paarsurrey
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I am sceptical of the Skeptics. Is it wrong?
- Thread starter paarsurrey
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Being Skeptical of Skepticism can lead to nihilism as your left wondering if anything is true. An excessive reliance on reason can be self-destructive. Its not wrong really, but it isn't healthy. you end up stretching the capacity of reason and logic to their limits. it can be a useful exercise for letting go of illusions though. kind of "zen" when you realise words are letter and sounds without any intrinsic meaning- only what we associate them with.
The Colour of this word is RED!
But then Why is Red, Red? Or maybe it's not? maybe its something else entirely. maybe colour is something all in our minds and its not real at all?
oh no! I'm colour-blind!
The Colour of this word is RED!
But then Why is Red, Red? Or maybe it's not? maybe its something else entirely. maybe colour is something all in our minds and its not real at all?
oh no! I'm colour-blind!
Kelly of the Phoenix
Well-Known Member
Skepticism is healthy, though I feel there's a difference between skepticism and just acting like others are wrong, despite mounds of evidence to the contrary. I mean, I dislike fundamentalism, but every once in a blue moon, they'll say something accurate, so I have to give props. To me, it's not so much who says it as it is whether that person is right.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
So... you are skeptical of skepticism? That's pretty rich.
Augustus
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Is it wrong?
Not if makes you happy and doesn't cause you any problems. It doesn't harm anyone else, so nothing wrong with it at all.
Follow whatever path makes sense to you.
Being skeptical of skeptics may simply mean being skeptical (skepticism being an attitude towards claims as opposed to people, after all) or it may be something else, perhaps an appeal for supernaturalism or, in some contexts, climate change denial or creationism.
I am sceptical of the Skeptics
I have heard this phrase before quite a bit (and have said it myself) in regards to the group of sceptics popular in the media (Randi, Schumer, CSICOP - Skeptical Investigation Committee, et al).
Skepticism is valid process and one we should all follow when investigating claims. The Skeptics I am skeptical of are those who I feel are not interested in truly objective consideration but are really just no-holds-barred defenders of an atheist-materialist worldview. These are the Skeptics I feel we should be skeptical of. And true skeptics will agree we should be skeptical of even self-proclaimed skeptics.
I have heard this phrase before quite a bit (and have said it myself) in regards to the group of sceptics popular in the media (Randi, Schumer, CSICOP - Skeptical Investigation Committee, et al).
Skepticism is valid process and one we should all follow when investigating claims. The Skeptics I am skeptical of are those who I feel are not interested in truly objective consideration but are really just no-holds-barred defenders of an atheist-materialist worldview. These are the Skeptics I feel we should be skeptical of. And true skeptics will agree we should be skeptical of even self-proclaimed skeptics.
NathanShepard8888
Member
I am too. But I am sure.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I am sceptical of people who are sceptical about scepticism.
and what would the upshot be of solipsism based decisions?
Curious George
Veteran Member
Well I am skeptical of....forget it.I am sceptical of people who are sceptical about scepticism.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I find people's denial of facts and rational thought to be both transparent and revealing.
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
I think then you have to change your strategy maybe. Why view them as skeptics? Skepticism as we understand it in modernity is pretty much just a method. No one really believes in a method. If you debate them on the basis of what they believe, that might be more effective.
Well they are the group discussed in the media (and many on RF) as the go-to people to speak against any evidence that points to so-called paranormal things (Randi and CSICOP, et al). They misrepresent themselves as 'Skeptics' and I am just trying to set the record straight.
This is true. But the pseudo-skeptics have hijacked the term to mean disbelief in anything of the so-called paranormal. That is the understanding that I am arguing against.
That is something I do all the time.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I am sceptical of people who spell it "skeptical".
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
Because if your skeptical of skeptics, you are skeptical of yourself. Including your statement that you are skeptical of skeptics. In other words, you undermine the logical consistency of the satement you are making.
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- viole
beliefs are not insular and effect society at large.