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In this section of my blog I hope to outline my beliefs about life, religion, how the world works, etc.

As time goes on I’m sure my beliefs will change and as such a post written now may conflict with  a post I write 3 years from now – if this is the case then so be it – that is the nature of personality, just take the views expressed in the most recent entry as being the most applicable at that time.

Also I invite you to (intelligently) challenge my beliefs. Why? Simply because, in my opinion, without a good reason to believe the things you  do there’s no real point in believing them at all.

I’m open to all arguments against the things I post here and I will discuss any topic, however for any zealots out there who suggest I believe Christianity or any other religion just because they do and they must be right, don’t bother. Give me a good reason why you’re right and I will happily debate it with you, and you may change my mind about a subject, but just “Because it is so” is not a good argument to base any discussion on. 

So let me start off by stating that I am an Agnostic person.

The web defines this as:

An Agnostic [1] [noun] [OW] embraces a worldview in which the existence of deity is unknown or unknowable. Derives from the Greek agnostos, a = without, gnostos = known or knowledge. “Agnostic[ism] [CE] was coined by Professor TH Huxley in 1869 to describe the mental attitude of one who regarded as futile all attempts to know the reality corresponding to our ultimate scientific, philosophic, and religious ideas.”

What this means to me is that we are beyond the ability to know everything; why we are here; what the universe is apparently expanding into (more about this here); what the meaning of life is; what happens once we die; and so on.

All we can ever possibly do or achieve directly is that which makes living life easier for us and those around us.  Those around us may be your family, your friends, your community, your country or even the globe if you are in a direct position or lucky enough to influence those areas, but that is essentially it – nothing more.

Of course there is a lot we can not achieve by the same token by making life disruptive to those around us or by doing nothing at all, but overall I believe the human spirit to be good natured, and that good natured people beget good natured people.

You scratch my back I’ll scratch yours; karma; love thy neighbour; one good turn deserves another; whatever you want to call it the general message is there all around us and it doesn’t belong to one religion or set of beliefs – it’s a basic human fact of survival. And if only others truly realised the meaning of that maybe, just maybe the world would be a better and more tolerant place to live in. 

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