No I’m serious. I really believe that you are sick

As am I.

Water is as likely to kill me as you didn't watch Countdown.

“Skepticism...any way around it?!”

The only way around it is to get a Chapter 51 on the Skeptic.

Now, these 'good reasons' for highlighting if something would happen / if we are thinking a particular way....are not certain! — Kranky

I went through this with you already.

They're not supposed to be certain. That's the whole point of the approach.

The way around skepticism is to stop worrying about certainty. There's no reason to focus on certainty.

How can it be a good reason if, for all we know, it's as likely to be right as it is wrong?

How can it be a good reason if, for all we know, it's as likely to be right as it is wrong? — Kranky

I went through this with you already.

What method of probability calculation are you using? I'm not going to let you just ignore that question, because then we'll have to go through this again. Tell me how you're figuring likelihood.

Don't you want to be certain about your probability calculation?

I'm not sure. I figure likelihood on what I think and feel, I suppose.

I just think that:
- Good reasons/evidence are subjective to our thoughts and beliefs and therefore uncertain.

I'm not sure. I figure likelihood on what I think and feel, I suppose — Kranky

That's not at all an answer we should expect from someone obsessed with certainty, is it?

Probability isn't going to have anything to do with what you feel.

Huh?

You're concerned with certainty, right?

Yeah.

It scares me that my thoughts may not be my thoughts (Not that they are the thoughts of the Demon, but that they are different then what they 'appear' to be)

Yeah. — Kranky

Right. Yet here you are forwarding a probability argument for which you don't have any idea just how you're doing a probability calculation. It's just how you "feel." There's nothing certain about your probability argument, then, is there?

Nothing certain about me asking these questions, you mean?

Then, no, I'd agree, there is not.

Where are you going with this aha?

You're asserting "it's as likely to be right as it is wrong"

It’s as likely that I am the flying spaghetti monster as that drinking clean water will kill you.

Without certainty, it would seem so

But what if we are all wrong and I am not?

Can we say that beyond doubt?

Nope. We're not moving on to something else until we sort this out, because I'm not going to keep going over the same thing again and again.

You're asserting "it's as likely to be right as it is wrong," correct?

It would seem so, but I can't be certain that I am.

Well, if you didn't, you've at least got one thing right.

You've lost me, sorry.?

I don’t think you’re serious. I think you’re trolling us

I'm not. I'm not a frickin' smart ass, I'm genuinely interest in this.

Sorry if it's come across that way.

Look up “probability calculation,” then tell me what’s more likely, viz. that I’m the Flying Sphagetti Monster or you’re incorrigible.

I have come to the conclusion that we should all be skeptics. — Kranky

I already am. Now what?

Thoughts? — Kranky

Better not, as it seems.... Just forget about that kind of bullshit. Reinsure the rationality of such patterns of thought asking yourself what they are good for. As Aristoteles puts it: It is wrong to say of things, that are not, that they were. Think about this. What makes up for the being of such thoughts? Do you have reason asking yourself such stuff? Or are you just farting against the wind? Doing so may make the world stink.

Plan B: Go buy yourself some dignity.

I already am. Now what? — Ying

Yeah but are you a real skeptic? I'm skeptical.

Yeah but are you a real skeptic? I'm skeptical. — John Doe

Maybe, maybe not. I suggest postponing judgement on the matter.

Maybe, maybe not. I suggest postponing judgement on the matter. — Ying

I agree. There's no need for us to become judgemental Kants.