Dr. Fredrick Töben, director of the revisionist Adelaide Institute in Australia, on the basic principles of freedom of thought – and, thereby, even indicating what «meaning of life» is really supposed to be:

 

I visited the place that was once officially called Colonia Dignidad - but legally this name does not exist anymore. The community, like any rural community is feeling the pressure of world economic re-structuring.

Individuals who have placed hopes in finding some advanced German outpost in Chile will not like what I have to say about it.

This bumping against opposition of the belief sort is a repeat for me and my research:

In 1997 I visited Auschwitz and concluded that the «Holocaust» is a myth.

In 2004 I visited Chile and concluded that the UFO story is a myth.

In the former case the «Holocaust» believers - Jews and others - hate me and attempt to imprison me again for my not wishing to believe that which I believe did not happen.

In the latter case the UFO believers - Germans and others - decry my credibility and state what I will be saying is not trustworthy.

In both instances there are individuals who firmly believe in a story that helps them to explain elements of their own belief system, and that offers them a personal identity with a value system that sustains them through the usual troubled waters that life brings with it - if one still has a passionate life to live.

It is not my aim to defame such believers in any way because in my value system individuals can believe in whatever comforts them.

However, I do make the distinction when it is a matter of physical fact and individuals propagate things as being a physical and historical fact.

Then we begin to probe the factuality of the matters stated - by empirical research.

The result is then the following: We have individuals who are either ignorant of the facts, or they are liars. There is no in-between in this process of finding out the truth of a physical matter.

It is painful for individuals who have believed in something for decades, then having to admit to themselves that they have let themselves be hoodwinked into believing in a myth, to face the new physical reality.

It is not my aim wilfully to hurt the feelings of such individuals - but the search for truth cannot be blocked for the sake of someone's hurt feeling. It is the hallmark of an individual's maturation process to develop through such challenges and mentally grow up, and to discover what life is all about before one closes one's eyes for eternity.