I was in the car with mum earlier today, and the radio started talking about dream analysis. Typical Freudian nonsense, all narrative, no evidence-based research. I said aloud, "I'm extremely sceptical of this kind of psychology."
"You are such a sceptic," she replied, sounding actually disdainful of the word.
"Scepticism isn't cynicism!" I said, heading off a common error before I had to hear it.
"You won't accept anything on faith, will you?"
As you can imagine, this got my goat quite nicely. "The majority of the people of the world maintains beliefs based on faith, almost all variants of which are mutually incompatible with the beliefs of others. Even if one of them is true, which at most ONE can be, if any, all the rest must logically be FALSE. So as methods for discerning truth go, the failure rate of faith is extraordinary. What can it offer me?"
That ended that topic. She then started telling me that wars and the state of the world disprove god, which I had to disagree with, because it does not rule out, for example, evil gods who delight in our suffering.
It's weird right? Even views of hers that I agree with, I have to argue with. Bad reasons for true beliefs annoy me more than false beliefs.
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