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The failed counter argument is that God gave us free will. That is wholly incompatible with God's omnisicience. Free will can only merely be an illusion. God already knows every choice and their outcome long before you ever make the choice.
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Unless you do the logical thing and diminish the qualities of God. Throw out omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and benevolence and the problem with the arguments from pain or qualitative paradoxes go away. You're left with a potentially undesirable deity that lacks perfection, but a God nonetheless.
Man exists with the qualities we find undesirable in a God, why cannot a God exist in them as well?
With that said, I find that my "reason" is actually quite close to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The push through my day comes from the process of self-actualization, and namely -- learning. The ability to process sensation and information is one that I find drives me.
Socrates once said that the unquestioned life is not worth living. I hold that the life without learning is not worth living.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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