About Me (edited version)



N.B. edited November 5, 2021


Let me introduce myself through the following three statements.

My first statement: modern science is the way of liberating human beings from the slavery of hardened or petrified ancient religions. If you wish to find the objective and authentic truth, embrace science. What is truth? Truth is everything that corresponds to empirical evidence. I am an empiricist. 

I nevertheless am trying to help religious believers grow to maturity so that they can be religious in a smart and liberating way. 

I am very aware of another type of truth, that is, ethical truth, or aesthetical truth, that answers the human needs of values and beauty. Good religions can provide this type of truth, that can be found too in natural sciences.

In the world of today, there are more or less four billion adults embracing various religions. I don't discount them as hardline atheists in general usually do.

My second statement: all great thinkers are men of great virtue and compassion. The more you are committed to science, the more seriously you will live a life full of virtue and compassion.

My third statement: science has values that are to be shared worldwide. The separation of science and values is illusory. Sciences surely make you intelligent and smart. Being intelligent and smart is a priceless value sciences give to you. I am a man of values. 

Even though I am a little thinker, I have the great liberty to think, to enlighten some people of open mind, even to enlighten grass and insects. 

I am convinced that through mind exercises, we shall become divine, because the Divine is omniscient. On the other hand, ignorance and the fear of training our human mind will result in suffering, violence and cruel death in the world.

Even though I was raised in two religious traditions, Buddhism and Christianity, I incline, as a young man, to take the position of a rational non-dogmatic being. Of course I like the arts and music and great literature of the world. After understanding me rightly, hopefully you will see the world and yourself in a different way.

But... you must note, I AM NOT ATHEIST, not even a bit of it.

I am agnostic. Those three statements of mine characterize me as an agnostic. 

For me, atheism, insofar as I know and experience it, could become a very narrow prison, under certain conditions. So, I cannot take the side of the New Atheism. I don't want to be imprisoned in the cage of atheism of any sorts, either old atheism or new atheism. 

If you leave your religion and then embrace atheism, let alone the New Atheism, you will lose for all eternity your chance to get involved in dignified inter-religious dialogues which you used to carry out cheerfully, happily, peacefully, calmly, warmly and openly, together with your kind and open friends of various religious persuasions. Atheism is too narrow a cage for you to dwell in.

As an agnostic, I have no final and definitive answer about the existence of God or the non-existence of God. I, therefore, still believe that God exists, even though my belief is always tentative, non-dogmatic, awaiting what science will find in studying infinite realms in the universe and in the multiverse that are always beyond our current horizons of
scientific knowledge.   


As a freethinker (meaning, one who thinks freely, free from any ideological cages), I am forever free to think about anything, outside of any ideological cages. Because science works and functions to set people free from stupidity and ignorance, as an agnostic I therefore embrace science and spread it.

To make science really liberating and enlightening, it requires ethics, morality. So, for me, morality is of paramount importance. No morality is free of certain sociocultural contexts; so I am trying to construct the morality that functions well, healthfully and constructively in the context of my nation, land, and country.

As time goes by, however, some significant changes have been happening in my life, including my perceptions of the world, my thoughts and my inner life as well. Yes, because I am an alive sentient being, currently am growing endlessly, in human ways. I wish, however, that I could transcend my humanhood.

Sure, God is infinite, undefined, could not be imprisoned in any human theological systems of any kinds. Nevertheless, I have the spiritual home, now and forever, that is, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Christ, the living Lord and the living divine Word. 

In Jesus, I live a dynamic life with His warm help, faithful friendship, abiding guidance, and heart-moving compassion and empathy. I have been experiencing all those divine virtues, emanating from Jesus, my great Shepherd, leading me to His silent Home, the Home I am longing for since I was in my mother's womb.

For the time being, I live a contemplative and intellectual life, hoping that as an elderly man (born in 1959) I can still contribute something valuable and meaningful to some fellow human beings, near me, and to those far apart from me geographically.

Honestly speaking, I am a sinful man, an imperfect elderly man, in need of the divine grace, love, knowledge and wisdom, which I have been finding in Jesus and the heavenly Father since I was a teenager. 

My spiritual journey with Jesus has been importantly enriched simultaneously by my encounter with Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One, which first happened when I was an adolescent boy, not knowing then that humans can die.

Now it is the time for me, as an elderly human, to come nearer and nearer to God, my Father in Jesus, while living a really hard life. I know that I am being encircled by innumerable angels of heaven, together with so many heavenly people sent by the Father to help and strengthen me, all the time. 

I am trying so hard, even apparently impossible, to forgive those heartless beings who have been intimidating, endangering and pursuing me cruelly for many years up to the present-time. I pray and pray and meditate to get stronger and stronger, and more resilient, day by day. Jesus, have mercy on me.

I am not afraid of death. I shall not die, but rather enter the Holy Home of the Infinite, the Living Infinite, who makes me infinite too, from now on. Hold me with Your holy, caring and loving hands.

Best wishes, 

Me, 
An ant