Don’t you believe in flying saucers?
January 9th, 2011 | Categories: Deep Thoughts, Interesting | Tags: beliefs, evidence, philosophy, reality, religion, science
Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out “Don’t you believe in anything?”
“Yes”, I said. “I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”-Isaac Asimov
Ve believe in nossing, Lebowski!
Ja and ve’ll cut off your Johnson, and stamp on it and sqvish it.
Ja, and you’ll wriggle in pain.
Sorry, Hal. I don’t believe in Johnsons. :)
I changed my “religion” on Facebook from atheist to skeptic a while back. Of course, that generated a ton of responses with wild speculation until I replied “Atheism implies I don’t believe in gods, but I’m devoid of other fantastic notions as well. “Skeptic” says I’m a-leprechaunist, a-ghostist, a-ufoist, a-unicornist, a-etcist, a-etcist.”
Mine says “Last Thursdayist”
We believe that everything was created last thursday, including our memories of everything from before last thursday.
Human secularist (self-sic).