The Rationalist

The Puritans and the Rationalists were different in many ways. The puritans believed that everything happened because of god and nobody could stop it from happening. The rationalists believed that a scientific approach to everything was more appropriate.

Benjamin Franklin was a Rationalist because he could not accept that god made lightening he thought there had to be a more scientific explanation for why it happened, so he drug a key tied to a kite in a lightening storm to see what happened.

1.)Live for yourself not for others.
2.)Have a healthy relationship with everyone.
3.)Respect everyone, despite their past.
4.)Live for today not tomorrow.
5.)Don't cheat in life.
6.)Respect and obey the rules, they are there for good reason.
7.)Enjoy every detail of your life, don't dwell on what you don't have.
8.)Don't hurt the people around you, love them.
9.)Treat others like tomorrow was their last day.
10.)Don't waste what others could have.
11.)Let everything play out in its own way, no matter how long it takes.
12.)Take a chance you would have never taken before.
13.)Always have a smile on your face.


I believe no one is perfect and could ever be perfect so i don't believe that if i changed one thing in my life or many things in my life that i could ever be perfect.