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#sceptic

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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.


Jeremy Paxman


#block #close #cynicism #journalist #necessary

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.


Tim Minchin


#humor #pseudoscience #quackery #scepticism #humor

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith.


Terry Eagleton


#belief #capitalism #faith #grand-narratives #islam

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.


Chris Hedges


#christianity #dominionism #dominionists #evangelists #fascism

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.


Gillian Anderson


#more #much #now #sceptical #scully

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.


Phillip Noyce


#authority #because #convinced #disdain #good






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