Are you a skeptic? Or do you just like to think of yourself as one?
Skepticism, in its original formulation in classical western philosophy, involved a refusal to adhere to any dogmatic assertions whatsoever. This epistemological agnosticism was so thorough as to include an inability to assert that one should not believe any dogmatic assertions. So skepticism was more of a mental attitude than a system of beliefs, for were it to be thus systematized, it would necessarily negate itself. To skeptics, a statement such as "There is no God" would have sounded horribly unskeptical. True skepticism is a Socratic-style sense of one's own ignorance. Are you a skeptic?
I'm a skeptic in the sense that I don't believe in certain things that a lot of other people believe in (religion for example). But I wouldn't necessarily label myself as a skeptic. The conclusions I've come to aren't based on any doubt or desire to rebel, but rather a sad understanding of our past and how we use stories to fill in gaps we could never understand. I'm someone who wishes that religions were real, but accepts that I cannot pretend that they are.
I am a skeptic regarding the claims of organized Christendom.
by daphniemoreno 9 years ago
What's your stand on Atheism?i'm agnostic and skeptic. And just want to know people's opinion, comment, and expression about atheism.
by paarsurrey 13 years ago
Hi friendsOne must think positively; no need to be skeptic “in the name of science” to start with, it is a negative thinking and of course a blind faith.ThanksI am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim
by Alexander A. Villarasa 11 years ago
Atheists like to point out that Atheism's conceptual formulation is humanistic in that it attempts to liberate or unshackle Homo Sapiens from all sorts of religious fervour, fantasies and mythologies. In the process of doing so, however, Atheism have gone so far as to deny man's inate dignity...
by paarsurrey 13 years ago
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/39536?page=2#post916969Paarsurrey wrote: "It is very natural, pro-evolution and pro-life to believe in the existing of the Creator- God Allah YHWH. Like we believe in our parents; we believe in God."Getitrite wrote:Sounds like you are manufacturing a...
by jerami 12 years ago
I have come to see that everybody really is saying some truth. It really is a shame that modern technology doesn't come up with a computer program that can not defrenciate between BSH-tand all the other fine points that everbody on here come up with .... and maintaine...
by Michael Ward 10 years ago
What Would You Do If You Found Out Jesus Was Evil?Just a thought, what would you do if you discovered Jesus was actually evil and people were forced to record him doing all these good deeds? Please keep religious flaming to a non-existent form by the way.
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