I recommend and applaud a healthy
skepticism, without it you would likely fall prey to snake oil, empty promises and flim-flammery. However,
when skepticism is allowed to become a deliberately faithless stance or attitude it prevents all that is
new and edifying from coming into your life and blessing it.
For the skeptic in you, consider
these:
"There is a principle which is a bar
against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
Herbert Spencer
(Big Book, Page 184)
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren
skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute
philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is
certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of
skepticism.
George Jean Nathan
Galileo
Galilei's 'telescope' was pronounced a "work of the devil" by 'experts' of the day. He was nearly burned at the
stake for daring to claim that the Earth was round, not flat, and that it orbited the Sun, not vice versa. He spent
the remainder of his life under house arrest for daring to speak such 'heresy'. The concept of looking through a
tube that would make distant objects appear closer was 'witchcraft', while a round earth was 'counter-intuitive',
'illogical', 'impossible'... after all, if the earth were round, we'd all fall off, or fly into
space!
Every new
idea or invention has its detractors and disbelievers, it happens over and over again, it is the way of progress.
So many things you hold in your hands on a regular basis today would have been considered witchcraft in days gone
by. Now, if you have managed
to suspend your skepticism long enough for a listen, click on 'Free Trials' in the left menu, make an appointment
with me and let's have some fun!
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