one source says. Yes, I have studied some theology, and I take parts that I agree with out of religions and political ideologies, but it's not like I tell myself "well since I agree with them on this one issue I'll just agree with them on everything".

I don't think that anyone claims,
by virtue of their ancestry alone,
that their ideas are of more value than
those written in any books.

So, if we can put aside the rather questionable
parentage of the Bible, and treat it only on its
philosophical merits, I believe that most secularists
would be tickled pink. As it does not present a consistant
and reasonable story, nor such a philosophy.