Self-Governing Happiness

The following is in response to a comment I might have received this week if anyone actually read my blog:

I am not arguing against religion - I am arguing for an autonomous skepticism and I am encouraging a functional uncertainty and doubt.

It just so happens that skepticism, uncertainty, and doubt undermine established authority and weaken team spirit.

I believe that an autonomous skepticism and a functional uncertainty and doubt will (and should) lead to questions that require effort and that will (and should) create some hardships. This adversity will in turn strengthen the individual and help to dissolve borders by generating dialogue, thus broadening the depth and breadth of our common ground and advancing one's search for Truth and Wisdom.

If I voice a belief, and I am unable to articulate a Perfect understanding of that belief to another individual, I must allow him or her room to express some skepticism, uncertainty, and doubt.

I believe in belief because all of us on occasion, (and many of us quite frequently), are unable to connect all the dots, fill all the holes, and leap all the gaps.

I believe in belief; provided that belief does no harm.

If I think less of another for what they believe or because they disagree with me, then I am doing harm by building walls and creating distance that discourages and impedes the likelihood of synergy and interdependent productivity.

I believe widespread, global synergy and interdependent productivity are necessary for the ultimate survival of Humanity.

I do not believe I am exaggerating.

I am arguing for an autonomous skepticism and I am encouraging a functional uncertainty and doubt.

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