* Heiko Diekmann Said to, Fred Austin something like:
 FA> -=> Quoting Heiko Diekmann to Fred Austin <=-
 FA> Hi Heiko,
 FA> HD> Yes indeed, but that is not skepticism but belief. Skepticism is
 FA> HD> something  different. Just read what i wrote to Jack.
 FA> Yes, I read what you wrote, we are into the interpretation
 FA> of words. Skepticism is the opposite of to believe. As in "I believe
 FA> I will win  the  lottery", and my friend say "no,I don't think so".
 FA> So he is a bit skeptical, but so is everyone in many areas of life.
 FA> Seems people are trying to make some sort of implication
 FA> that this is a belief topic (UFO), as in a religous context,
 FA> for some people perhaps, but not for everyone. I prefer to think
 FA> that people have opposing viewpoints.  I  do not see the neccessity
 FA> of everyone pulling out dictionaries and try to define exactly what
 FA> they are. As in we are believers you are skeptics.  I still do not
 FA> see  the point. I think it is enough to just say we have opposing
 FA> viewpoints  here. Unless of course there is such a thing as
 FA> professional skeptics.....
 There is none Fred.  All people suffer from ignorance to some degree.  A 
measure of this, if you like the 'skeptical' trait is not by belonging to 
some organsiation but having the intelligence to address all topic 
rationally.  Some people will claim that no evidence at all exist to support 
a U.F.O/et hypothesis, yet you soon learn they have not looked.  That is a 
set mind frames no better than the worsts of the U.F.O buffs.  People will 
except the testimony of one character over another without any explanation of 
their motive for doing so, thinking that a fellow debunker MUST be correct. 
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