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PostSubject: What separates skeptics from believers   Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:01 pm

Just a small wuestion but a good topic.


What separates skeptics from believers?
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:17 am

Skeptics r soo not ready to believe or else they r just totally ignorant to anything outside of their own little world! They need to step out and see the bigger picture!
Believers, however, r prepared to believe coz in their own minds they just know there is something more than facing us all! They r aware of the fact that tghis universe is bigger than us mere mortals could ever imagine!
That is my opinion xx
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:37 pm

So what would you say,
You are a skeptic or a believer.
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:26 am

I beleive that it is nesscary to be both skeptic and beleiver and I think it is unfair to give such a harsh critique of skeptics without pointing out any of the flaws that can come to beleives as well.

I examine all of my experinces that I have and try to find a rational explaination before I autamaticly accept that it is of the supernatural, because I do not like to fool myself or be false to myself.

As well, when it comes to other people recounting thier own experinces, I accept the possiblity of truth but I am not going to autmaticaly just take them for face vaule without accpeting the possiblity that there may be another explaination as well as the one they present.

I think that those that take everything for face vaule and beleive too readily anything and everything and do not try and evaulature or accept the possiblity that there just may be a normal explination or rationalization for somethings, only help the skeptics make thier case by not using any sense of reason.

I think an important question to ask oneself is, are they truly beliving something, or merely wanting to beleive it.
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:07 pm

I am more of a realist than a skeptic because a skeptic is much like an atheist, not believing. A realist knows that there is more to life than what is tasted, smelt, touched, felt, heard, seen, or known.
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:45 pm

Auntie_Silver_Wycc wrote:
I am more of a realist than a skeptic because a skeptic is much like an atheist, not believing. A realist knows that there is more to life than what is tasted, smelt, touched, felt, heard, seen, or known.
Kudos to you on that answer, I have to agree with you on that.
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PostSubject: Re: What separates skeptics from believers   Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:03 pm

I didnt mean to put anyones noses out of joint by my last comment but it seems that i have done and for that im truly very sorry that woz not my intention.
However, saying that, I do believe that im more of a believer coz i am more ready to believe in things that exist outside of our conciousness.
There is more to this life than merely seeing, smelling, etc. and in that case i believe in wot Auntie_Silver_Wycc says xx
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