Freethinker Zone

Do you try to figure things out for yourself instead of just accepting whatever you have been told? Do you question traditions? Do you understand that there are many conflicting traditions around the world and that yours have no special privilege above others? Do you see that many people around the world have blind faith in a variety of different things and understand that faith never guarantees that what you belief is true? Do you understand that science and reason are better at finding truth than faith will ever be?  Would you rather avoid delusion than uncertainty?

If you can answer yes to these questions, then you may be a freethinker. Freethinkers accept responsibility for seeking true beliefs, especially in matters of religion. They shun authoritarian calls to faith and try to understand things for themselves. Freethinkers make use of science, philosophy, and reason to understand the world better. They are not afraid to hold contrary opinions, and they would rather understand what they believe than go along with what everyone else believes. Even when it comes to the beliefs they have been brought up with, they will cast them aside if they don't make sense. Freethinkers put the search for truth first, and they understand that faith is often a stumbling block to knowing the truth.

If this describes you, you may identify yourself as a freethinker with a free email account in the form of yourname@freethinker.zzn.com. You will find the form to sign up at the bottom of the right column.

For more information on freethought, you can follow these links:

Freethought - Wikipedia
What is a Freethinker? by Dan Barker
Freethought Radio
Freethought subreddit

and, of course, my own freethought blog For the Love of Wisdom

Back in the 1990's, I ran a freethought site on GeoCities called Iconclast's Atheneum. I later renamed it to Freethought Crossroads and moved it to a paid host that let me use php. Under this name, it caught the attention of the owner of freethought.net, who gave me free webspace and a free subdomain on his site, http://crossroads.freethought.net.  It was during the time that I had these sites that I created the freethinker.zzn.com subdomain with zzn.com. I created it to provide free email addresses with the freethinker.zzn.com subdomain, which is nice if you want to use your email address to identify yourself as a freethinker.

Eventually, freethought.net stopped working, and instead of finding a new home for my site, I became preoccupied with Chess variants, turning my attention to The Chess Variant Pages, and particularly to developing Game Courier, which lets you play Chess variants online. During this time, I simply forgot about freethinker.zzn.com and stopped using my email account here.

More recently, I created a freethought and philosophy oriented YouTube channel called fortheloveofwisdom. Even more recently, I have created a companion blog for it by the same name, For the Love of Wisdom. Since blog.com is better for blogging than zzn.com is, that is where I will principally be blogging about philosophy and freethought.