RE: I was about to reply to a post I saw but instead..
February 14, 2016 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2016 at 8:26 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(February 14, 2016 at 5:45 am)CrystalKey Wrote: [...]
I personally feel that by boxing myself into a label I'm in fact missing out on learning and experiencing more about myself.[...]
You don't "box" things "into a label". You put labels on things, if they seem applicable - mainly for convenience of communication. Boxes don't enter into this.
Do I believe in gods? No? Then I'm an atheist. It's not a box, it's a statement of fact. It doesn't constrain me - it just describes something about me at this particular moment. And it only applies to me, as long as the conditions for it being true about me are met. If I'm ever presented with sufficient evidence for existence of gods - I'll just stop being an atheist and there's nothing about my current "label", that would prevent that. I'm not "missing out" on anything. I just know who I am and what I believe in.
Anyway - welcome to the forum.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
