JakeSteele - your "laws" of psuedoskepticism are absolutely brilliant!!! Hilarious and dead-on. Satire at its best.
In reading your laws, what struck me is how freakily consistent that mode of thought is. Consistent in the foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" sense.
And then it dawned on me that pseudoskepticism is, in essence, a form of fundamentalism. And, like with religious fundamentalists, the hyper-consistency of fundamentalist skeptics is actually a defensive coping mechanism to avoid having to confront the scary uncertainty and chaos of a world constantly changing, constantly in motion.
For religious fundamentalists, they hold on for dear life to their religious convictions to avoid having to confront the frightening possibility that there might not be a God.
For skeptical fundamentalists, they hold on for dear life to their pseudoskeptical "laws" to avoid having to confront the frightening possibility that there actually might be a God.
Pseudoskepticism, is, in effect, anti-anxiety medication for modernists.Statistics: Posted by ProfessorX — 21 Feb 2010, 15:14
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