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“This is the essence of skepticism: How do we know what to believe and what to doubt?
Once you begin to ask questions like “How do we actually know anything?” our beliefs start to fall one by one.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Once you begin to ask questions like “How do we actually know anything?” our beliefs start to fall one by one.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Storm of the Century
― Storm of the Century
“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“Magician James Randi has used this empirical approach when testing those claiming to see glowing auras around people’s bodies:
Randi: Do you see an aura around my head?
Aura seer: Yes, indeed.
Randi: Can you still see the aura if I put this magazine in front of my face?
Aura seer: Of course.
Randi: Then if I were to step behind a wall barely taller than I am, you could determine my location from the aura visible above my
head, right?
Randi once told me that no aura seer has agreed to take this simple test.”
― Psychology
Randi: Do you see an aura around my head?
Aura seer: Yes, indeed.
Randi: Can you still see the aura if I put this magazine in front of my face?
Aura seer: Of course.
Randi: Then if I were to step behind a wall barely taller than I am, you could determine my location from the aura visible above my
head, right?
Randi once told me that no aura seer has agreed to take this simple test.”
― Psychology
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