Free Thinking

I was doing some searching around and realized that when I say 'Free Thinkers' I'm not referencing what some people think. I'm not atheist or agnostic, but I am a rational human being, who puts his thoughts in a logical order so that they can be understood, and in hope of revealing something to the reader that they did not see or know before. To devote yourself entirely to the idea of believing in no God you can excise yourself from the truths that are out there, the simple basic truths that are intuit to humans, and which all have the ability to see, but choose to ignore because of their own biases.

I'm simply talking about love. If we all love one another, then the world will be peaceful. If the world is peaceful there will be no war, little suffering, and harmony between not just the different ethnicities of a nation, but between nations themselves. The key to this is to put yourself into another person's shoes, to use your empathy. The golden rule is really the key to harmony and peace. Let's put together some hypothetical situations to demonstrate the power of empathy.

You're breaking into some one's car to look for some money or something to pawn. You stop suddenly, and think about if someone were breaking into your car, shattering the window, stealing your camera or and iPod, and then leaving before you even knew it happened. It would be upsetting, no?

On the other hand, you've had your car broken into, and you consider why for a moment. Why would a person ever want to break into someone else's car to steal something? Money, right? So why is this person so desperate that they need to be breaking into some one's car to pawn something to get money? Perhaps they were raised poorly, in a neighborhood that wasn't too rich and that's what they learned. Or maybe their family needed them and they didn't go to school, so they didn't get an education, and can't get a job now.

What I'm getting at here is that blaming someone for being poor isn't the right way to go about dealing with the problems we have. Let's say by an act of pure luck the person came back with your stolen property, returned it, and apologized? What would you do? The only thing that any decent human being should think is to forgive. There's always going to be feelings of hostility in those kinds of situations, but you have to be able to overcome your hatred and jealousy and fervor in light of acceptance and love. The only way we as people will survive another century is to care for one another and understand where other people are coming from, and that is the free thinking that I'm talking about: being able to rid yourself of your negative emotions, accept reality for what it is, and think freely with love, and once you can do that, you can start to see other people not in the context that your society has set forth, but as another human being, just like you, formed from a different mold under different circumstances, but still just as human and facing or having faced similar problems as you.