#sceptics

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Charlotte McLeod - Astrology for Sceptics - Turnstone - 1973 (jacket design by Clive Tunnicliffe)

[an-unanonymous-messenger]

People nowadays distrust God. Why is that? Do they doubt Him? Did it appear that God didn't fulfil their own ideas of what they need, hence they decided to doubt Him? Did they expect God to be a butler to fulfil everything they ask? Very silly. God is King, not us, so He gets to decide how things go. If people actually bothered to get to know God, then they would truly understand Who He is and what He does. We shouldn't slam expectations on the Almighty God, but humble ourselves before Him, that He would reveal Himself to us through faith. He won't accept an arrogant person who thinks that his way is the only right way, so let us also stop being so arrogant to God, that we would get close to Him. He won't tolerate arrogance, so let's stop giving it to Him. He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour! Amen.

[kenyatta]

To our modern minds, scepticism is normally associated with frustration and sceptical conclusions are usually taken to be disturbing because they seem to stand in the way of certainty about the world and our place in it. But famously, or rather infamously, those people in ancient Greece who called themselves Sceptics – meaning ‘investigators’ – were pretty happy about it. They thought of their scepticism as a way of life – as a way of reaching ataraxia or tranquillity. In their view, having beliefs is the ultimate cause of anxiety, and therefore the best way to avoid anxiety, to achieve peace of mind, is to get rid of beliefs altogether. The Sceptics in this sense are often called Pyrrhonists after Pyrrho, the ancient Greek master Sceptic who lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. [...] Sextus differentiates three schools of thought: ‘When people are investigating any subject, the likely result is either a discovery, or a denial of discovery and a confession of inapprehensibility, or else a continuation of the investigation.’ The first group of thinkers, whom he calls the Dogmatists, believe that they have discovered the truth, and that they know things about the world and the human beings who live in it. The two most famous thinkers from this school are Plato and Aristotle, but scholars often maintain that it is the Stoic school of thought that is the major target of Sextus when he talks about Dogmatists. The second group are those who are called the Academics; they are opposed to the first group and believe that, so to speak, we know that we know nothing. The third group, with whom Sextus identifies himself, are the Sceptics. These people, contrary to the Academics, do not deny anything, they just withhold their assent from beliefs: they continue their investigations and maintain that this continued investigation leads them to tranquillity.

Four scepticisms: what we can know about what we can’t know | Aeon Essays

[thewriterkb]

Some things just can't be explained by Science.⠀

[thisdancingheart]

I’m soooo sorry for what I’m about to do, and I ask for forgiveness in advance from the people involved and the universe in general. This post is meant to be evidence against liars, and I might delete it soon, If you reblog it, I might ask you to delete it later as well. I’ll keep the screenshots no matter what. 

Anyway, the Sophie hating septics are spreading lies again. On Monday, Nov 12, 2018, Benedict was at the Tate Modern Art Museum in London. He took a photo with a group of students. According to two people on Facebook, he was there with his wife and children (because duh, people take small children to the Tate, and the Tate has lots of accommodations for them. I’ve been to the Tate Modern, I love it, it’s one of my faves in London). 

Here, because they are public posts easily found in a search, are screenshots of the mentions, with bio info for both posters and one follow up comment, just to prove that neither of these two people has any reason to lie. The woman posted immediately, the man posted when he got home that evening. Again, I might delete this post, feel free to reply instead of reblog.

(no connection to BC or Sophie, no reason to lie, none of his friends in the comments think he’s lying. Why does this even need to be said? Because of assholes, that’s why).

(leaving out her comments tagging some friends, not important).

no connection to Benedict or Sophie, no reason to lie. 

Okay, it’s been four years since Benedict and Sophie announced their engagement, knowing she was pregnant. It’s been five years since Benedict started dating Sophie (whether they were serious or on again/off again or not, there is plenty of evidence he was seeing her in NYC in late 2013). She is pregnant with their 3rd child, and yes there is plenty of evidence the first two exist and are real. He is fine, healthy, happy, successful, and living in a big old house with the family he wanted. He doesn’t need rescuing, and truthfully, he doesn’t need defending either. 

I hate liars and the sceptics are some of the biggest liars I have ever encountered, but I’m done. This will probably be my last, or one of my last, posts on this topic. I just want to be a Benedict fan. 

[descartes-before-the-horse]

If G.E. Moore was in charge of the Maury show

[garuda-dreams-of-rain]

Skeptics

Omg I'm so sick of the skeptics. Their bile has reached unquantifiable levels of sourness today, all because of a couple of pix of a baby, ffs! It's so bothersome and tedious.

I wish they would just stfu. Better yet, I wish Ben would sue the shit out of them.

Oh, Marvel? Disney?

[shimmywritings]

Distrust

Never bury these Feelings of uneasiness Behind others' doubts