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Originally posted by NewWorldOver
Any person with a 120 or higher I.Q. is probably capable of exercising judgement, but critical thinking is something we take for granted.
This is why we have skeptics for UFO's, a photograph and filmed phenomena, skeptics for the existence of life after death, despite scientific investigation into the matter (a life force does leave the body at death, it's been observed.) We have skeptics for the existence of chem trails, despite investigations done on the matter proving that chemicals are being sprayed.
Open-mindedness allows critical thinking and the integration of new ideas, even if those ideas stretch belief systems etc. If something is logically sound, skeptics should not have a hard time accepting it, but the most logically sound explanations for 'paranormal' phenomena I have seen shot down again and again as 'impossible' - especially topics that have not been defined by a status quo.
Originally posted by Areal51
To get to a point where questions are no longer necessary is a sign of repression. Debunkers and unquestioning believers both share this trait.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by Areal51
To get to a point where questions are no longer necessary is a sign of repression. Debunkers and unquestioning believers both share this trait.
Yes you hit the nail on the head here for both are unwilling to follow any other logic process but their own and both can not budge an inch in any other direction even when data starts to take them there. I also find in both these cases that they tend to filter their information to only what fits their views while ignoring anything else, or they just out right argue that any other course of action is ridiculous.
both can not budge an inch
Originally posted by TheAvenger
Skeptic is a bad word when global warming or the new buzz word, "climate change" is the issue. Most global warming believers think that us skeptics should be decapitated.
To believer and skeptic both: Have a good Christmas holiday. Enjoy the time with family and friends.
Originally posted by Paul the seeker
Skeptics
Skeptizism has become PERVERTED by the time.
Most people who call them skeptics today are in fact only AFRAID of being called naive or believing in something that is too far off.
Skeptics in my view means to question everything and anyone should do that so in the common sense I'd say being a SKEPTIC is bad...
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Does this go the other way? Maybe skeptic- haters
Originally posted by Voidmaster
2.) Hated Skeptic- A person who has already decided that something doesn't exist, or is not true, and considers everyone who believes otherwise to be either ignorant or a liar. His purpose is to convince other people that the subject at hand is completely ridiculous, and is not even worth being discussed.
This distinction needs to be made and kept in mind when talking about skepticism at all.
Originally posted by NewWorldOver
I'm simply not under the impression that most people are healthy skeptics at all. Their mind is closed from the first sentence they speak, all the way until the topic is deflated and people are tired of arguing with them. "I'm right, you're wrong" syndrome.