28-Mar-2012, 5:31 PM
Well, I'm a skeptic, but not in the way most people think of skepticism. Like many other words, this has been obscured from its true meaning. Most people, when they hear "skeptic" they are really thinking "cynic". I am not a cynic. I believe that things (including supernatural things) can happen. I believe some things are true and some things are false. I just don't need to know if EVERYTHING is true or false. In fact, it has been proven logically that you cannot prove or disprove EVERYTHING with logic. This was a landmark proof that most people have never heard of. If you want your brain to hurt, read Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but not having to know the truth about EVERYTHING allows me to believe in SOMETHING.
Tangential opinion: The "Skeptic" column in Scientific American is somewhere between skepticism and cynicism.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but not having to know the truth about EVERYTHING allows me to believe in SOMETHING.
Tangential opinion: The "Skeptic" column in Scientific American is somewhere between skepticism and cynicism.
"Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep / Turn turn turn again" - Bob Dylan