(February 20, 2014 at 9:33 pm)leodeo Wrote: im not very skeptical like most atheists, im not any religion but i believe in a god and after life and stuff, though still looking for answers to kinda draw up what exactly i believe,
though im very much more skeptical than i used to be ie: people would tell me when i was a kid how things have a way of working out, and everythings gonna okay and stuff, and god has a plan for us all, and dreams do come true - so a lot of hard years later i definitely saw thats not always teh case!
i guess nowadays im more skeptical of christin logic, and dont really believe in psychic/astronomy stuff as much, but when i see like a fortune cookie or horoscope that matches up perfectly, it still does make me wonder.
but also another person told me that you cant really change your core beliefs and personality, and you can try but in the end the inner you will keep leaking out....so idk, but im more able to see nowadays what i want/like rather than having people tell me what i should want/like.
To be a skeptic, you pretty much just have to challenge whatever your presented with. It doesn't mean you have to disagree with everything, but you definitely have to question everything.
But let me help you on your path to skepticism. The horoscopes that are used are based off constellations made a couple of thousands of years ago. And due to the Earth's wobble, they do not appear in the sky during the times they should. Essentially each sign is off by a month at this point. So if you've been basing parts of your life off your horoscope, you've been reading the wrong one.
And your fortune cookie is not special either. The fortunes you get in the cookies weren't written by Confucius (even if they were it wouldn't mean anything), they are generated by a computer, printed, and put in cookies probably somewhere in Idaho. If McDonald's started putting fortunes with Big Macs, would you take them seriously? Not likely.
