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cantbe323
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When you buy a prescription drug, nowhere on the bottle do you find any guarantee that it will work for you, only ingredients and instructions, and other than aspirin, the effect you expect may or may not occur. The reason pseudodoctors get away with it is the buyers have their own self doubts, didn't do it right, had the wrong attitude, etc.>> cantbe323
As Dave pointed out, there is a difference between blind faith and conditional trust in a trained, licensed professional. I wouldn't ask a plumber to treat a disease any more than I would ask a doctor to fix my plumbing. >>
Sounds like words from a conventional wisdom person, definitely not a skeptic.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 14:23:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
When you buy a prescription drug, nowhere on the bottle do you find any guarantee that it will work for you, only ingredients and instructions, and other than aspirin, the effect you expect may or may not occur. The reason pseudodoctors get away with it is the buyers have their own self doubts, didn't do it right, had the wrong attitude, etc.>> cantbe323
As Dave pointed out, there is a difference between blind faith and conditional trust in a trained, licensed professional. I wouldn't ask a plumber to treat a disease any more than I would ask a doctor to fix my plumbing. >>
Sounds like words from a conventional wisdom person, definitely not a skeptic.
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More bait.
Who's gonna bite? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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SFN Die Hard
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"ARTH is rocking in space!
And the thunders crash up with a roar upon roar,
And the eddying lightnings flash fire in my face,
And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round--
And the blasts of the winds universal leap free
And blow each other upon each, with a passion of sound,
And ęther goes mingling in storm with the sea!
Such a curse on my head, in a manifest dread,
From the hand of your Zeus has been hurtled along!
O my mother's fair glory! O Ęther, enringing
All eyes with the sweet common light of thy bringing,
Dost see how I suffer this wrong? " ~~ Aeschylus
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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tomk80
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 17:04:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Sounds like words from a conventional wisdom person, definitely not a skeptic.
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You have yet to see any evidence that the "conventional wisdom" is incorrect. The meaning of skeptic is not "someone who decides his standpoints without evidence". |
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`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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tomk80
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 17:07:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
More bait.
Who's gonna bite?
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Me! Me! |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 16:37:22 [Permalink]
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You have yet to see any evidence that the "conventional wisdom" is incorrect. The meaning of skeptic is not "someone who decides his standpoints without evidence">>
It's evidence if I say it's evidence.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rarher a scornful tone. "It means what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 17:51:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
It's evidence if I say it's evidence. |
I say you're wrong, therefore you are wrong.
Wow, "skepticism" is so much easier this way. No need for logic or evidence, just my say-so is enough for anything! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 17:57:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by cantbe323
It's evidence if I say it's evidence. |
I say you're wrong, therefore you are wrong.
Wow, "skepticism" is so much easier this way. No need for logic or evidence, just my say-so is enough for anything!
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Indeed!
I'd hate to have this turkey for a lawyer.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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tomk80
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 02:45:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
It's evidence if I say it's evidence.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rarher a scornful tone. "It means what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."
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I'd say this is an admission by cantbe that he is a troll. If I may make a suggestion, I'd say it's time to wield the banhammer? |
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`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 08:35:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
It's evidence if I say it's evidence.
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You're an imbecil if I say you're an imbecil.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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Fripp
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 18:40:33 [Permalink]
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It's evidence if I say it's evidence.
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Then don't call yourself a skeptic. You've become incredibly boring... |
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:03:50 [Permalink]
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Sounds like words from a conventional wisdom person, definitely not a skeptic.
cantbe323
More bait. >>
You can catch more fish with debate, not more bait.
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:15:33 [Permalink]
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"ARTH is rocking in space!
And the thunders crash up with a roar upon roar,
And the eddying lightnings flash fire in my face,
And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round--
And the blasts of the winds universal leap free
And blow each other upon each, with a passion of sound,
And ęther goes mingling in storm with the sea!
Such a curse on my head, in a manifest dread,
From the hand of your Zeus has been hurtled along!
O my mother's fair glory! O Ęther, enringing
All eyes with the sweet common light of thy bringing,
Dost see how I suffer this wrong? " ~~ Aeschylus
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Thanks but no thanks... I'm more into the shooting of Dan Mcgrew... "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up..."
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:21:36 [Permalink]
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It's evidence if I say it's evidence.
I say you're wrong, therefore you are wrong.
Wow, "skepticism" is so much easier this way. No need for logic or evidence, just my say-so is enough for anything!>>
It'll do until something better comes along... Like maybe a real skeptic debate.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:38:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
It'll do until something better comes along... Like maybe a real skeptic debate. |
Then when are you going to start one?
I've been asking for one. Why are you refusing? |
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Blind faith in drugs
