RE: Supposed Skeptics?
July 8, 2014 at 7:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 8:44 pm by Dystopia.)
Haven't you met the skeptical atheists that is crazy about zodiac signs? I've met, and worse yet the guy had an IQ of 125 and was an expert student in biology, he was in the first year and was already invited to be a professor.
My opinion is that skepticism prevents you to believe in something without inductive or deductive evidence. Let me explain this better - I don't need real physical proof for everything if my deduction allows me to reach a conclusion, taking skepticism too far would be stupid and result in absurdities. An easy example, why do I believe you are all humans if I have never seen you in real life? After all, you could all be dogs or cats in the internet... I believe because my deduction tells me only humans can physically write on a keyboard, therefore you guys are humans. Another good example, I could say evolution doesn't exist because I have never observed it directly, after all why can't evolution be all masonry propaganda to control the world? It could be brainwashing by the media. I have never seen the brains of people I know in real life, do they have brains?
I think this ought to explain, skepticism is nice, but shouldn't be taken to the extreme (nothing should actually)
As for alternative medicine, it depends if it works or not, some traditional remedies have worked for some people, I used the classic bread + milk with a bandage to release pus from an infection and it worked for 3 days in a row, I guess it was not a myth, I literally released all the pus in my infection (finger), and when I was a kid a doctor came to visit me and he used the same bread + milk + bandage method.
My opinion is that skepticism prevents you to believe in something without inductive or deductive evidence. Let me explain this better - I don't need real physical proof for everything if my deduction allows me to reach a conclusion, taking skepticism too far would be stupid and result in absurdities. An easy example, why do I believe you are all humans if I have never seen you in real life? After all, you could all be dogs or cats in the internet... I believe because my deduction tells me only humans can physically write on a keyboard, therefore you guys are humans. Another good example, I could say evolution doesn't exist because I have never observed it directly, after all why can't evolution be all masonry propaganda to control the world? It could be brainwashing by the media. I have never seen the brains of people I know in real life, do they have brains?
I think this ought to explain, skepticism is nice, but shouldn't be taken to the extreme (nothing should actually)
As for alternative medicine, it depends if it works or not, some traditional remedies have worked for some people, I used the classic bread + milk with a bandage to release pus from an infection and it worked for 3 days in a row, I guess it was not a myth, I literally released all the pus in my infection (finger), and when I was a kid a doctor came to visit me and he used the same bread + milk + bandage method.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
