The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26240   Message #317181
Posted By: Grab
12-Oct-00 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: Alternative Beliefs - a pattern?
Subject: RE: Alternative Beliefs - a pattern?
Fib, carrying 3 isn't too bad, if they're small. I run out of carrying room after 5 or 6 though. My maths teacher once asked me to carry a thousand, and I strained myself.

A sceptic (I'm sticking to the English version, and nuts to the rest of you! ;-) is someone who asks for convincing proof b4 they're prepared to believe something. If you give them incontrovertable proof and they still don't believe, they're not a sceptic, they're a believer in science, the same way that alternative folk may be believers in UFOs or astrology. And note that this is often "science as they were taught it" or "it stands to reason", not any version that accepts the universe is still full of stuff we don't know about.

As John says, sometimes you need a better class of sceptic (brilliant line! :-)

Grab.