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Old 12-11-2009, 11:10 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I don't see the virtue in skepticism. Why can't they just accept things and move on?
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a skeptic is someone who requires evidence to back up claims they themselves are not a witness to or lack adequet knowledge of the facts

a cynic just assumes the worse, a skeptic is open to reason
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