My religion

I like to say that I am an atheist; I like the sound of that word.
But I am not.
I am not really agnostic, either.

I believe there is a purpose to human life other than reproduction.
I believe there is a yet unscientific reason that some of us are lucky enough to live protected lives.
I believe there is/are higher sentient things that can more or less influence the outcome of our actions.
I believe there is an alternative yet logical method to science.

I believe a real religion has to be so simple and beautiful that when we hear of it,
we immeidiately become convinced by its inevitability.
like how I felt about Newton, Darwin and R. Dawkins.

I believe the purpose to our lives is to reduce the total amount of pain on earth.

Our postnatal experiences generally establish one fact in our brains: anything that may result in pain should be avoided.
We know by instinct that our own pains are bad,
and we learn later that other people's pains are bad too.

Pain is such a central theme of our lives,
shouldn't it be obvious what our purpose of being here ought to be?

My religion, is anti-painism.