(2018-12-09, 01:27 AM)Kamarling Wrote: You do realise the irony of accusing others here of lack of understanding (and I mean anyone, not just me)? Or the irony of advising self-examination?
I mean - do you have any concept of irony at all?
I suspended your ignore status for this thread because I was interested in whether you might offer a genuine, thoughtful response. I should have known better.
I'm admittedly curious - do you wonder about skeptical thought processes because you think of them as some kind of gatekeepers, or out of simply curiosity?
Because the gatekeeper role, if it ever really existed, seems to be fast fading along with the movement's base. It's probably best to just to let the skeptical movement die out in peace.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell