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About me
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RE: About me
(July 27, 2017 at 6:17 am)chimp3 Wrote: Welcome! At your age I was not a flat earther but an atheist who believed extraterrestrials helped build the Pyramids. Ditto on learning skepticism. Doubt is a great tool to have.

Yup, I was there too! I saw no gods but aliens were everywhere!

I wish I knew the name of the documentary I saw which destroyed the whole "Chariots of the Gods" nonsense. It aired sometime in the late 70s. It demonstrated exactly how structures like the pyramids could be built with ancient knowledge and capabilities. That documentary opened my mind to skepticism more than anything else. I was a specialized skeptic (skeptic of Christianity and other world religions) before and a general skeptic afterward.

I think it's fairly easy to become a special skeptic. You see the illogic in something you didn't want to believe in anyway. You only become a general skeptic when you accept that something you wanted to believe in is crap. Once you've done that, you automatically apply the principles of skepticism to everything. It isn't necessarily fun. A general skeptic will never have the comfort of a true security blanket. He/she will view the world through a much clearer lens though.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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About me - by FlatAssembler - July 27, 2017 at 2:45 am
RE: About me - by ignoramus - July 27, 2017 at 4:04 am
RE: About me - by Mister Agenda - July 27, 2017 at 5:07 pm
RE: About me - by FlatAssembler - July 27, 2017 at 4:22 am
RE: About me - by ignoramus - July 27, 2017 at 4:41 am
RE: About me - by Alex K - July 27, 2017 at 4:50 am
RE: About me - by chimp3 - July 27, 2017 at 6:17 am
RE: About me - by ignoramus - July 27, 2017 at 6:45 am
RE: About me - by downbeatplumb - July 27, 2017 at 2:15 pm
RE: About me - by AFTT47 - July 27, 2017 at 11:32 pm
RE: About me - by Aegon - July 27, 2017 at 11:49 pm
RE: About me - by The Valkyrie - July 28, 2017 at 12:16 am
RE: About me - by brewer - July 27, 2017 at 6:18 am
RE: About me - by SteelCurtain - July 27, 2017 at 9:44 am
RE: About me - by The Industrial Atheist - July 27, 2017 at 10:37 am
RE: About me - by FlatAssembler - July 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm
RE: About me - by Catholic_Lady - July 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm
RE: About me - by Alex K - July 27, 2017 at 5:44 pm
RE: About me - by Catholic_Lady - July 27, 2017 at 7:16 pm
RE: About me - by Fireball - July 27, 2017 at 8:35 pm
RE: About me - by drfuzzy - July 27, 2017 at 2:51 pm
RE: About me - by Losty - July 27, 2017 at 5:09 pm
RE: About me - by ignoramus - July 27, 2017 at 5:53 pm
RE: About me - by The Valkyrie - July 27, 2017 at 11:40 pm
RE: About me - by Astreja - July 28, 2017 at 1:13 am
RE: About me - by FlatAssembler - July 28, 2017 at 5:54 am
RE: About me - by Mr.Obvious - July 28, 2017 at 6:34 am
RE: About me - by Mister Agenda - July 28, 2017 at 10:23 am
RE: About me - by FlatAssembler - July 29, 2017 at 1:46 am



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