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Yes, but feeling good, doesn't make you act good. Being realistic makes you more effective.

• joe_the_user 18y ago
  The "Skeptics" began as a movement combating pseudo-science. Unfortunately, many skeptics confuse the negative ability to refute clearly irrational belief systems with the positive ability to offer prescription about how people should live life or order society. Our "Skeptics" generally aren't scientists and even science can't describe the best way to organize society. Unlikely debunking UFOs, organizing society doesn't have easy villains and clear proofs. One problem is that many people with provably false belief systems still live lives that they find satisfying and even make crucial contributions to science itself. One can clearly demonstrate the irrationality of their belief systems. One cannot clearly prove that they would do better in life if they adopted different belief systems - this isn't saying that they wouldn't but rather that this is a much more complex and nuanced question to address, something that skeptics have failed to consider.
  • philwelch 18y ago
    It seems to me that the whole "skeptical" movement has long run out of useful things to debunk (UFO's, astral projection, homeopathy, etc.) and have taken to just pissing in everyone's cereal.