Thursday, May 10, 2012

Skepticism- I wonder why

Dear Skeptics,
       
          I don't even know wether Skepticism is considered a personality trait, a word we use to describe someone with a lot of questions, or even something as big as a life style people resemble.

         Skepticism and skeptics. I wonder what the point is in really questioning everything that happens in life... or doesn't... wether what is happening is really going on, if anything people say is true, you don't know what to believe and what not to believe so you choose to believe absolutely nothing at all. Why not have fun instead of questioning if what your doing is even considered fun. We have our own ideas of what is right and wrong and we all have our moral values- that for the most part we try to stick to and follow in our life. But instead of trusting no one and knowing that good enough just is not good enough we use our common sense to decide what to do and not to do and we pick and choose what we want and what we need.

         As much as i don't understand certain things you do, i do admire your creativity and your soaring imagination. When you just go with the flow of life and don't pay attention to tiny details, the farthest your imagination goes is alternate universes and the fact that there could be life on mars. But real skeptics know that miracles happen all the time. I will try to write you some smart lines and give you great examples but all real skeptics know that an extraordinary explanation is always preferred to an ordinary one. So trust me i will try my best to make you see it my way. Believe me now because who knows what your going to believe tomorrow.

         I understand how you can analyze historic events or life changing decisions, but why focus on such tiny things like why the chicken crossed the road? You actually need to focus on details for certain things because no one wants to be a doormat that you can just walk all over and who believes everything they hear. As you get older you gain knowledge and learn not to trust everything you hear, like government promises or when they tell you that your airplane will take off in just another ten minutes.

     
                                                                                                                Sincerely,
                                                                                               Sophia Gordon

4 comments:

  1. excellent point from the very 1st paragraph

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  2. Great post Soph!!! (haha that sort of rhymed) I really liked the idea of you writing a letter to "skeptics" and this post really showed how you can write about philosophy in a post!

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    1. Thanks Jailyn! (i tried to think of something that rhymed but it didn't work out)

      :)

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