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Thread #68896   Message #1282613
Posted By: GUEST,Ooh Aah
27-Sep-04 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Skepticemia
Subject: RE: BS: Skepticemia
Don't worry, here I am. What can I say that is better than Wolfgang's earlier response? Nothing, that's what. So cool and amusing idea Freda, but it doesn't apply to me. Are you seriously suggesting that a desire for reasonable proof for remarkable assertions is something silly?

I think I have coined a layperson's tems for 'gulliblitis' - that is, 'Goldfish Syndrome'. The name comes from the the ability of sufferers to accept whatever is given to them with their mouths open and their brains almost totally inactive. Sufferers swim aimlessly but cosily in a small mental pond of unexamined preconceptions, and are notable for their panicky thrashing about (which may take the form of aggression) when pricked by the sharp hook of scepticism. There is also a complete inability to distinguish between subjective experiences limited to the sufferer's brain and the objective reality outside, and the illusion that what one wishes passionately to be true is in fact real.

That rattling you heard was not Little Hawk's keyboard folks - it was his fins thrashing helplessly on the bank!