The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62926   Message #1019521
Posted By: Bill D
15-Sep-03 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lourdes
Subject: RE: BS: Lourdes
" Sceptics never create anything, they just tear the off beat and unusual--people, ideas, creative imagining of non-conventional possibilities--down."

Sceptics, like believers, come in 57 varieties...I consider myself to be FAR from "nihilism and hopelessness" ....also, the first 4 words of your sentence are a bit extreme, I think! "Never create anything"? To quote 'me', "pooh"! Ask yourself what you really meant by that.

Properly understood and practiced, scepticism merely implies not accepting everything that you are spoon-fed or offered by those with vested interests in the results, and does NOT mean automatic rejection and denial of everything you haven't 'proved'. You wouldn't want me to judge all religious people by the example of bin Laden or Pat Robertson, would you?