The point of being a Free Thinker

One of the points of being a Free Thinker in the first place is having the tools to notice when someone is lying to you.

Why is it important not to believe people's lies?

Because one of those lies might be potentially fatal to you or your family or your children or grandchildren.

So, part of the point of being a Free Thinker is to ferret out liars before they harm or damage you or yours.

How can one become a Free Thinker?

One looks only to one's own experiences in one's life for Truth. You don't necessarily look outside your own experiences for Truth.

You might listen to people in what they tell you.

But, generally you use the scientific method to apply to ANYTHING ANYONE TELLS YOU.

In other words you take ALL information good and bad and no matter how crazy some of it is:

You might put it into your infinite hypotheses box of information.

So, you don't really throw away or discard ANY information because there might be some truth to it in some oblique way that might be useful to you in the future.

And then the rest of the more plausible information goes into the theories and Laws boxes.

So, every bit of information you have received through any senses (even supernatural ones) you break down into three boxes.

1. Hypotheses: For example, someone might tell you the moon is made of Green Cheese in their church somewhere on earth. You don't believe this is true but you store this information anyway because obliquely it might be useful (especially if you are captured by members of this church who believe the moon is made of green cheese in order to survive their capture of you. So, any information that you don't necessarily believe to be true goes in this box.

2. Theories: Now here you have things that have proved themselves enough to yourselves in your experience to call them your theories. You cannot absolutely be sure about Theories but they are going in the right direction but you cannot call them laws yet.

3. Laws: Here you have things you are absolutely sure of: But, you are still open to changing even these views if you receive enough new information that validates another theory or law along the way which might change your beliefs.

So, by filtering all information in this way you don't depend upon any other system but your own for processing any and all information. In this way you are less likely to be lied to or taken advantage of along the way because you are nobody's fool.

Because often people take advantage of people through their belief systems, especially religious people are the most vulnerable of all who don't use the scientific method on their own religions.

When  some people see this people like this they see their marks to be manipulated.

So, having your own independent version of reality that you have scientifically analyzed during your life usually is more efficient than just taking someone else's religion or philosophy without proving it to yourself scientifically through direct experience first.

So, the main advantage of becoming a Free Thinker is generally speaking you are less vulnerable to be taken advantage of by people.

Unless you have too big an ego around all this and then even you can be taken advantage of by someone who knows how to manipulate you.

So, always being on guard around people in case things go awry is a good way to avoid problems the rest of your lives.

So, the whole point of being a Free thinker is you can often survive anything that arises in your life and actually survive it mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Precisely because you don't necessarily believe what anyone tells you because you are no fool.

By God's Grace