The Great Dilema of the Modern Skeptic.
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Seriously, how many of us would be willing to spend our weekends camped out at a library to fact check everything we had heard during the week? So it was in days gone by until the greatest invention since the wheel became widely available to anyone with a phone line. I am speaking of none other than the internet.
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We exist in a time where more knowledge than has ever been available to all previous generations combined resides in that thing buzzing in our pockets. So why do the skeptics I regularly encounter seem to be among the most uniformed people to have ever formed an opinion? A skeptic by nature does not simply accept philosophies or ideals without question no matter how popular or well presented. The skeptic sets herself apart while acting as the voice of reason whenever the next big craze washes over the masses.
Deceit is the mother of skepticism, so a skeptical person accepts nothing she is told at face value. No appeals to emotion no matter how sincere will convince the skeptic to draw a conclusion before all things are considered. In the end, the true skeptic's greatest attribute is her willingness to utter the three magic words when faced with a strong argument; I Don't Know. How has it come to pass that the modern day skeptic has regressed to model the very same it once opposed?
The roles have been shuffled right under our noses! Scientists are now clergy. Protestants, the fools. Catholics are the skeptics now, wary of new rules. Modern skeptics shill uninformed dogmatic chants. Atheists are now religious proclaiming to be advanced. All the while the cynics' voice is easiest to prove. To declare oneself the motive of the man, is not completely true; yet something you can plan.