If a so-called "free thinker" personally met or discovered God (or anything transcendental)...?

Any 'free thinker' who meet or discover God is bound to understand their own version of emptiness.

When we become aware that whatever we 'think' has no sort of base upon which we could apply our 'knowledge' then whatever we consider to be our own 'wisdom' would end up being 'void / empty / nothing'.

'Knowing that we know nothing' had been initially declared by the wisest thinker i.e. Socrates.

So should we progress towards that stage then whatever we 'think' upon our own perception cannot ever hold any grounds. Thus logic cannot ever be equated with the result that no concept cannot ever be permuted into our conscious.

Therefore with absolutely no grounds upon which we could relate anything that we might come up with, since we cannot have any stable conduct then it would result that our own 'thoughts' would drift away into the nothingness of the oblivion carrying us on the way as well.

i dont think a free thinker is necessarily someone with lack of experience in anything concrete, to me a free thinker isnt afraid to look at what he thinks he knows and ask "well what if im wrong, what are the possibilities."

i think they would still be a free thinker if they met or gained knowledge of some kind of god, god is just a place holder for everything that cant be explained, nothing would be explained by the god, he would just gain knowledge of the god existing

A free thinker is one who examines things objectively with no unproven presuppositions and makes their own analysis. If one personally met or discovered God that would not change their status as a free thinker because God would not constitute an unproven presupposition but an objective reality.

"How would they then be described?"

The same way.

"Would they lose their "free thinker" status?"

Of course not.

"The context in which I see the phrase "free thinker" used, it seems that the best definition is: one who has no experience with anything with absolute certitude."

No, "freethinker" simply means someone who reaches their own conclusions regarding reality based on their experience with the evidence, rather than believing things are true simply because they were told they were true.

If someone were to personally meet God, and be provided with sufficient evidence to compel them to accept as true the proposition that God exists, they're still a freethinker. This scenario, however, is obviously *not* how the vast majority of people come to hold their belief in God.

You mean religious people are narrow minded and offer no real benefit to the world we live in today. Sometimes true, however most of the time false. If someone were to stumble upon a potent entity which claims to the creator of this universe, that person wouldn't lose his or hers ability to think outside the box, because even then, there's still a reason to question; it's never ending and will remain like that forever

If delusion or hallucination can be ruled out, then such a "meeting" would be evidence that some god-thing existed.

Sorry, but "transcendental" is far too vague to be of any use, and at any rate most of what is claimed as "transcendental" is nothing but an argument from ignorance anyway (something happened, I don't know what it was, so it must be a magical god-thing!).

Notice, however, that no such "meeting" ever occurs...wonder why that is?

God is way older. he's infinity previous, he has continually been there. and he's a scientist...he created the Earth and that is what scientists study, appropriate?? he even made the celebrities, the galaxy, the ambience, the uncomplicated...His understand-how is staggering. and that i desire that each and all of us will be there...regardless of the actuality that i understand they gained't be. in the journey that they were which could advise that they had replaced their concepts. *sigh* i choose. So does God. yet you realize, not surely anybody may sense free in heaven. they could merely pick to save sinning in a sinless position...and they could be depressing.

If I met or discovered God conclusively, I'd be a believer.

someone sounds defensive.....and its not me.

and for what its worth, perception IS reality.

free thinker is another way of saying ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME

if they met God they would realize ME ain't all that hot