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Living with skepticism

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  • 25-12-2006 1:23pm
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    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭


    How do you manage to reconcile your beliefs with living everyday life? Eg. You are a scientist and a skeptic. Your mother is a practicing and devout Catholic. Your sister is into Alternative/New Age stuff, and tells you seriously that she is fundraising to bring her friend, who has cancer, to a naturopath and that cancer is of course not physical because it has a lot to do with anger. Everyone is convinced of the rightness of their beliefs; they know they differ; they try to get on; but such fundamental outlooks on life seep into every conversation. And it's Christmas.......


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    Playboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Playboy


    Tbh it depends on the person. Some people you can have an intelligent conversation with and exchange different ideas and perspectives without offending. Other people are never going to be receptive so there is no point in having certain conversations. I think the main thing you can do is explain your own point of view without being forceful about it no matter how right you think you are. Give them food for thought but let them come to their own conclusions.


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